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• Post #3928132

  I used up my free Claude credits with antigravity so I tried Gemini. Ummm. Anthropic kind of owns this space don't they?

• Post #3792666

  I won’t quote ai stats here, but they fit my perception that over the past two years email spam has gotten much worse. Not just cybercrime. Lots of desperate marketing from legit business. My local paper alone has many spam streams. But it goes unremarked. I suppose there is nothing left to say.

• Post #2273104

  Ukraine 2026: “Drones are the dominant force on the lines today, causing approximately 75–80 percent of all casualties. Ukraine now has 1.3 drones at the front line for every 1 Russian drone” https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/ukraines-surprising-2026 I read that a lot of pre-war Russian weapons tech came from Ukraine. #jgshare

• Post #2273097

  “Lutnick had said he had cut all ties with Epstein in 2005 … the two maintained contact until at least 2018” https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-6-2026 Only the worst of the worst work for the MAGA. #jgshare

• Post #2273095

  Every PDF document should also include a structured text version of the document. Images and the like can be shared between the two. (Inspired by the frustrations of text search across PDFs)

• Post #2273094

  “given the structure of legal and political institutions in America, the Supreme Court must function as a kind of crypto-Super Legislature” https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/05/the-law-question Novel take “All of which is a very convoluted way of saying John Roberts is either a liar or a fool. Knowing what I know about the institutions that educated him, which happens to be a lot, I’m going to go with the latter conclusion, which may be rather charitable of me” #jgshare

• Post #2273093

  “singing mice had approximately three times the number of neurons sending signals from the motor cortex to two specific downstream regions of the brain” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/science/a-mutation-gave-humans-the-gift-of-speech-these-mice-have-it-too.html Language features emerge in small brains without novel anatomy but through expansion of existing pathways. I strongly suspect something like this enabled humans to read. #jgshare

• Post #2130764

  For worse and for better Trump chaos is changing the world. Nobody know where it leads. Chaos is where Trump thrives. Probably a result of his demonic heritage. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116482457780190375

• Post #2130762

  “He hires for spineless sycophantic loyalty, and anyone who is spineless and sycophantic enough to satisfy him is committed to grotesque fascism, corruption, or both.” https://journa.host/@atrupar/116482390005967625

• Post #2130761

  “World, a project designed to distinguish humans from bots using biometrics, announced strategic partnerships with Tinder, Zoom, and Docusign” https://restofworld.org/2026/sam-altman-worldcoin-zoom-tinder-partnerships/ Send this sentence back in time. #jgshare

• Post #2130760

  ““HD Map”. It has not only a ton more data, but centimetre level accuracy too.” https://maphappenings.com/2025/11/06/bee-maps/ Industry guy on history and future of nav maps. #jgshare

• Post #2130759

  Dems prepare for MAGA attacks on voting https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-democrats-election-wargames-trump “ task force has identified “about 150 threats, … each one of those we go through and we have sort of a matrix — what we think the likelihood is of this, whatever it is, happening, and then … what’s the damage that it could cause?” #jgshare

• Post #2130758

  iMessage text effects are iOS implementation of <blink>. I interact with them often - always to undo accidental activation. Their addition to Messages should have set off alarms at Apple.

• Post #2130756

  “a fault-tolerant quantum computer able to break deployed cryptosystems ought to be possible by around 2029” https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9718 Something to be said for platinum bars in the home safe. #jgshare

• Post #2130755

  Another week another assassination attempt: “same people already used this exact blood-and-thunder language for the Little Mermaid casting announcement” https://www.theringer.com/2026/04/30/national-affairs/donald-trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner-conspiracy-theories We are so tired. Best take on MAGA frothing and raging #jgshare

• Post #2130754

  Oman and the MAGA debacle: “…What can we do to extricate the superpower from this unwanted entanglement? ... “America’s friends have a responsibility to tell the truth.” https://www.firewalledmedia.com/p/losing-friends-and-alienating-people-2c4 Oman keeps a low profile. #jgshare

• Post #2130753

  Distillation: “Modern LLM processes could look like using a GPT API to build an initial batch of synthetic data to build a specialized small data-processing model.” https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-distillation-panic I imagine how BYTE would have covered this era and I miss it again. There really has never been an adequate replacement. #jgshare

• Post #2130752

  Wordpress Reader: “… use it as a [RSS] sync backend. That includes Reeder, NetNewsWire, ReadKit, lire, Unread …” https://activitypub.blog/2026/05/05/radical-speed-month-the-reader-meets-the-fediverse/ Similar to Feedbin but they want to support AT and Fediverse as well. #jgshare

• Post #2130751

  Andes Hantavirus ship update https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/world/hantavirus-cruise-ship.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gVA.4cgB.NX_7_n10l9_e&smid=url-share It would be good to accelerate vaccine work. mRNA tech will help. (Maybe in Canada? Spain? China?) #jgshare

• Post #2130750

  Anthropic: “we recently made a commitment to cover any consumer electricity price increases caused by our data centers in the US.” https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex They are not covering the CO2 externalities of Colossus however. #jgshare

• Post #2044383

  “Anyone who has read the Federalist Papers … knows that somewhere between and third and a half of the essays are very specifically about Donald Trump” https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/scotus-can-let-the-president-break-the-law-they-cant-change-it America has the right, and the power, to end its democracy. All it takes is to do nothing. #jgshare

• Post #1898559

  “Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes “too high a bar” https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo Bikes are the Achilles wheel of AVs #jgshare

• Post #1642569

  How to read Gibbon of Decline game. https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/bangers-from-gibbon An extraordinary writer. #jgshare

• Post #1150504

  Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/04/13/artemis-iis-fault-tolerant-computer/ A very different world. #jgshare

• Post #1126119

  A complete pizzagate nutcase is now a MN DOJ immigration “judge” https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/09/right-wing-poster-is-minnesotas-newest-immigration-judge/ So many grifters, so many people with psych issues. #jgshare

• Post #1126118

  “Trump told a reporter he did not know the first lady was preparing to give a speech” https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-9-2026 I laughed when he called Iran “dishonorable”. That’s Classic Trump. “hours after his wife gave an unexpected press conference about Jeffrey Epstein, Trump posted a video of a woman’s murder.” Reminder? #jgshare

• Post #1126117

  THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES BY DR. TERENCE TAO AND ZACH WEINERSMITH https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/spheres-part-1 Nerdvana #jgshare

• Post #1126116

  Operation Enduring Glory; all the places Trump stuck his name. https://www.contrariannews.org/p/operation-enduring-glory America the pathetic. #jgshare

• Post #1126115

  “The land the Clovis people entered around 13,000 years ago was full of enormous ambulatory meat lockers with little-to-no experience of human predation.” https://patrickwyman.substack.com/p/anzick-1-the-clovis-people-and-life I loved this informed recreation of life of early Americans. A few hundred exploded across the continent. “The sheer speed of their expansion is remarkable, and in my opinion, perhaps the clearest example of demographic success we can see anywhere in prehistory.” #jgsh...

• Post #1041775

  The regulatory burden: detailed example from a US startup. https://rein.pk/over-regulation-is-doubling-the-cost Regulatory ratchet is a deep problem. New regulations are relatively easy to create and always benefit the creators in some way. It is a career ending move to remove or revise existing regulations. Same problem Gov and industry but Gov has it worse. #jgshare