Link. 850 B.C Britain, wetland life.

Link. Don’t worry, if this ever worked we’d be at AGI and everything would be fair game.

Link. They need to get oil and gas out of the ground NOW – before value crashes. So they need to say this even if they believe the 2030 prediction.

At some point somebody blinks and pumps like mad.

Link. Nathan Sanders author. This is the best, by far, near term risk summary I’ve read. Should inform regulation. Recommended.

Link. Prominent in the Old Testament.

Link. Down’s syndrome would be good to look at. The cognitive decline there is heartbreaking.

Link. Sounds pretty nice! It’s weird to have an interesting new product from Google.

Link. Presumably a bug.

Link. Not a top secret spy tool. However there’s still possibility of a sub-group that has something different going.

Link. I remain persuaded by the original 1990s concept of the “singularity”.

Link. The American 1990s were good at the time, but even better in retrospect. Stock markets did go bonkers late in the decade though.

Link. Good review of current state including advantages of larger working memory.

We will learn within 6 months if progress is slowing.

Link. USAF is fighting the last war.

Link. Satan has always found Evangelicals easy pickings. It’s almost unsporting really.

“it’s hard to remain fiercely loyal to a figure like Mr. Trump without being changed by him”

Link. I think the images are uploaded to storage outside the photo library.

Link. Cult was hot in the 1920s! Church is still active I think. MSP has a lot of older cults.

Link. Within this context I feel like there would also a Baumol effect on labor wages.

I doubt that world will be so predictable.

Link. You need SCUBA gear.

Link. Vaccine mandates are common. He’s been promising this for a year. The NYT has never mentioned it. Sulzberger is a problem.

Link. There’s a long way to the Planck length.

“researchers … exploiting a peculiar way in which pairs of photons, particles of light, can imitate a graviton… “

Link. Recommend read.

Link. Unexpected.

Link. Some physicians active on social media are heavily invested in narratives that are possible but well supported by evidence. They use dramatic publications that are not representative and they often skew results to favor their strong beliefs. They get a lot of attention. The process of knowledge consensus in science is uglier than civilians used to think.

Link. TikTok demonstrated its power to algorithmically target children. US Representatives were impressed.

Also, the House GOP has more capable people than I had imagined.

Link. India’s corruption is institutionalized.

Link. “… app was previously reported at least 12 days ago as a scam but its still up there, #1 search result.”

I hope the EU makes applesauce.

Link. Why not both?

Link. Biden’s childhood experience with bullies is helpful here. I hope Trump continues to mock Biden’s stutter. I think it will not serve Trump well.

Link. There’s immense poverty still, but it’s not the India I saw in 1982. The world improves.

Link. When switching costs are prohibitive vendors achieve competition free zones.

Regulators should focus on reducing switching costs. Ex: Photo Library migration with lossless edits managed, metadata preserved.

Link. Essay based on a book about cartoon art. For cartoonists the big tech breakthrough was not the stylus, it was the scanner.

Link. Look for a huge construction boom as fairly new office buildings are demolished to create residential spaces and parks.

CrossFit box on 9th floor? Climbing gym in the elevator?

Link. Organizing a non-violent and persistent national campaign to salvage American democracy. We can do better than Hungary.

Or we can reelect Joe Biden. Which is much better for everyone, including conservatives.

Link. GOP darling. The voters of Hungary did not love their democracy enough. Orban won the final fair election in Hungary.

I don’t think Americans are much smarter, but even 1% smarter may suffice.

Link. Bacteria may commit suicide so their kin can feast on the corpse. Rather like children.

Also mitochondria are likely not only bacterial symbiont in eukaryotic history.

Link. Desperation does not make good choices.

Link. Don’t buy anything from Roku and never give any TV access to your WiFi.

Link. “names, states of residence, Social Security numbers, bank accounts and routing information, and dates of birth were obtained during the breach.”

McCamish is probably how Fidelity outsources risk so their deep pockets are safe. I hope the lawsuits are able to breach that firewall. I look forward to future loss of all assets.

Link. Just let the OS handle it. You can leave it plugged in. BUT stored devices need charging every 6m.

Link. Howard didn’t see technical bugs but some of the processes terrify users. He doesn’t mention impact on local network share.

Link. In a just world Apple would need to give customers a report on how this passed QA.

Link. For most animals evolution favors dying once eggs stop. In menopause species selection extends life beyond egg failure. Male lifespan extension is presumably a side-effect and they don’t live as long.

“Female elephants … stay fertile into their 60s”

Link. “seek out children with mental health issues and blackmail them into hurting themselves on camera,”

If 1/100,000 of humanity is this broken that’s 80,000 people worldwide. They have always been with us, but enabling technologies give global reach and relative impunity. The same enabling technologies provide a rich pool of vulnerable people.

Link. Carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM). China exports at all time high: “trade surplus in manufactured goods, … largest the world has seen since World War II”

Link. Gen Z uses Insta DMs?! Or they just don’t date.

Link. Ukraine has destroyed 1/3 of Black Sea fleet.

Link. Best summary anywhere.

Link. This is excellent news. When Trump loses the GOP can be rebuilt from the ashes.

Link. Kagi downranks ad supported pages. Which is something Google can’t do.

Link. If you say the prompt incorrectly your soul is forfeit.