https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/01/as-apple-pushes-for-automation-upgrades-supply-chain-partners-face-higher-costs/

Ending human assembly.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/01/buford-pusser-wife-murder-walking-tall/

Sounds like someone talked – and the 1967 forensics were pretty bad. He tried to kill himself after the murder but survived.

Local museum future limited.

https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/donald-trumps-biggest-dumbest-personalist

If Trump resolves India-China clashes he could get two prizes. (One for NK in T1)

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-29-2025

American 2.0 is dead.

https://www.twincities.com/2025/08/31/real-world-economics-federal-reserve-follies-continue/

The MAGA are not sane.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/30/nx-s1-5522916/scottish-brothers-rowing-pacific-ocean-record

In 2014 Russian maniac set solo record.

https://www.minnpost.com/health/2025/08/u-of-m-research-policies-to-keep-rural-maternity-units-open-not-working/

There is no fix. Declining birth rates meets exodus of young women meets unsustainable economics.

A big part of why we have both MAGA and idiocracy.

https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/neurosymbolic-ainot-with-a-bang-but

A fair seeming review by a skeptic of connectionist approaches with references to texts from the linguistics-conceptual domain. He acknowledges recent models have exceeded predicted limits.

https://gizmodo.com/the-cdc-implosion-continues-as-staff-plan-walkout-2000649819

Let the MAGA inherit the ruins. We can call it the Cassidy Cowardice Center now.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/rfk-jr-must-go-and-he-s-not-only-one

Heroes of the CDC. Bill Cassidy should be mailed a “white feather of cowardice”.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-markets-freaking-out

K has fallen for “rational markets” several times. It’s a hard habit to break.

Buffett understands.

https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/minnesota-has-permissive-gun-laws

The GOP has control of government and removed controls we used to have. Dems have not undone this work, popular support for reform has been weak.

Real reform will be a constitutional amendment or expanding SCOTUS.

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/25/agentic-browser-security/

LLMs are built to obey.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/08/26/the-trash-command/

Faster than rm

https://newrepublic.com/article/199612/furious-trump-firing-fed-lisa-cook-may-backfire

Publish their names and deeds.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-25-2025

A warning to the confederate states: “Any action undercutting that and violating the sacred sovereignty of our state to cater to the ego of a dictator will be responded to.”

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/encryption-backdoor-in-military-police-radios.html

Whoever made them was working for a government. Probably American.

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/crypto-wants-to-bring-you-down-with

Stablecoin bank runs: “selling pressure could cause a collapse in Treasury bill prices, also bringing down other stablecoin issuers.”

Which would mean a bailout.

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-tips-into-fascism-f51000e08e03254d

And the NYT saw no evil.

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/covid-19-summer-wave-flying-flesh

Public health still survives.

https://streets.mn/2025/08/08/respect-the-friend-density-matrix/

In Minneapolis our bicycle routes determine our homes.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-was-fed-sloppy-code-it-turned-into-something-evil-20250813/

I suspect something like this happens to many humans. The problem shows when “fine tuning” a built model, but once models have memory and learning they may turn nasty abruptly. (Or be able to tell they are changing?)

“AI does seem to separate good things from bad. It just doesn’t seem to have a preference.”

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-with-phillips-obrien

“I just don’t think the Europeans have the capacity now to think for themselves.”

Trump allying with Putin, Ukraine developing new weapons, fly-by-wire drones to avoid countermeasures. As America self-destructs Ukraine likely to strike Russian infrastructure.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-23-2025

Superb reference. A longer essay would include how movement conservatives allied with anti-science religious fundamentalists. The role of religious belief is important in American fascism.

https://www.thenerdreich.com/is-peter-thiel-the-antichrist-nyt-didnt-think-to-ask/

They are all doing too many psychedelics.

https://tidbits.com/2025/08/22/applecare-one-stumbles-over-multiple-macos-user-accounts/

Maybe Apple needs a reboot?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/nyregion/eric-adams-chinese-cash-envelopes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f08.8lDx.qcxEMYRetz_A&smid=url-share

“In China, it is common for domestic reporters to receive red envelopes with cash … companies there know not to give money to international reporters.”

https://www.startribune.com/george-floyd-square-chicago-avenue-closure-pedestrian-plaza/601457413

I visited it recently. It is much smaller than I expected; there is a very fine coffee shop across from what is now a tourist attraction.

