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anjel··on Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
Robotic polinators ftw.
anjel··on The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
As with Ukraine, it's a David and Goliath kind of conflict and in both conflicts, the temptation for Goliath to escalate by leveraging scale is predictable, tempting and frought.
anjel··on China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
Intro to "moral hazard"
anjel··on Amazon without the knockoffs
You had good luck navigating a house of mirrors. It's still a house of mirrors though.
anjel··on Amazon without the knockoffs
2nd that
anjel··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
> Fable certainly hasn’t blow my socks off. Same. Its not so much perf increase as cost increase justified by ambiguous perf increase.
anjel··on Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban
Up next is boom's line of of landscape blowers
anjel··on Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban
I lived in the area where boom did their flight tests and the local news would announce days when they were testing. FWIW, I think they used scaled down aircraft so production aircraft may vary, but the boom was more of a thump. It comes on quick though, so some potential for startling, not on account of volume so much as sonic attack.
anjel··on How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)
Aldi's and Lidl have 1/3 the SKUs which in and of itself is a winning advantage.
anjel··on Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California
Also a thing with podcast adverts.
anjel··on The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
Vitamin k and k2 are not at all the same with respect to blood thinning
anjel··on Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good
MDs NPs and PAs currently are offered free access to a medical AI app called Open Evedidence. Was just discussing this with our chief medical officer and while he is quite enthusiastic about it, he could already see this same dumbing down effect emerging among his providers. The solution I think, is 5 or 10 ten year re-certification exams for MDs, currently reqd for "Physician Extenders" but not the Physicians who supervise them. Continuing compulsory education and re-certification works, I suspect, in all highly skilled fields that are both augmented by AI but also degraded by it.
anjel··on Midjourney Full Body Ultrasonic CT Scanner
Soon to be rebranded...
anjel··on Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year
Profits are irreducibly profitable, regardless.
anjel··on U.S. science is in chaos
americans pretending they aren't refugees by using the term expat is almost too ironic.
anjel··on OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B
Not here to entirely disagree its bonkers, but Tesla lost about 6b until 2022 when it got profitable and has since returned a healthy multiple of its prior losses as profits.
anjel··on Fox to buy Roku
The Constitution simply states that representation shall be based on population but doesn't specify a fixed cap. The number of Reps in the House was frozen by the Congressional apportionment Act of 1929.

How is that proportional, a century of pop growth later?

anjel··on Appreciating Exif
Picard is far from perfect, but it does more or less impose a semblance of uniformity across a large library.
anjel··on Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
They're not legislatively inept, it's simply that viscerally, the electorate knows both mobs are guilty of the same representational transgressions. The GOP was always the party of big biz, while the dems were fronting as the hoi poloi's party, and everyone kinda figured that out as Trump played that irony and the anger behind it, masterfully.

How do you get out from behind that, is what renders them inept.

anjel··on Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
He's arguably in worse shape than FDR in his last term. I've come around to seeing such talk as yet another clever and effective bum rush to stave off hisgetting written off as the lame duck he actually is.

Think what you want about him, he is if nothing else, a manipulative genius, so it tracks.

anjel··on Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
After 20 years of consumer GPS goog offers Sub-Garmin quality navigation service, and a generous helping of UI non-intuitives.
anjel··on Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute
See also: "The Madness of Crowds" On Wall Street,people think they are betting on the fin performance of Companies, when in fact you are betting on the crowd's perception of a company's performance.

Quite the abstraction.

anjel··on Aging and Eye Problems
The over the counter supplement, Astaxanthin is, when taken once daily, pretty much an opthalmic fountain of youth. YMMV, but I've recommended it to many others who all report its great for age related focusing fatigue.
anjel··on Meteor Burst Radio is long range radio which bounces of ionised meteor trails
Meteor Burst Radio is an established form of long range radio communication which relies upon the presence of ionised trails in the upper atmosphere to create a radio path. These trails are created by millions of small meteorites as they burn up.
anjel··on When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
Answers the question: how can Anthropic sell more Usage "Credits"
anjel··on Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism
1st example was the progenitor of what eveolved into strict liability. (If you make money putting stuff into the stream of commerce, you're liable for unintended and evenunforseeable downstream damages. 2nd example is an illustration of that longheld legal precedent's being curiously ignored (nevermind the cost savings was a bum rush and livery costs are now higher than before the innovative advent) 3rd is a call to at least litigate who bears the downstream effects. Or perhaps we should just cancel public health measures and employ pestilence to solve the problem *organically.*
anjel··on Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism
In England, ca. 1500s common law established the legal precedent that if your cattle broke loose of its pen, wandered into your neighbor's field and trampled their garden, you were liable for the damage your cattle caused.

Meanwhile, 500 years later Uber could disrupt the livery industry with VC cash that rendered a NY cab's owner/operator 6-figure financed medalion license worthless, and somehow that wasn't Uber's problem.

Now AI (set loose in the wild at the AI industry's strategic choice so as to be irreversible) seems poised to disrupt and render a very significant part of the labor force disrupted on an unprecedented societal scale and it appears to be a foregone conclusion that collateral damages won't be the causal industry's expense. Nevermind that its also poised to easily afford those social costs, and don't even consider that maybe society should be considering this obvious cause and effect. For me at least the feudal suppression of this otherwise obvious and necessary discussion is perhaps more spectacular than the causal technological breakthrough itself.

Now *that's* control.

anjel··on There are now more ETFs than stocks in the US
There are precious metal ETFs that are. Distinct from the "physical" gold funds in that they use derivatives to match the price action of the precious metal instead of buying and storing it
anjel··on The real cost of owning a home
Verdant lawn pride is a scam. An avoidable waste of time, water and maintenance dollars that seduces even desert dwellers
anjel··on Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
First observed by Tom Leher in the early 1970s
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