Tom Novak

The last thing I wanted to see in my Discover feed was a video from James Comey pleading his case. Plus with comments disabled because he doesn’t want to hear what anyone has to say.

it’s hard to get past how he screwed up the 2016 election. So it’s block and mute for him.

Have been looking for a list like this. And here it is!

A 4-pack of 120 Ziploc gallon bags is $25.08 today on Amazon. It was $19.99 in November 2024.

It this 25% inflation? Tariffs? Or just corporate greed?

RFK Jr does not just reject vaccines. He rejects science and must step down | Bernie Sanders Kennedy is unfit to be our nation’s leading public health official because he rejects the fundamental principles of modern science

What Bernie Sanders says about medical science is so obvious you think it doesn’t need to be said.

And yet it does.

It was verified in South Park season 27 episode 2.

For some reason standard AI is priced at $20/month and premium AI is priced at $200/month.

Why?

Is this price based on rigorous consumer research, or was it pulled out of a random butthole?

Why does Google insist on showing its bad AI search results front and center?

Today it's telling me that Sonoma (version 14) is the latest MacOS.

Of course we are on Sequoia 15.5

Putting bad AI search result at the top of the search page hurts the credibility of everything that comes after.

Opinion: How Norway cracked the code for electric-vehicle adoption — The Globe and Mail As Canada fails to implement compelling incentives for new-car buyers and commit to building EV infrastructure, it can look to Norway for a blueprint

“So, how successful has the Norwegian EV strategy been?

Last year, according to the EV Association, 88.9 per cent of all new passenger cars sold in the country were fully electric.”

Meanwhile in the USA we’re burning gas and coal.

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Trump says he will fire labor statistics chief after weak jobs report — Axios President Trump said he will fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the independent government agency reported weak jobs numbers for July and the preceding month.

The war on science has expanded to include a war on statistics.

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This has a little bit of a mid-century vibe. The new design looks way better to me than the hideous Cracker Barrel stores I associate with highway rest stops decades ago.

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Trump escalates feud with Musk, threatens Tesla, SpaceX support — Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to cut off the billions of dollars in subsidies that Elon Musk's companies receive from the federal government, in an escalation of the war of words b...

If Musk had gone with liberals and the climate-concerned, every other car on the road would have been a Tesla. Can someone please explain the concept of product-market fit to him?

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That isn’t research. It’s work for hire.

Just another day in Oceanside!

The Universe Is 'Suspiciously' Like a Computer Simulation, Physicist Says We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together.

If the universe is a computer simulation, this would go a long way toward explaining why things are so screwed up in the US. We’ve arrived at a very dark and annoying level of the simulation game. Maybe the next level will be better?

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A day that begins with Deary’s vinyl EP arriving in the mail from the UK is a good day!

Please make it stop.

More Aloy in NYC...

Wasn't able to generate enough decay with the daily limit of attempts, but Aloy at the Statue of Liberty...

Aloy in NYC in the style of Horizon Forbidden West, courtesy of Gemini Veo 2.

ChatGPT o3 deep research predicts new Deary LP in 2025.

"Based on Deary’s release history and the typical progression of a new band, we can expect news on a debut LP or at least new singles in the coming months."

#deary #dreampop #shoegaze

Full analysis:
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Using ChatGPT o3 for $20/month. After flailing around with deep research, not quite getting what I'm looking for, it tells me I'm almost out of deep research for the month. So sign up for the $200/month service.

I feel like I'm in the Black Mirror "Common People" episode w/ the Rivermind service.

Over 150 US university presidents sign letter decrying Trump administration Statement signed by Harvard, Princeton and Brown leaders denounces White House’s ‘undue government intrusion’

The one thing alumni are looking at today as they think about their future contributions is how their school is responding to the assault on higher education.

My undergrad school, Oberlin College, signed the AACU statement. My grad institution, UNC, did not.

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Wet Leg Announce New Album Moisturizer, Share Video for New Song “Catch These Fists” leads the UK band’s sophomore album

Wet Leg is back! Finally!

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Error of the day from Social Security.

"Bad"?

Here's the Social Security Website today.

The minute Cory Booker breaks the record, he will get live coverage everywhere.

At that point he will hopefully deliver a kick-ass summary of all the key points he made over the past 24 hours. With all of the news media tuned in.

Thank you Cory Booker.

Now, who is staying up all night tomorrow? And the next day? And..?

Oh dear. Always heard that my town, Leucadia, was named in the 1870s by free thinking English spiritualists escaping persecution.

But this article says it was named in a marketing campaign by 1880's land developers, one a con man.

Talk about bursting my bubble.

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I'm not arguing with the premise of this article. But when the news is all about people losing their jobs by the 1000s' and 10's of thousands, the fit with today's reality feels a bit off.

America is becoming a land of educated liberal women and uneducated conservative men.

“That creates a mismatch, because people prefer to date in terms of comparable education or income.” 

One woman said,...“If I need companionship, I volunteer at the dog shelter.” 

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