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.
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macOS Photos: Optimized Storage version and External Drive Full Resolution version of same library
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.”
60 min, pravda version: “Trump brought up his predecessor, President Joe Biden, more than 40 times in the interview but only six instances made the broadcast”
They edited to hide the raving and the confusion.
“another week of the shutdown could lead to “mass chaos” that would force him to close some of the nation’s airspace”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-4-2025-tuesday
Encouraging news.
“When you look at what’s driving electricity bills, it’s really poles and wires”
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 …”
LLMs enabling Data Freedom between apps
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).
iOS 18 – iOS 26 autocorrect is kind of fubared
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.
An overview of Trump’s cognitive decline.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/how-to-appease-a-declining-president
Assumed to be vascular dementia, but often there are other concurrent causes.
Adrienne Rich wrote an excellent poem on ai in 1961.
https://rodneybrooks.com/a-prophetic-poem-about-artificial-intelligence-written-in-1961/
Contrasted to ai generated pablum.
Why Spotlight can’t spot: “Spotlight’s service was using a completely different method to check the type of the contents, the ‘magic’ database used by the file(1) command.”
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.
How to remove the “Live Photo” video from a macOS Photos.app image
https://tech.kateva.org/2025/11/how-to-remove-live-photo-video-from.html
Duplicate, choose “Duplicate as Still Photo” and delete original.
Fuentes and Carlson unite: “Now members of that base are strong enough to tie the party itself to Nazism”
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 …
“strategic interactions with AI notetakers and summarizers may soon be a necessary executive skill for navigating corporate culture”
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.
“China’s limits on rare-earth exports to the United States were a much bigger problem for us than Trump’s tariffs were for them.”
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/were-number-two
Trump surrendered. He had no choice.
Piketty on what Left tariffs would look like.
https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2025/10/07/rethinking-world-trade/
Mostly about China.
Brooks: “humanoid robots will be “plug compatible” with humans and be able to step in and do the manual things that humans do … believing that this will happen any time within decades is pure fantasy thinking”
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.”
“it’s remarkable just how many con artists and child abusers have latched themselves onto various royals”
macOS 26 Tahoe and Music: “really doesn’t appear like macOS 26 was ready for Prime Time”
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.
Anomalous heat flow can theoretically measure entanglement without disrupting it.
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.
Trump’s insurrection strategy.
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”
Trump admin creates national “riot control” forces.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/pentagon-memo-quick-reaction-forces
Particularly important should elections need to be canceled or disrupted.
Young Republicans 1950s: “Citizens’ Councils served as the “respectable” counterpart to the Ku Klux Klan”
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.
Consciousness science review series.
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.)
Mexico 1519-1600: most everyone died.
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.
RFK quack fired.
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.”
Wikipedia “You want me around now? Well, maybe if you ask nicely. And make it worth my while.”
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology
We all pledge allegiance.
First Wap surveillance tech: “shrewd use of the antiquated telecom language Signaling System No. 7, known as SS7, that phone carriers use to route calls and text messages.”
RIP Nisus Writer
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.
“Are women unsuited for the pursuit of truth?” – The Great Feminization, Helen Andrews
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.)
Amelia Earhart was not a great pilot and ran out of fuel: “Noonan was drinking heavily in the days leading up to their fateful takeoff”
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.
If we don’t get superintelligence soon we get the big crash: “all because OpenAI has set itself up for a completely binary outcome”
https://spyglass.org/agi-or-bust/
Of the two outcomes the crash is more survivable. I’m rooting for team crash.
Tsai shares his very long list of Apple bugs and defects.
American elite revealed as pretty craven and cowardly. (The heroes we know – they get taken out)
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.
“enormous loot from Rome’s conquests created a class of incredibly wealthy oligarchs who were too wealthy and powerful to be constrained by republican norms”
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-gilded-ballroom-and-the-fall
Krugman is learning
Tinder face verification: “Cat-fishing … now a massive problem on dating apps, with bots using generative AI …”
My spam SMS (presumed) cat-fishing calls have doubled.
VIP party (2020): “carefully hidden, intricate economy, based on a complex brokering of beauty and status, to create an atmosphere in which people will spend $100,000 on alcohol in a single night.”
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.
Did Trump destroy White House because he was mad about 10/18?
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”
RichText.mdimporter bug: “macOS 13 to 26, plain text files starting with the characters LG cannot be searched for their contents.”
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/10/23/a-spotlight-bug-affecting-all-recent-macos-the-lg-error/
Love to know how that happens.
Three-fold increase guns detected MN schools since 2021
200 a year recently. The socioeconomic crisis in America is worse than most imagine. Our metrics were bad.
iOS 26 can create calendar event from screenshot (Insta!)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/21/ios-26-gives-apples-calendar-app-a-convenient-new-advantage/
Be nice if it makes instagram announcements something to create events from.
“Office of National Intelligence was running a secretive group dedicated to identifying and rooting out perceived enemies of President Donald Trump”
https://www.spytalk.co/p/alarm-raised-over-an-american-kgb?r=dena
Nixon was a loser.
Funding journalism through public micropayment tokens
https://notes.kateva.org/2025/10/funding-journalism-through-public.html
“Every citizen every year gets $100 in digital tokens. Tokens can be used to purchase articles or subscriptions of sources that are licensed as official media by an independent commission modeled along the lines of the Federal reserve. Each year unused tokens roll over to the next, so if 50% are used the next year the budge is $150.”
Digital media: “a period of immense creativity and increasingly grandiose expectations followed by another decade or more of continuous carnage”
Part of an extended series of essays, this one on Josh Marshall’s history in digital media
Trump shits: “It seemed revolutionary to admit cruelty, disregard of human values and general amorality, because this at least destroyed the duplicity upon which the existing society seemed to rest.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/opinion/trump-degredation-maga.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Yeah. Hannah again.
“administration plans to mark American’s 250th anniversary with a UFC cage fight on the White House’s south lawn”
Workaround for Yahoo delete all email not working
https://tech.kateva.org/2025/10/workaround-for-yahoo-delete-all-email.html
Search on ‘.’ then do the delete all thing. Nukes everything – sent, inbox, archives, folders, etc.
“Record warm water in the North Pacific, a developing La Niña in the tropical Pacific and extensive Siberian snow cover in October all tend to favor colder, snowier winters in Minnesota”
Be nice to have snow for a change!
Ten years of “media” (NYT) thinking about Trump.
https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/my-exclusive-trump-era-tour-inside
Persuasive condemnation.
2016: “co-occurring autistic and psychotic traits can exert opposing influences on performance, producing a normalizing effect possibly by way of their diametrical effects on socio-cognitive abilities.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25972469/?dopt=Abstract
Old article, interesting hypothesis. Are schizophrenia and autism truly separate? Arethey different manifestations of the same process? Or are both classifications a mix of things and we will one day discard both?
Severe macular degeneration: “vision in 27 out of 32 participants improved so much that they could read with their artificial retinas”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/health/retinal-implant-macular-degeneration.html
It is slow one letter at a time reading. They will get much better.
Conscience calls: “For over twelve years, I worked inside the Republican ecosystem…”
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-day-as-an-accomplice-of-the-republican-party-miles-bruner
“…. over the last few months, the compartmentalization and coping stopped working to silence my conscience”
The more do this the more we have a country worth fighting for. It is also a very honest description of why he stayed so long.