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.

Link. That’s quite a moat.

Link. The article is a bit confused. If the results hold-up theorists have many explanations. Some of them seem similar to the old cyclic universe model. Anthropic principal not mentioned.

Link. “two of the five minors in the car were arrested less than two weeks ago”.

The residential school facilities for juvenile offenders were all closed in the past 20 years in favor of something mysterious.

Link. Noah answers the (dumb) GOP criticisms and explain the balancing act.

Link. “… Due to unforeseen circumstances with our shipping partner, prepaid shipping label printing is currently unavailable … we’re focused on getting the program back up and running as soon as possible.”

Over the past 10 years their toner recycling has gotten harder to use. I suspect it will not return. Instead almost everyone will dump their Brother toner into the garbage.

What a crappy world we live in.

Link. Onion.

Link. Interpretation left to the reader. Basically these companies play the gov game, do shit work, don’t care, and are protected by the bureaucracy they helped build.

Link. A four part series. Superb work.

Link. Alex Russell Is heroic. Gov sites are a great target to attack. Many horribly done by gov contractors following impossible gov rules.