https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/technology/ai-jobs-radiologists-mayo-clinic.html
It is really too early to know but even if radiologist image reading shrinks there is lots of other high value work to do.
Lessons for education predictions here.
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Beyond the merely insane: tax bill full of perverse incentives
https://www.twincities.com/2025/05/18/real-world-economics-tax-bill-full-of-perverse-incentives/
The MAGA party is almost dumber than the GOP.
House budget: “cuts to Medicaid are currently scheduled not to hit until 2029, enabling the Republicans to avoid voter fury over them in the midterms and the 2028 election”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-18-2025
Rather than raise taxes or cut costs MAGA will cut taxes and cut *future* costs. If they win.
Neo Network Utility 1.1.4: “free network discovery, testing, and monitoring tool”
https://tidbits.com/watchlist/neo-network-utility-1-1-4/
“Free, 4.9 MB, macOS 13+”
AI-Generated Law – Schneier. A thoughtful take.
Colin Fraser on exploring LLM reasoning through puzzles.
https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/how-to-outwit-generative-ai
The thought/language debate is very complex. Ii suspect there is a lot of variation between people.
Former CNN insider says media execs can be shamed.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/we-can-demand-better-from-the-media
I am a bit skeptical they have any capacity for shame but it’s worth a shot.
“latest generation of Ironwood pods, with 9,216 chips per pod, provides a total compute power of 42.5 exaflops”
https://thenewstack.io/google-ai-infrastructure-pm-on-new-tpus-liquid-cooling-and-more/
Were we supposed to be into exaflops in 2025? I have lost track.
Perplexity: Sonar-reasoning Pro system prompt.
It is amazing. Truly worth a scan. I’m saving a local copy to mine it for prompt ideas. (They need to add APA citation formatting.)
“after Kushner talked to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and the two states imposed a blockade on Qatar, Qatar suddenly threw in the necessary cash.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-12-2025
Don’t blame Qatar, they are just playing by MAGA rules.
Schedule F and making the civil service serve Trump: “If judges will consistently accept facially absurd factual claims or facially absurd interpretations of statutes then there is no law”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-novel-concept-will-judges-start-enforcing-the-law-with-doge
Roe v Wade never made legal sense to me. The judicial interpretation of the 2nd amendment is absurd.
Now it’s going to new extremes. The GOP SCOTUS corruption has old roots.
“boys have always lagged girls in certain areas, yet there has been little focus on their issues, perhaps because men have dominated in so many spheres.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/upshot/boys-falling-behind-data.html
Girls are better at school work and better at modern employment settings. And women do not “marry down” (might change).
We will need boy-oriented school options (open to all), which implies charter schools.
“tariffs ultimately proved too painful to American businesses for Mr. Trump to sustain”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/business/economy/trump-trade-china-tariffs.html
Xi didn’t even break a sweat. “Trumpian” will become a synonym for incompetence beyond the bounds of imagination.
Trump-Musk tariff smokescreen “Dozens of Afrikaners who claim discrimination in their home country”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/world/africa/trump-white-south-african-refugees.html
Dozens. I was thinking they would get at least a hundred. This is just nonsense to obscure the Qatari bribe and the crypto corruption and the tariff humiliation. Focus.
“If you want your armed forces ready and able to defend the country against all enemies, foreign and domestic, it’s hard to imagine someone worse for the job than Pete Hegseth. If, however, you want to transform it into a personal army of uniformed thug
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/why-pete-hegseth-still-has-a-job/
Jedeed explains why Hegseth will not be fired.
“If we were still a serious country, Trump’s crypto corruption would lead to his immediate impeachment and removal from office.”
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/crypto-is-still-for-criming
We are 25y into being a broken nation. A place where Qatar sends its bribery budget.
(Alas, many Dems are crypto-corrupt. It’s not just the MAGA.)
M2 money supply: “figure for March 2025, is 40.7% above five years ago”
9/11. Lehman Bros. COVID. The US economy took at lot of hits before the MAGA took power.
“presidential library system offers quite a lot of opportunities for … graft”
https://musgrave.substack.com/p/everything-has-a-price
The more you look for America’s corruption the more you see.
Molly Jong-Fast on fleeting fame.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/molly-jong-fast-reflects-on-her-mothers-dementia
Daughter of fame writes about celebrity and transience: “Watching my mother’s failed metamorphosis back to normal made me a sort of fame hobbyist”
“AI Won’t Overtake Software Engineering”
https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/05/10/ai-code-updated
AI coding: What works for Tim doesn’t work for others:
“I’m using a lot of hidden technical skills.
Yes, anyone can do it, but few will”
GenAI seems to work best for experts, and maybe only peculiar experts.
You will want to skip macOS 16.
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/05/11/last-week-on-my-mac-whos-afraid-of-changing-interface/
Oakley makes the case: macOS 16 will be a disaster. The tech doc example alone is persuasive.
“of the world’s nine nuclear powers, four — India, Pakistan, Russia, and Israel — are now at war.”
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-crisis-of-the-21st-century-is
A good time for Americans to vote for the most corrupt, delusional, and incompetent leaders of our history.
Google Ends Support for Early Nest Thermostats
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/04/29/google-ends-support-for-early-nest-thermostats/
They still work as fancy regular thermostats. My dumb home is unaffected.
Siracusa: “It’s time for new leadership at Apple”
http://hypercritical.co/2025/05/09/apple-turnover
I also want to see Cook go.
