Link. Since Musk banned it I went looking for what it was. I think popular with Only Fan market.
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Tiling Conjecture proved false: “[Tao] and Greenfeld didn’t compute the dimension of the space it lives in; they just know it’s massive … “
Link. “higher-dimensional geometry is just nasty” by which he means 10^100^100 dimensions and how does anyone writer about this?!
“We are destroying the multilateral trade system that we took leadership in creating. But we also don’t have the guts to openly repudiate past policies or to actually withdraw from agreements we signed.”
Link. China is justly upset. But they are likewise hypocrites.
“Back in 2016, Musk used a sham product launch to convince Tesla shareholders to acquire SolarCity — a solar-energy company that at the time was helmed by Musk’s cousin.”
Link. This piece has the goods.
Memory and perception use the same neural networks. So how do we know which is which?
Link. We don’t know yet.
Elder warns the young: It’s hell to get old.
Link. I sincerely don’t think they need to know. There’s nothing to be done except to die. Enjoy it while you got it.
“the reason we have so many diaries from Confederates in the early 1860s is that they imagined they were the Founders of their own new nation.”
Link. They though they were the heroes. The reason why Trump’s people implicated themselves. (He’s not that dumb.)
Mastodon query tool gives information rich overview (dev).
Link. Some instances have API disabled due to abuse potential. The chattiness is a design challenge.
“It has become increasingly clear, week by week, that Musk is unstable and erratic … he’s an erratic huckster, a liar, and a low-grade (at least) sociopath.”
Link. Noteworthy only because Gruber was once optimistic about Musk Twitter. Tesla P/E has a long way to fall.
WordPress/Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg: “We had to do a lot of cleanup when we bought Tumblr. There was a lot of hate speech on the platform, and they were behind on content moderation.”
Link. Mullenweg is the anti-Musk.
“The Times investigation found a stunning cascade of mistakes that started with Mr. Putin … convinced of his own brilliance…”
Link. In depth investigation of how Russia walked into a catastrophe. Partly made by Russia and especially by Ukraine.
Jesse Squires Mastodon review: “I’ve only been using Mastodon for a few days so far, but wow — I’m impressed”
Link. “you can edit posts — something Twitter could not be bothered to implement. Mastodon also allows you to opt-out of search engine indexing.”
Is Elon Musk evil or simply a fool?
Link. “The answer, as so often with these things, is “both.””
MacStories Is on Mastodon with Its Own Server (multiple accounts)
Link. This is what WaPo and NYT should do – their own server. Can also follow via RSS.
Publishing an RSS Feed to Mastodon.
Link. I’m hoping to implement IFTTT version today.
“Contacts on the Mac encloses all phone numbers in two zero-width (and thus invisible) Unicode characters: U+202D (LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE) and U+202C (POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING)”
Link. Screws up copy-paste into web forms. Has messed me up but I did not know why until now.
“Barbarella is quite possibly the most 1968 movie ever made.”
Link. I saw it in 70s and was nostalgic even then.
Regulatory fix for market failure in antibiotic development.
Link. Bipartisan but is an admission markets can fail so GOP sensitive.
“DeSantis is increasingly making himself the face of vaccine conspiracy theories”
Link. Remember Republican war on Science?
RIP Donald Trump Republican.
Link. “A giant “fuck you” to Musk, to his party, to everyone but the people in on the joke.…. but MAGA knows that Trump is a silly man. They love it.“
“Musk (whose reported affinity for booting accounts who annoy him is now a regular theme) suspended competitor Mastodon’s Twitter account.”
Link.
WaPo on Elon going after his journalist critics.
Link. People who stay are empowering Musk
China’s vision for manned moon (before 2030) and mars (nuclear propulsion) missions.
Link. The telescope sounds exciting.
A Winter Biking Gear and Tips
Link. The zip tie thing is wild. I’d not seen bar mitts for road bars before, that’s neat. Doesn’t address really cold gear though.
Who Are the ‘Never-Coviders’?
Link. Emily is one. Somewhat careful but not especially. Lots of exposures. Nothing.
