Link. Lyft / Uber say it’s not their problem.

Link. “He was the only expert who submitted a claim, arbitration records show.”

$5 million lying on the floor and one guy picked it up. The actual data sounds like pure garbage.

Link. 700 million vaporized — along with many academic careers wasted.

Link. Google spent much of the past 10 years as a parasite on the web as their search tools got worse and worse. Now comes the price.

Link. This was an easy prediction.

Link. If a guy pulls a wrench on me, much less a gun, he gets my passcode. And I’m screwed.

Some good workarounds mentioned.

Link. I get why Fox and the MAGA want to spin this.

Link. Other nations use 75 or 80. Apparently under 65 are doing quite well.

Link. Straight out theft is one way to get quality material. OTOH publishers are kind of satanic.

Link. Twice risk if more severe COVID. Biologically plausible given ACE-2 on beta cells. I didn’t realize Hep C effect was so large. Other viruses similar and we know Type I DM is mostly post-viral.

Link. Kudos merited. Biden admin negotiated with CVS and Walgreens for admin.

Link. First I’ve heard of this but seems logical and inevitable.

Link. Yet another collapsing democracy.

Link. It was ok for donors if he was faking it, but it appears DeSantis is genuinely bitter and hate filled.

Link. The GOP “threw everything against the wall” until they found something to animate their dispirited base.

Link. 20y ago the science was pretty clear and I figured phonics would be back by 2003. I never dreamt we’d be still be screwed up in 2023. Teacher unions and Dems own this debacle.

Link. “what’s most striking about this chart is Computer Shopper’s utter collapse … Once a 1,000-page (!!!) monthly behemoth”

I felt the doom when BYTE died. There were so many very thick monthlies.

Link. Roberts historic reputation is sealed. One of the worst leaders of SCOTUS and we have seen some real stinkers.

“Clarence Thomas is the epitome of the right kind of affirmative action working the right way.” Few words could sting him more.

Link. You need to read the manual.

Link. “Crawl across all the broken glass you want. Eat maggots, bleed yourself dry: I’m a writer too, I get it. That’s not your sin. Your sin is writing a one-dimensional story.”

Laura, self-exiled from her beloved Twitter, explains why she can’t do Mastodon. (I agree.)

Link. Gravel before it’s time.

Link. Hard to block only the parts that the Party dislikes. “Please summarize the Tiananmen Square uprising in 4 paragraphs.”

Link. In typical NYT style the top 1/3 of column implies a bipartisan problem. More than half of American states are non-democracies or heading that way and they are mostly GOP.

Link. Contrast Canada.

Link. Living and dying by 5 star reviews. Information asymmetry without union or regulation means workers will lose.

Link. OTOH they may help with some impulse disorders and addictions and may have a use in schizophrenia.

Link. “The overall unemployment rate is only 3.5 percent; we haven’t had that spirit here since 1969. Black unemployment is at a record low. There’s good news everywhere you look.”

Link. I would have said that was an impossibly high number.

On Russia’s failed attempt to take out Ukraine’s power: “Repair work that might have been expected to take 260 days of work, he found, had been completed in just 40.”

Link. A shock to Millenials but not to older staff. Bain consulting creating the kill lists. Employees think the Metaverse Is dumb.

Link. Remember – Tim Cook killed Aperture.

Link. Repeal the 2nd.

Link. That’s unexpected.

Link. Web sites sell break-in kits for as much as $5000. The electronics in them cost about $10.

“mostly these cars are destined for export, sent via shipping container to places in Africa”

Maybe we should go back to keys.

Link. Pretty much what one would expect.

Link. I think this is a training platform but article is unclear.

Link. Without doing the course. About average for the brilliant undergrads who dare this class. Likely would do better with Mathematica plug-in.

Also got an A in Bryan Caplan’s Labor Econ midterm. After losing his bet Caplan said: “AI enthusiasts have cried wolf for decades. GPT-4 is the wolf. I’ve seen it with my own eyes.”

#AI #chatgpt4 #beafraid

Link. Recent seafloor discovery

Link. “importing an archive of your tweets to Micro.blog. This is available to all paid subscriptions and can be accessed on the web under Posts → Import”

Link. I’m sure this has occurred to many of us (it did to me), but it’s weird that it’s still not widely understood. Current tech favors predation on the cognitively impaired but LLMs open new markets for more sophisticated attacks. (Cognitive scientists theorize human cognition was driven by deception use and detection.)

Link. Fascinating reading. It is annoying that sometimes the NIMBY are right. This is why politics is messy.

Link. Not a surprise. I do wonder about retrovirus like gene expression. Even birds seem to get something like OA though, so it would be a long ways back.

Link. “I started going back “just to promote my work” which was a bit like an addict doing “just a little bit of cocaine”; soon I was posting full-time again.”

Mastodon’s social conventions are too constraining for Laura — and it’s still too tech. There really isn’t an easy Twitter alternative.

Link. Grant was among the most astounding of our leaders.

Link. A third alternative to litigation and micro- regulation.

Link. “time from event onset to catastrophic departure from controlled flight was only 2-3 sec”

1966 test pilots had interesting work days.

Link. 30y of painstaking work + COVID pays off big time.

Link. I suspect 2022 will be below baseline. Big jump by our standards but small compared to 19th century epidemics.

Link. They are soooo dumb.

Link. Bob Taylor was a successful entrepreneur, MTG’s father, and quite nutty. I highly recommend this brief and ambitious essay. MTG, like Ginni Thomas, is a natural born cultist: the cults change but the person remains.

Link. Why titers fall. Obvious, but I didn’t think of that. Vaccines against respiratory viruses prevent severe disease but not infection.