Alessandro Mingione

Sometimes if it sounds like a duck and it swims like a duck, it’s still not a duck, most people intuitively know that.

And yet—for everyone’s sanity—we need to come up with a better definition of “consciousness” soon, or the few that think an LLM is conscious and has feelings won’t leave us alone.

Also the roads are infrastructure that’s also used for commerce, big % of the water is actually sourced and stored from rural areas or suburbs… one could go on

Yes and rural areas produce nearly all the food and most of the renewable energy cities use, as well as access to nature, its tourism and related services.

There is interdependence, and it’s also true that both sides underestimate the extent.

OC alone is >8% of the GDP of California

I don’t. Explain? California’s Central Valley alone produces 1/4th of many of the nation’s food products (fruits, nuts, lots of vegetables)

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No, folks are angry because they expect Proton not to hand over info when they are legally required to. Now they believe Proton "is not good for privacy" and will move to an alternative that will also hand over info when they are legally required to. They need to learn not to share info.

All this is doing is making people distrust some of the best privacy tools we have instead of teaching them how to use them.

It should be clear to everyone that businesses will comply with the law. That is why it's important to choose a VPN with no logging, use encrypted services, etc.

There's an argument to be made that the UX of the discoverability of these payment methods is not good enough. But if your threat model includes governments, you should know not to expect companies to disobey the law to protect you, and you should harden your posture accordingly.

Benn, please. Proton clearly provides alternative payment methods that are more privacy-preserving than personal credit cards.

The 404media story is important, but the title *is* misleading. Proton did not help the cops in any meaningful way over what's legally required of them.

If the fact that they complied with a warrant makes you want to move away from Proton, good luck. No business is above the law, which is why encryption is important in the first place.

In fact, it’s better to keep in mind that in most cases both local *and* country of residence laws apply.

Important to actually read the article. Proton *is* private and encrypted, *and* they support payment methods other than cards… which is what you should use if your threat model includes any government

That's why we have an integration! but sadly you can't port over your existing mullvad credit…

True. Also we need a Merlin for plants. Yes there’s a ton of plant ID apps out there but they all suck. Big hopes for a sufficiently sophisticated AI solution here.

Pope Leo returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture.

The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture. n.pr/43T2xmD

On fly fishing: If a mountain creek is heavily regulated during some time of the year, you should probably obey those regulations year-round. There's no reason for you to eat a rare trout, and that one fish that will get away because your hook is barbless will come back to thank you later.

On menswear: How one dresses has no correlation with their values or inner qualities. Some people that agree with that statement will dress shoddily on purpose to signal belonging to a certain class that can afford to do so. That's also dumb.

On the inverse, claiming something is a remix of something because that thing is cool and being associated with it elevates your creation by proximity is also dishonest. Claiming your typeface is inspired by Granjon or Griffo while it’s just a generic Garamond or Aldine is a no-no.

Oh boy, here we go.

On typefaces: Everything is a remix but some things are “more remix” than others. If you create a typeface that’s inspired by another typeface, it needs to be meaningfully different for you to profit from it, and even so you should acknowledge those influences.

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Something I don’t see discussed often (and it’s not discussed here) is that the Morton study uses FFM, which is 1) hard to calculate for most people, 2) lower than “your weight” by definition.

Weird how there always seems to be only one probable cause for everything, and it’s always the thing that I’ve been obsessing over last week

My kind is to blame. This is what happens when you delegate prettiness to a specific discipline… never ask a barber if you need a haircut

Georges Beuville

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I wrote a new thing about killing the metrics in your head, and how our inherent desire to know that we are being seen can be the thing that prevents us from caring as well and as much as we actually do. phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-05...

Thank you Lumpy for saving my life! You definitely deserve a treat.

I would die for this cat

Hey Marta, any chance this was recorded?

Back then you committed harakiri. Today you sell your company for scraps to HP.