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.

Link. The Christian Nationalist icon is non-religious but they understand the art of the deal. The intensity of their feeling is because they are losing their children to eternal damnation. That focuses people.

Link. Diplomatic but still interesting.

Link. There will be someone who really gets into CrossFit or marathons and keeps weight off, but the amount of exercise needed in addition to diet is way beyond what most imagine; often beyond what joints and hearts can manage.

These are forever drugs.

Link. I had a migrating deer tick fall off my neck onto my iPhone screen. (It was backlit so l could see it – they are tiny.) I have never seen the shower advice before but it seems obvious now.

This is a very good review of the state of the American ticks

Link. Works in monkeys given primate HIV. The TIPS virus is derived from HIV and outcompetes HIV replication without causing immune suppression. It’s a radical approach to antiviral therapy. Patients with HIV dying of other causes are expected to volunteer to try – for the benefit of others.

Link. “Fifty-three percent of girls reported extreme depressive symptoms in 2023, down from 57 percent in 2021. For comparison, just 28 percent of teenage boys felt persistent sadness, about the same as in 2021.”

Link. Rural is dead everywhere.

Link. “The ruling party’s campaign this year lacked the financial resources of past efforts, … government gave out … motorbikes to refrigerators. Ahead of this vote, all she got was boxes of poor-quality food and house paint.”

Staggeringly high turnout.

Link. My father’s family were post crash railway people.

Link. This is what I was hoping for — a technology cap on LLM AI progression. We get some time.

Link. They have learned lessons from their peers.

Link. Vance hero, presumably an idiot. What is an example of liberal totalitarianism?

Link. 200+ apps per reviewer per 40h. So basically 5-10min apiece. Most of the 100K are crap or worse.

Link. Bush/Cheney. The CIA Director illegally destroyed video records to protect Cheney.

Link. Trump appointees shut down the investigation.

Link. Things that are fun and exciting attract more trauma than playing cribbage.

Link. The standard they used is very strict. Using the less strict US FDA standard 3% exceed.

Link. It’s marketing but for me interesting.

(Personally I migrated my simple tasks to Google Cloud, migrating back to local store was tedious)

Link. “subset of people with extremely vivid imaginations who are known as maladaptive daydreamers. Some choose to live in their imagination”

We run an emulation layer on our minds that is tied to language. Under that layer we run different operating systems. We are all aliens.

Link. Hidalgo is one hell of a mayor. She seems likely to go for the presidency.

Link. Even a near-dictator can’t lose an election by so much and stay in power.

Link. As he declared Harris was fake Black he also urged everyone to ignore JD Vance. He’d dump Vance yesterday except he needs Musk’s money.

Link. Twitter users are supporting Trump.

Link. Canada is 1.43. US used to be different from developed world; with higher rates in low income. Now it’s converging with Canada, though still far higher than Korea. No nation has been able to reverse the lower fertility that comes with wealth and female education.

Link. Dem smarties are happy to be weird but for conservatives weirdness is death.

It is remarkable that the smart MAGA are pretty much all evil people.

Link. The undersides sound great for seals but they do need air …

Link. Via Mastodon. Lovely gift to all.

Link. “… journeys a momentous 5,000km and contains around 100 different stages. It was completed at the end of June …”

Link. This is new to me and quite interesting. I heard of it in the context of an In Our Time podcast on mercantilism as a last minute comment.

Link. Very topical.

21st century China and 19th century Prussia have common features

Link. They are supposed to be quite healthy for dogs — but there are a lot of carp.

“10 breeding pairs could inundate the [Great Lakes] ecosystem”

Link. Wars between Trump loyalists, mostly incompetents.