Link. This started to get harder 15-20y ago. Even our Google Apps personal domain emails had issues past two years so it’s bigger than forwarding.

Link. The only way to reform Microsoft would be to make all vendors liable for security failures.

Link. Now kidnappings are routine.

Link. I did not know browser thing. I Hor Dictionary stays.

Link. The “hippie ape” is Homo sapiens. The first domesticated ape.

Link. Tardigrades are much tougher.

Link. Lose gold means no health insurance. To see the dystopian future look to India.

Link. Peak Americana.

Link. Apple now collects reports of SMS and email phishing attacks that impersonate Apple at reportphishing@apple.com.

Link. The author takes his life-begins-conception beliefs seriously but “recognize that many of the critics of the pro-life movement were right all along”

Link. I learned things. It does turn into an ad for a deservedly interesting but unproven product.

Link. Beth acquits herself well. (Though her employer may be screwed.)

Link. There’s a better vaccine but it’s years from mass production. Usually the second infection is much worse than the first – excruciatingly painful.

Link. Blood transfusion is a dire challenge for much of the world.

Link. It’s a frequent annoyance.

Link. We should know more within 6m. Ocean warning is too fast for CO2 alone.

Link. Borrow card from store, drain money, restore packaging. Card is sold to someone who is out of luck.

“Apple settled a similar card-draining class-action case in January, agreeing to pay $1.8 million. “

Link. “GPT-4 was better able to change people’s minds during a conversational debate than other humans, at least when it is given access to personal information about the person …

… it is now trivial to build a vending machine that can engage you in discussion and be very persuasive about it.”

Link. Rationalizing regulation is hard work without glory or prizes.

Link. Stated concern is only a single outcome study with a different population than current — medication to be part of clinical trials.

“Clinics worldwide reported that the increase was largely driven by patients raised as girls.”

Link. Why is there a strange test here?

Link. Why am I just learning this now? I knew he was insane, but didn’t know the money.

Link. Maybe some companies shouldn’t be publicly traded?

Link. “When an email is forwarded, the position of the original email in the DOM usually changes, allowing for CSS rules to be selectively applied only when an email has been forwarded.”

CSS rewrites benign email into malware vector.

Link. BMR is a tax on renters and, unsurprisingly, it reduces housing availability. OTOH direct subsidies are politically toxic.

Link. Reassuringly expensive — but still a pittance for a nation-state.

Link. Inflation and disease from the perspective of ag economics

Link. “When patients see medical providers outside their plans’ networks, UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, Aetna and other insurers often send the bills to MultiPlan to recommend a payment amount.”

NYT investigation.

Link. Brother of course. I think they also made good coin as typewriters died.

Link. Filled gaps in my understanding.

Link. Maybe I should try fentanyl? (jk but the withdrawal does suck)

Link. In the very unlikely event that Photos lock-in gets attention there are two fixes: Define an export format for Photo collections and make public PhotoKit APIs the only way Photos interacts with iCloud Photos.

Link. The scale of proposed AI facilities obscures the major reduction in cost.

Link. Unreliable study designs suggest a 30% reduction. We will learn more soon. I’m most interested in animal model studies.

Link. Aliens VII. (Cicada dual emergence in Midwest). Dogs who eat too many can get obstructed.

“cicada train would reach to the moon and back 33 times”

Link. I missed the 3 Holy Documents part of this. Jedeed always has the best Trump take with the most telling details.

“Imagine dropping someone from 2010 directly into 2024. They’d lose their mind immediately; they’d go stark raving mad.” I think you’d want to go back before 9/11, say from 1998. Then they’d go mad.

Link. Sounds like a preexisting problem exacerbated by fame.

Link. US Gov was awful at security so they outsourced to MSFT. Which turns out to be awful too.

Link. This has not gotten much press.

Link. Slowly but consistently

Link. I learned a few things.

Link. The Economist did this well in their 2000 Millenium issue. This predates the LLM jump.

The Fermi Paradox applies.

Link. “also quieted my conscience by continuing to drink heavily, every night”

Some of story is explaining how he landed in Pecker-hell but there is lots of interesting background on how lies are made and the truth hidden. Including finding “experts” who will say anything.

Link. Open to all but motivation is to reduce drowning risk for black youth. More unmet demand than expected, normally $130 or so. I believe finding instructors is hard, facilities close due lifeguard lack.

Link. It’s rare to see a review like this — across transit apps.

Link. Is it lying if nobody believes you?

Link. Don’t scratch your butt while shopping.

Link. Embassy protection rule only applies to a host nation and the self-defense case is strong for attack in Syria.

Link. “It’s reminiscent of Solar Winds, although (1) it would have been much, much worse, and (2) we got really, really lucky.”

What a crazy situation.

Link. He is past his prime but he is still very good at corruption.