Link. A nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications. These are awesome. Experience the 1970s.

Link. Blockbuster +. Marvelous if holds up.

Link. Eddy Cue basically lied in court.

Link. An expert analysis of Hamas hostage taking in historic and international context.

Link. “the exploit targeted a very basic buffer overflow vulnerability in unused IPC support code for a disabled feature … A simple fuzzer targeting the IPC layer would likely have found this vulnerability in seconds.”

Link. Good recommendations. All apply to adults of any age with cognitive disabilities.

Link. Don’t use iCloud Drive sync for large amounts of data

Link. Our understanding of the brain is going backwards. The more we learn the more we know nothing.

“The results were described in 21 papers published on Thursday in Science and several other journals…

“… the genes that make humans distinct [from chimpanzees] are involved in building the connections between neurons …”

Link. “Can you detect AI writing? No.”

Feels like a good summary. It ain’t going away.

Link. Hezbollah and Iran appear to have been surprised.

Link. I didn’t realize how bad it was…

Link. ChatGPT training its replacements. Many workers can sympathize.

“researchers settled on a training data set containing roughly 2 million stories … networks with fewer layers but more neurons per layer were better at answering questions that required factual knowledge; conversely, networks with more layers and fewer neurons per layer were better at keeping track of characters and plot points”

Link. And if Apple decides to terminate your Apple ID for unspecified acts against Apple?

Link. Early days but may represent real progress. These are severe cases, perhaps with psychotic (delusional) features.

Link. Amazon and Apple could do this. It’s interesting they don’t.

Link. Airbnb now discloses fees. Another reason to avoid hotels.

Link. I thought Iran had planned it.

Link. “Their deep learning system, called Sturgeon, was first tested on frozen tumor samples from previous brain cancer operations. It accurately diagnosed 45 of 50 cases within 40 minutes of starting genetic sequencing.”

Link. I wouldn’t call the 1970s a “quiet” revolution though.

Link. “only 52% of the participants in the running group fully adhered to the program, compared to 82% of those on antidepressants, despite exercise being the preferred choice for most.”

In the real world we would use both.

Link. A particular kind of learning common to all animals. Watch this space.

Link. The slimiest justice in a hundred years.

Link. “The most recent wave of attacks started in late August and continue to this day, targeting major infrastructure providers including Google services, Google Cloud infrastructure, and our customers.”

State actor? Esp Russia?

Link. Of his billions he kept two million to live on until he died. Sounds like he didn’t spend much of that.

Link. And COVID mortality skewed much older. Measured as “years of life lost” 1918 flu pandemic was maybe 60-80 times worse than COVID.

And COVID rocked the modern world.

Link. The sentencing fills in what happened. Malice yes, but also mental health issues and a lot of stupid.

Link. Spatz is House GOP Tea Party, so this is political humor.

Link. Common viral infections are much more impactful than we used to think. COVID has let us study these effects on a huge population.

The brain is often impacted.

Link. America was the coarse heavy drinking Sheriff who beat up people he didn’t like. But he was better than what’s to come.

Link. A strong presentation.

Link. Free link. It’s a vivid and persuasive portrait of a truly mad situation. Read for insight.

It’s far faster to hire private security than to train police. And they are not unionized.

Link. Deep pervasive GOP moral panic bullshit.

“Mr. Harris said he had started a petition calling on the Transportation Security Administration to require that children under 18 have identification when traveling with their parents or guardians.”

That’s sensible.

Link. “James E. Mitchell, the contract psychologist who worked for the C.I.A., testified in 2020 that he had consulted a lawyer for the agency and obtained permission to threaten to kill one of Mr. Mohammed’s sons. During that month, Mr. Mitchell waterboarded Mr. Mohammed 183 times.”

Link. “one of its factories employs just 30 technicians to make 300,000 electric car motors a year.”

Meanwhile Ford sells only hugely expensive trucks. China is going to crush the US auto market.

Link. All so I could share this.

Link. “… to display unbending devotion to Mr. Trump … to embrace some mix of relentless self-promotion, militant opposition to Democrats and a willingness to burn the federal government to the ground — even if it means taking the party down, too.”

Link. Clearly they were better with Taiwan, but PM is better with China. But the real bottom line: “communities are willing to open the door to anyone, no matter what their prevailing beliefs are in the area, because they literally just need food, medicine, basic stuff.”

Hobbes understood.

Link. But could have been. Somewhere in the multiverse that composite photo actually happened.

Link. Using your iPad as an HDMI monitor. I wonder if bypassing DRM (not what Orion does) is why accessories are plentiful.

Link. For America $77 billion is *almost* loose change.

Link. Bears attract puns. It’s a beary bad habit.

Link. The problem isn’t that ChatGPT is miraculous. The problem is humans are not.

Link. I wonder what the margin is?

Link. We were supposed to get authenticated phone calls by now.

Link. “…. The first, second, and third rule of GOP politics is: never work with the ChiCom woke fascist cabal of secret communist pedophiles …”

Link. The viral videos are perhaps not trustworthy.

Link. Don’t worry too much about getting Paxlovid. Get the vaccine.

Link. He certainly sounds rather manipulative.

Link. Good comments on funding problems and child care. She doesn’t seem prone to regrets.

(Helps to have 70 recent awards and, you know, the Nobel prize.)

Link. Peocytes support brain capillaries. The brain is very weird so is not surprising if they have amounts role.

Could be important but needs validation