A few years ago most people thought America was in pretty good shape. Turns out we were deathly ill. Bit like the USSR. Today Apple is thought to be in pretty good shape. It's not. Their software is crapifying fast and they seem to be trying to pull revenue from their bundled productivity apps.

Translation from Trumpese: <They were all racist against white people and I am not racist against white people. There are more white voters than non-white voters so I'm less racist.> QED. I swear I can read his dwindling mind.

The more demented Trump gets the more honest he gets.

It is interesting but lots of stuff like this dies when true randomized trials are done.

This decision puts even more pressure on plaintiffs and district courts outside the 5th Circuit. Unless the habeas is filed before a person is transferred to the 5th Circuit, a person may remain locked in appalling conditions, never even allowed to ask for bond.

Anthropic has a dilemma: it's obsessed with safety and also hot in pursuit of AGI, which no one knows how to launch safely. Now its plan to resolve the paradox is clear: imbue its AI model with the autonomy and "wisdom" to do things right. www.wired.com/story/the-on...

Warsh is a liar.

I am not sure what the best way to respond to this is, but Europe needs to take this very seriously. At some point, they should call up US ambassadors to MFAs. EUMS that don’t have tough laws barring intervention by malign foreign actors need to get them. Learn from Romania & Moldova.

I wrote about trends in Turkey as mainstream religion declines:

What a milestone 🤯. The institute of cognitive science in Osnabrück, the first of its kind in Germany, is now home to more than 1,000 cognitive science students across our programs. Wild.

First I’ve heard for iOS

I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌

I have the same policy. Quote tweets are for sharing and commentary that does not insult.

There can only be two.

Study of longer term sequelae of serious COVID infection early in the epidemic. The cognitive issues are probably the main concern.

We're doing a retirement account rollover that requires multiple phone calls, multiple forms, signature of a 1987 employer, and more. Mix of bad gov reg and a dying finance firm desperate to hold funds. Our world got too complex and we stopped doing maintenance.

Oh, wow, Claude Opus 4.6 took the top spot in Artificial Analysis Intelligence index. Gemini 3 Pro, which used to be in the lead (before the benchmark was updated), is now fifth. And they haven't even tested GPT-5.3 Codex yet.

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

Trump’s Big Loser Energy, and Other Tales From the Annals of Political Messaging talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/curse-2 #smbc

My Golgi complex knowledge ended around 1983. Nice to know.

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

Good morning. Marimar Martinez, the woman shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, has taken her seat in a federal courtroom. Judge Georgia Alexakis is expected to rule on Martinez's request to release evidence from her prosecution. Background: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Despite the necessary biases that come from his role I suspect this is Amodei's honest belief -- and he is in a position to know.

“Schaffer urged his fans to learn from him and overcome their addictions, their thoughts of suicide, their impulse to commit criminal behavior, and their “sexual proclivities.” MAGA in a nutshell

Good. Props to Starlink. Hope Ukraine does a rapid switch of its grey market starlinks to whitelist per the below method and very few Ukrainians are captured. Method to change captured Ukrainians access to blacklist quickly would be wanted too am thinking. www.kyivpost.com/post/69509

2/ Yuri Podolyak writes: "So, what everyone had long feared, but secretly hoped wouldn't happen until the end of the Special Military Operation has happened. Elon Musk flipped the switch, and 80% of Starlink terminals on the front line went down.

Evil billionaire disables Russian offense system. Probably gets a paragraph on page 7.

One of my pet peeves is the human predilection to allow only a single cause. Racism and economic distress go together like coffee and cream.

Yes, coal still plays a very major role. But for the first time coal generation is down in China and is expected to decline further. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coa...

Early in the ai era humans will start losing the ability to read. It’s a hard skill. Like piano. The brain didn’t evolve to read. It’s incredible we can do it at all. It takes a lot of neuroplasticity and effort over years (for most). Not much need to read if daily living and work goes to the ais

Kavanaugh’s name will outlast him. “"I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too.”

Exclusive: Private jet owned by Israeli-American tycoon close to Trump family has been used by ICE to deport Palestinians from Arizona to Tel Aviv - "part of secretive and politically sensitive US government operation to deport Palestinians arrested by ICE" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“"[I] can’t imagine a parent who wouldn’t sell little JD for percocet if they knew he would turn out like this.”

Bezos was an easy hit for Trump’s corruption superpower.

Story that messed me up for the day -- elementary school kids find their lost classmate in the immigration jail cafeteria. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Will is a big target. They need something smaller. Some lazy old white retired guy who posts a lot on Bluesky and trudges along on the marches (I hope the front door can be repaired). There are two adults with cognitive disorders in the home so I promise to be an easy take.

As his brain rots away the primal DJT emerges. He is a lot like Stephen Miller.

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

Palantir wouldn’t do anything corrupt. That would be against their core value of amorality.

I’m expecting Chomsky sex pest reports

My hottest take is that they should rename DCA from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump - so that there would be less outrage when they later rename it back to Washington National Airport

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

My daughter and I will be touring SF in a few weeks. We're staying in Daly City. Where would one go to see SV tech culture on display? Is there a hangout for TESCREAL folk? Tourists gotta tour. @cameron.stream

My Xenopsychology career is off to a good start.

Blows my mind that the public hub of organized large scale resistance in MSP is Facebook. Friggin Facebook.

My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.

Verner Vinge wrote about this in a novella - Fast Times …

🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.