Link. It seems quite a mess. Backup is getting harder to do, allegedly iCloud contacts restore omits lists and notes.

Link. Weird bug

Link. See also: HIV summer camp closed due to lack of HIV+ kids.

Link. Kagi CEO has ideas on how to manage the Google tire fire. (Via Tsai)

Link. Noah only mentions corruption at the start and in the context of research fraud. I suspect that is a much bigger factor than he admits.

America has also become very corrupt.

Link. Big bet that Musk will take power.

Link. Americans at least consciously chose to be ruled by idiots.

Link. China is finally restricting raw ingredients to Mexico. So cartels are developing new variant opioids tested on animals and humans.

Link. Very low power. Our AIs use rather more

Link. Mild kudos for at least hinting at the truth that the DSM definition of “autism” is an impenetrable roadblock to research and understanding.

Link. “The word for this is oligarchy”

Link. I don’t believe the “average human” score.

Link. I would like an example of a 1990s economics pundit warning about who would be hurt by free trade.

Link. Lots of analysis, examples and references. The goal of a sober democracy is to understand and mitigate the pressures that produce revolution.

I like the comment about growing food.

Link. Jedeed shines in this analysis of President Musk’s facepalm to old man Trump.

Link. Marketing for Nitric but I appreciated the overview. I haven’t seen this in one place before.

BYTE magazine would have done this well.

Link. “bottlenecks for impact are the pace of product development and the rate of adoption, not AI capabilities.”

A thoughtful overview.

Link. Discussions will have to occur on a regulated platform.

Link. WaPo is dead unless Bezos leaves it.

Link. Coders don’t need to worry, uber is still hiring.

(1. Development is much more than coding, but a lot people like to code. 2. Ask not for who the bell tolls.)

Link. The stupid is strong.

Link. Die they must.

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Link. What you need to know.

Link. I have so many questions. The article doesn’t explain why it is supposed to work and why it doesn’t kill every dog.

This is for when all else fails.

Link. Later versions cover negotiation, pleading, and flattery.

Link. Content is rising.

Link. If China wishes it can read the SMS.

Link. Do we call Musk P2 or P1?

Link. Not yet reviewed paper.

Link. Not hopeless after all.

Link. Neuroimmunology had a brief moment in the 80s but the tools were not ready.

“ LUCA … metabolized hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide, had a rudimentary immune system, and likely lived in a microbial ecosystem”

Link. A solid year of discovery.

Link. Weird vascular event. We have to assume true of all GLP-1. No mechanism so we don’t know if triggered by direct drug effect or weight loss, glycemic control.

Link. Not as large as collapse in Myanmar, Venezuela or Syria. Dems are correct about SCOTUS and MAGA believe what Trump says.

Link. “UnitedHealthcare raised concerns about abuse of OxyContin, noting that some patients were being prescribed as many as 1,000 pills a month.”

UHC as the good actpr. Most of this story is 1996 to 2003. PBMs that didn’t play along were absorbed by those who did. And America became more corrupt.

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Link. Nothing dramatically new here, but a nice summary of the open questions being actively studied. Building airplanes did help us understand the flight of birds.

Link. This is dino-kid bliss.

Link. I was thinking the other day I had not heard much of Myanmar lately. I wondered if it was doing better. It sounds more like Haiti.

Link. “each token generated by a language model is by definition predicted by the preceding tokens”

Link. NYT can take the LA Times market if they want it.

Link. Markdown is the de facto text format for AI.

Link. Adam is polite but this is a genuine trainwreck.

Link. Republican gov voted Harris. Reps still dem but interesting shift. Not all bad.

Link. Handy for an unsighted person navigating the world.

Link. Left handed enantiomer proteins can’t be degraded by existing life corms.

“all plants in the world would be unable to detect these bacteria”

Fermi paradox resolved.

Link. These don’t affect me but fixes are a good sign for 15.2 in general.

Link. I like the categories but I dislike the framing. This is anyone who isn’t delusional (“AI will fix us”). He may also omit those of us who fear massive disruption.

Link. I didn’t remember the GRACE commission. Reagan was bad but compared to Trump he’s a shining city on the hill.

K doesn’t mention the Gore National Partnership for Reinventing Government. I think considered a failure too.

If they wanted to do something they could address gov software issues. But Musk is an idiot.