https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c629pny4gl7o

If we were to design a global network today what would we do differently?

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-17-2025-monday

Only the best.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/

It’s a good essay.

https://mindnode.com/post/mindnode-2025-7

Mindnode switched a few years from a traditional file based approach to an “app-managed local data cache”. That meant MindNode projects could not be represented in finder and it made local backup/restore very clumsy. 2025.7 mitigates the first of those problems. I’m still on MindNode Classic but now I have to think about migrating.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-16-2025-190

Their dream is a really dumb version of Singapore — on a vastly larger scale and without Singapore’s odd socialist streak.

“a majority of people would prefer to live in a world where a child does not have to sell her body to older men in order to save enough money to get braces on her teeth.”

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/17/how-to-save-web-pages-using-safari/

First I’ve seen web archive explained! Definitely do not use. Sounds like export as PDF is the best we can do.

https://www.platformer.news/meta-scams-prevalence/

Minimum 10% of Meta revenue is from scams. Which they are curiously slow to block.

(Daytime broadcast TV was about 100% scams however)

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/giving-your-ai-a-job-interview

Subtext is that Claude is the best useful LLM for what most of us do.

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/aca-health-care-insurance-us-jetelina

Same old, but with added evil. Essay has no concrete recommendations though.

https://rasmussenretorts.substack.com/about

Substack RSS still works.

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/16/last-week-on-my-mac-five-tahoe-bugs/

“used to keep track of some of the more serious bugs in macOS. As that developed into what would have occupied me full-time”

I hope Cook retires.

https://www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia-finally-gets-a-genetic-fingerprint/121461

“The strongest genetic signal emerged from a variant in the HTT gene, which also causes Huntington’s disease when mutated. Another key player, GPR52, regulates HTT and is already being explored as a drug target for Huntington’s. Other implicated genes, including CAMKV, DCC, DRD2, MDGA2 and CELF4, have established roles in brain development, neuronal signalling and pain processing.”

Fibromyalgia has long been thought of as a brain disorder. The question is whether the environmental trigger is viral infection/immune response.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-with-margaret-sullivan

Mamdani meltdown was revealing. The NYT serves old wealth, WaPo serves Bezos.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-14-2025

Some new, some old. The Teapot Dome was child’s play. America’s rot is Russian class.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-13-2025

The MAGA seem to believe Trump is on the way out.

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/14/how-the-clock-hoards-timers-until-it-breaks/

“If any part of the Clock app becomes dysfunctional, delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mobiletimerd.plist to see if that fixes it.”

https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/comments/powerphotos_3.2_adds_a_whole_bunch_of_new_export_features

I’m includes whole library export – which ought to be one a standard for migrations.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/11/naked-locker-room-end/684907/

I’m glad this got a notice. I saw it happening over decades.

https://newrepublic.com/article/203092/trump-fox-laura-ingraham-shocking-on-air-brawl

Hilarity.

https://archive.ph/20251112051007/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/climate/iea-fossil-fuel-forecast.html#selection-1143.202-1143.315

Trump administration is upset with 2030 projections. That would make US oil reserves far less valuable.

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/11/big-guns-for-tahoe-problems-which-radical-fixes-still-work/

If safe boot and the like doesn’t work, you basically reinstall the OS or even go to DFU reset.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sarepta-enough-god-s-sake

Corruption and desperation

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-furious-debate-over-autisms-causes-leaves-parents-grasping-for-answers/

De novo mutations are mistakes during routine DNA manipulation, not inherited. Autism is a crap syndromic term for a wide range of conditions many of which are associated with a variety of inherited and de novo mutations in a wide variety of proteins. There really doesn’t seem to be a single cause to focus on.

https://archive.ph/20251109215133/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/health/merck-cholesterol-pill-pcsk9.html#selection-817.66-817.182

“circle of peptides, a one-hundredth the size of an antibody but larger than a typical pill-delivered small molecule”

Technology sounds like it may replace other injectables.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-9-2025

“Trump’s use of the Department of Justice to hurt his political opponents, his firing of inspectors general, the administration’s pay-to-play policies in which wealthy donors get government favors, the corruption of cryptocurrency, unconstitutional executive orders, and the threats against judges as Trump attacks the rule of law.”

https://spyglass.org/ai-browsers-breaking-web/

First they came for the search engine. Now they have come for the browser. Meanwhile the cyber breaks by nation, content license, and user license.

