Link. macOS 13 Ventura or later.

Link. One of the fun things about Oldness is suddenly running into something that reminds one that the world changes. I’m not being ironic, I enjoy those moments of recognition.

“Sarah J Maas is, if anything, a bigger hitter than Yarros, and the main purveyor of the subgenre “faerie porn”. Empire of Storms, part of her Throne of Glass series, has sold 25m copies.”

Link. He got the message and ran away.

Link. The Christian Nationalist icon is non-religious but they understand the art of the deal. The intensity of their feeling is because they are losing their children to eternal damnation. That focuses people.

Link. Diplomatic but still interesting.

Link. There will be someone who really gets into CrossFit or marathons and keeps weight off, but the amount of exercise needed in addition to diet is way beyond what most imagine; often beyond what joints and hearts can manage.

These are forever drugs.

Link. I had a migrating deer tick fall off my neck onto my iPhone screen. (It was backlit so l could see it – they are tiny.) I have never seen the shower advice before but it seems obvious now.

This is a very good review of the state of the American ticks

Link. Works in monkeys given primate HIV. The TIPS virus is derived from HIV and outcompetes HIV replication without causing immune suppression. It’s a radical approach to antiviral therapy. Patients with HIV dying of other causes are expected to volunteer to try – for the benefit of others.

Link. “Fifty-three percent of girls reported extreme depressive symptoms in 2023, down from 57 percent in 2021. For comparison, just 28 percent of teenage boys felt persistent sadness, about the same as in 2021.”

Link. Rural is dead everywhere.

Link. “The ruling party’s campaign this year lacked the financial resources of past efforts, … government gave out … motorbikes to refrigerators. Ahead of this vote, all she got was boxes of poor-quality food and house paint.”

Staggeringly high turnout.

Link. My father’s family were post crash railway people.

Link. This is what I was hoping for — a technology cap on LLM AI progression. We get some time.

Link. They have learned lessons from their peers.

Link. Vance hero, presumably an idiot. What is an example of liberal totalitarianism?

Link. 200+ apps per reviewer per 40h. So basically 5-10min apiece. Most of the 100K are crap or worse.

Link. Bush/Cheney. The CIA Director illegally destroyed video records to protect Cheney.

Link. Trump appointees shut down the investigation.

Link. Things that are fun and exciting attract more trauma than playing cribbage.

Link. The standard they used is very strict. Using the less strict US FDA standard 3% exceed.

Link. It’s marketing but for me interesting.

(Personally I migrated my simple tasks to Google Cloud, migrating back to local store was tedious)

Link. “subset of people with extremely vivid imaginations who are known as maladaptive daydreamers. Some choose to live in their imagination”

We run an emulation layer on our minds that is tied to language. Under that layer we run different operating systems. We are all aliens.

Link. Hidalgo is one hell of a mayor. She seems likely to go for the presidency.

Link. Even a near-dictator can’t lose an election by so much and stay in power.

Link. As he declared Harris was fake Black he also urged everyone to ignore JD Vance. He’d dump Vance yesterday except he needs Musk’s money.

Link. Twitter users are supporting Trump.

Link. Canada is 1.43. US used to be different from developed world; with higher rates in low income. Now it’s converging with Canada, though still far higher than Korea. No nation has been able to reverse the lower fertility that comes with wealth and female education.

Link. Dem smarties are happy to be weird but for conservatives weirdness is death.

It is remarkable that the smart MAGA are pretty much all evil people.

Link. The undersides sound great for seals but they do need air …

Link. Via Mastodon. Lovely gift to all.

Link. “… journeys a momentous 5,000km and contains around 100 different stages. It was completed at the end of June …”

Link. This is new to me and quite interesting. I heard of it in the context of an In Our Time podcast on mercantilism as a last minute comment.

Link. Very topical.

21st century China and 19th century Prussia have common features

Link. They are supposed to be quite healthy for dogs — but there are a lot of carp.

“10 breeding pairs could inundate the [Great Lakes] ecosystem”

Link. Wars between Trump loyalists, mostly incompetents.

Link. Treating chronic severe pain with long cold miserable and even more painful endurance swims is a novel approach.

Link. Updates a lot of old ideas. It’s only recently (basically yesterday) that we have had one hominid on earth.

Link. The blurry video should be watched. Do not approach that sleepy vegetarian bear.

Link. Derek Lowe imagines a chemist of the 90s presented with the latest in modern biotech. Going where no-one has gone before.

Link. Free link because I learned several surprising things reading this.

The Druse remind me of Mormonism.

“In 2018, Israel passed a law that defined the right to national self-determination as being “unique to the Jewish people.” This is what the Christian Nationalists want America to do.

Link. We American Olds are losing our wits (data suggests starts in 50s for most), many have cash, and there is no risk for the criminals. This is the ultimate growth industry.

Best to not be online at all.

(The most likely fix is the AI Guardian.)

Link. “$25,000 package for the Y Plus that included an eight-year warranty, installation of a home charger and 12 months of insurance.”

Capitalism and massive government subsidies mean China will rule the auto world. Our tariffs will only slow the demise of US auto companies.

Link. A smooth transition from denialism to ennui. (Some is justified cynicism about corporate slogans.)

I expect CO2 boredom to reach 60% in the US in the next few years.

Progress will be made in the shadows, out of public attention.

Link. China rules the sun.

Link. Limited value until we have better therapies or preventive measures. Interesting even specialists can’t reliably differentiate Alzheimer’s from other dementias. (Many are likely multiple causes).

Interesting is tau.

Link. Carter can pass now.

Link. Argghhhhh.

Link. He argues non-AGI UBI reduces economic growth by increasing leisure time and decreasing work output. Assumption that society will not tolerate falling incomes.

I like this as a framework for discussion especially through a disability lens.

Link. I have always appreciated Trump’s transparency.

Link. Yeah. Definitely Wakanda. Independent 1968 from UK.

Formerly Swaziland.