Link. We were never going to contain COVID.

Link. Bluesky irritates me because I don’t rank enough to be invited. Like most of us he notes Mastodon’s culture and technology challenges.

Link. The most thorough and most concise review I have read. Overall Biden’s CHIPS act looks solid.

Link. I’d forgotten he was the suspect.

Link. “Urology, ophthalmology, cardiology, oncology, radiology, and orthopedics have also been major targets for such deals.”

Doesn’t mention ED groups but I think them too.

Link. I’ve never been able to get Siri to play my playlists, but this precise phrasing actually worked. Siri mostly works for me but too often I need an incantation.

Link. Airbnb ensures a world of relentless positivity. You need to read verrrrryyyy carefully to get a hint of issues.

Link. Nothing new except for the weirdness of northern Italy being the global epicenter. I well remember the Twitter (remember Twitter?) reports from northern Italy.

Link. Today I see I have an appointment schedule page allowing people to set times with me. I pay for Google storage so I get some extra features. It’s the first new Google Calendar feature in some time.

Link. Preferential abortion of female fetus and marriage sucking for women means Chinese men must excel to mate.

Link. There was kind of a product, and the first tax scams were legal, but then they followed a familiar path. There is so much money looking for a quick return …

Link. Reducing drownings of Black children will take a big push on multiple fronts.

Link. A well connected expat reinforces perceptions that this time is different – China is in deep economic trouble.

Link. Canada has been feasting on China’s finest since the 1960s. I think it’s why Xi hates Canada so much.

Link. Open source, free. Many forks, active dev. EXIFTool for keyword edits. Author runs on Synology DS1520.

“The goal of Damselfly is to index an extremely large collection of images, and allow easy search and retrieval of those images, using metadata such as the IPTC keyword tags, as well as the folder and file names.“

Link. Keeping Putin around as a fall-guy.

Link. Lots like this in human history. Note: “About half of self-identified evangelicals now attend church monthly or less often.”

Link. Korea did a lot better.

Link. Krugman on whacko billionaires. This is a true and important statement. Contrarianism is essential but do remember Linus Pauling.

Link. The mainstream medical understanding of statin myopathy is very different from what is portrayed here. I’d like to see a medical article.

Link. I had long said this but I didn’t realize it had become the academic consensus.

Link. A pretty detailed review. The product lead seems committed to ActivityPub, but we have to see what unfolds. It’s like a Gen Z Twitter.

Link. Integration is still a future feature.

Link. Euler’s identity was part of the old proof.

Link. We are all doomed. Happily we were doomed anyway.

Link. Brevity will finally be appreciated.

Link. We’ll find out over the next few years. Antidepressants are insanely difficult to evaluate.

Link. Latest was a “liberal” Twitter account popular with Reds that accepted Venmo donations.

Link. I forgot about them.

Link. “They could afford to hire experts to brief them on world affairs, but that would only work if they were willing to listen when the experts told them things they didn’t want to hear.”

They firmly believe wealth is the only metric that matters.

Link. I miss the glory days of the clean install.

Link. Being invisible is part of the job though, so it would be a faceless and genderless statue. Civilization depends on these people even if history credits the visible.

Link. “on several occasions I have apologized for almost bumping into a large bearded man, only to realize that the large bearded man was myself in a mirror”

Link. The waves are light years across.

“deviations in time that are a couple of hundred nanoseconds”

Link. Copied from a Facebook post with permission. I hated to see this experience lost in a Facebook Group.

Link. The paying API customers are getting lousy service.

Link. Billions wasted but now a massive win.

A lifelong med though. Huge pharma revenue albeit well earned.

Link. Eventually the FTC may get interested.

Link. This is the medical consensus.

Link. Measures ratio of two placental proteins; if normal then HTN will not progress to pre-eclampsia for at least two weeks. If ratio bad 2/3 will get pre-eclampsia.

Link. Inflation of a kind. Insurance rates rising fast.

Link. Anonymity is dying. Perhaps if Apple’s parental controls had not been a buggy usability disaster …

Link. Porn text generation to begin with.

Link. The article is a great critique with good suggestions. For me the culture is the biggest problem. The label “Nazi” is liberally used, it appears to mean “ideologically unacceptable”.

Link. Mainstream journalists are fundamentally bourgeois.

Link. “A Phase III trial is in the works, but as the article will show you, the company is now equivocating on what they will do if the results come back negative. Their revenue this year from the drug is estimated at four hundred million dollars.”

“Yale epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves … “hope in the absence of data was astrology”

Link. Pizzagate 19th century. Must read essay.

I can’t believe Boston tourist office hasn’t commercialized this history.

Link. Can’t dump Prime yet. 6 episodes.

Link. The “insane” asylums were vast. Happily in our enlightened times the treatment resistant can experience street living instead.

Link. A readable and essential overview of LLM tooling.

“we can often use LLMs to get good output for topics that are … newer than the model’s data cutoff date…”