Link. Oct 2024. Same thing happened with IRS years ago. There were more audits of conservatives because they lied more — but that was politically intolerable. So GOP clobbered the IRS.

Link. One of the best critiques I’ve read. I appreciated the view of PE culture; I am sure that has not changed.

Link. Also – “cryptocurrency hackers had partnered with teams of home invaders, who would break into known crypto-owners’ homes, beat and threaten them, and then retrieve the victim’s crypto wallet, allowing their accounts to be drained of funds”

Link. Ann Telnaes resigned. WaPo is dead under Bezos. Cancel your subscription renewal.

Link. Infinite monkeys can type anything. But infinity is a big number. In some models of the multiverse however …

(The AI comment is obviously dumb. Also this is not a serious paper.)

Link. Now we can truly say COVID isn’t worse than (some) influenza. Note renal injury is not unique to COVID. Case study is short and easy to read.

Link. Nonprofit. RSS is back.

Link. There are ways to dramatically improve government efficiency. They will cause many to lose good jobs that they cannot replace and they may increase government spending while reducing revenue that flows to politicians.

Link. All the world’s powers will soon be ruled by moronic and deluded villains. Noah even starts to turn on his payors, though he doesn’t use Musk’s name.

Link. At 10y time-limited benefit not sustained. We desperately need to understand the pathophysiology and we need something like an AI guardian.

Link. “No Lives Matter is an offshoot of the broader “accelerationist” movement, which seeks to accelerate radical social change through sabotage and violence”

Link. Energy costs will fall quickly. This is essential reading for anyone interested in humans.

Link. GLP-1 economics. We don’t yet know how sustained the appetite effects will be however.

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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