Link. I copied into my Simplenote refs. Very nicely done.

Link. If the system were simplified and automated then the Feds would need to pay out more.

Link. “Darwin was like, ‘… maybe it’s because lights are quite new and moths haven’t quite figured it out yet’”

Pheromone traps show a light resistant moth is still plentiful, but light traps no longer work well.

Link. “So far … H5N1, seems only to affect lactating cows, and only temporarily”.

In symptomatic cows the milk is bad, but in asymptomatic it seems fine but has a high viral load. Unclear if sterilization is sufficient.

Fear of hurting agriculture and triggering inflation vs public health.

Link. Murdoch, Trump, Musk — it is rare for a billionaire to face justice.

Link. In general police are returning to stops and tickets for offenses despite risk of confrontations. In MSP we have a plague of running red lights.

Link. 💯

Link. “squeeze the side button and either of the volume buttons for a second or so”

I set a task to remind me to practice this weekly until it’s automatic.

Link. Crime, income inequality and CO2 emissions down. GDP and Millennial wealth up.

Link. Mateusz Jurczyk, Google Project Zero. 30yo C code.

Link. There is a lot to unpack here. (The best styles implementation I’ve seen was in Symantec MORE! @1994.)

Link. It’s weird to me that most of this needs to be said but I appreciated the hygiene hypothesis update (it didn’t do well).

Link. Can Gandhi win, someday, by showing that Modi does nothing for non-Brahmin?

Link. There is a small industry that constantly repairs broken cables. Those is their story.

Link. AI as you might expect.

Link. Repost but timely. Industrial policy is here to stay.

Link. “the U.S. tries very hard to hide its weapons’ true capabilities”. The semi-experts who speak loudly end up as everyone’s source.

Link. This started to get harder 15-20y ago. Even our Google Apps personal domain emails had issues past two years so it’s bigger than forwarding.

Link. The only way to reform Microsoft would be to make all vendors liable for security failures.

Link. Now kidnappings are routine.

Link. I did not know browser thing. I Hor Dictionary stays.

Link. The “hippie ape” is Homo sapiens. The first domesticated ape.

Link. Tardigrades are much tougher.

Link. Lose gold means no health insurance. To see the dystopian future look to India.

Link. Peak Americana.

Link. Apple now collects reports of SMS and email phishing attacks that impersonate Apple at reportphishing@apple.com.

Link. The author takes his life-begins-conception beliefs seriously but “recognize that many of the critics of the pro-life movement were right all along”

Link. I learned things. It does turn into an ad for a deservedly interesting but unproven product.

Link. Beth acquits herself well. (Though her employer may be screwed.)

Link. There’s a better vaccine but it’s years from mass production. Usually the second infection is much worse than the first – excruciatingly painful.

Link. Blood transfusion is a dire challenge for much of the world.

Link. It’s a frequent annoyance.

Link. We should know more within 6m. Ocean warning is too fast for CO2 alone.

Link. Borrow card from store, drain money, restore packaging. Card is sold to someone who is out of luck.

“Apple settled a similar card-draining class-action case in January, agreeing to pay $1.8 million. “

Link. “GPT-4 was better able to change people’s minds during a conversational debate than other humans, at least when it is given access to personal information about the person …

… it is now trivial to build a vending machine that can engage you in discussion and be very persuasive about it.”

Link. Rationalizing regulation is hard work without glory or prizes.

Link. Stated concern is only a single outcome study with a different population than current — medication to be part of clinical trials.

“Clinics worldwide reported that the increase was largely driven by patients raised as girls.”

Link. Why is there a strange test here?

Link. Why am I just learning this now? I knew he was insane, but didn’t know the money.

Link. Maybe some companies shouldn’t be publicly traded?

Link. “When an email is forwarded, the position of the original email in the DOM usually changes, allowing for CSS rules to be selectively applied only when an email has been forwarded.”

CSS rewrites benign email into malware vector.

Link. BMR is a tax on renters and, unsurprisingly, it reduces housing availability. OTOH direct subsidies are politically toxic.

Link. Reassuringly expensive — but still a pittance for a nation-state.

Link. Inflation and disease from the perspective of ag economics

Link. “When patients see medical providers outside their plans’ networks, UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, Aetna and other insurers often send the bills to MultiPlan to recommend a payment amount.”

NYT investigation.

Link. Brother of course. I think they also made good coin as typewriters died.

Link. Filled gaps in my understanding.

Link. Maybe I should try fentanyl? (jk but the withdrawal does suck)

Link. In the very unlikely event that Photos lock-in gets attention there are two fixes: Define an export format for Photo collections and make public PhotoKit APIs the only way Photos interacts with iCloud Photos.

Link. The scale of proposed AI facilities obscures the major reduction in cost.