Stay healthy.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/11/05/forcing-copilot-ai/

Apple is terrible. M&G are worse. Perhaps the backlash will guide Apple and the EU across several domains.

https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/denmark-vs-the-shadow-fleet/

Meanwhile new Ukrainian missiles will take out Russian refineries.

https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/arab-nadir-clueless-hegemons/

“highest policy priority of Israel’s immediate neighbours, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, is not to prevent the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. It is rather to ensure that the new wave of Palestinian ‘refugees’ does not end up on their territories”

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-6-2025

Seems good to note. Is this the biggest tax increase in US history?

https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/sudan-civil-war-and-partition/

UAE is main funder of war.

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/07/inside-the-unified-log-7-claude-diagnoses-the-log/

Truly dismal results. A corrective to my Claude enthusiasm.

https://cameron.pfiffer.org/blog/production-ai-landscape/index.html

Anthropic has really taken the lead.

https://blog.google/products/maps/gemini-navigation-global/

Nothing interesting to me so far. I can think of lots of interesting things they could do, but I suspect they are too expensive.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-take-the-imaginary-numbers-out-of-quantum-mechanics-20251107/

You can imitate vector rotations in real numbers, but it’s klunky.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/making-pills-not-making-them-here

However it’s done, through regulation or tariffs, you’d have to dramatically increase generic drug prices to manufacture them in America.

https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m2znbd5z4k2p/l-quote/13_0-13_521?auth_completed=true#13_0

The GOP captured the LIV. Then the LIV captured the GOP.

https://tech.kateva.org/2025/11/macos-photos-optimized-storage-version.html

“The trick is to have two macOS user accounts with the same Apple ID [2]. One you use strictly for backup.”

https://www.minnpost.com/media/2025/11/anatomy-of-a-news-story-60-minutes-invites-audience-into-the-editing-process-with-trump-interview/

They edited to hide the raving and the confusion.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-4-2025-tuesday

Encouraging news.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/climate/electricity-prices.html

Mostly not data centers or generation costs.

“utilities have nearly tripled the amount they spend annually on the network of poles, wires, substations and transformers … Large portions of the electric grid are nearing the end of their 50-year life spans …deal with storms, fires and heat waves …”

https://www.macstories.net/notes/llms-for-data-portability/

“I opened Claude for Mac, installed one of its built-in Notes extensions, and asked it to replicate content from a specific folder of the Notes app in a Notion database while keeping as much of the original formatting intact as possible.”

This is very encouraging. One day I hope an LLM will free my blogs from Blogger (existing migration options suck).

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/11/03/ios-18-and-ios-26-autocorrect/

I think it’s been getting worse for quite a while, but not dramatically worse for me. I’m still on 18 though.

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/how-to-appease-a-declining-president

Assumed to be vascular dementia, but often there are other concurrent causes.

https://rodneybrooks.com/a-prophetic-poem-about-artificial-intelligence-written-in-1961/

Contrasted to ai generated pablum.

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/10/26/last-week-on-my-mac-why-spotlight-cant-find-some-files/

A completely horked and kludgy code base would explain a lot about Spotlight.

https://tech.kateva.org/2025/11/how-to-remove-live-photo-video-from.html

Duplicate, choose “Duplicate as Still Photo” and delete original.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2-2025

The capture of the GOP by the MAGA base is both proof of the power of democracy and proof of the instability of our version of democracy.

But nobody wants to talk about this …

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/ai-summarization-optimization.html

SEO techniques apply. I’m not sure this will make meetings worse. I can imagine more offline discussions.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/were-number-two

Trump surrendered. He had no choice.