Link. Neuroimmunology had a brief moment in the 80s but the tools were not ready.

“ LUCA … metabolized hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide, had a rudimentary immune system, and likely lived in a microbial ecosystem”

Link. A solid year of discovery.

Link. Weird vascular event. We have to assume true of all GLP-1. No mechanism so we don’t know if triggered by direct drug effect or weight loss, glycemic control.

Link. Not as large as collapse in Myanmar, Venezuela or Syria. Dems are correct about SCOTUS and MAGA believe what Trump says.

Link. “UnitedHealthcare raised concerns about abuse of OxyContin, noting that some patients were being prescribed as many as 1,000 pills a month.”

UHC as the good actpr. Most of this story is 1996 to 2003. PBMs that didn’t play along were absorbed by those who did. And America became more corrupt.

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Link. Nothing dramatically new here, but a nice summary of the open questions being actively studied. Building airplanes did help us understand the flight of birds.

Link. This is dino-kid bliss.

Link. I was thinking the other day I had not heard much of Myanmar lately. I wondered if it was doing better. It sounds more like Haiti.

Link. “each token generated by a language model is by definition predicted by the preceding tokens”

Link. NYT can take the LA Times market if they want it.

Link. Markdown is the de facto text format for AI.

Link. Adam is polite but this is a genuine trainwreck.

Link. Republican gov voted Harris. Reps still dem but interesting shift. Not all bad.

Link. Handy for an unsighted person navigating the world.

Link. Left handed enantiomer proteins can’t be degraded by existing life corms.

“all plants in the world would be unable to detect these bacteria”

Fermi paradox resolved.

Link. These don’t affect me but fixes are a good sign for 15.2 in general.

Link. I like the categories but I dislike the framing. This is anyone who isn’t delusional (“AI will fix us”). He may also omit those of us who fear massive disruption.

Link. I didn’t remember the GRACE commission. Reagan was bad but compared to Trump he’s a shining city on the hill.

K doesn’t mention the Gore National Partnership for Reinventing Government. I think considered a failure too.

If they wanted to do something they could address gov software issues. But Musk is an idiot.

Link. The industry seems to use the word “scaling” to mean enhancement, even when “more data” is not the key.

I can’t judge how correct the assertions are but I appreciated the scope of the analysis and the range of methods in play.

Link. Great discussion. I thjnk several journalists covered this well

Link. “ … been involved in trafficking the synthetic stimulant captagon.”

The civil war resumes and Turkey vs Kurds

Link. Still can’t do anything useful. Breaking traditional encryption may be decades yet. But it is coming.

Link. They are ruthless bastards with lawyers, they understand their interests, and they have a moat. I have wondered if they will win in the end.

Link. Not new but a good summary. The great puzzle is Putin’s magnetic power over Musk, Sachs and Trump. The lesser puzzle is Vance’s role.

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.