Link. This is what I have personally found as well.

“Using the AI as a companion when reading, because it allows you to ask infinite questions.”

I use it during lectures this way

Link. Apple’s app reviews are a sewer, so it is likely nobody there monitors them. But it is likely the vendors do read them. So they knew.

Bigo Live is gone but Boho Live is there and comes up with same search term.

Link. Fortunately RFK jr will lead the ongoing response.

Very brave health care workers.

“The daytime electrical current is barely strong enough to power a single lightbulb”

Link. A fighter.

Link. There are people with spine.

Link. Everyone wants a story but history is often one damned thing after another.

Link. Trump is demented.

Link. It appears to be a trend that started in the 1960s.

Link. The article doesn’t mention an energy source.

Link. The real opportunities are in shifting work away from contractors and back to federal bureaucrats.

(Oh, and fix federal software contracting.)

Link. It can take quite a while for dead trees to fall over.

Link. I think all the questions have been answered.

Link. Pick one:

A. Bezos is an idiot.
B. Bezos is scared.
C. Bezos believes Trump is weak and confused and can be manipulated by the oligarchs who will rule now.

Link. A unique perspective. It’s weird we don’t have more like this.

Link. We have come a long way very quickly.

Link. Things mainstream physicians thought were wrong at the time:

1. Masking when outdoors (I think was effectively ignored).
2. Confusion about what cloth masks were good for (reduce transmission from sick people) and when they were low value (protecting the wearer).
3. Failure to clarify what ages were at risk early on (came a bit later) and the case for school closures prior to vaccination (staff risk and kid spread).

Today we still see young people wearing cloth masks outdoors and few wearing effective masks when boarding airplanes.

Ironically what persists most ow

Link. Some of this search work reminds me of Alta Vista.

Link. This is different. I like the “musical chairs” analogy.

Link. We are not missing out. Yet.

Link. I’ve not seen a rebuttal of this theme that Simpson has been pushing for a few years.

Link. Significant though it’s a big place. The DEI staff don’t come across well in the article.

Link. Women are better suited to the post-industrial world. A meditation on the broken SecSef nominee.

Link. Telecom security is broken and cannot be fixed.

Link. The GOP relies on lies, so this could only happen at the state level in the US.

Link. macOS should have had an uninstaller long ago. This is something I need to do.

Link. “If that characteristic string were a part of the HTML for the URL then when that URL fails a client could automatically search with that string. Often the target would be found.”

No rights reserved!

Link. A key reference for discussions about the cost of development and the evils of big pharma.

Link. It’s likely that there are bacteria and viruses that live in our brains. Which makes an infections component of brain disorders and brain aging more interesting.

Link. The intellectual class.

Link. Our plane has no fuel and we are going to crash.

Link. Amidst the coming chaos, a reminder of what we had and perhaps will have again one day.

Link. The new oil.

Link. Leaving the triumphant slavery states behind.

Link. Parents are going to learn unbearably horrible lessons.

“Your unvaccinated brat killed my baby, you selfish bitch”

Link. In my life I met one person who does 4h a night. He did degrees and professions while his family slept.

I’m amazed it’s a point mutation. It was probably maladaptive for most of human evolution.

Link. “It’s only been this tiny, recent blip where we have had only one human species on the planet.”

There can only be One. But it took a while.

Link. The best blogs are hobby blogs.

“I have been so pained to see the decreasing dominance of dedicating oneself to service and the alleviation of suffering in my field.”

He’s a psychiatrist. This cultural trend is hugely important and completely unremarked.

Link. China is similar. It is worldwide. We have a vast cognitive surplus and far too few “good” jobs that don’t require cognitive and executive function gifts.

Link. Sub-Saharan Africa changing.

Link. “I’d like to see an option for time-limited blocks. I’d also like profiles to show block counts by default, with an option to hide that count.”

Link. “my current use is about 10 to 1 in Bluesky’s favor, about the inverse of what it was a month ago.”

For many people leaving X is like quitting smoking — and it’s a part of their income stream. He is right about Mastodon as the Linux of social networks. To me that is a feature.

Link. I do not like this trend. I’m leery of where MindNode is going — especially because they no longer sell MindNode classic via the app store (probably due to Apple being Apple).

I used MindNode heavily now but I don’t think I’ll go to MindNote Next. I’ll be looking for alternatives.

Link. I think this is ancient, not Sequoia. After the Library Favorites folder was retired back in OS X days I kept a folder there of shortcuts — for no particular reason. Spotlight never seemed to find those items. I didn’t dig into why but now I know.

Link. The charge sheet is a slam dunk. Musk is now anti-science.

Link. This framing had not occurred to me. He can’t withdraw without changing careers.

I won’t read much of it but I’m glad he does this. And I now feel the pain.

Link. A short essay by Jon Udell about taking out the AirPods.

Link. Discovery changed understanding of australopithecus LESS than I’d thought. We also no longer think of Lucy as a human ancestor.

Link. Bidenomics had the right goals and largely succeeded in the near term — but it was politically unhelpful.

Future help to the “left behind” will be based more on politics than on effectiveness.

Link. “This supernatural thing is imaginary” but “that supernatural thing is a world religion” is a hard sell.

Societies changing very quickly there.

Link. More productive but more cognitively demanding, requiring yet more cognitive gifts, accessible to fewer people.