Link. Shoplifting is mostly to support fentanyl purchases.

Link. And maybe get tenure. The National Library of Medicine indexes scam science that lay people fall for.

Link. Apple doesn’t want this business.

Link. Vacuum collapse 10,000 times sooner than expected.

Link. “When CrowdStrike for macOS started using a System Extension nearly four years ago, it … proclaimed that “reducing the need for privileged access is always a more secure approach”

Link. SCOTUS was built to fail, but the design of the Fed was designed to resist a Trump.

“Great care went into designing a system of 14-year governors’ terms on a schedule so that no president could ever appoint a majority on the board…

…. Martin told Nixon to go pound sand.”

Link. I know some fitness models, but this is quite different.

Link. This is so much like the 1970s. Fun read. Book excerpt.

Link. It’s a short time series but that sounds about right.

Link. Checks are still used for many business transactions but retail checks are disappearing fast.

History: “To physically return all the checks, the government maintained a special fleet of planes that each night flew canceled checks around the country. ”

Cash may make a comeback?

Link. I really want to replace 1Password. We are getting closer.

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Link. Brave new world.

Link. The people I read tend to be de facto secular humanists who don’t take religious docctrine seriously. Being. mad for power is quite consistent with being a religious zealot.

Link. “Eventually, if you take advantage of the web, the web will start shutting its doors

Talking about Google here, who has been a parasite on free content for 13 years.

Link. Obvious to anyone paying attention, but this rarely gets said so clearly in the media.

Link. “it’s about feeling safe and cozy in a world that’s changing too fast for their liking”

In the 70s we called this “Future Shock”. There were books.

Link. A very accessible discussion. I learned things.

Link. Paxlovid isn’t worth much.

Link. It’s like watching a horror movie. One day we will put a stake in this thing

Link. 7% net traffic is malign.

Link. I’ve noticed this over the past few years. Google no longer indexes my Google Blogger posts. I suspect running Google ads helps. Otherwise you need to be a brand domain (Reddit, etc).

Link. Web service, free pending a business model. Example of results:

I’m testing it out. Similar to PubMed search to RSS.

Link. Noah claims that even if Trump loses the United States can barely stand up against China, and cannot handle both Russia and China. It’s Germany or Europe will fail.

Link. Similar to the feature pulled from iOS 17.5 but now with a proper UI and security cautions. Aperture had a similar feature, but Aperture was known for corrupting its database. I’m very curious how many lost things we’re going to find.

Link. The reboot process should be interesting too.

Link. I wrote this 13 years ago. It’s still pretty much the same story — but I don’t write for the GoogleMind now. The GoogleMind was dying even was a wrote that post. I write for the AIs now.

Link. He didn’t mention Rabin. As usual I am in the murky middle, but if I had to rule I would say he’s practicing a form of wishful thinking.

Link. “… for some complex numbers, the zeta function is equal to zero … in 1859, Bernhard Riemann conjectured that all the zeros are concentrated on two lines.”

The article is about a proof away from the core hypothesis, but the author does a great job of explaining the Riemann hypothesis for non-mathematicians.

Link. Changed shipping routes by data mining ship logs around 1840.

Link. The single machine desktop app still works for now, but the iOS app is mostly dead and there’s no future replacement.

Link. Similar story with Afghan opium.

There is no longer a viable economic strategy for rural areas anywhere.

Link. “The wealth of America’s billionaires was estimated at around $5.2 trillion in 2023, while federal government spending was about $6.4 trillion”

He ignores the sociopolitical consequences of wealth asymmetry. These days Noah writes what tech billionaires like to read – but the essay is still worthy.

Link. A huge success — but also very disruptive. It’s not surprising that a cap has been added.

China is 2nd largest source. Xi hates Canada for a reason.

Link. A $4 billion dollar AT&T fine might change someone’s behavior. But there will be no consequences in the US of course.

Link. ‘Participants with weak inner voices did worse at … Verbal memory …”

Not much new — it’s a short summary. Not having an inner voice may have other advantages.

This is a rather sensitive topic as it edges into the fun future-field of comparative consciousness (human, animal, AI)

Link. “Family Sharing for adults means every family member’s purchases go first to the Apple Cash balance purchaser’s account, next to the Organizer’s payment method.”

Link. Very expensive though.

Link. Via a Mastodon comment. This deserves to be better known.

See: Peak Oil.

Link. “writing regular dispatches for The Palestine Chronicle, a U.S.-based online publication”

The tunnels were real. Hospitals were Hamas bases. Administrators were Hamas. Gaza journalists were Hamas Some caregivers were Hamas.

I haven’t seen anyone who denied these things admit they were wrong.

Link. I have Fujitsu earlier version. ScanSnap owns the home office document scanner business.

Link. Bit of a desperation move?

Link. Everything everywhere all at once.

Page and Wootters mechanism, 1983.

Link. Moderns left Africa 250,000 y ago.

Link. I did not know this. So if you see that happening I guess you try to cool your Air …

Link. “I want to give my Agent the social security and medicare data it is likely to such; case number, my SSN, my phone, etc.  I want it to call social security using my voice and sit on hold for days, weeks, years until someone accidentally answers. Then it begins the conversation while paging me to swap in …. with a text summary of current discussion and a timer to join in 5…. 4….. 3…. 2…. 1…”

Link. Bit of good luck in this one.

Link. Not the Peak we were excited about 20y ago.

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Link. Author tells of eAssist handcycle adventure. I saw one such sessioning a singletrack downhill in Bentonville.