Link. A huge success — but also very disruptive. It’s not surprising that a cap has been added.

China is 2nd largest source. Xi hates Canada for a reason.

Link. A $4 billion dollar AT&T fine might change someone’s behavior. But there will be no consequences in the US of course.

Link. ‘Participants with weak inner voices did worse at … Verbal memory …”

Not much new — it’s a short summary. Not having an inner voice may have other advantages.

This is a rather sensitive topic as it edges into the fun future-field of comparative consciousness (human, animal, AI)

Link. “Family Sharing for adults means every family member’s purchases go first to the Apple Cash balance purchaser’s account, next to the Organizer’s payment method.”

Link. Very expensive though.

Link. Via a Mastodon comment. This deserves to be better known.

See: Peak Oil.

Link. “writing regular dispatches for The Palestine Chronicle, a U.S.-based online publication”

The tunnels were real. Hospitals were Hamas bases. Administrators were Hamas. Gaza journalists were Hamas Some caregivers were Hamas.

I haven’t seen anyone who denied these things admit they were wrong.

Link. I have Fujitsu earlier version. ScanSnap owns the home office document scanner business.

Link. Bit of a desperation move?

Link. Everything everywhere all at once.

Page and Wootters mechanism, 1983.

Link. Moderns left Africa 250,000 y ago.

Link. I did not know this. So if you see that happening I guess you try to cool your Air …

Link. “I want to give my Agent the social security and medicare data it is likely to such; case number, my SSN, my phone, etc.  I want it to call social security using my voice and sit on hold for days, weeks, years until someone accidentally answers. Then it begins the conversation while paging me to swap in …. with a text summary of current discussion and a timer to join in 5…. 4….. 3…. 2…. 1…”

Link. Bit of good luck in this one.

Link. Not the Peak we were excited about 20y ago.

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Link. Author tells of eAssist handcycle adventure. I saw one such sessioning a singletrack downhill in Bentonville.

Link. Worked for catalytic converter theft.

Link. Gaza now has cheap abundant flour but a cigarette costs $30. So Egyptian-Gaza gangs hide cigarettes in flour bags then associates loot the trucks and dump the flour.

Link. Tim Cook should retire now. It’s gonna get ugly.

Link. Same with me. My ad-free 15k or so blog posts and 60K microblog posts are open for anything to read or reuse. I don’t care. I wrote to share.

Link. I think the reason Apple doesn’t document things any more is because so much of it isn’t ready to be documented. I would not be shocked if Apple has something of Boeing’s disease.

Link. This is clever. It’s been a theme of near future SF in recent times. The LLM answers the phone and then ties up the scammers while doing analytics on techniques.

Link. Life expectancy is basically quantum field theory. Don’t even try to understand it.

Rogan is achingly dumb, but there is big money in dumbness.

Link. Perhaps twice as many die on land as at sea.

“estimated 90 percent of women and girls traveling along the Mediterranean route were raped”

Link. Both are big but in different ways.

Link. Backup only works for non-optimized storage.

“[backupname]/[backup].backup/Data/Users/[username]/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/“

Link. Every time I read cosmology 101 the story gets a bit different angle. I don’t know if that reflects new insights or evolving explanations.

Link. This is the last of Apple’s security blunders. We promise.

Link. Sandbox unfinished.

Link. It’s messy and confusing.

Link. “they had come across three patients who began to lose their vision from NAION within a week’s time …. all three patients were also taking semaglutide…

… semaglutide mimics the hormone GLP-1, which binds to receptors found in the cells of the optic nerve”

Sounds like a good observational study. Maybe patients taking glutides will need periodic eye checks. But 7x very rare is still rare.

Link. “for more than 100,000 years, Denisovans hunted or scavenged a wide range of animals on the Tibetan plateau”

We know we had contact some where and when.

Link. “The Busy Beaver function is Turing-uncomputability made flesh, a finite function that scrapes the edge of infinity”

Math stuff is fun because I don’t have to even try to understand it.

Link. Newly released data allowed WaPo to construct accuracy maps based on the last 1-2 years. Lately rain forecasts seem accurate for maybe 3 hours. Midwest weather is mathematically chaotic.

Link. From June 10, before the French election, a wild theory: “[Macron] is deliberately giving Le Pen’s National Rally their chance at power three years early … in the hope that they will make a complete mess of it and lose power again in just a few years.”

Link. I like the idea of shifting compute between data centers based on current active solar output.

Link. I have been disappointed with Apple for at least 10y, so it’s a bit of a surprise when a credible case is made that they did something well.

And then I’m even more annoyed with all the simple things they can’t seem to do…

Link. Fraudulent science and fake journals continue to do real harm. Why is the NLM indexing this crap?

Link. Reading between lines Oakley is saying civilians can help by testing Sequoia in a VM on Apple Silicon using a disposable Apple ID. Otherwise you need be a pro.

Link. Lawsuits drive a balanced approach.

Link. I used conflict catcher. DOS TSRs were even worse.

Link. No respiratory spread.

Link. “Herbal” medicines are similarly unregulated in the US.

Link. “Unless the price of the vaccines drops, the cost of immunizing all Americans may not be sustainable”

Link. After they went extinct elsewhere a tiny group of 10 reached a cold island. Their descendants survived thousands of years but gene pool was too small.

Link. A possible key to Alzheimer’s prevention. Sacrificing sleep for a career is maybe a bad idea. (Physicians take note)

One day a medication that supports the synchronized sleep wave waste disposal for everyone over 50?

Link. Youth intervention program — “30% decrease in auto theft reports in 2024 … a 140% increase in car theft … 2019”

Local lore is that most of our carjackings and thefts are the work of a handful of COVID teens. When they are detained rates drop. I think this program was made for them.

Link. That is an extraordinary claim.

Link. Two year backlog, low income filers who are due refunds.