Jan 6 is the day the music died.
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Jan 6 is the day the music died.
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This is so familiar to anyone who has worked on pedestrian safety, bicycle paths and the like. It is, sadly, very true about climate change mitigation.
A loved one with a cognitive disability reacts to any new thing with NO. (It can take him 1-2 days to process, when left alone he may quietly change his mind.) I have learned that many of his traits are far more common that I once thought.
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AI energy use is not a good hill to die on.
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/01/05/fozer-wapo-obsequiousness
Link to: https://www.findinggravity.net/p/no-jeff-bezos-is-not-obeying-in-advance
https://toosimple.substack.com/p/china-peak-coal
In many ways, coal is the Party’s biggest, dirtiest secret. Long read.
https://tech.kateva.org/2025/01/migrating-my-microblog-publishing-from.html?m=1
Technical fixes, tips and findings — all based on my personal experience. Mostly macOS and iOS.
https://bit.ly/3W5xHmS
Zohaib Rauf describes a pattern I’ve seen quite a few examples of now: engineers who moved into management but now find themselves able to ship working code again (at least …
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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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”