Link. No need to be concerned.

“a version of Meta’s Llama 3 … gave one user a bitter, paragraphs-long rant …. The chatbot’s diatribe ended with: “I hate Kevin Roose.”

Link. I would not have guessed half. Mostly funding Trump of course.

Link. If I’m searching a medical topic I use the formal medical terminology.

Link. “within my agency and others, there were people who thought that was a really good day for Langley”

Link. Both humans and chimps have 17 brain regions. Some are similar size but a few are much larger in humans. They include decision-making systems that that get crappy in middle-aged humans.

There’s a hint these age faster than other regions. The result sounds squishy and nobody knows why — maybe we ask too much of these hacked together innovations.

Link. The most expensive substance on earth.

Link. “DeviceCheck lets apps check certain device data that will “persist across app deletions, reinstalls, factory resets, and even device transfers between users.”

I hate that Apple gives me a refurb when they trash my device during a battery replacement.

Link. “The shifting discourse, and especially the apparent LLM technical limitations, mean I’m back to being in the murky middle of things. Where I usually sit. Somehow that compels me to write down what I think.”

Link. US Forestry Service, USDA. It’s quite good. It’s also distributed by box.com rather than a US Forestry Service site; that says something important about how the web broke bad.

Link. If we knew nothing of Trump his alliance with RFK Jr alone would be enough to disqualify him from any political office.

Who the f*ck remembers the Kennedys anyway?

Link. It’s been 25y since I was close to this kind of tech. There have been changes. This is a fun catchup.

Link. By the time I upgrade macOS this kind of marginal value feature is long forgotten.

Link. So many compromises in the US constitution.

Link. “I attended a four day rave-style music festival … It offered key lessons on modern life from a sub-genre of our species: Homo ecstasticus.”

Link. The article fails to note that home testing is almost useless now. Tests are positive too late in the disease course.

It correctly concludes that we do not know enough to make rational risk assessments.

I’m impressed that the few who do wear masks use masks that do not protect the wearer (cloth, tattered surgical procedure masks). That is fascinating.

Link. I really, truly, thought that story was parody. He is perfect MAGA.

Link. Lead poisoning probably took out a lot of minds prior to the 90s. Likely still does in some parts of the world.

Link. Too much money, too few fast flips. Given scaling issues AI won’t save them this year.

Link. It was what we used to call a “white lie”. I was there, it was mostly locals taking opportunities. But the lie was helpful.

Link. Dyer: “unusually strong and united ‘establishment’ that includes the old rich, the army, the courts and a substantial part of the Bangkok middle class”

I lived there in 81. The future was bright then.

Link. “subpoenas demand any correspondence the organizations have had with that progressive media watchdog group”

Thiel showed the way.

(Yes, people who stay on X are moral cowards.)

Link. Paywalled damnit. Why does a near-dead crap market daily have America’s only serious economics commentary?

Link. It is now almost impossible to test 3rd party antimalware solution. This is a good problem.

Apple isn’t doing everything wrong. (Just the other things I care about)

Link. More detail on how Hamas operates.

Link. You could write something similar about physicians or public health or any profession that is no fun at parties.

Link. More than half the Matodon folk I follow think modern AI is bullshit. I think they are in denial.

Link. Crap data, but I think there is truth here. There used to be a viable future for men who were not socially and academically gifted. Now they are redundant.

Unless, of course, we go to war with China.

Link. They believed that it was possible to avert predicted doom – so it was a perfect racket. (I suspect some knew that.)

“Most of the more than 100,000 Mesopotamian tablets in the British Museum’s collection remain undeciphered”

Link. FDA approval pending. Novel mechanism.

“over 80% of women on the drug saw a more than 50% reduction in symptoms, … also reported fewer sleep disturbances”

Link. “Trump doesn’t know much — truly, he is ignorant as a chicken — but he knows that he needs Joe Biden to run against.”

Scalzi is feeling good about America’s new future.

Link. Based on recent research.

Link. Finally. Lossless mode too. I suspect compression is computationally expensive.

Link. Welcome to the greatest show on earth.

Link. Recession yet?

Link. It’s a lot of work and much of it is luck.

Link. Not the telescopes we knew.

Link. I liked the phrase “pale, male, and stale”.

He’s responding to readers who dislike the hard boundaries of the traditional novel.

Link. Money for stats class!

Link. He’s not always a reliable narrator, but I don’t believe people who claim it’s all quite simple.

Link. Likely effective.

Link. They contain lots of odd chemicals, some psychoactive, but the poisonous one has yet to be identified. America is a weird place.

“The most plausible explanation to date is if the muscimol was accompanied by another Amanita chemical called ibotenic acid…”

Link. Tom is praying for a GOP collapse that leads to a reformed party. (He is Republican by preference)

Link. Population growing, presumably due to immigration as birth rates are low. Subsidies for builders and optimize law and bureaucracy.

Link. Indentured servitude in India with coerced hysterectomies grabbing attention.

I love the honesty of the above quote. . US employers say similar things about their non-compete agreements.

Link. Schools ignore the idiot and even GOP is turning on him.

Link. I suspect there are a lot of seedy telecom players in the US.

Link. Clarity

Link. One way or another money will flow into content production.

“… Associated Press, Axel Springer, The Atlantic … “

Micropayments elsewhere in the multiverse but never here.

Link. Thiel is quite dim, but this is an illustration of what I think is happening among the weird.

Link. This restriction appears in context of a new online game. Perplexity thinks it’s a new formal restriction.

Curious.