Link. I think Fidelity still promotes voice auth

Link. Links to free PDF that is readable on iPhone if good eyes. I’ll be browsing it.

Link. Agree on all points. Dumb crime, bad precedent, huge corruption in politics dwarfs this, GOP already insane so their threats are laughable.

Link. All good things. I wish for bug fixes, I despair for Photos.app improvements.

Link. Bit much corporate BS for basically going subscription.

Link. “when they looked at the genetic make-up of IBD patients, they found that 95% of patients in their sample carried at least one copy of a specific enhancer variant that seems to boost ETS2 activity…

… MEK inhibitors, should be able to quiet down the inflammation triggered by ETS2”

If it holds up … it’s big.

Link. “It’s a political problem, not an economic crisis.”

Link. Great history with usual eerie parallels but I’m most interested in why it only surfaces now.

Link. Modi is a loon.

Link. There are no bugs in 1Password happily.

Link. “FakeReporter, an Israeli misinformation watchdog, identified the effort in March …

… accounts with profile photos of Black men posted about being a “middle-aged Jewish woman.” …

… On its LinkedIn page, Stoic has promoted its ability to run campaigns backed by A.I … [later removed]”

Targeted specific NY legislators. I wonder how good the posts were.

Link. The Watch is not a good product. Battery life is too short for a sports watch. (Vs Garmin). I suspect most sold are no longer worn — and word gets out.

AirPods decline is interesting though.

Link. He likes much of Swift. A careful and fair review after his usual roundup.

Link. Won’t happen but whistleblower protections could be expanded to cover notification of health risks including AI risks.

Link. Some people like cruise ships. They should not read this.

Link. “There were 3.9 million websites in China in 2023, down more than a third from 5.3 million in 2017,

China’s web is dying too.

Link. Even if it’s 50 million that is insane.

Link. I signed an expansive nondisclosure agreement that promised a fine of $5 million and even jail time if I were to ever divulge what actually happened. It expired this year.

“Although very few programs are out-and-out fake, there is deception at play in every single reality program”

Link. Aka the “Common Crawl”. The ad-funded web is toast.

Link. Great essay on the economics of education and a new MN Dem benefit.

Link. “Visit our free Claim File Helper tool, where you can generate a PDF of your request letter”

Propublica.

Link. Proprietary sadly.

Link. A very bad man killed.

Link. “there wasn’t much out there on the web that answered those queries … “data void” or “information gap,” these glaring holes of high-quality content that Google searches for ended up being filled with satirical content”

The information rich web was destroyed by Google’s business model.

Link. “With Kagi, for the first time in history of search engines, you are the customer and everything is built around you and your needs alone.”

Link. Really stupid

Link. Puny humans.

Link. Photos.mac should use only PhotoKit API. SOMEBODY could do a FAR better version of Photos.mac

Link. I have over 100 Google Maps “favorites”

Link. Taiwan and Estonia. The west does not have the capacity to deter. (If I were Taiwan I’d build nuclear weapons.)

Link. The models are static data so they don’t learn from user data — but user engagement may be used to tune interaction layers outside the models. It’s obscure.

Link. Noah pivots from Twitter stupidity to his pet theory. I share it because I agree with the idea that we have a worldwide glut of cognitive talent — and it’s getting worse.

Likely related to too much money chasing too few opportunities.

Link. We get a breather — even if the LLM tech hasn’t plateaued.

Link. Airbnb bans them. Amazon sells them.

TidBITS suggests detection methods. None seem practical to me.

Link. “… sun sits near the middle of what’s called the Local Bubble … inflated by supernovas in the Scorpius-Centaurus … timeline fits well with the iron 60 peaks observed in ocean sediments”

Link. So a year ago Apple was panicking about LLMs.

Link. Intelligent and balanced discussion.

Link. Many parts of India exist in a unique blend of modern and medieval — with lots of dysfunction on the side.

Link. Post offices are dying everywhere.

Link. Can’t back up, can’t import/export, have to use only one service, can’t move between services. Plausible stories of Apple bugs deleting them.

We all asked about these things 2y ago. Now they are yet another lock-in tool.

Link. Modi will rule India until he dies.

Link. The best guide to a nation is the state of its prisons. Every member of Congress should be obliged to spend one week a year in a federal prison.

Note they shunted witnesses to other similarly miserable prisons.

Link. One dead. Everyone hit the ceiling. Try not to pee.

Link. I remember reading that and thinking Stoll was way off base, but 2024 AI is harder to evaluate. Over the next 5y it could be merely immensely disruptive and enable new advances in harm and control.

Link. When your Help window disappears. The public reveal may shame Apple into a fix.

Link. Same as every other war.

Link. We are not magical.

“importance of systematic testing to ensure a non-superficial comparison between human and artificial intelligences”

Link. Maybe Apple is not the most devoted protector of our credentials.

Link. The term “concepts” is used. The Golden Gate Bridge was an entry point.

Link. He mostly met Ilya people and they lost out. But of those he saw I’m sure there was truth to this.

(Aaronson is always sincere but not always 100% perceptive however.)