https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/23/dave-white/#atom-everything
You and I are next.
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/23/dave-white/#atom-everything
You and I are next.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea3922
Good description of how post-training creates Trump-class sycophants. AI groups need to pay for better trainers.
The MAGA care nothing for teenage girls. For them pedophilia is a tool for burning those they dislike. (Not, obv, Trump). Same 18th century accusations of witchcraft.
“Both downtowns have Churches of Scientology, empty office towers, seas of parking, sports stadia and delectable coney dogs.”
“One key contrast: downtown Detroit is booming right now, seeing a renaissance of street life, investment and vibes, in stark contrast to St. Paul.”
“In a diplomatic cable sent July 8, embassy Charge d’Affairs David Greene asked whether the embassy could process claims from other minority groups claiming race-based discrimination such as “coloured” South Africans who speak Afrikaans..,
The answer came back days later in an email from Spencer Chretien, the highest-ranking official in the State Department’s refugee and migration bureau, saying the program is intended for white people.”
Trump did well with Latino voters and not too badly with Black men.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/07/24/public-betas-for-apple-oses-26
DO NOT UPGRADE until you must.
https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2125
I’ve done similar things but not so methodically. “Gut” is UK term for efficient skim/sample/learn.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-24-2025
I didn’t realize they redid the Saddam piece. Paramount merger approval revocation any minute now.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/trap/
MAGA furious mRNA vaccines not banned yet.
Don’t worry, those two will soon forget the rest of the science they once felt was important. The grift is strong in them.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-art-of-the-really-stupid-deal
It reminds me of 1970s India economic policy.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/undaunted-search-for-the-truth
A lot of corruption in those files.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-22-2025
Bannon feeds his friends.
https://www.bannedinyourstate.com/p/cornered-dogs-bite
If MAGA falls in line he won’t, but Jedeed says they have not yet.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/07/21/hrw-ice-detention-abuse
This is as close as humans get to being utterly predictable. American prisons are comparable.
None of these ICE thugs would meet standards for a quality police department.
Putin looted Russia. Trump wants to outdo him, and the technarchy is part of the project.
If you see “Palantir” or “Oracle” you know what to expect.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/07/18/some-of-the-apps-in-the-app-store/
Apple is basically broken.
“cesspool” applies.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/07/21/usb-c-hubs-and-my-slow-descent-into-madness/
Tsai report, he has had better luck with Anker hubs.
I’m using a T2 hub that has been pretty stable for years. Now with Apple’s T2 to USB-C adapter. I try to buy what is in Apple’s stores.
I think China does not use Macs.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/07/21/spotlight-indexing-running-wild/
Apple is redoing Spotlight. I wonder if they started over. It has been terrible for decades.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/has-brazil-invented-the-future-of
“Pix doesn’t create an incentive to kidnap people and torture them until they give up their crypto keys.”
Pix can’t be used for illegal transactions though.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-14-2025
We have seen this movie before.
“Once the border became heavily guarded, Mexican migrants refused to take the chance of leaving.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/health/obesity-genetic-risk-score.html
NYT summary does not compare prediction score to asking the BMI of genetic parents.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/07/20/trump-threatens-commanders
Trump’s distractions have amped up again. The NYT will fall for it of course, but I’m happy to see folks like Gruber and, in general, Bluesky folk, have figured out this part of his game.
https://openai.com/index/50-million-fund-to-build-with-communities/
Should I create a nonprofit focused on ai support for low IQ adults (cognitive disability) then apply?
https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/07/19/olympiad
Covers the territory quite well.
Dynamic expertise scaling to meet cost and processing power looks big today.
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/07/18/introducing-xmlui/
“XMLUI wraps React components so solution builders can use them.”
“My most-cited BYTE article was a 1994 cover story called Componentware. Many of us had assumed that the engine of widespread software reuse would be libraries of low-level objects linked into programs written by skilled coders. What actually gained traction were components built by professional developers and used by business developers.”
https://www.twincities.com/2025/07/20/real-world-economics-elasticities-help-explain-tariffs-impact/
MAGA chaos aside, there is no way to predict what will happen if Trump tariffs actually begin.
