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Linktree sort of explained.

Posted on December 18, 2022 by jgordon

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 … “

Posted on December 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “higher-dimensional geometry is just nasty” by which he means 10^100^100 dimensions and how does anyone writer about this?!

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“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.”

Posted on December 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. China is justly upset. But they are likewise hypocrites.

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“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.”

Posted on December 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. This piece has the goods.

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Memory and perception use the same neural networks. So how do we know which is which?

Posted on December 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. We don’t know yet.

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Elder warns the young: It’s hell to get old.

Posted on December 18, 2022 by jgordon

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.

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“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.”

Posted on December 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. They though they were the heroes. The reason why Trump’s people implicated themselves. (He’s not that dumb.)

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Mastodon query tool gives information rich overview (dev).

Posted on December 18, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Some instances have API disabled due to abuse potential. The chattiness is a design challenge.

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“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.”

Posted on December 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Noteworthy only because Gruber was once optimistic about Musk Twitter. Tesla P/E has a long way to fall.

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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.”

Posted on December 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Mullenweg is the anti-Musk.

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“The Times investigation found a stunning cascade of mistakes that started with Mr. Putin … convinced of his own brilliance…”

Posted on December 17, 2022 by jgordon

Link. In depth investigation of how Russia walked into a catastrophe. Partly made by Russia and especially by Ukraine.

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Jesse Squires Mastodon review: “I’ve only been using Mastodon for a few days so far, but wow — I’m impressed”

Posted on December 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “you can edit posts — something Twitter could not be bothered to implement. Mastodon also allows you to opt-out of search engine indexing.”

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Is Elon Musk evil or simply a fool?

Posted on December 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “The answer, as so often with these things, is “both.””

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MacStories Is on Mastodon with Its Own Server (multiple accounts)

Posted on December 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. This is what WaPo and NYT should do – their own server. Can also follow via RSS.

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Publishing an RSS Feed to Mastodon.

Posted on December 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I’m hoping to implement IFTTT version today.

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“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)”

Posted on December 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Screws up copy-paste into web forms. Has messed me up but I did not know why until now.

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“Barbarella is quite possibly the most 1968 movie ever made.”

Posted on December 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I saw it in 70s and was nostalgic even then.

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Regulatory fix for market failure in antibiotic development.

Posted on December 16, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Bipartisan but is an admission markets can fail so GOP sensitive.

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“DeSantis is increasingly making himself the face of vaccine conspiracy theories”

Posted on December 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Remember Republican war on Science?

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RIP Donald Trump Republican.

Posted on December 15, 2022 by jgordon

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.“

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“Musk (whose reported affinity for booting accounts who annoy him is now a regular theme) suspended competitor Mastodon’s Twitter account.”

Posted on December 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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WaPo on Elon going after his journalist critics.

Posted on December 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. People who stay are empowering Musk

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China’s vision for manned moon (before 2030) and mars (nuclear propulsion) missions.

Posted on December 14, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The telescope sounds exciting.

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A Winter Biking Gear and Tips

Posted on December 14, 2022 by jgordon

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.

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Who Are the ‘Never-Coviders’?

Posted on December 14, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Emily is one. Somewhat careful but not especially. Lots of exposures. Nothing.

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“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”

Posted on December 14, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Cheaper to pay cleanup than to stop leaks.

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“Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 49”

Posted on December 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. More than accidents?

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“September 2021 poll showed support for interracial marriage at 94%.”

Posted on December 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I’d like to know the race/gender/culture background of the 6%.

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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.”

Posted on December 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Be woke to own the cons.

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Net derived neural networks reflect net biases including female sexualization, esp Asian.

Posted on December 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Current approach is to characterize bias the adjust for it in post-processing.

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“The Sinaloa cartel has risen to become the world’s premier fentanyl producer. The group manufactures fentanyl and meth throughout northwestern Mexico”

Posted on December 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Mexico is kind of a train wreck.

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mRNA vaccine with Keytruda cut melanoma recurrence 44% compared to Keytruda alone

Posted on December 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “The companies hailed the results as spectacular.”

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Fusion – maybe in 40 years.

Posted on December 12, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Might be progress, but very far from useful.

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Mastodon Autopost – WordPress plugin.

Posted on December 12, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Post from a WP based micro blog to Mastodon.

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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.”

Posted on December 12, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The best China experts know Xi is very good at getting and using power and otherwise dumb as a rock.

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Mastodon user guide: Dealing with unwanted content.

Posted on December 12, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Many options. Flag to instance admin/moderator only if truly necessary.

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Fedifinder: recreate Twitter follower graph on a Mastodon instance

Posted on December 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It scanned 664 Twitter profiles and found 120 on Mastodon fediverse domains.

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A beginner’s guide to Mastodon.

Posted on December 11, 2022 by jgordon

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.

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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,”

Posted on December 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Review of hostage taking. “It’s like putting up your house as collateral on a $100 bet.”

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“If Eufy can ignore security researchers and the press without there being any repercussions in the market, others will follow suit”

Posted on December 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Most consumers don’t care about privacy or security. It’s considered hopeless and far too complex.

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E. Fuller Torrey, rebel psychiatrist advocating for mandatory treatment of psychosis and group home care.

Posted on December 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Driven by memory of his sister and stories of horror. Very expensive to do this ethically.

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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”

Posted on December 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The funding of US primary education is a crime.

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Steven Seagal became Russian citizen in 2016. (Just learned this)

Posted on December 10, 2022 by jgordon

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.”

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“29 American and Canadian hockey players who are signed to premier Russian teams this season, with some joining after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”

Posted on December 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Can we not do hostage swaps for them? There’s another American on Griner’s basketball team. Lots of basketball players.

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Decent bandwidth: “1.84 Pbit/s with a new chip that uses just a single laser”

Posted on December 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A single image @ 2040.

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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”

Posted on December 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Eclectic Light is the best.

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NEPA article review: regulatory barriers to CO2 emission control.

Posted on December 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Manchin was right.

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Browsing the Fediverse: queried against Mastodon API.

Posted on December 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Room for creativity.

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“quantum computers will be most useful for learning about quantum systems themselves, not for analyzing classical data.”

Posted on December 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Says the woman known for killing quantum computing optimism. (Tang). It ain’t gonna work guys. Your cryptography is safe.

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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”

Posted on December 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Held by Germany.

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