Link. I liked the phrase “pale, male, and stale”.

He’s responding to readers who dislike the hard boundaries of the traditional novel.

Link. Money for stats class!

Link. He’s not always a reliable narrator, but I don’t believe people who claim it’s all quite simple.

Link. Likely effective.

Link. They contain lots of odd chemicals, some psychoactive, but the poisonous one has yet to be identified. America is a weird place.

“The most plausible explanation to date is if the muscimol was accompanied by another Amanita chemical called ibotenic acid…”

Link. Tom is praying for a GOP collapse that leads to a reformed party. (He is Republican by preference)

Link. Population growing, presumably due to immigration as birth rates are low. Subsidies for builders and optimize law and bureaucracy.

Link. Indentured servitude in India with coerced hysterectomies grabbing attention.

I love the honesty of the above quote. . US employers say similar things about their non-compete agreements.

Link. Schools ignore the idiot and even GOP is turning on him.

Link. I suspect there are a lot of seedy telecom players in the US.

Link. Clarity

Link. One way or another money will flow into content production.

“… Associated Press, Axel Springer, The Atlantic … “

Micropayments elsewhere in the multiverse but never here.

Link. Thiel is quite dim, but this is an illustration of what I think is happening among the weird.

Link. This restriction appears in context of a new online game. Perplexity thinks it’s a new formal restriction.

Curious.

Link. That’s quite a moat.

Link. The article is a bit confused. If the results hold-up theorists have many explanations. Some of them seem similar to the old cyclic universe model. Anthropic principal not mentioned.

Link. “two of the five minors in the car were arrested less than two weeks ago”.

The residential school facilities for juvenile offenders were all closed in the past 20 years in favor of something mysterious.

Link. Noah answers the (dumb) GOP criticisms and explain the balancing act.

Link. “… Due to unforeseen circumstances with our shipping partner, prepaid shipping label printing is currently unavailable … we’re focused on getting the program back up and running as soon as possible.”

Over the past 10 years their toner recycling has gotten harder to use. I suspect it will not return. Instead almost everyone will dump their Brother toner into the garbage.

What a crappy world we live in.

Link. Onion.

Link. Interpretation left to the reader. Basically these companies play the gov game, do shit work, don’t care, and are protected by the bureaucracy they helped build.

Link. A four part series. Superb work.

Link. Alex Russell Is heroic. Gov sites are a great target to attack. Many horribly done by gov contractors following impossible gov rules.

Link. An knowledge-based take on the price reductions. I like the emergent conspiracy of the things not talked about.

Link. Because one of your rival teams has used a replay attack on your derailleur.

Link. It will never work.

Link. “Companies that didn’t improve their Shittification rating would be subject to a special tax that would start at 0.01% of gross revenue and double every day”

Link. Virtue and fame rarely align.

Link. I have not seen a “years of life lost” analysis. I’d bet that at this point influenza has a greater “years of life lost” number because of pediatric fatalities.

Link. “.. joints connecting the lower jaw to the skull, the right collarbone, the right shoulder, the right thumb, the right knee and the spine — especially in the neck”

Supposedly matches how illustrations showed them working. Osteoarthritis is a very odd condition.

Link. “the email sign-in fallback that nearly every service offers”

So the real password in the passkey era is our email password? And it secures everything?

Link. I have a lesser version of this reading problem — but I’m retired. He needs an intervention.

Link. It would reduce economic growth and probably induce a recession – assuming everyone went quietly. Otherwise, it’s economically worse. So it’s GOP policy now.

Link. Dyer conflates fairness, equality and democracy in a necessarily terse essay.

The fairness / equality of opportunity case feels stronger than the democracy case — but they tend to flow together.

Link. It’s a high class ad. About 4 minutes. Things get lonelier up top.

Link. I want to believe this was his revenge on the NYT, but I checked and they now allow online cancellation.

Link. Article tries to explain a tensor, a mysterious mathematical structure that gives the same results regardless of coordinate system

Link. “At Rock the Country, a cannabis tent did a brisk business in prerolled joints and Delta-9 space pops. Another company sold gummies containing a “proprietary mushroom and nootropics” blend”

Nice that a love of weed and shrooms unites America.

Link. This has a silly title when I saw it but it’s a good review. Weight loss meds may help some. A surgical fix would be nice but it’s a hard problem.

Link. Sanctions not working but US manufacturing ahead.

Link. “Mr. Brown said, “I wouldn’t want to conclude that he can’t tell Black people apart, because I’d hate for him to think that I’m Beyoncé.”

Lots of politicians make these kinds of mistakes, but most recognize memory can be fallible. Trump can’t ever make any mistake though.

Link. This makes it clear that CO2 HAS to trap heat — and grounds the 2-5 degree C boost with each CO2 doubling.

Link. Energy gap looks like it’s neutrinos. All very standard model.

Link. A celebration of med chemistry. “Molecular weight 968, ten fluorines, propargyl sulfone, fused cyclopropyl ring”.

” twice-yearly injections in thousands of female trial volunteers in high-risk areas (South Africa and Uganda) showed a one hundred per cent prevention rate of HIV infection.”

I didn’t realize quite what a jump this is. Great point is that this great success may make vaccine trials hard!

Link. The phrase “people with multiple albums” felt like a stake through my heart.

I’ve complained frequently that neither Photos.mac nor Photos.ios allows search of folders that contain albums. It didn’t occur to me that some users never create albums at all; but knowing that Photos makes a lot more sense than it did.

EU – please force Apple to use PhotoKit and thus give us 3rd party software that works with the Apple ecosystem but is made for the minority who create albums and such.

Link. It’s not feasible for my family to switch away from Apple. As Apple fails more often we need to have 3rd parties to fill the gaps. Which means I’m a strong supporter of EU efforts to force Apple to enable alternatives.

Link. “For best performance, SATA SSDs should be avoided, and NVMe used instead. NVMe is standard for USB 3.2 Gen 2 10 Gb/s, USB4 and Thunderbolt SSDs, which should all Trim correctly by default.”

Link. macOS 13 Ventura or later.

Link. One of the fun things about Oldness is suddenly running into something that reminds one that the world changes. I’m not being ironic, I enjoy those moments of recognition.

“Sarah J Maas is, if anything, a bigger hitter than Yarros, and the main purveyor of the subgenre “faerie porn”. Empire of Storms, part of her Throne of Glass series, has sold 25m copies.”

Link. He got the message and ran away.