Link. The lunatic’s party.

Link. “Why government borrowing isn’t like a personal loan.”

Link. I don’t use businesses that do secret charges unless I have no other choice.

Link. Over 50y old but obviously much enhanced. Cheap by weapon standards.

Link. Allied air defense systems are really good.

Link. This time they got caught. NYT assembled the evidence.

“The Greek authorities often use a fax message to tip off their counterparts to the presence of stranded migrants in Turkish territorial waters.”

Link. We had this. Screen Time may be Apple’s buggiest software. I suspect its hard to test.

Link. I’m very pleased to read this. Does anyone else remember SimpleFinder from macOS classic?

Link. No worries, it’s just statistics.

Link. Isaac Newton kind of did same but Musk is no Newton.

Link. They have gone insane. Run!

Link. GPT-4 voice is definitely therapist. This is an odd but interesting essay.

Link. Humans want to believe they are magical. That they are ineffable. That they have souls. That nothing else can think.

Foolish humans.

Link. About half of the world is either temperamentally or cognitively unsuited to an academic degree. It took Dems way too long to admit that.

Link. Surprised me, I thought safety issues would favor Vallas.

Link. This is a great series.

Link. Future Shock indeed. Also small things add up. A 2023 Camelback hydration bag is wildly different from a 2000 bag (I have both) — even though they do almost identical things.

Link. If you know anything about coding and are Old this is a fun read.

Link. No, not the old ones like WordPerfect or the truly old and obscure like MORE 3.1. But many others.

Link. I’ve got this bug too. It took some work to get to the step where my son’s device claims a verification code was sent — but none was received. I’ve yet to try the fix of adding a credit card then removing it. Seems like an old bug.

Link. It was all a scam. A legal scam. Not too different from what GOP routinely does.

“… 37-year-old Republican consultant from Wisconsin named John W. Connors, a central figure who appears to connect all five nonprofits.”

Link. It has to be white, but beyond that the optics are murky.

Link. “Fixing our politics will require large numbers of our citizenry to give up deeply-held self-delusions … More in future weeks.”

Lotterman is basically an “Arne Carlson*” old time MN conservative — an extinct species that we sorely need to resurrect. I’m very curious what he’s going to advise.

(The modern MN GOP hates Carlson with supernova intensity.)

Link. Hard to read but one must. Humans are barely sane at the best of times. We need to better understand mass madness and how to protect against it.

Link. Full text free, a great reference.

Link. A creation assistant.

Link. Reds fear loss of propaganda stream and of scam revenue.

Link. They can look a lot alike.

Link. “That’s a huge effect size, and these results are being taken very seriously indeed.”

Eventually I wonder if they will just do surgery and vaccine. Now do ovarian.

Link. Gonzo surgeons and a desperate family.

Link. Based on reaction to anesthesia.

Link. A classic.

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Link. HomeVestors of America preys on the cognitively limited. It’s very American of them.

Link. Read this after an excellent audiobook on Ottoman history which time and again returns to role of Ottoman slaves. Slavery was hugely important to sustain empire and lasted into late 19th century.

Link. Does iOS have anything? The best Help tool I recall was 1990s WinHelp. I rarely find Help useful, the user guides are more useful.

Link. Many shelters bar pets.

Link. What? 20 times! Extended experiment in evolving towards a multicellular organism.

Link. Apple Watch is optional but useful. If home security cam is already purchased additional cost is most often $12-$16 but may be 0$.

Link. Very early trial.

Link. Nothing Haley wrote can be trusted.

Link. I’m a fan.

Link. MSP minimum is $15/h. It’s a bigger negative impact than I’d expected. State wide unemployment remains very low.

Link. Across the land bridge. “genetic link between Native Americans and Japanese people, particularly the indigenous Ainu.”

Link. One time $4 to buy unlimited export and it’s family shareable. I have found some minor bugs but overall it’s well worth the price.

Link. macOS Numbers could not process correctly but Excel did. Since schema varies by data type my conversion produced 20 different output files (vs. creating a sparse matrix). Note usual Excel import issues with strings it thinks are numbers.

Link. It always starts with the snake.

Link. “A tremendous outpouring of innovation followed … barely a month later, and there are variants with instruction tuning, quantization, quality improvements, human evals, multimodality, RLHF …”

I for one welcome. #beafraid

Link. The web is not dead yet.

Link. I love being a later adopter.