Link. Brevity will finally be appreciated.

Link. We’ll find out over the next few years. Antidepressants are insanely difficult to evaluate.

Link. Latest was a “liberal” Twitter account popular with Reds that accepted Venmo donations.

Link. I forgot about them.

Link. “They could afford to hire experts to brief them on world affairs, but that would only work if they were willing to listen when the experts told them things they didn’t want to hear.”

They firmly believe wealth is the only metric that matters.

Link. I miss the glory days of the clean install.

Link. Being invisible is part of the job though, so it would be a faceless and genderless statue. Civilization depends on these people even if history credits the visible.

Link. “on several occasions I have apologized for almost bumping into a large bearded man, only to realize that the large bearded man was myself in a mirror”

Link. The waves are light years across.

“deviations in time that are a couple of hundred nanoseconds”

Link. Copied from a Facebook post with permission. I hated to see this experience lost in a Facebook Group.

Link. The paying API customers are getting lousy service.

Link. Billions wasted but now a massive win.

A lifelong med though. Huge pharma revenue albeit well earned.

Link. Eventually the FTC may get interested.

Link. This is the medical consensus.

Link. Measures ratio of two placental proteins; if normal then HTN will not progress to pre-eclampsia for at least two weeks. If ratio bad 2/3 will get pre-eclampsia.

Link. Inflation of a kind. Insurance rates rising fast.

Link. Anonymity is dying. Perhaps if Apple’s parental controls had not been a buggy usability disaster …

Link. Porn text generation to begin with.

Link. The article is a great critique with good suggestions. For me the culture is the biggest problem. The label “Nazi” is liberally used, it appears to mean “ideologically unacceptable”.

Link. Mainstream journalists are fundamentally bourgeois.

Link. “A Phase III trial is in the works, but as the article will show you, the company is now equivocating on what they will do if the results come back negative. Their revenue this year from the drug is estimated at four hundred million dollars.”

“Yale epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves … “hope in the absence of data was astrology”

Link. Pizzagate 19th century. Must read essay.

I can’t believe Boston tourist office hasn’t commercialized this history.

Link. Can’t dump Prime yet. 6 episodes.

Link. The “insane” asylums were vast. Happily in our enlightened times the treatment resistant can experience street living instead.

Link. A readable and essential overview of LLM tooling.

“we can often use LLMs to get good output for topics that are … newer than the model’s data cutoff date…”

Link. I read Elon was telling Twitter-serfs to touch grass. So I had to look it up.

Link. Author understates value of pre-Reader tools but story of dev is unique. Also depressing — Google was dying even as Reader struggled to be born.

Link. Only direct connect to bank money.

The war on credit cards is underway. See also Goldman-Sachs leaving the Apple Card business.

Link. Meanwhile Apple’s own apps add features.

Link. In the 90s “push” motivations had a huge hype cycle when Web 1.0 money started to worry.

For subscription and notification only RSS has worked.

Link. Goldman Sachs isn’t setup for the nasty business of consumer credit cards. Apple’s framework is too consumer friendly.

Link. This is great science. The judges of the experiments concluded “a bit of both plus we-don’t-know”. More studies to come.

Perhaps we will only understand consciousness when our AIs claim it.

Link. The thicket of regulation has to be cleared.

Link. English language speakers from locations where minimum wage is under $1/hr. Millions constantly describing the world.

Link. Still 10% over pre-COVID.

Link. If you have a transgender child you need to keep suicide in mind.

Link. “the Chinese government, which caps the hiring age for most civil servant positions at 35”

Link. Yet still he is favored.

Link. Not the only buyers.

Link. “The normal static electricity of a mammal helps ticks attack”

Link. “functional socialism does not look like any of that. It looks like the VA. There’s no good reason you can’t have it too.”

Link. She’s so overreaching.

Link. Toronto home prices are similar to SF and Toronto is vastly bigger. Renters are in trouble.

Link. “made for advertising” sites already control 21 percent of all programmatic advertising revenues, and these sites tend to dominate Google search results”

Link. The coup theory made it to SCOTUS based on a motivated reading of ambiguous language in the US constitution.

Link. “American officials have an interest in pushing out information that undermines the standing of General Surovikin, whom they view as more competent and more ruthless than other members of the command.”

Betrayed by his fellow ravagers? Or an American ploy to further disunity?

Link. Supposedly identifies people believed to have shoplifted. False positive rate not known. Legal proof of guilt not required, no appeal process but image said to be deleted after 1y. Motivated by shoplifting loss.

Link. “9 of 10 auto thefts in the state were Kia’s and Hyundai’s”. Mostly by a modest number of 15yo who cannot be held.

Link. I suspected this at the time.

Link. Putin does well in opinion polls. Very popular they say. But Russia’s revealed preference is they don’t give a shit.