https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-9-2025
“Trump’s use of the Department of Justice to hurt his political opponents, his firing of inspectors general, the administration’s pay-to-play policies in which wealthy donors get government favors, the corruption of cryptocurrency, unconstitutional executive orders, and the threats against judges as Trump attacks the rule of law.”
https://spyglass.org/ai-browsers-breaking-web/
First they came for the search engine. Now they have come for the browser. Meanwhile the cyber breaks by nation, content license, and user license.
Stay healthy.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/11/05/forcing-copilot-ai/
Apple is terrible. M&G are worse. Perhaps the backlash will guide Apple and the EU across several domains.
https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/denmark-vs-the-shadow-fleet/
Meanwhile new Ukrainian missiles will take out Russian refineries.
https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/arab-nadir-clueless-hegemons/
“highest policy priority of Israel’s immediate neighbours, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, is not to prevent the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. It is rather to ensure that the new wave of Palestinian ‘refugees’ does not end up on their territories”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-6-2025
Seems good to note. Is this the biggest tax increase in US history?
https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/sudan-civil-war-and-partition/
UAE is main funder of war.
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/07/inside-the-unified-log-7-claude-diagnoses-the-log/
Truly dismal results. A corrective to my Claude enthusiasm.
https://cameron.pfiffer.org/blog/production-ai-landscape/index.html
Anthropic has really taken the lead.
https://blog.google/products/maps/gemini-navigation-global/
Nothing interesting to me so far. I can think of lots of interesting things they could do, but I suspect they are too expensive.
You can imitate vector rotations in real numbers, but it’s klunky.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/making-pills-not-making-them-here
However it’s done, through regulation or tariffs, you’d have to dramatically increase generic drug prices to manufacture them in America.
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m2znbd5z4k2p/l-quote/13_0-13_521?auth_completed=true#13_0
The GOP captured the LIV. Then the LIV captured the GOP.
https://tech.kateva.org/2025/11/macos-photos-optimized-storage-version.html
“The trick is to have two macOS user accounts with the same Apple ID [2]. One you use strictly for backup.”
They edited to hide the raving and the confusion.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-4-2025-tuesday
Encouraging news.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/climate/electricity-prices.html
Mostly not data centers or generation costs.
“utilities have nearly tripled the amount they spend annually on the network of poles, wires, substations and transformers … Large portions of the electric grid are nearing the end of their 50-year life spans …deal with storms, fires and heat waves …”
https://www.macstories.net/notes/llms-for-data-portability/
“I opened Claude for Mac, installed one of its built-in Notes extensions, and asked it to replicate content from a specific folder of the Notes app in a Notion database while keeping as much of the original formatting intact as possible.”
This is very encouraging. One day I hope an LLM will free my blogs from Blogger (existing migration options suck).
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/11/03/ios-18-and-ios-26-autocorrect/
I think it’s been getting worse for quite a while, but not dramatically worse for me. I’m still on 18 though.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/how-to-appease-a-declining-president
Assumed to be vascular dementia, but often there are other concurrent causes.
https://rodneybrooks.com/a-prophetic-poem-about-artificial-intelligence-written-in-1961/
Contrasted to ai generated pablum.
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/10/26/last-week-on-my-mac-why-spotlight-cant-find-some-files/
A completely horked and kludgy code base would explain a lot about Spotlight.
https://tech.kateva.org/2025/11/how-to-remove-live-photo-video-from.html
Duplicate, choose “Duplicate as Still Photo” and delete original.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2-2025
The capture of the GOP by the MAGA base is both proof of the power of democracy and proof of the instability of our version of democracy.
But nobody wants to talk about this …
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/ai-summarization-optimization.html
SEO techniques apply. I’m not sure this will make meetings worse. I can imagine more offline discussions.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/were-number-two
Trump surrendered. He had no choice.
https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2025/10/07/rethinking-world-trade/
Mostly about China.
https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/
His voice carries weight.
“Schunk, a German company, sells over 1,000 varieties of parallel jaw grippers, both electric and pneumatic (using compressed air), for robot arms.”
https://dougscripts.com/itunes/2025/10/whats-up-with-macos-26-tahoe-and-music/
26.1 a bit better but I think I’ll be upgrading in 2026 rather than 2025.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-thermometer-for-measuring-quantumness-20251001/
“Because the memory is entangled with both the quantum system and the sink, it can again catalyze heat flow between them … entanglement within the quantum system converts into extra heat …”
Reality computes.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-30-2025
The Epstein files must hold a dead body somewhere. Trump goes to insurrection when squeezed.
“The establishment of a domestic quick reaction force to quell civil disturbances at a time when there are no civil disturbances that can’t be handled easily by existing law enforcement suggests the administration is expecting those conditions to change”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/pentagon-memo-quick-reaction-forces
Particularly important should elections need to be canceled or disrupted.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-young-republicans-chat-echoes
“casual cruelty, the smirking slurs, the need to dress violence as irony”
Claims pediatric porn-gore and social media not necessary, cruelty arises easily among young men.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/article-hubs/advancing-consciousness-science
Are humans conscious? We know they think they are.
(I am 99.9% sure that we will find that any quantitative measure of consciousness will show it varies among humans.)
https://bsky.app/profile/c0nc0rdance.bsky.social/post/3m4difgikac24
“70% of those deaths were the result of an UNKNOWN hemorrhagic fever.”
Makes Bubonic Plague look little league.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/politics/hatfill-covid-hhs-ousted.html
“Dr. Hatfill, a onetime Army biodefense researcher, gained national attention more than two decades ago when he was wrongly accused of being involved in the 2001 anthrax attacks.”
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology
We all pledge allegiance.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/10/27/nisus-probably-moribund/
It lived a long time. I used it for a while; I liked the rich text format. We are in the dark ages of word processing — Pages is buggy and incomplete and Word for macOS is eye-bleach.
https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/are-women-unsuited-for-the-pursuit
There are gender differences, both gender stereotypes are not good at doing science. (One gender seems to own a lot of fraud.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/amelia-earhart-truth-conspiracy/684430/
In the news because Trump’s military funder is an Earhart conspiracy crackpot.
https://spyglass.org/agi-or-bust/
Of the two outcomes the crash is more survivable. I’m rooting for team crash.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fear-greed-civic-virtue-and-the-fall-of-the-elites
There is a lot more rotten in America than just Trump, the GOP, and SCOTUS.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-gilded-ballroom-and-the-fall
Krugman is learning
My spam SMS (presumed) cat-fishing calls have doubled.
https://www.economist.com/news/2020/06/26/the-secret-economics-of-a-vip-party
“.. I was a model before I became a sociologist…”
I love this kind of anthropology-culture journalism.
The models are not exactly sex workers (“I wanna have fun. I don’t care about other people, like who is the client or whatever.” ) and are often poor. Many of the men are only millionaires.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-22-2025
“no approved plans to rebuild, no permits, no signs of weatherproofing for a construction project begun just before winter, no indication that the history or the paintings or the artifacts in the East Wing were preserved”
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/10/23/a-spotlight-bug-affecting-all-recent-macos-the-lg-error/
Love to know how that happens.