Link. America was the coarse heavy drinking Sheriff who beat up people he didn’t like. But he was better than what’s to come.

Link. A strong presentation.

Link. Free link. It’s a vivid and persuasive portrait of a truly mad situation. Read for insight.

It’s far faster to hire private security than to train police. And they are not unionized.

Link. Deep pervasive GOP moral panic bullshit.

“Mr. Harris said he had started a petition calling on the Transportation Security Administration to require that children under 18 have identification when traveling with their parents or guardians.”

That’s sensible.

Link. “James E. Mitchell, the contract psychologist who worked for the C.I.A., testified in 2020 that he had consulted a lawyer for the agency and obtained permission to threaten to kill one of Mr. Mohammed’s sons. During that month, Mr. Mitchell waterboarded Mr. Mohammed 183 times.”

Link. “one of its factories employs just 30 technicians to make 300,000 electric car motors a year.”

Meanwhile Ford sells only hugely expensive trucks. China is going to crush the US auto market.

Link. All so I could share this.

Link. “… to display unbending devotion to Mr. Trump … to embrace some mix of relentless self-promotion, militant opposition to Democrats and a willingness to burn the federal government to the ground — even if it means taking the party down, too.”

Link. Clearly they were better with Taiwan, but PM is better with China. But the real bottom line: “communities are willing to open the door to anyone, no matter what their prevailing beliefs are in the area, because they literally just need food, medicine, basic stuff.”

Hobbes understood.

Link. But could have been. Somewhere in the multiverse that composite photo actually happened.

Link. Using your iPad as an HDMI monitor. I wonder if bypassing DRM (not what Orion does) is why accessories are plentiful.

Link. For America $77 billion is *almost* loose change.

Link. Bears attract puns. It’s a beary bad habit.

Link. The problem isn’t that ChatGPT is miraculous. The problem is humans are not.

Link. I wonder what the margin is?

Link. We were supposed to get authenticated phone calls by now.

Link. “…. The first, second, and third rule of GOP politics is: never work with the ChiCom woke fascist cabal of secret communist pedophiles …”

Link. The viral videos are perhaps not trustworthy.

Link. Don’t worry too much about getting Paxlovid. Get the vaccine.

Link. He certainly sounds rather manipulative.

Link. Good comments on funding problems and child care. She doesn’t seem prone to regrets.

(Helps to have 70 recent awards and, you know, the Nobel prize.)

Link. Peocytes support brain capillaries. The brain is very weird so is not surprising if they have amounts role.

Could be important but needs validation

Link. Kudos Noah for saying this. Science is a weird, alien, uncomfortable and relatively modern European innovation. His “five interesting things” this week is all interesting.

Link. He shares his template.

Link. Another search comes up empty.

Link. I wrote this back in the 00s and it’s a 00s style web page. I feel it’s worth mentioning every decade or two. Emily suggests adopting NASCAR style logos for our Congresspersons to wear.

Link. Now they will all download. I’m glad I’ve not used the iCloud Drive device document cache feature.

Link. The false beliefs are unrelated to facts or evidence.

Link. But you need to do backups and backup is dying.

Link. Hopeless.

Link. This attempt to describe modular forms to non-mathematicians contains the most succinct and oddly understandable summary of the Fermat proof I’ve yet seen.

Link. While it’s true her other dog Buddy summoned rescue the dogs may have abetted her escape. So it’s a bit murky.

jk. Good dogs.

Link. “middle third of the time since our ancestors first divided from the ancestors of chimpanzees … ancestral population of our genus first separated from australopiths before 2.8 million years ago”

Link. My whacko theory is you can get dementia both by having too many senescent neurons and by being too aggressive about removing aging neurons.

Link. It’s a big consortium.

“would take just two Pixels, the height of an olive, to store the roundworm connectome data, while it would take a stack of Pixels the size of Mount Everest to store the data from an entire mouse connectome.”

Link. Maybe related to family sharing?

Link. Great instructions. Oakley is a legend.

Link. I get much better results with Kagi than Google for most searches.

Link. This is a story of medical care and the transition to hospice as seen from the outside. It’s short and well told. Everyone did their best.

Link. Like predicting short term stock market movement.

Link. Made it into the NYT.

Link. PowerPhotos makes Apple’s macOS Photos.app suck much less than it sucks. (And suck it does.)

Link. “even though Canada is not directly involved in the ‘Quad’ project, such a confrontation may delay or even sabotage the whole idea. It is a thoroughly terrible idea, because the last thing Asia and the world needs is a huge new military alliance ‘containing’ China.”

Link. Mammals … “might be replaced by coldblooded reptiles that could tolerate the heat.”

Don’t worry, we’ll be long gone 249 million years before Pangea Ultima.

Link. I might sign up to do this work. Would be interesting retirement gig.

Link. X has lots of journalists feeding the hate-hose.

Link. Once 4 billion was a lot of money. Anthropic will be using Amazon infrastructure so not quite as big as direct cash.

Link. “any PostScript object can be treated as data, or executed as part of a program, and can itself generate new objects that can in turn be executed. More recently, security researchers have drawn attention to the fact that it’s a gift for anyone wishing to write and distribute malicious code”

Who remembers TeleScript?

Link. The hate is strong. Do not go near.

Link. It’s finally dead. Now to kill streaming.