Link. I think the first iPod used a non-Apple RTOS? I wonder what they are using here.

This is the most interesting VP article I’ve read.

Link. Although XMTP is unlikely to matter the essay is a good overview of messaging chaos.

Link. Mostly demographics. He doesn’t mention voters making persistently bad choices (Italy).

But why is Canada doing poorly? And Australia so well?

Link. The article doesn’t mention weed, otherwise more like 80s Boulder CO than anywhere else. It will be crushed soon.

Link. Other than developers willing to invest now for 2027 revenue — assuming Apple doesn’t kill the product.

Link. Powerful. Don’t miss the alt text.

Link. Specifically the Russian side of the campaign.

Link. India’s states have wildly divergent economies, food, and culture.

Link. Without the union wages fell behind and work conditions became intolerable. Not to mention heinous prisoner conditions.

Red voters have destroyed much of Wisconsin.

Link. It’s never worked reliably for me.

Link. “McNerney installed ‘Six Sigma,’ a regimen used at GE to measure and standardize business practices but loathed by 3M researchers as a creativity killer”

I suspect killing the “weakest” 10% every year was the worst poison.

Link. Modi’s India has delusions.

Link. Brave where others cower. Now we all know the name Rajan Khare.

Link. “Their ideal outcome appears to let the order fray and then let the United States expend resources to repair the damage”

Link. Journalists are suffering – which impacts coverage of the economy.

Link. We live in a glass house and we can’t make enough weapons to even supply Ukraine.

“Hackers for Volt Typhoon compromised hundreds of Cisco and NetGear routers, many of them outdated models no longer supported by manufacturer updates or security patches, in an effort to embed an army of sleeper cells that would be activated in a crisis.”

Link. “Apple may have inadvertently revealed that some of these core ideas are actually dead ends — that they can’t ever be executed well enough to become mainstream”

Apple can afford to fail.

Link. “some members of the advisory committee that recommended against that approval resigned in protest, and Medicare later declared that they would not pay for the drug”

The FDA should review that approval the way aviation reviews plane crashes.

Link. There are two others in use almost as worthless.

Link. It is an expected finding. The unexpected part is that prevalence was low, CJD is more “contagious”.

Link. Interesting comments on who is using LLMs to do work.

Link. Portugal’s program is amazing and SF is just a (rich) city — but the fentanyl gap is astounding and unexplained.

PS. We need a lot more journalism like this. Great work.

Link. From the map the Twin Cities (MSP) are projected to do well.

Link. The research history is pretty neat. Thank you to those families.

I suspect it will be better for acute than chronic pain.

Link. Joe Biden was President so the world continues for now.

Link. I’ve been doing this. Works well for me but I do not require perfection. Jon shows how to work around ChatGPT errors and get it to self-correct.

Link. Children trade data breach files but some age out into real consequences.

Link. I’m one of the 7 people who liked having the ePUB version on my phone. Even though it was almost impossible to find in Apple’s truly truly awful book store. Apple stopped publishing them.

Link. I love this stuff. #physics #computation

Link. Lots of other bribes too. India especially but not only. I don’t know how much impact these papers have; some are promoted up by lay enthusiasts but legitimate researchers will just ignore them.

Link. Watch this space.

Link. Yeah, the most confident often have a little knowledge. Those who know a little are not confident, those who know a lot have doubts.

The wrong and confident tend to be anti-science, male, middle-aged, and of intermediate education.

Link. Your neighbors can share food one day and shoot you the next. Humans are like that.

“Somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of the battalion refused to participate in these killings”

The roughly “15%” exception shows up in many historical settings.

Link. The text message comes with a link to click on (census.gov). It’s presumably legitimate but it’s madness to encourage people to click on a message link like this.

Both my wife and I have gotten these.

Link. My favorite summary to date

Link. I think this is an older business that’s pivoting to AI. It’s one of the few sites I’ve seen that is tracking the concept of an “AI Guardian”.

Link. I enjoy my weird old carbon XC mountain bike. OTOH I think he’s right that carbon is way more fragile and problematic than most riders admit. OTOH carbon is not that hard to repair and I suspect carbon bikes will become much cheaper than steel bikes. OTOH he’s not entirely sincere.

#bike #bicycle

Link. Most obscure key combo I recall.

Link. Nobody can do restores. Unclear if they paid.

Link. Serious research inspired by the movie. Filed under “expediting production.”

Link. CO2 denialist he supported conspiracy Canada was setting fires to support CO2 restrictions. (100% chance of mental illness, probably schizophrenia)

Link. Weather got bad fast and he made a bad choice on familiar ground.

Link. America’s Christian nationalists want to emulate Modi.

Link. People who commit scientific fraud are likely over-represented in positions of power and influence.

Science vigilantes fight crime in PubPeer.

Link. “The agents also returned the personal journals Cydney kept during her time in Afghanistan.”

Link. Sounds a bigger gap than Sapiens and Neanderthal.

“though the hybrids aren’t sterile, they mate only with blue whales.” (I think they mean “have offspring” rather than mate.)

Link. Males sacrifice sleep for copulation as they near death. Common in fish.

Link. Why is NK abruptly more reckless and aggressive? Are they betting on Trump?

Link. China’s decline is pushing money to Japan.

Link. “Many developing nations view international security missions as a way to subsidize or reward their security forces.”

The US will contribute money but is loathe to send troops.