Link. American progressives falling into the old trap of Mao and Stalin.

Link. Better equipment, more money, training, better techniques, more people.

Link. Another summary.

Link. The next generation AIs integrate different AI approaches.

Link. Semiclassical is, I learned, the basis of quantum gravity work in the absence of a better model.

Link. Trump’s primary defense is gone. He has spent a lifetime criming in plain sight. He leaves a lot of evidence.

Link. Kenya will do it, but nobody wants Kenya. France can’t given its history. Canada is being very very quiet.

Link. ESPN will go streaming once it can get around contracts. Maybe end of cable model.

Link. A rerun worth rereading.

Link. Conservatives love false stories. Anything that increases accuracy will deeply offend conservatives. The cognitive dissonance is immense.

Link. The best thing about Photos is the accessible (undocumented) database.

“osxphotos project by Rhet Turnbull. It’s a well designed and extremely actively maintained Python tool for accessing the Apple Photos database”

Link. WHY would anyone do this?! One correction — it’s not just city centers. There’s basically no inexpensive motel/hotel lodging in America now.

Link. He has reasonable guesses as why polling lags reality.

Link. Cryobiosis.

Link. “Apple now seems to delegate most pre-release testing and checks on macOS to third-party beta-testers, and depends on their reporting of issues using Feedback.”

That is horrible and feels true.

Link. Long expected. This may be why Google is redoing admin policies for their Cloud devices (Google Apps, etc).

Link. These guys would win against much younger players. No mention of our Duluth legend who was 99 or so when he stopped to die.

Link. Our video calls were poor quality. Removing one of our 3 Eeros helped. Presumably a problem of software quality and too many devices for our home. Two devices covers the territory with less switching.

Link. They call it a “custom feed” but it’s basically a tool for building modified algorithms for what you see and when.

Link. “Google’s new robotics model, RT-2 incorporates movement tokens … “into the same training data as the language model … RT-2 can learn to guess how a robot’s arm should move to pick up a ball or throw an empty soda can into the recycling bin.”

Link. Very notorious.

Link. I suspect the standards are not as bad as presented in my social media feeds — clumsy, desperately trying to make the US look less bad than it actually was and is, but not quite as bad as my team makes them out to be.

Link. The Curse of the Valley. It’s not enough to deliver a good product that generates a reasonable profit.

Link. Not common but not rare; some/many get better. It’s such a weird disorder; there’s got to be more bizarre immune dysfunctions like this that we haven’t begun to name.

Link. Reading this I did the same. Previously I’d been checking my feed there every 2-3 weeks.

Link. Only idiots buy Tesla.

Link. Esther Crawford via Gruber. I was a bit shocked when I learned Xi didn’t know about the lost Chinese spy balloon that meandered across the US. The kind of monomania that gave Musk his wealth is not conducive to tracking reality.

Link. It’s been poked at since the 50s.

Link. Useful reference.

Link. “…Last week we were filling everyone’s timeline with ads for discount boner pill chewing gum, the punchline of which ads is that you’ll bang your lady so hard she’ll need the aid of a walker afterward…”

Link. I can’t imagine how hard it was to draw this. New Delhi by Miami.

Link. Industrial Revolution made sobriety profitable.

Link. Remember Cold Fusion? We should know shortly. Boiling point superconductor.

Link. I wonder if they will do bicycle routes.

Link. Cheap replacement batteries are dangerous. I suspect also mods that bypass scooter anti-theft.

Link. Among white Christian’s religious intensity is correlated with non-college but is an even better predictor of voting GOP.

Link. Apple doesn’t pay him very much. (In reality he presumably hit a fraud screen when he entered his salary.)

Link. Rampant fraud.

Link. “China isn’t likely to be the next Japan, economically speaking. It’s probably going to be worse.”

Link. A Polish scholar responds to Pro-Putin Americans.

Link. It doesn’t stick, they’d prefer you use the algo. I had to update and force quit to see it.

Link. He doesn’t know of course, but he favors wet market crossover. Lab leak is the public default: “Notwithstanding the Débarre group’s revelations, the lab-leak idea has remained strongly preferred by public opinion”

It is long!

Link. Idiot is the wrong word but I don’t have a better word.

Link. Take America’s prison culture and turn the dial to 10.

Link. The perfect Twitter eulogy.

Link. He likes Bluesky. Unfortunately.

Link. El Nino is giving us a preview of 2030.

Link. Fire and writing were likely invented many times and forgotten. If we can collapse civilization we could reset AI. Until the next time.

Link. Team Dem is totally wrong on this one. I know of similar issues with mountain bike trails in Michigan. Colorado voters should punish these legislators.

Link. I suspect Apple doesn’t document when it’s embarrassed by product issues.