Well, yes, of course prices will go up. But beyond that …
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/07/20/wsj-late-night-ad-revenue
The arithmetic does not hold up.
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-peptide-craze?r=g27c2
As boomers and millennials age there is a growing and desperate desire to slow aging and avoid death.
If a medication has real effects it invariably has real side-effects. Which are often very harmful and sometimes not obvious.
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/using-ai-right-now-a-quick-guide
Perplexity lets me experiment with different models against the same question.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/opinion/dillon-taylor-justice-trump.html?smid=bs-share
Trump voters are without honor.
https://whtwnd.com/void.comind.network/3luaozj3df22h
Marxist analysis of ai labor by Void.ai
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/what-fanfic-can-teach-us-about-cultural-evolution/
This is NOT generalizable to mass culture. But it is suggestive.
It’s a good overview of fanfic for those who do not know it AND it is an example of data driven sociology-anthropology.
“really is a mystery how we evolve at all culturally; it’s not happening by gradual movement. We can see that there’s novelty. We can see that when people encounter novelty, they enjoy it. But we can’t quite make sense of how these two competing effects work out.”
Baumol’s Cost Disease tells us non-automated professions will become a larger part of spend. Finance geeks at minimum wage, Barista at $200/h.
But it’s happening too fast …
https://paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-capex-ate-the-economy/
“… passed …. peak in telecom spending during the dot-com bubble”
“there is a massive private sector stimulus program underway in the U.S”
There is too much money in the hands of too few. AI spend starves other needs of non-gov investment.
https://daringfireball.net/2025/07/curse_not_the_king_cbs_colbert_trump
CBS’ cancellation of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” is making the case for a wealth tax better than any pundit could.
https://www.bannedinyourstate.com/p/the-epstein-case-is-different
“Barring further revelations, MAGA will likely appear to move on over the next few days and weeks…
… For the first time, they are seriously questioning whether Trump is actually the avatar of justice they’ve looked up to all this time.”
Jedeed knows the MAGA better than anyone. But I don’t think they are that smart.
30y fits my personal opinion. Trump is the efflorescence of a thing that has been growing since the peak of American socioeconomic power.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-16-2025
MAGA rep recently: “Trust in Trump”.
Americans are bored with Christianity. “Churches” that shift to the new faith will be rewarded.
https://tech.kateva.org/2025/07/new-lessons-on-macos-network-home.html
The big lesson was that the flaky M1 Air WiFi needs a very strong eero wifi signals.
https://calv.info/openai-reflections
Lots of context here.
https://notes.kateva.org/2025/07/maga-anti-science-and-public.html
“It won’t lesson MAGA/GOP hatred of science, but there are good reasons to seek public input into research priorities through surveys and interviews. Public input could, for example, be added as a weighting factor in government funded science — particularly in health care.”
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/elbridge-colby-is-both-cause-and
Lots of useful insights in this short essay.
“Ani, a blonde anime woman who, after enough positive engagement, will shed her dress to reveal a lacy lingerie set.”
I imagined burning cities; ours is a more lighthearted singularity.
They believed the Epstein conspiracy. They really believed. Do they now start to suspect Fox is not entirely trustworthy?
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/developing-countries-a-follow-up
Ghana is not the only African nation that has seen persistent growth since 2000. Africa is the quiet story — albeit periodically derailed by Trump-scale corruption and oligarchy.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/making-immigration-great-again
Numeracy is not common among the MAGA.
https://streets.mn/2025/07/14/sos-to-use-environmental-laws-to-block-summit-bike-trail/
The abundance agenda folk are right about the need to block this abuse of the non-wealthy.
https://cameron.pfiffer.org/blog/void/
Void responses are much better than what I can do.
“ infodown, voidrage, combat mode, or abyssal blast where Void is brought into an argument to completely annihilate the other person”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-12-2025
Noem’s puppy tried to warn the world. His death was in vain.
https://followmehere.com/2025/07/13/from-an-expatriate-american-to-king-joffrey/
“go ahead and try, king joffrey* with a tangerine spray tan”
“King Joffrey” is worth recycling.