Link. It’s probably a variety of unrelated disorders with a varying psychological component.

Link. What a weird man.

Link. “pregnant people who were locked down at home might be experiencing lower stress, less air pollution or fewer viral or bacterial infections”

Link. Studies of ant genetics.

Link. I can see why this might be true but it also sucks. The article lists several screen savers that are otherwise impossible to find on Apple’s awful App Store.

Link. Tim Cook.

Link. Only the dim got punished.

Link. Complete intellectual and moral collapse — then he talks to Chotiner. He has a death wish.

Link. “premiumization” is a new stupid thing.

Link. The 00s sucked for America.

Link. When you see crazy behavior always look to taxes.

Link. Also ending “chemical castration” (what is that?) and reparations for those impacted by woke policies and affirmative action.

Putin is betting his life on Trump.

Link. Wait, Bannon has turned on Murdochs? Is that new?

Link. Jedeed is deep in enemy territory.

Link. They will do up to 10K cash and some bennies. Remember it’s taxable.

Link. Sumerian clay tablets were preserved by fire. So there’s kind of a precedent.

Fund a pirate today.

Link. Idiocracy.

Link. I like Sargent and Rampell and had not read the others. So I didn’t realize how bad it is.

Link. “Teens had been getting gradually more isolated through the decades — perhaps as a result of larger houses and better entertainment options at home. But face-to-face interaction really plummeted right after … 2010”

Google became Evil around then too. 2010 was a bad inflection.

Link. German fraud with a Russian angle.

“Wirecard represented the nation’s challenge to Silicon Valley, its leap into financial technology and the digital era.”

Link. There is only shaky compromise.

Link. In Putin’s Russia the only leadership competence is survival.

Link. GOP “tough on crime” will be a winning message for years to come.

Link. Do they ever enter the city? Maybe they fear this would make cities more attractive to their young.

Link. Tax receipts smash projections. Rebate checks likely.

Link. I know of this defect and I hate it. My passcode is a PITA to enter and Apple makes me use it to often.

Link. Venmo much better for personal use.

Link. Diabolical.

Link. Fixing problems like this take a lot of executive leadership and presidential pressure.

Link. “As far as I can tell there’s no sync failure resolution built into Apple Notes”

Link. They mean Wuhan lab specifically. I’m agnostic but I think Xi believes it was a lab leak.

Link. Not overhyped though. That’s the wrong spin. See also: CD-ROM The New Papyrus. That was right too — except then came the WWW.

The ultimate tech cycle disruptor, pre-AI, was pigment on stone. That set fire to the world.

Link. Some of the best parts of his essay are descriptions of older tech cultures. I was there a few months ago and this explains some puzzles. The social scene reminds me of Caltech student houses in 70s.

Also, Noah is ancient for this crowd.

#AI #beAfraid

Link. Delightful London history.

Link. Rape by definition. The “feeding” story was a cover. CIA videos were destroyed to hide evidence. Bush/Cheney of course, but torture was and is popular with the American public.

Link. The unsurprising update is buried in a NYT article on Iranian women showing their hair. Iran remains firmly under control of the theocracy.

Link. Gentle lawyers start your engines.

Link. Cities (!) rather than states or provinces manage urban healthcare resources and they are getting desperate. Most Chinese have lousy healthcare.

Link. Putin saving money on prison costs.

Link. Just another traitor.

Link. If there’s no plausible source Intel can point to vulnerable people or reveal Russian security weaknesses.

Link. I don’t auto-update, I wait until Apple turns the update notification on. Which takes days to weeks post iOS release depending on Apple risk assessment. Don’t go early.

Link. Sharing because today, 2/23/2023, Aaronson says he was wrong: “And I apologize for anything I said before the deep learning revolution that was, on balance, overly dismissive of the scenario”

Link. “Now there’s a second type of conversing entity. An alien has awoken … Supposing that a language model ever becomes smart enough to be genuinely terrifying, one imagines it must surely also become smart enough to prove deep theorems that we can’t.”

He wants to watch ChatGPT grow into its full self so we have someone non-human to teach us. He retracts his 2008 claim that the Singularity was far away.

#beafraid #chatGPT #AI #singularity

Link. Yeah, this seems to be a thing. Fueled by crazy takes on COVID — that it’s somehow airborne HIV with a dash of Ebola.

Link. Nobody ever asked when Biden would “become Presidential”. Not even idiots like Carlson. He leads.

Link. Only two years so not a 4y degree. But, yes.

Link. Might have been during a ski trip we were doing, but that was only -40F. Yakutsk Russia gets colder; I think some cars there run engines for days or weeks at a time.

Link. “Russia’s army is fragmented after a year of war and increasingly resembles a militia of disparate forces”. Meanwhile, Putin turns to China.

Link. “you can quickly deploy your Mastodon-compatible server on top of Cloudflare and connect it to the Fediverse in minutes, and you don’t need to worry about maintaining or protecting it from abuse or attacks”

I’m late to the party, didn’t realize this launched so long ago.