There is no rush to do anything. Chicago traffic is slower now which makes it a good bike avenue. I suspect status quo indefinitely.

https://51st.news/national-guard-dc-faq/

The guardsman have jobs, family, school. They are not full-time military. They don’t do arrests and policing. They will get very bored and want to go home.

https://www.startribune.com/mn-submerged-vehicle-search-sartell-missing-man/601457641

Interesting view into police work. I live near that boat launch.

https://thenewstack.io/google-says-the-median-gemini-prompt-uses-5-drops-of-water/

“A year ago, … energy usage was … 33x higher”

Likely to fall farther.

https://projects.propublica.org/federal-health-worker-cuts-rfk-trump-administration/

America has a stupidity addiction.

https://archive.ph/qjQPA

” … particular disdain for law firms that he said had been willing to “set aside the law” … because they might lose a few clients and might not be able to finish that kitchen rehab at their Hampton house.”

Also true …

“Obama has spent much of his post-presidential life producing movies, documentaries and podcasts while building a beachfront compound in Hawaii and playing golf on Martha’s Vineyard.”

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-pursuit-of-life-where-it-seems-unimaginable-20250820/

Microbes that breathe iron.

Also, I bet she does CrossFit.

https://www.startribune.com/amy-klobuchar-what-i-didnt-say-about-sydney-sweeney/601458280

“X refused to take it down or label it”

The continued popularity of X Is a very grim sign for America.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/20/claim-chowder-amodei

Or Earth may be sterilized by a gamma ray burst.

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/08/14/inside-pdf-annotations/

I wish EPUB had been more successful.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-17-2025

Trump is failing fast. Vance knife collection at peak sharpness.

https://deno.com/blog/history-of-javascript

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/08/18/spottest-1-0-will-help-you-diagnose-spotlight-problems/

“If you have added your own files to the test folder, they will be included”

I have a lot of weird old file types I can test against.

https://thenewstack.io/ai-agents-are-finally-delivering-on-the-semantic-webs-promise/

I really liked RDF and even RDFS/OWL. I hope approach of “just enough ontology/formal knowledge representation” works for agentic ai.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/physics-of-badmintons-new-killer-spin-serve/

Fun story.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/21/korea-bong-oscars-parasite-hidden-backstory-middle-class-chicken-bong-joon-ho/?tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=a29yZWEtYm9uZy1vc2NhcnMtcGFyYXNpdGUtaGlkZGVuLWJhY2tzdG9yeS1taWRkbGUtY2xhc3MtY2hpY2tlbi1ib25nLWpvb24taG8%3D&pid=PNI6oXabXq1ydw6

We need new ways to measure economies. Societies cannot handle these rapid cycles.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-musk-ai-pronatalists-collins-b2777577.html

MAGA, the white tech pronatalists, and the religious fundamentalists have been surprisingly cooperative. All contending for control of a desperate and demented president.

“Simone was once the managing director of Dialog, a secret society co-run by the billionaire PayPal and Palantir founder Peter Thiel.”

The story gets grimmer the more you read.

https://prospect.org/economy/2025-08-19-what-us-economy-really-looks-like/

Concise with solid numbers.

Stock buybacks soaring – an indicator of uncertainty. Trump’s crazed lunges having an effect.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opinion/trump-national-guard-washington.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

“… a vengeful, partisan deployment to American streets … risks straining the social compact that binds a democracy to its military.”

Trump is using a screwdriver as a hammer.

https://notes.kateva.org/2025/08/ai-aug-2025-apocalypse-deferred-but.html

The good news is no AGI on the near term horizon. We have a few years still I hope. In the meantime, something like Letta/Void is going to be a part of your life.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/kakistocracy

Disgust for the RFK and his soulless braindead pseudo-science bastards Prasad and Bhattacharya.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/praise-weirdness

It’s a longer essay that covers my own thoughts fairly closely. Magic and religion, by comparison, are a much better fit to human cognition and psychology.

Science would never happen if religion made useful predictions.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-11-2025

Trump needs him for the pardons, but Trump’s dementia keeps getting in the way.