Link. Zimmer’s Parasite Rex book gets an unexpected marketing opportunity. (I have it)

Link. Access restored only because he has access to execs. The rest of us would be out of luck.

I don’t use Insta much but now I won’t use it at all. We may need litigation.

Link. Some studies had suggested a benefit but not this one. OA is a “garbage” diagnosis so maybe some variant benefits.

Link. I have been trying to ignore the student protests.

Link. I remember reading the original. Now we live in the world they predicted. It’s interesting to compare the dream with the reality.

“MARK WEISER is head of the Computer Science Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center”

Link. They have to use Bing search … I think.

Link. The price strategy of US automakers cries out for annihilation.

Link. But the cheapest iPad when your current iPad expires. The show was a waste of time and energy.

I’m far more interested in an improved version of the pathetic Photos.mac

Link. 7% is a lot actually. She figures risk of pandemic is less than 1/10 but it 3x higher risk than usual.

“Some people also get red eyes because our eyes have bird flu receptors.”

Link. Public school leaders are used to performative assholes. This is a template for how to treat Congress going forward – less deference but conceal the disgust.

Link. “companionship apps are one of the fastest-growing parts of the A.I. industry”

I would like to try them with my oldest son (cognitive disability) but as an adult he is inexplicably suspicious of his father’s experiments.

Link. Singapore and Malaysia are retail centers.

Subtext: Authorities feel Android is fine, iOS is a problem.

Link. Imagine reading this in 1994.

Link. Good review of the maintainer crunch.

Link. I see same flaky behaviors with contact images.

Link. Early 20th century math is relatively comprehensible from a distance. Excellent overview.

“Finite fields are a place where number theory and geometry begin to blend.”

Link. Fun surprises.

Link. Reality vs perception.

Link. Dems still use X. We are kind of dumb really.

Link. There is no semantic content left. Worse than what happened to “feminism”.

I don’t use the word and I don’t engage in discussions about it.

Link. Do not confuse with Grapher.

“While Grapher is thoroughly competent, it’s lacklustre beside the original Graphing Calculator. “

Link. Standby mode at bedside sounds like the main use case. I liked this tape recommendation.

Link. “It’s A.G. He’s the one who is pissed [that] Biden hasn’t done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting on his age.”

Sulzberger believes only NYT can vet Biden.

Link. By earlier they mean before 9pm. Not counting drinking. Japanese work is notoriously inefficient.

Link. It wasn’t conspiracy, it was incompetence —but also the Trump effect.

“military had adopted a particularly cautious approach to deploying the Guard … because of concerns that President Donald J. Trump could misuse the Guard … “Department of Defense came under harsh criticism for its response to the civil unrest after the murder of George Floyd”

GOP House investigation validates Dem investigation and adds details like this.

Link. Branch was cleared of the big charges but he went along with bad Navy practices. He makes a good story hook – which might be misleading.

Link. They had one job.

Link. These agents are not normally lethal, but of course bullets await those who flee. Russia is a particularly brutal place.

Link. “Confucian values” are not magical.

“Sometimes, the engineers said, staff would manipulate data from testing tools or wafers to please managers who had seemingly impossible expectations.”

Yeah, that seems universal.

Link. Everyone wants to avoid interchange fees. A dry topic that is worth a large amount of money.

Link. Meanwhile US car makers only build luxury vehicles at high prices. This will end badly for them.

Link. Slowly, very slowly, humans begin to understand software lock-in. Even a 2nd rate LLM know this stuff.

Link. Fall vaccine under development.

Link. “In 2021, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase ended their high-profile joint health care venture, which sought to explore new ways to deliver health care to their employees. ”

Primary care is hard.

Link. Burned dinner two days ago because timer completed silently.

Link. Not another blockchain. FWIW.

Link. We make arbitrary decisions but they are not wrong.

Link. “Small but frequent wars were the price Africans paid for that rich diversity all through their history, and they are still paying it today.”

Link. But China is way better at manufacturing.

Link. Josh Marshall explains why American Jews should feel threatened. Hamas also has significant responsibility for 30,000 dead but that is an awkward fact.

He doesn’t get into the 20y history of Israel’s voters repeatedly enabling Netenyahu and his brutality.

Link. Significant risk of not finishing.

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Link. Expected but odd entry.

Link. I’ve seen this show before. The NYT article is kind of an editing mess.

Link. They need different scams.

Link. And the race is on.

Link. I love this dorky stuff. I want to see a follow up just on network file systems and why we need something better.

“volfs knows nothing of directory hierarchies, so can’t enumerate files within a directory”

Link. Rasputin is the archetype.

Blues are Libs, Reds are MAGA, and Grays are SV drones.

Also, Andreessen has had quite the journey.

Link. Guatemalan poppy workers must migrate.

Link. That’s interesting claim.