Link. We stopped because so many of their DVDs were defective.

Link. Did not know.

Link. Obsessive men produce tens of thousands of prompt-generated porn images. Porn pioneers again.

Link. “Never apologize” makes sense. The mob is beyond that

Link. Devious of Scott to drop this into a newsy post. Apparently it’s time to stop laughing at quantum factoring speed up. (But don’t bet on it either)

Link. $3 for Safari but free extension for Chrome. I need this.

Link. Apple is kinda dumb.

Link. This guy was a genius. (I do not like Adobe but wow, he invented a lot.)

Link. His power is real. If you are on X read this and leave it now.

Link. Slave trades got the attention but the 20th century, when GOP became the villain, is the real problem.

Link. It has become a powerful beast. The weird gap is lack of backup and versioning.

Link. Faced with a relatively common economic crisis Xi’s law-rending leadership broke China’s ability to respond.

Link. Maybe similar to being a petro state?

Link. I’d enjoy knowing the history of sepOS.

“as far as I can establish, no exploit has been made public that gives access to secrets in the Secure Enclave”

Link. DC was first – presumably due to vast federal parks. The TCs also have best bicycling infrastructure, is relatively safe from most natural disasters, had excellent water supplies, lowest unemployment, and natural cooling periods.

Link. “He alone, who OWNS the youth, GAINS the future.’ — Adolf Hitler.”

Likely they didn’t know the provenance. I don’t think Hitler was right though. Youth are fickle.

Link. FCU is a good one. Krugman quote but I don’t know if it’s original.

Link. Makes sense. Giuliani was a lousy flunky. Let the wolves have him.

Link. Shared because of the funny clickbait headline. The LLM was just flaky of course. But one day a similar headline will be real.

Link. Use to join cables when replacing internal cable. Enables pulling new one through.

Link. I love this kind of article. Includes undocumented shortcuts.

Link. Alta Vista resurrection?

Link. Not trustworthy. Avoid WD.

Link. For now a human complements GPT-4/math; the combination is very powerful.

Link. Undergrad MIT I presume. I’ve know a few like this.

Link. Musk is afraid.

Link. Odd feature poorly implemented.

Link. Most lawyers do not recommend. But don’t underestimate Trump. This is what he lives for and he once had a genius for it.

Link. Credit card companies got monopoly power and abused it.

Link. Given Xi’s attack on China Japan is ever more essential.

Link. Regulation has a cost.

Link. AI Guardians will be essential for at least 30% of humanity in the near term.

Link. Another serving of humility. It is noteworthy that all debate was among centrist or left economist, there’s no longer any rational conservative economist.

Link. We need lawyers. Lots of lawyers. Also, billion dollar fines. Because we created a monster.

Link. “… but that doesn’t mean this result isn’t an emergent property of complex algorithms and models that no one fully understands.” Tsai

I also suspect the SEO types are right.

Link. Automatic pistol conversion means shootings more lethal. In KC fewer shootings but more homicides. Boys think they are cool. 3D printing finds a market.

Link. Downgrades matter for lesser nations.

Link. Would be neat to visit one.

Link. A mother’s skin color didn’t match her daughter so airline accused her of “trafficking”. This is yet another American moral panic.

Link. I have to memorize this one.

Link. “allowed criminals to stay in the city under three conditions: that they checked in with police upon their arrival; agreed to pay bribes to city officials; and committed no major crimes in the city” #history

St Paul was the real Gotham City.

Link. 2021 paper. Large effect size — maybe too large to be plausible. Several other poor quality studies positive but really needs replication.

Link. When preference files go bad.

Link. New is good because we got nothing.

Link. The Apple Watch is pretty useless for me, but this one I could go for. Garmin is what my bike buds prefer.

Link. July-Feb season. Find out where your masks are, get vaccinated if indicated, be ready to take Paxlovid if indicated. Still a cut above influenza.

PS. how does DM get to be a significant cause of death? DM deaths are mostly vascular and renal.

Link. Minnesota is much wealthier and more populous than the others and is the only blue state of the bunch.

Link. “the younger they are, the more right-wing: 73% of eighteen to twenty-four-year-olds, compared to only 47% of Jews over sixty-five”

Link. “The 37-year-old has been published by The New York Times and The Washington Post”

The NYT needs a new winger now.

Link. “three ways Sensor Tower collects usage information for apps and websites that aren’t their own: (1) ad-blocking web browser extensions, (2) screen time monitoring apps for Android and iOS, which on iOS requires access to Screen Time, and (3) the Adblock Luna VPN.”

The iOS App Store has so much crap.