Trump admin secure messaging app copied chat logs to servers as plain text.
Installed by MDM so somewhere in MAGA land an admin thought this was good.
China readjusting estimates of US intelligence into new realm.
NK worker-spy test question: “How fat is Kim Jong Un?”
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/north_korea_worker_interview_questions/
Living in a state of fear. Forever.
Devon Technologies Word Services in macOS Sequoia: reenabling after migration
https://tech.kateva.org/2025/05/word-services-in-macos-sequoia.html
These are great time savers, but in a macOS migration I lost them. Turns out I had to reenable deep in the bowels of macOS settings.
macOS: “In the first few seconds following a double-click to run an app, the log can accumulate well over 25,000 entries”
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/05/08/reducing-noise-by-searching-loguis-views/
And yet the log cannot tell us whether Spotlight has died indexing an obscure document.
It’s impressive anything works.
“putting historical knowledge back into the bottle after decades of reckoning with the nation’s racist history will be more difficult than the administration believes”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/us/politics/trump-censorship-black-history.html
The people who teach these topics are unlikely to obey.
“the Smithsonian issued a statement saying it would do no such thing.”
There is Streisand Effect potential here.
More on the snake-bit man’s once-in-a-billion-years antibody gift.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/whole-lotta-snakin-going
“Holy #$%#!, that’s some list”
“Maybe your issue has 80-20 support. But if it’s not what voters are voting on it’s irrelevant.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/into-the-wilds-of-democratic-navel-gazing-and-big-think
“fundamentally the job of an opposition is to oppose. Don’t overcomplicate it.”
Dropping out of the race – to look for another path
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/insider/mini-retirement-trend.html
“Death is coming either way …. We might as well take risks and see if we can make our lives better by trying something different.”
In the 70s we thought the future would include mixtures of work and education and redirection.
“the true cost of enshittification isn’t just a worse internet experience… It’s a worse society.”
https://www.persuasion.community/p/enshittification
It isn’t just Google search. It is widespread corruption in government and journalism. It is medicine failing to confront scientific fraud and fake journals. It is shooting the messengers rather than judging the message.
“In 102 pages, Howell meticulously analyzed Trump’s unconstitutional and tyrannical edict, striking it down in its entirety”
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/putting-trumps-threats-in-writing
Courage, duty, integrity, wisdom. Some Americans still have what it takes.
A democracy, if you can keep it.
Singapore remains a one-party pseudo-democracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/world/asia/singapore-election-pap-workers.html
Disappointing. Result underscores how hard it is to build and sustain democracy. Wealth and education are not enough.
“dual-state theory posits that authoritarianism can take hold in small pockets, even while the broader legal system appears to function more or less normally”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/world/trump-dual-state.html
Developed to describe Nazi era, applies well to MAGA era.
Kickbacks to promote Medicare Advantage scams: “Aetna; Elevance Health, formerly known as Anthem; and Humana”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/health/medicare-kickbacks-private-plans-trump.html
“steer older people and those with disabilities toward coverage that might not offer the best medical care….
… efforts to drive beneficiaries away specifically because their disabilities might make them less profitable”
“two powerful antibodies from Mr. Freide’s blood, when combined with a drug that blocks neurotoxins, protected mice from the venom of 19 deadly snake species”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/health/snakes-universal-antivenom-tim-friede.html
WI man with a typical WI hobby.
Search tools for macOS: HoudahSpot and tags tools.
https://brettterpstra.com/2025/05/02/mac-file-finding-gems/
Great review. I’ll try some.
de minimis imports explained
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/business/china-tariffs-economy-de-minimis.html
Why Amazon had so many new listings over past 5y.
So there was a big economic impact and like, this is the first I understand what happened. The modern world is undocumented.
Anthropology: “People start to tell the tourists – and I found that most Shipibo people did not distinguish tourists from researchers – the stories they think are interesting for them and not what they really live with.”
This is a universal human trait. It is why we had to develop science and falsifiability.
Also, if MAGA somehow revives anthro that will be a silver lining.
The price of naked: “human [skin] wounds took more than twice as long to heal as wounds of any of the other mammals [studied]”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/science/wounds-healing-speed-humans.html
A consequence of fewer hair follicles. We needed sweat cooling more than healing.
Trump attack on the honorable: removing government services.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/politics/chris-krebs-global-entry.html
Losing Global Entry is a small thing — but the pettiness is the point. Trump lives for revenge.
Celebrate the honorable, those who oppose MAGA.
PublicSquare: “enter your ZIP code and it pulls up businesses near you that want to be publicly associated with Trump”
https://www.publicsquare.com/marketplace
St Paul midwifery is on the helpful list. Sadly a CrossFit top but not one I go to.
Gruber easing Cook out the door, Schiller as CEO.
https://daringfireball.net/2025/04/gonzales_rogers_apple_app_store_ruling
Subtext, but pretty clear. Cook should get out while he will still be celebrated.
Gates vs the MAGA-Musk
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/business/bill-gates-foundation-trump.html
It is easy to see why Musk hates Gates.
RFK has a deeply weird theory of disease.
Obviously the key to fighting HIV is diet and exercise.
NYT review’s consciousness experiments — finds theorists can be a bit whacky.
Reminds me of string theory. Non-falsifiable science is tricky terrain.
I think we will get to AI citizens before we understand consciousness (or whether it exists at all …)
LLMs are not an environment problem.
https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about
My first PC warmed a room. It used far more power.