Steve Norum

I'm guessing it's terrestrial erosion, as I'd expect a meteorite of that shape to be iron instead of stone, but I'm very much not an expert. Regardless of origin it's a beautiful, cool rock.

"Also in the medal mix are Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson of Britain, whose presentation is so energetic they should be scored in kilojoules."

I couldn't resist: if we assume a top speed of 5 m/s and a combined mass of at least 80kg, then yes, that is over 1000 joules.

(from archive.is/ACK4f)

Anthropic Just Sent Shockwaves Through the Entire Stock Market by Releasing a New AI Tool — Futurism A minor update with major consequences. Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Last week, Anthropic released a new AI tool for automating legal work, precipitating a mass stock market selloff...

Yes, I’m sure the market crash is because of how much AI is enabling and not the realization that while it may help with some specific tasks, it isn’t economically feasible for the vast majority of what it’s supposed to take over.

People are insane.

apple.news/ANeh0JCpYTgq...

if you’re not putting General Sherman in charge of the DOJ in your administration we aren’t interested

But that may just be me being overly cynical after a dozen years working with HSMs and hardware security. I'd love to be wrong and for there to be a reasonably simple solution to this. At the very least it'd be cool if Apple tried something like this with iPhone cameras. (3/3)

It might be useful in certain situations where the camera can be examined frequently (photographers at prestigious news agencies and crime-scene photographers are two that come to mind), but I don't see it having much public impact as cops and journalists are already tanking in terms of trust. (2/3)

This is less useful than a lot of people think. The TL;DR is that 1. TPMs aren't 100% immune to tampering and you just need to crack one to sign fake images, and 2. the input data itself could be faked (either by replacing the sensor or pointing it at a good-enough screen). (1/3)

3 yrs ago I started writing a book that is in stores TODAY. It's narrative nonfiction, anti-fascist spy thriller set in Trump era. It's timely as hell & I'm proud of it.

A thread of what people are saying abt it & why I hope you'll help make it a bestseller www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

Looks like it 404s when accessed over a VPN but not if you aren't using one.

It feels very weird to dig out my old mountaineering gear to go for a walk in the coastal plains region of the south.

Why higher education needs to embrace AI — Fast Company In a panel with Fast Company, education innovators shared why colleges and universities have a responsibility to arm students—and workers—with the skills they need as AI transforms the workplace. [Ima...

It pisses me off when articles like apple.news/A5Wrva_s7RL6... say that the speed with which AI is evolving is why it’s crucial to integrate it into school. That’s exactly why it shouldn’t be a big focus. GPTs are 8 years old and have been common for 3. Tech changes quickly; math and science don’t.

The Fed may have crushed entry-level jobs more than AI The deterioration in the job market for young workers began before ChatGPT was widely available.

I really wish more people realized that recent layoffs aren’t because of AI, they’re because the economy is in the shitter and only propped up by AI speculation. AI is just a convenient excuse that delays a complete collapse of the market.

www.axios.com/2026/01/15/c...

Experience so far with Claude Code: it tried to inject a remote code execution engine into an API request router.

At least one good but junior FAANG dev I spoke with didn’t catch it.

The next while is going to be even more of a payday for hackers and infosec folks than their wildest dreams.

the apparatchiks of this regime have de facto surrendered their right to share this society with the rest of us. theyre too dangerous to walk among us anymore

It's like saying "once the feds decide someone is guilty of a crime, locking them up for life is fine," and completely ignoring whether the person is (or has been found by a jury to be) guilty. Sure, most people agree prison is necessary, but the process by which people end up there matters.
(3/3)

Also, the author implies that Mahmoud Khalil's case is comparable to one about which he says, "once Virginia decided to deport the three arrivals, they no longer had the state’s consent."
A bit part of the issue is the process behind making that decision to deport someone.
(2/3)

Opinion | Why denying rights to deportees is not unconstitutional Constitutional rights, since their beginnings in America, have always come with a caveat.

If your main example for why something is Constitutional is a slaveholder being a dick to brown people 240 years ago, before the US Constitution was written, you're an idiot.
(1/3)
re: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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I think the best predictor of a person's views on LLMs are their thoughts on broad popsci books like Sapiens: There are people who read it and think "sure, it's wrong about the stuff I'm an expert in, but I trust the rest is accurate", and then there are people who see the big problem in that.

Faint red aurora over/behind trees.

They’re faint but were visible about two hours ago in Virginia (may still be in parts, but clouds rolled in to my neck of the woods).

Faint red aurora through the trees.

The aurora is visible in central VA.

Warner is up for reelection next year, whereas Kaine isn't up until 2030. The caucus met to decide who would take the risk of voting with the GOP, so that as many dems as possible could pretend to have a spine.

Paragraph from an article in Haaretz by David Rosenberg, discussing why some Jews voted for Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor: “If they aren't hurting economically, why would Jews, young or old, support a candidate promising things like free bus rides that they don't need, and threatening to raise taxes that they will have to pay more of?”

Perhaps even some financially-well-off Jews voted for Mamdani because improved social services make society better for everyone in it?

If the article weren’t written by a Jewish author for Haaretz, I’d honestly guess parts were written by quite the antisemite.

Link: archive.is/ljgQX

Farmers fight an 'extension cord' for data centers Tensions over a proposed 67-mile transmission line have rocked Maryland's farming communities, as the nation’s largest grid operator says data centers are driving power demands.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... very much brings to mind one of my favorite songs: youtu.be/0cXSz2XfS7A?...

"There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as 'patriotism', may remain a habit." - JRR Tolkien, Letter 52 (re: how the state of the world in 1943 was shifting his politics towards Anarchism)

A torn but original poster for World War One war bonds. Top text reads “Remember your first thrill of American Liberty”, bottom text reads “Your duty-Buy United States Government Bonds” and “2nd Liberty Loan of 1917”. Poster image is a ship of poor European migrants approaching the Statue of Liberty.

A nice reminder of the days when America’s eternal militaristic jingoism was able to coexist happily with a welcoming attitude towards immigrants*.

* yes, I know it was a super racist and shitty system, just in different ways than the current state of immigration law.

And I’m sure part of it is due to the “mental health emergencies” part, but I’m still not overly inclined to put much weight in their numbers without more details on their methodology.

Screenshot of a Wired article with the paragraph: In a given week, OpenAI estimated that around 0.07 percent of active ChatGPT users show “possible signs of mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania” and 0.15 percent “have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.”

It might be good that they’re trying to measure signs of psychosis and mania in their users, but I’m dubious of how well they’re doing given that the population rate of schizophrenia (to say nothing of bipolar with or without psychosis) is at least 10x the rate of psychosis/mania they’re seeing.

In fairness, this is in Forbes, and I imagine AI probably could easily replace the value its target audience provides to their employers and society at large, at least based on the Forbes readers I’ve run into in the wild.

Yep, head gasket was the continuing source of problems with our 2003 Forester. Also some rust issues with various exhaust parts but that’s mostly due to salt during the winters, not it being a Subaru.

Small sample size, etc., but if I had to pick which vehicle I’d trust the most to get me from point A to point B, my Wrangler would come in second to my Corolla but ahead of the other 5+ brands I’ve owned or regularly driven. (That said, it’s by far the least comfortable.)