Link. “Lack of bureaucratic state capacity
Onerous contracting requirements
Permitting, especially NEPA”

Set asides for underserved and other well intentioned restrictions have a terrible track record.

Link. I like the floating feature

Link. They are moving very carefully.

Link. Bending spoons bought them. They are a scammy vendor.

Link. SMS authentication is easy but has risks.

Link. More RSS goodness. I track Jedeed this way.

Link. “Visit your subscriptions page to get started. There will be a notice at the top of the page if Feedbin has detected any broken feeds it can help with”

Fixed 20 for me.

Link. I believe inflation made this possible.

“the gap between Black and white unemployment rates is the smallest it has been”

Link. Watch this space.

Link. Article doesn’t explain why low arrest rate.

Link. The chorus technique was new to me. He uses ChatGPT and Claude to get cross-validation.

Link. Teen vogue has replaced Time magazine.

Link. Was HP’s fall similar?

Link. 1. Longer delays from symptoms to antigen positive. Don’t know if infectious before antigen positive. Wait 4-5 days before testing?
2. COVID spread maybe unaffected by humidity, temperature?
3. Vaccines are great and probably worthwhile even in teens.

Link. Very old web – but still active. A personal index to blogs.

Link. “Denmark, in particular, seems to have gone through some population changes so complete and drastic that genocidal conquest comes to mind”

Or a novel disease.

Link. “Perplexity has their own search index now and is running their own crawlers, and they’re using variants of Mistral 7B and Llama 70B …”

Link. A complaint — that 58 people were murdered. Bihar state is probably a worst case. Lots of corruption, a government that manipulates courts and blocks reform. (India is more a coalition of states than a country so presumably varies by state.)

It’s easy to see how SCOTUS could turn into India’s massively corrupt Supreme Court.

Link. “Ms. Salazar, Ecuador’s first Black attorney general, was appointed in 2019. She prosecuted a former president, Rafael Correa, on corruption charges the next year.”

Link. I learned a lot. 30y ago BYTE magazine would have covered all this. We have no equivalent now.

Link. Reports so far suggest very low mortality for such broad attacks.

Link. A gift.

Link. The Houthi are religious zealots who believe they have a divine mission. Iran’s faux-devout rulers are more pragmatic but have lost control.

Link. Starting over for a new stage of Oldness.

Link. Tsai always describes the truth I see. It really sucks to switch phones. One reason I go 4-5 years.

“Eventually, iMessage did start working, but then a few hours later it spontaneously signed me out…”

Link. Fungi flourished when the asteroid whacked T-Rex; that’s when they deployed the psychedelics.

Link. The Economist is no friend to Hamas.

“Egyptian Red Crescent, which is responsible for aid deliveries at Rafah, is “not competent”. Corruption is rife. Lucrative goods disappear from warehouses while expired ones are delivered to Gaza”

Link. Religion is a plague.

Link. “However brilliant the journalism is, it maybe appeals to your intellect, to your head … drama is designed to appeal to your heart …”

The bureaucrats were righteous I am sure.

Link. Metabolic syndrome in Northern Europe.

Link. “illegally sold with claims to improve brain function and treat anxiety, depression, pain, opioid use disorder and other conditions,”

Delivered to you courtesy of Utah and Orrin Hatch.

Link. The battery tech review is the most interesting.

Link. Interesting way to approach the marketplace. I’m skeptical they will be both safe and effective but the human/dog aging differences suggest room to improve.

Link. Wireless continuity camera is unreliable.

Link. It’s gotten worse. Article doesn’t mention that education and enforcement stopped after riots.

Link. “for AIs we’re providing a variety of tools—like immediate computable access to documentation, and computable error handling”

Mathematica 14 pivots to non-human users. Wolfram is old, knows AI history, wrote an explainer on LLMs, and has no qualms about using the term “AI”.

Link. The next few years should show us a lot more like this. I wonder how many hours of the year our bodies are not engaged in warfare with a virus, bacteria, rogue cell or something else. (Probably zero.)

Link. The “kissing disease” (mono) virus needs a vaccine.

Link. Iowa has great schools but MSP has far more opportunities. It hurts to lose the young.

Link. If you disable Live Photo you can mute phone but everyone would like the option to turn the damn clicks off.

Link. Ends abruptly.

Link. I assume a creative legal team will find many financial opportunities in Musk’s recreation.

Link. Mitochondria have a peculiar agenda. Wildly speculative but a fun read. My mitochondria wave little white flags.

I suspect humans are already at max lifespan; this effect won’t help us.

Link. We live on the knife edge now.

Link. It’s a big weird world.

Link. “Today’s vendors sell our data to third parties and then market products to us. Vendors have a hard lock-in. This kind of service decay is now known as “enshittification”.

Link. I recalled this in the context of 1980s IBM, but I wonder if it’s also true of 2024 Apple.

Link. Mostly thought to represent sounds. The Inca knot language is a debatable inclusion.

Link. “Take away the holiday tourists and Midtown Manhattan feels sleepy … So many people are working from home, or not working, or not in the city anymore. There are many vacant storefronts around town, and empty building floors …”

I think the same in many cities, especially those with high housing costs. (I wonder if, conversely, Detroit is fine.) The crash in urban real estate prices is going to be painful.

Link. I was so wrong about YouTube.