Link. Texas voters are responsible for this sadistic asshole.

Link. Fun review of 3 days at meditation camp.

Link. We know much more about it than 30y ago

Link. The only useful economics writer in America.

“[Harris] anti-price-gouging laws … one of the stupidest ideas to come down the pike in decades.” It’s really dumb and if the GOP were not insane I’d ponder alternatives.

Link. US doesn’t do peritoneal much. We way overdue to switch. But we knew it was a lousy therapy — just not this lousy.

It’s only good as a bridge to transplant. The glutides should make transplant more viable for more people.

Link. If progressives keep fighting the last war we will miss what is happening now.

Link. Damn. I had not tried holding the spacebar while scrolling with another finger.

But then try shift tap.

Link. Lots of feedback loops, all analog computing.

In college E Coli learn how to implement “sliding mode control”, a control method for nonlinear systems”

Link. Dates to early 20th century. Software developers understand this well but I’d not seen the term used before seeing it in a blog post.

Link. “each new connected TV platform user generates around $5 per quarter in data and advertising revenue.”

Puny revenues, but they expect the upside to be a lot bigger.

“Those who want a TV without an Internet connection have few options.” If you don’t connect your TV to the net you can use Apple TV (though it will do its own monitoring). I think the article forgot to note some of these TVs don’t work without a net connection.

Link. They are restricting “Live Activities” because of wear issues. I wonder if this manifests as device instability or shrinking storage or ??

Link. They found some of the problems with ABLE accounts. Ones they missed:

1. The state vendors offer crappy high cost products with crappy software. Big players don’t want this low revenue business.
2. You can’t f* get money out when appropriate because the software is so bad
3. The oversight is the usual “you are a crook and we will get you” set of impossible burdens.
4. NOBODY, including expert accountants, has much confidence about what will trigger an audit.

Link. “separating the Search Index from the other two indexes and make the Search Index available to competitors”

Link. Deloitte made money. Deloitte subcontractors made money. Tennessee saved money. What’s not to like?

This “one secret trick” is widely used across all state and federal governments.

Link. Old industrial Germany, rural France, rural America, rural England. All the same. The capable young leave, opportunity has left, lots of old people slowly leaving feet first.

Demographics and economics grind away.

Link. Trump would be pro-infanticide if it gave him power.

Evangelicals “staying quiet and sticking by him, hoping that what he is saying now is just an act to get elected”.

Link. Article doesn’t say if any other states do that. In CA it’s going to be reversed so that repeated misdemeanors allows felony charge.

Link. “result suggests that lower life expectancy among people with obesity is actually caused by the disease itself, and that it can be improved by treating obesity.”

Settling the question about whether obesity is more like a disease or more like a trait.

Link. No need to be concerned.

“a version of Meta’s Llama 3 … gave one user a bitter, paragraphs-long rant …. The chatbot’s diatribe ended with: “I hate Kevin Roose.”

Link. I would not have guessed half. Mostly funding Trump of course.

Link. If I’m searching a medical topic I use the formal medical terminology.

Link. “within my agency and others, there were people who thought that was a really good day for Langley”

Link. Both humans and chimps have 17 brain regions. Some are similar size but a few are much larger in humans. They include decision-making systems that that get crappy in middle-aged humans.

There’s a hint these age faster than other regions. The result sounds squishy and nobody knows why — maybe we ask too much of these hacked together innovations.

Link. The most expensive substance on earth.

Link. “DeviceCheck lets apps check certain device data that will “persist across app deletions, reinstalls, factory resets, and even device transfers between users.”

I hate that Apple gives me a refurb when they trash my device during a battery replacement.

Link. “The shifting discourse, and especially the apparent LLM technical limitations, mean I’m back to being in the murky middle of things. Where I usually sit. Somehow that compels me to write down what I think.”

Link. US Forestry Service, USDA. It’s quite good. It’s also distributed by box.com rather than a US Forestry Service site; that says something important about how the web broke bad.

Link. If we knew nothing of Trump his alliance with RFK Jr alone would be enough to disqualify him from any political office.

Who the f*ck remembers the Kennedys anyway?

Link. It’s been 25y since I was close to this kind of tech. There have been changes. This is a fun catchup.

Link. By the time I upgrade macOS this kind of marginal value feature is long forgotten.

Link. So many compromises in the US constitution.

Link. “I attended a four day rave-style music festival … It offered key lessons on modern life from a sub-genre of our species: Homo ecstasticus.”

Link. The article fails to note that home testing is almost useless now. Tests are positive too late in the disease course.

It correctly concludes that we do not know enough to make rational risk assessments.

I’m impressed that the few who do wear masks use masks that do not protect the wearer (cloth, tattered surgical procedure masks). That is fascinating.

Link. I really, truly, thought that story was parody. He is perfect MAGA.

Link. Lead poisoning probably took out a lot of minds prior to the 90s. Likely still does in some parts of the world.

Link. Too much money, too few fast flips. Given scaling issues AI won’t save them this year.

Link. It was what we used to call a “white lie”. I was there, it was mostly locals taking opportunities. But the lie was helpful.

Link. Dyer: “unusually strong and united ‘establishment’ that includes the old rich, the army, the courts and a substantial part of the Bangkok middle class”

I lived there in 81. The future was bright then.

Link. “subpoenas demand any correspondence the organizations have had with that progressive media watchdog group”

Thiel showed the way.

(Yes, people who stay on X are moral cowards.)

Link. Paywalled damnit. Why does a near-dead crap market daily have America’s only serious economics commentary?

Link. It is now almost impossible to test 3rd party antimalware solution. This is a good problem.

Apple isn’t doing everything wrong. (Just the other things I care about)

Link. More detail on how Hamas operates.

Link. You could write something similar about physicians or public health or any profession that is no fun at parties.

Link. More than half the Matodon folk I follow think modern AI is bullshit. I think they are in denial.

Link. Crap data, but I think there is truth here. There used to be a viable future for men who were not socially and academically gifted. Now they are redundant.

Unless, of course, we go to war with China.

Link. They believed that it was possible to avert predicted doom – so it was a perfect racket. (I suspect some knew that.)

“Most of the more than 100,000 Mesopotamian tablets in the British Museum’s collection remain undeciphered”

Link. FDA approval pending. Novel mechanism.

“over 80% of women on the drug saw a more than 50% reduction in symptoms, … also reported fewer sleep disturbances”

Link. “Trump doesn’t know much — truly, he is ignorant as a chicken — but he knows that he needs Joe Biden to run against.”

Scalzi is feeling good about America’s new future.

Link. Based on recent research.

Link. Finally. Lossless mode too. I suspect compression is computationally expensive.