Oh yeah, it's a good list. I could tag Apple on every one. And Magnifica Humanitas. If you squint real hard there's maybe a sign that the good guys aren't entirely dead.

Thiel thinks the MAGA will fail. He is following path Nazi leadership took after 1945.

I gave same to Sonnet 4.6, low thinking. It responded: "Sounds like an opening line — song, story, movie? What's the context?"

Some interesting things from having Sonnet, then Opus, review the build plan ... 1. I spotted at least two Sonnet mistakes and one misunderstanding. I asked Opus 4.8 to review everything Sonnet said; Opus corrected the errors ...

Tipping point

Just enabled memory in Claude Code. The generated profile of me that I was shown was imperfect but still fairly accurate. Things going faster.

I'm so aggravated by the state of photo sharing I think I'm going to have Claude Code Opus build an automated form of the hand-crafted HTML based photo sharing of the 90s. Static site -- including zip archived downloads of JPEG or TIFF. I'd love to use JPEG XL but its not ready yet ...

My vibecession take is that most Americans were irrationally positive about the national economy over the past 30y or so. Now they are accepting reality.

Another name to add to the hall of heroes

Anthropic being valued at $1 trillion is like Cisco being valued at $500bn during the dot-com bubble Yes they make a useful thing But it’s a commodity, other people make it too

Make my day. That would be hilarious.

No surprise Dem slow to move on this. Modern American politics is deeply corrupt everywhere. Underpaid legislators, citizens united, general cultural tolerance. Trump just kicked it up 2 levels and he is famously transparent.

Love to see it. In my view, POTUS engaging in unconstitutional military adventures is also a form of corruption because he is using the U.S. military for his own personal amusement rather than in the national interest. www.ms.now/news/house-d...

We all need a laugh.

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A lot of right wing anger is them thinking Dems do what they themselves would do.

EXCLUSIVE: I just revealed that Rep. @tomsuozzi.bsky.social lives at C Street. That’s the DC townhouse run by The Family, the secretive Christian group that runs the National Prayer Breakfast. Suozzi pays $800/month. He's kept it secret for years. There’s more…

NYT compliance with the Afghan retreat hysteria was, in retrospect, proof that they were a broken institution.

So they tried everywhere and Chicago had the scum’s scum.

“Listen, if you were assembling a Cabinet purely on ability, none of us would be here. That’s the great thing bringing all of us here today: Whether we are male or female, old or young, white or nonwhite, the one thing that binds us is our shared absence of merit.”

DOJ will need to be leveled.

photos of Trump "blinking" during today's cabinet meeting (Kent Nishimura/AFP and Win McNamee/Getty)

Silence reveals preference.

It’s almost as though computation is a strange attractor in the chaos of biological evolution

“Junior prosecutors typically attend a weeklong course on the ins and outs of working with grand juries, and often trail more seasoned colleagues before they take the lead in presenting cases. But leaders in politically appointed posts do not get the same kind or amount of training.”

This belong in a museum of American history. A plaque in the hall of dishonor.

In my college class on New Religious Movements that I took decades ago, the Mormons who came to speak to the class told us that they believed God was (a) male and (b) had a body, so the Mormon god is not nonbinary, the Mormon god is explicitly gendered. (There's also a Mrs. God.)

Siegel updates the Drake equation: “there are likely somewhere around 10 billion (possibly more) planets out there, just in our own galaxy, that are similar to Earth in size, mass, composition, and equilibrium temperature”

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A good idea but I claim priority on this invention! 😛 (I'm sure others thought the same. Submitting a dubious claim to the gov't is always a risky endeavor, even if the gov't agents say it's fine.)

Every Trump glitch or delay now interpreted as a sign of a transition. How will his cult respond if there is no ascension before then?

The GOP base responds well to this messaging

We need a way to teach test sensitivity and specificity to 5th grade students.

I wonder when people will stop ordering from vendors who shop by USPS…

Links I follow from here go to 3 places: 1. Paywalled without micropayment 2. Podcast or video 3. Something I can read. I’m only interested in the last. But there seem more of the others lately …

China is different

Long road to this point. Now imagine this was possible to do for a condition without a medical treatment. Like a gene predisposing to early Alzheimer’s. Say in someone with Down’s syndrome.

Once a headline like this would have engendered in some American readers a quiet sense of cultural superiority. Now we understand we are also this way.

MAGA want America to be an ethnonationalist state

There's a situation unfolding in the land of online bookselling that I haven't discussed primarily because I have little information to share. An unknown company is making multi-volume purchases, and when I say multi-, I mean some of us have been getting 500 orders a week. For REALLY random books.

We just learned last week that Kat was never truly indicted. The grand jury in Chicago returned a no true bill. Prosecutors then had to tell anyone who didn't want an indictment to leave and cajole someone in the hallway until they returned an indictment. Please, go to jury duty and raise hell.

Trump walked away from NK in first term. Zero humiliation ensued. Trump is correct not to worry. Americans have already forgotten Iran.

Related: anyone aware of a MSP platform for group ride share? Not Facebook based. There are obvious risks.

This is a #bikesky #msp question. How much interest is there in the St Paul / Minneapolis metro for weekday *daytime* singletrack small group rides? Would be, I assume, mostly retired men …

The main reason I unfollow people is reposting of someone else’s dumb takes. (I suspect I have unfollowed and followed some folks many times.)

This is how to teach in an ai world.

Even more depressing than the crisis in biotechnology / basic research is the collapsing leadership and investment in U.S. led global health programs. Fauci talked at length about starting PEPFAR, a program that at its peak had an annual budget of 1B (a rounding error for the U.S.) and saved 25M ppl

Also: if you must walk your dog in a heatwave, do it first thing in the morning. The hottest part of the day is usually between 4-5 and it doesn't even really start to cool down properly until the small hours of the morning. Most heatstroke cases I have seen were late afternoon / early evening.

We have learned that a large percentage of American voters are clueless. So I have no idea what works …

The two biggest climate change figures right now are Donald Trump and the Ukrainian special forces. The former is causing a global energy crisis that is going to accelerate green energy transition. The latter is blowing up lots of Russian pipelines and refineries