https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/07/08/grok-praises-hitler
Gruber reminds us Grok had an unauthorized modification before. Did Yaccarino promise to resign if Musk did it again?
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/07/08/grok-praises-hitler
Gruber reminds us Grok had an unauthorized modification before. Did Yaccarino promise to resign if Musk did it again?
https://huggingface.co/blog/smollm3
Scan it to understand more.
Students of the American prison system know slavery never ended here.
“with an anonymous quote from G. Gordon Liddy”
The stage is set for something beyond the NYT.
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/blue-bonds-a-fiscal-strategy-for-overcoming-trump-2-0/
Or states issue cryptocurrency and IOU’s against the federal government. There may also be a historical precedent for not paying taxes to king who does not provide needed services.
Only one of many emerging ideas.
https://notes.kateva.org/2025/07/how-to-defeat-maga-brutal-medicaid.html
Contra-Krugman no human volunteer can manage this burden. But it’s a perfect opportunity for an AI trillionaire to demonstrate the value of agentic AI.
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/803953/?source=bluesky
For the sake of sanity give them your spam-only email and for mercy’s sake not your text number.
Online training July 16, 30. Aug 13.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/magazine/fda-collapse-rfk-kennedy.html
Because corporations and delusional crackpots dislike the FDA the GOP has always underfunded it. Now the MAGA have destroyed it.
Only Americans could destroy America.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-tariff-beatings-will-continue
At least we will need fewer landfills.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/how-to-make-america-sick-again
Yep. Doing everything wrong.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/hiding-prompt-injections-in-academic-papers.html
Some from credible universities. Instructions are for an AI reviewer.
https://techinch.com/blog/best-scanner-apps
I avoid Adobe but this I will try.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-6-2025
“core presidential national security and foreign affairs powers”
As America burns legacy media fiddles.
https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/iran-much-ado-about-nothing/
King Trump I is best managed by a revolting stream of obsequious flattery.
Hold your nose.
https://www.twincities.com/2025/07/06/real-world-economics-looming-farm-crisis-by-the-numbers/
Low interest rates caused land prices to rise and commodity prices are now falling. Some of this is Trump, other parts are longterm.
Meanwhile Trump is decimating healthcare in rural America while young women continue to leave.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-scammers-golden-age-crypto
GOP love for scams goes back to Amway and before. But Trump, who may be the most talented con man in history, is taking it next level.
The MAGA will be fleeced.
https://tech.kateva.org/2025/06/porting-landline-number-to-secondary.html
We falied with Tello, but finally succeeded with Ting. I think the carriers have more or less sabotaged the federally mandated landline number porting process.
Anyway, ported landline now $10/month on a secondary eSIM on Emily’s personal iPhone.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/health-care-jonathan-gruber
It’s rare I read these kinds of interviews but Gruber is another level. A must read.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor
Inevitable next step. Somebody needs to do the harvests.
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/emerson-ai-and-the-force
Nobody predicted our times better than Stephenson (once optimistic) and Gibson (always realist).
“maximum loss of fat-free mass as measured by DXA had occurred by 1 year after the start of a weight-loss intervention, but by 8 years fat mass was regained without regain of fat-free mass”
Areas of active research. We don’t know if strength training offsets these effects but we do know most people will not voluntarily do exercise.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2502760?query=TOC
“The 5-year disease-free survival was 80.3% in the exercise group and 73.9% in the health-education group”
This is a much bigger effect than I would have expected. It’s a strong study design. There was no diff in body weight, this was not an obesity effect.
https://charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-conscience-of-lisa-murkowski?r=2k4r8&triedRedirect=true
Remember courage? Remember decency?
If you have both you are far above Murkowski.
https://tidbits.com/2025/07/01/anker-recalls-six-more-power-banks/
Maybe power banks in general are a bad idea.
https://desertdemocrat.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/blah-blah-blah-blah-ginger/
It’s still a magnificent cartoon.
https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-blocks-ai-crawlers-default/
ICYMI – we lost the spam wars. This is about giving publishers more leverage in their negotiations with the answer engines.
“Cloudflare’s shift to blocking by default could prove a significant roadblock to surreptitious scrapers and could give publishers more leverage to negotiate, whether through the Pay Per Crawl program or otherwise.”
https://allenpike.com/2025/coding-agents
They are using the big ones, esp o3, for coding.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/ghostwriting-scam.html
… by “convincing the victims that publishers and filmmakers wanted to turn their books into blockbusters”
Somehow worse than romance scams.
https://notes.kateva.org/2025/06/minnesotas-mesabi-bike-trail-2025-review.html
A truly extraordinary journey across Minnesota’s iron range. Worthy of traveling to do – for a reasonably strong cyclist (or an eBike).
So many questions from this. Researcher imaged her brain during pregnancy.
https://www.standupforscience.net/epa-declaration
Fighting the onslaught of the idiots.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-uncover-hidden-ingredients-behind-ai-creativity-20250630/
Those who claim they understand genAI do not.
We will eventually ban connectivity in household appliances.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/technology/us-tech-europe-microsoft-trump-icc.html
Netenyahu and Trump are their own axis of evil.
Microsoft and ICC work on mitigating harm. The bright side is EU now forced to separate from US tech services.
Most interesting non-AI tech news this year.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/were-all-rats-now
Rats against the MAGA.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-28-2025
OTOH everybody knew the GOP was lying when they set a sunset date. If they won the cuts would be extended.
OTOH they lied then and they are now lying about the rules.
OTOH nobody sane trusts the GOP.
Details of the Fed you never see elsewhere.
“by last month, the money supply was 42% greater than it was pre-COVID while real output is not even 14% greater.”
“In animals that received bacteria from the sibling with multiple sclerosis, paralysis appeared within twelve weeks. Mice given microbes from the healthy twin stayed mobile the entire study.”
I did not expect this. More to come I am sure.
https://morrick.me/archives/10078
Jobs was an asshole and a science denialist, but his taste was exceptional.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-27-2025
SCOTUS, in thrall to the MAGA, leads us back to the pit.
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/06/28/a-brief-history-of-web-browsers/
A nostalgic trip through Mac browser history. I liked Camino.
Killed by the MAGA assassin as he killed Mark and Melissa.
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/27/macwhisper-13-supports-nvidia-parakeet-transcription-model/
Nvidia’s Parakeet … promised to transcribe “60 minutes of audio in just 1 second”, provided you had the right hardware, such as A100, H100, T4, or V100 GPUs.
https://notes.kateva.org/2025/06/prediction-post-agi-american-democracy.html
Totalitarian state is perhaps more likely, but I did say “democracy”.
Politic language but very clear. I can’t see any medical society that didn’t sign.