Link. Clean energy offsets are in part an accounting trick. Microsoft fusion timeline is absurd.

These kinds of externalities are usually managed through forms of taxation.

Link. Opportunity identified.

Link. Controlled by clerics yet dressed up like a democracy. It’s sort-of a joke and sort-of real.

Link. A useful reference review. No big Sequoia changes found so far; just continuation of iCloud Keychain functionality.

Link. As expected.

Link. “Pirate Ship has negotiated corporate-level discounted shipping rates of up to 89% off retail and passes most of those savings on to customers.”

Their profits come from the retained savings.

Link. Reputedly a famously cruel review. Link via Threads

Link. “large studies have suggested that languages have been optimized to transfer information clearly and efficiently.”

But we can do a lot of reasoning without using our unique and stable individual language network.

Link. “…Patients often keep taking the obesity drugs, while many who are taking drugs they need to be healthy, like statins, abandon them …”

Physicians will increasingly start with the glutide. Speculative uses for inflammatory conditions or Parkinson’s need clinical trials.

Link. Wouldn’t WordPress plugins have similar issues?

Link. A story of both American brutality and some compassion on the side. (Note CIA illegally destroyed their torture videos.)

The Cheney/Bush torture program was quite popular with Americans after 9/11.

Link. $20 per year. I’ve been using Junkman which does pretty well.

The best discussion I’ve seen to date. Mostly dealing with political spam — I think carriers are forbidden to block some of it.

Link. “the universe has evolved via frequent mergers of galaxies, which would naturally result in many merging quasar pairs observed throughout the universe.”

Link. Substack. Twitter. Reddit. Most people just shrug and continue. Sometimes the bad guys win.

Link. Nothing bad or dramatic, just continued progress. Gates foundation and UNFPA working away.

Link. “macOS Sequoia brings radical changes that somehow escaped presentation at WWDC … lack of documentation fills me with deep and growing despair”

The Tim Cook era.

Link. Smells like another product failure.

Link. Relevant to ICC investigations. The conclusion is deeply buried in the article.

Link. “group and its leaders have remained broadly unpopular in the enclave. More Gazans have even been willing to speak out against Hamas, risking retribution.”

There was one election then Hamas ended elections.

Link. Lots of interesting lessons.

Link. Flagged misinformation is not main problem now. Fox not mentioned specifically but Murdoch is a famed serial killer.

“Make headlines better” is key recommendation. Most Americans never get past the headline.

Link. Horizontal scrolling. Damn kids.

Link. Consistency counts for something.

Link. Religious things.

Link. No. Big fail. Try again in 10 years.

“today I barely use the Vision Pro at all … it sits on a shelf collecting dust.”

Link. We have relearned how quickly nations can go insane. Xi has been a catastrophe. The economic consequences will hurt everyone.

Link. Reminds me of Philip Morris.

“increased open research funded or fostered by government could reduce information problems.”

This was the era of stock incentives.

Link. “they attacked us through our daughter. They pulled pictures of her from social media and photoshopped her into gas chambers and lynchings … To my shame, the racism and extremism within the denomination was invisible to us before our own ordeal …”

Wisdom hits hard.

Link. I think Fidelity still promotes voice auth

Link. Links to free PDF that is readable on iPhone if good eyes. I’ll be browsing it.

Link. Agree on all points. Dumb crime, bad precedent, huge corruption in politics dwarfs this, GOP already insane so their threats are laughable.

Link. All good things. I wish for bug fixes, I despair for Photos.app improvements.

Link. Bit much corporate BS for basically going subscription.

Link. “when they looked at the genetic make-up of IBD patients, they found that 95% of patients in their sample carried at least one copy of a specific enhancer variant that seems to boost ETS2 activity…

… MEK inhibitors, should be able to quiet down the inflammation triggered by ETS2”

If it holds up … it’s big.

Link. “It’s a political problem, not an economic crisis.”

Link. Great history with usual eerie parallels but I’m most interested in why it only surfaces now.

Link. Modi is a loon.

Link. There are no bugs in 1Password happily.

Link. “FakeReporter, an Israeli misinformation watchdog, identified the effort in March …

… accounts with profile photos of Black men posted about being a “middle-aged Jewish woman.” …

… On its LinkedIn page, Stoic has promoted its ability to run campaigns backed by A.I … [later removed]”

Targeted specific NY legislators. I wonder how good the posts were.

Link. The Watch is not a good product. Battery life is too short for a sports watch. (Vs Garmin). I suspect most sold are no longer worn — and word gets out.

AirPods decline is interesting though.

Link. He likes much of Swift. A careful and fair review after his usual roundup.

Link. Won’t happen but whistleblower protections could be expanded to cover notification of health risks including AI risks.

Link. Some people like cruise ships. They should not read this.

Link. “There were 3.9 million websites in China in 2023, down more than a third from 5.3 million in 2017,

China’s web is dying too.

Link. Even if it’s 50 million that is insane.

Link. I signed an expansive nondisclosure agreement that promised a fine of $5 million and even jail time if I were to ever divulge what actually happened. It expired this year.

“Although very few programs are out-and-out fake, there is deception at play in every single reality program”

Link. Aka the “Common Crawl”. The ad-funded web is toast.

Link. Great essay on the economics of education and a new MN Dem benefit.

Link. “Visit our free Claim File Helper tool, where you can generate a PDF of your request letter”

Propublica.

Link. Proprietary sadly.