“The Keystone Pipeline ruptured Wednesday night near a creek in northern Kansas, spilling what its operator, TC Energy, says is about 14,000 barrels of oil”
Link. Cheaper to pay cleanup than to stop leaks.
“Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 49”
Link. More than accidents?
“September 2021 poll showed support for interracial marriage at 94%.”
Link. I’d like to know the race/gender/culture background of the 6%.
On wokeness: “To focus on the scholarly contributions of some European leftists is to ignore the much richer veins of Black thought that have been in America for centuries.”
Link. Be woke to own the cons.
Net derived neural networks reflect net biases including female sexualization, esp Asian.
Link. Current approach is to characterize bias the adjust for it in post-processing.
“The Sinaloa cartel has risen to become the world’s premier fentanyl producer. The group manufactures fentanyl and meth throughout northwestern Mexico”
Link. Mexico is kind of a train wreck.
mRNA vaccine with Keytruda cut melanoma recurrence 44% compared to Keytruda alone
Link. “The companies hailed the results as spectacular.”
Fusion – maybe in 40 years.
Link. Might be progress, but very far from useful.
Mastodon Autopost – WordPress plugin.
Link. Post from a WP based micro blog to Mastodon.
Xi interpreted: “We can open up, because I went around the world and I met with all these leaders around the world without a mask already. And I’m fine.”
Link. The best China experts know Xi is very good at getting and using power and otherwise dumb as a rock.
Mastodon user guide: Dealing with unwanted content.
Link. Many options. Flag to instance admin/moderator only if truly necessary.
Fedifinder: recreate Twitter follower graph on a Mastodon instance
Link. It scanned 664 Twitter profiles and found 120 on Mastodon fediverse domains.
A beginner’s guide to Mastodon.
Link. “you can only search by hashtag, not by words that appear in a toot. So if you want your post to be discoverable, you can tag it”. No quote tweets, I will miss those.
China paid a high price for its 2018 hostage taking: “The loss of untold billions in trade, and of a diplomatic relationship in which Chinese leaders had invested years of work, was probably more than they had expected to pay for Ms. Wanzhou’s release,”
Link. Review of hostage taking. “It’s like putting up your house as collateral on a $100 bet.”
“If Eufy can ignore security researchers and the press without there being any repercussions in the market, others will follow suit”
Link. Most consumers don’t care about privacy or security. It’s considered hopeless and far too complex.
E. Fuller Torrey, rebel psychiatrist advocating for mandatory treatment of psychosis and group home care.
Link. Driven by memory of his sister and stories of horror. Very expensive to do this ethically.
US high school military recruiting program mandatory in some urban Black schools: “military subsidizes instructors’ salaries while requiring schools to maintain a certain level of enrollment”
Link. The funding of US primary education is a crime.
Steven Seagal became Russian citizen in 2016. (Just learned this)
Link. ” … Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Seagal called Putin “one of the great living world leaders” and even performed with his blues band in the annexed Black Sea peninsula.”
“29 American and Canadian hockey players who are signed to premier Russian teams this season, with some joining after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”
Link. Can we not do hostage swaps for them? There’s another American on Griner’s basketball team. Lots of basketball players.
Decent bandwidth: “1.84 Pbit/s with a new chip that uses just a single laser”
Link. A single image @ 2040.
Explainer: Rosetta 2. “the whole of the app’s Intel executable is loaded into memory, passed to OAH, which translates its executable code into Arm instructions, and hands that back to be run”
Link. Eclectic Light is the best.
NEPA article review: regulatory barriers to CO2 emission control.
Link. Manchin was right.
Browsing the Fediverse: queried against Mastodon API.
Link. Room for creativity.
“quantum computers will be most useful for learning about quantum systems themselves, not for analyzing classical data.”
Link. Says the woman known for killing quantum computing optimism. (Tang). It ain’t gonna work guys. Your cryptography is safe.
The guy the Russians wanted: “Mr. Krasikov is an assassin who murdered a Chechen fighter in a park in Berlin in broad daylight in 2019”
Link. Held by Germany.