Link. Both a reaction to social transformations.
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Steven Pinker and Scott Aaronson debate AI scaling.
Link. Several longish essays. On initial review many good questions raised.
Harris implies those “shocked” GOP senators are full of sh*t.
Link. Everyone with a brain knew they were lying.
“The Army has hit 40% of its recruiting goals this year, with the struggle to fill the ranks seemingly so grim the Defense Department reduced its planned total force size because prior recruiting goals were out of reach.”
Link. I’m surprised.
WaPo’s Kathleen Parker of “calm down” fame.
Link. via Jay Rosen: “You don’t seem to be a very good thief. Maybe you should try something else.” She’s pretty shameless. Her Twitter sig says “dangerous thinker”.
How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch ID, and Require a Passcode to Unlock Your iPhone or iPad
Link. Press and hold the power button and either volume button to hard-lock an iPhone or iPad. “Remember to do this every time you’re separated from your phone, like when going through the magnetometer at any security checkpoint, especially airports.”
Exporting/Archiving E-mail From Apple Mail
Link. Unreliable. Use EagleFiler.
“When state legislatures put in place the Black Codes, which created a second-class status in the South for Black Americans, Congress passed and the states ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, overriding the Dred Scott decision to make
Link. SCOTUS has often been despicable.
“Walz signed an executive order Saturday directing state agencies — to the extent legally permissible — not to aid agencies from other states if they seek to prosecute their residents for traveling to Minnesota to get abortions”
Link.
“Patients with immune complications who were taken off checkpoint inhibitors did just as well as patients who continued…”
Link. Interesting. Short courses pending.
An insider reports on why America’s mega-projects fail.
Link. His US vs. EU union examples were unpersuasive however.
Contextuality in quantum physics: “They continued until, in the 117th direction, the contradiction cropped up”
Link. 117 is my new magic number.
“getting too little sleep most likely leads to long-lasting brain damage and increased risk of neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease.”
Link. The disorders also disrupt sleep, so reinforcing disease. Sleep apnea a key contributor.
The status of Bees.
Link. By a physicist because it’s really all QFT. Good review though.
China implements the Minority Report.
Link. 9/11 was a turning point. We knew afterwards that ubiquitous surveillance was inevitable. The only uncertainty is the degree of protection of the accused and whether “protected spaces” can exist.
“attacker needs a custom Thunderbolt 3 device and five minutes alone with your Mac. At the end of that, they can copy all your data, even when its internal SSD is encrypted and the Mac is locked.”
Link. Always assume your data can be read.
“I feel sorry that too many were killed on each side,” Sitting Bull said, “but when Indians must fight, they must.”
Link. An excellent tightly written history.
“saved the lives of 19.1m-20.4m people. Without vaccines, the study estimates, roughly three times as many people would have died from covid in 2021 alone”
Link. Lancet study.
“In 1958, however, the economist A.W. Phillips pointed out that there had historically been a relationship between unemployment and the rate of change in wages (as opposed to their level)”
Link. This is a great primer on inflation macro.
Your face bugs poop on you.
Link. “they’re evolving into co-dependent, symbiotic creatures that might provide us some benefits”
Schneier’s blockchain/crypto takedown only works because he excludes crime.
Link. Crypto is very valuable for a wide range of crime and activities that badly harm vulnerable people. We need to kill it.
T-Mobile Is selling Android user’s usage data.
Link. They can’t sell iOS data.
“Inside the cells of Thiomargarita magnifica, the researchers have discovered a bizarre, complicated structure.”
Link. An enormous bacteria that has many features of a eukaryotic cell.
“Greek tortoises and black marsh turtles, even displayed negative rates of senescence, meaning their mortality risk decreased as they aged.”
Link. They are pretty sluggish though.
Ukrainian cyber-defense effective: “moving much of Ukraine’s most important systems to the cloud, onto servers outside Ukraine.”
Link. Russia mostly failed on cyber, but great success with n the bio-lab con with help from Lachlan Murdoch.
“The only reliable way that I’ve found to prune Message’s storage use is to set it to only Keep Messages for One Year”
Link. There’s no export capability.
“Xinjiang produces more than 40 percent of the world’s polysilicon, a quarter of the world’s tomato paste and a fifth of global cotton.”
Link. Known to have forced labor, aka slavery.
“since 2000, and especially since the global financial crisis, businesses have persistently been unwilling to maintain a level of investment spending that used all the money households wanted to save, unless interest rates were very low”
Link. Too much money, too little demand.
“humans are the only animal that actually gets Alzheimer’s”
Link. If I knew that I’d *cough* forgotten. Why?!
Amway and Web3 – similar cultures.
Link. Guest post. Two cults.
Monkeypox spread explained: “They go specifically to have sex with many other men.”
Link. Ripping off the bandaid.
“After The New York Times asked Capital One about Mr. Oriach’s case… After The Times contacted Bank of America, it refunded …”
Link. Despicable. They cave when the NYT knocks but before that they shaft customers.
“myxoma virus killed 99.8 percent of the rabbits it infected, typically in less than two weeks”
Link. And recently it got more lethal!
China: “22 of more than 33,000 patients hospitalized after testing positive for Omicron developed severe illness”
Link. More curious and hard to parse numbers.
“The first thing to check if you experience sporadic networking failures is iCloud Private Relay”
Link. Too fragile.
“it was not until June 2 that General Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered the Confederacy’s Trans-Mississippi Department,”
Link. Keep as reference.
“we have a recession? Well hell yes! Will stock and real estate prices fall? Well hell yes!”
Link. Crypto was on average a funds transfer from the unlucky to the lucky.
“….dictating the ways in which the events at the Alamo are remembered; protecting Confederate monuments; ending gay marriage…”
Link. Texas GOP platform “planks” 2022.
Sheryl Sandberg and the Crackling Hellfire of Corporate America: “you cannot simultaneously dedicate yourself to making untold fortunes for a giant corporation and to championing a social good.”
Link. Great writing and love the title.
All the Pixar Movies, Ranked.
Link. Damn, Pixar is so good.
Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea: “susceptible to the experimental antibiotics lefamulin and zoliflodacin”
Link. Hope vaccine works. We need more bioscientists!
iCloud Shared Photo Library doesn’t follow iOS definition of a “family”.
Link. This won’t be pretty.
“Ports are also fundamental to Network Address Translation (NAT). That uses dynamic port numbers, between 49152-65535”
Link. Very old and I didn’t know that.
Ubiquitous computing: a smart power adapter.
Link. Can it run Doom? Also, I remember when devices needed specific watts. Now they can live off anything.
macOS App crashing mysteriously? Check disk space.
Link. Would have been easier to debug in the blog era.
“handed control of the firm to a former plastic surgeon named Giancarlo Devasini, who has stored some of Tether’s assets in a bank in the Bahamas run by one of the creators of the “Inspector Gadget” cartoon.”
Link. On the bright side the fentanyl trade still needs Tether.
Foxes eating avian flu infected birds dying of a brain disorder.
Link. No mention of wolves or dogs. Believed not spreading between fox kits.
“The fallout from the burglary gained no traction before the election, which Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew won with an astonishing 60.7 percent of the vote”
Link. Nixon authorized to a burglary and remained very popular. Bork was his lackey.
Bone marrow hematopoiesis drives multiple sclerosis progression.
Link. Idea is to target clones producing the auto reactive T cells. Would work for other diseases. We don’t know how.
Slowing sea level rise by impeding melt of Greenland’s glaciers.
Link. Something like this.