I get it

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Thousands of years before European plagues killed most of the natives of the Americas Asian plagues killed most of the natives of Europe.

Looking for a high end mountain bike for a friend and things are ugly in MSP now. Many shops closed. Nobody has inventory.

This is former Utah judge Kevin Christensen, charged with 8 counts of child sexual abuse. He's pled to 3 counts, and faces up to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Not an immigrant. Not a drag queen. Not undocumented. He is, however, an elected Republican official.

Bruce Springsteen calls on his concert audience to join him at the May 1 No Kings rallies across the US. “Join with us in choosing hope over fear, democracy over authoritarianism, the rule of law, lawlessness, ethics over unbridled corruption. Resistance over complacency, truth over lies, unity

Nothing to see here, move along. Gulf spy chief now owns the hospitality sites where London's wealthy and powerful routinely hobnob. Richard Caring sells majority stake in Ivy hospitality empire to Sheikh Tahnoon, the master spy and intel chief of the UAE. www.ft.com/content/5bae...

As the economy shifts to larger rewards to a smaller set of traits the population that is de facto disabled, as in trait/environment mismatch, will grow above 50%. Which will change how people think about disability.

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

Non-Catholic rightwing talking heads slowly starting to put a voice to anti-Catholicism advocacy.

"If sanctions on Russian oil have been lifted because of the war in the Middle East, will the U.S. sanctions be reimposed now that there is a ceasefire? I think that an answer to this question will expose the reason for lifting sanctions in the first place." - Zelenskyy

Trump World Unity strategy is on track

Trump’s genius is corruption. Here he accelerates the corruption of the American people. Nobody corrupts like the Prince of Lies

We do full socialism: good enough shelter, food, transit, education, health for all. Guaranteed work. Greatly expanded EITC. Personal ai assistants.

I’ve been ranting about this for 15y. Long slow process

I have been wondering. Is curious.

There is an extreme risk that China will soon have a comparable model and use it to cause the entire defense establishment of the United States to shake its head, breathe heavily, then go back to scrolling reddit. If they get 7 OOM more intelligence, they may be able to write xkcd or Hark a Vagrant.

Uh oh. I do intergalactic coordination for them.

Nerdvana. My head hurts.

What Anthropic’s Mythos and Project Glasswing Mean for Your Apple Devices

“economists have the words to talk about what we are going through in the labor market right now because we’ve never seen it before.”

Does doing this on state level has less issues than doing it on city basis?

I was part of an enterprise that outsourced to India in the early days. Any modern LLM would produce far better code far faster. That project failed horribly. With modern tooling maybe not ???

People imagine this counterfactual fantasyland where ad copy and SEO texts are beautifully crafted prose, enterprise codebases are clean & lean and everyone commissions talented local artists for their stock photos and clip art. bsky.app/profile/faz....

Temporary CDC “Director” Jay Bhattacharya is a non-practicing MD, economist, and whiny little shitbird with a persecution complex. He has ZERO education, training or experience in epidemiological study design and has no business at deciding what methodology should be used to evaluate vaccines.

Here's why it matters: BC there are a GREAT MANY questions abt Melania's visa. Paolo is her witness; w/o his word, she's an illegal immigrant who can and should be deported. www.nbcmiami.com/news/nationa...

So what are all the insider traders doing in anticipation of the Melania news?

Updating my birthrate fan chart. Since 1989, birth rates for US women age 15-17 have fallen 87%. For those age 40-44 birth rates have increased 146%. The total (not shown) has fallen 23%.

America's leading Nazi in the 1960s, George Lincoln Rockwell, referred to "race communism" in almost every edition of his Nazi newsletter. There's little question about the genealogy of that sort of terminology on the American right.

“Gay race communism” translated: Tolerant Diverse Compassionate It’s a compliment really. I’ll take it.

Trumpworld getting the weekend meltdowns going early this week, can’t wait to see what the Friday news dumps bring

Many have wondered if it was even more Epstein-Melania than Epstein-Trump. Something is going to drop soon.

Great stuff

I do think the EREVs that are coming on the market could be what I need for my actual life in rural America. Solid all-EV performance for daily jaunts plus a gas-fed generator for when I travel longer distances (and a single powertrain to avoid too many mechanical issues). We'll see!

Contrary to my expectations

Assume the world will crash out. Another global depression. What kind of society and economy would we rebuild from the wreckage? I have ideas of course.

The acting head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing that the Covid vaccine significantly reduced the likelihood of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/h...

Yes.

Sometimes I wonder if boomers were a load bearing structure.

If they bend they will not stand again.

The only way to make this feasible is proctored exam or perhaps group dialogs in a monitored environment. Otherwise you make a system that selects for people who cheat. And we do too much of that now.

1/ Russian drone developer Alexey Chadayev has posted a lengthy and detailed description of what is going wrong for Russia in the drone warfare arms race, where he admits that it has fallen badly behind Ukraine, with lethal consequences for the Russian army. ⬇️

It is exactly that. Dead Internet Theory is that social media has very few humans, and is overrun with bots. Bots respond to “charlie kirk shoots”, even when wildly out of context.

TIL: recent iOS updates are locking cops out of seized iPhones. For months now, forensic tools like Cellebrite haven’t been able to extract data from some of these devices One workaround I’ve heard: police will subpoena jail phone systems to get defendants PINs…then try those codes on the phones

Every web page everywhere becomes an untrusted malware vector.

Remember when people wanted “smart homes”?

Iran became a theocracy and over time much of the population became agnostic.

This is an instance of market failure. We have a lot of those now.

Google’s ai overview can only be explained as a Google project to slow ai development.