John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰

The humans do so badly I’m ready to give the ai a shot.

Sorry youngsters. It really does suck to get old.

The more I learn of the vast bugginess of macOS the more I wonder if ai coding will really be worse.

4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground] ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...

Window Screen

xkcd.com/3151/

Hey folks -- if you can delay flying at least until after the shut down ends, I think it would be a good idea.

Air Traffic controllers are starting to call in sick, and there are flight delays due to a lack of controllers in the towers in a dozen airports already.

Picture here is from 1992. LA riots. Ive seen this called bad news judgment. In any real journalism outfit this is more like a firing offense. I basically say such things. Beyond belief.

Iran’s Bad Options At most, Iran can hope to wound America or Israel when attacked. But its own weapons can never win a war.

Faced with new UN-backed sanctions and a weakened military, Iran is desperate for a way out, Arash Azizi and Graeme Wood. “Although it still has options, all of them are bad”:

Editorial: We need our leaders to stay cool as ICE-related chaos gets hot Provocateurs on the right and left were the story of a chaotic weekend in Chicago. Our political leaders need to reclaim the narrative and cool things down.

A fascist dictator is ordering armed troops from another state to invade the city of Chicago, and the Chicago Tribune editorial board reacts by warning Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson to avoid injudicious language. Really.

They are afraid.

I asked an ai if it could find lists like mine.

“No commonly cited analyst or scholar seems to have presented a list using exactly your phrasing … sources covering each point with significant overlap, especially on automation, globalization, rural collapse, and voter knowledge” (refs included)

Why is it not testing support?

A guarantee of factual answers to all questions would be omniscience

Infamously!

I often use ai to test out if a personal theory or hypothesis of mine has support. Often yes, but not infrequently no; ai says can’t find anything like that.

If you mean the free google ai -yes, it’s abysmal. I never use it

No. Completely sincere. You may withdraw all benefit and add copious doubt. I am worse than you can believe

Yes. But you are now in trouble for saying that!

I use ai research several times a day. Works very well for me. Latest search resulted in a critical medical intervention.

Yes! Let’s see Simon make that a test suite. Also disc brakes because Pelicans bike in the rain and the ai should know that.

"Ladies and gentlemen if you aren't skullfucking the news all day every day you have no place in this newsroom."

"On your desks you will find a copy of the 120 days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade. Consider this your new manual for how we treat the news here at CBS"

Google search results have been deteriorating for 15 years; the click-ad funded business model was poison. The web has been dying for a while.

“Are national reporters checking on whether RIFs are being prepared for this new round of firings? It seems like most are not.”

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

If you can predict market movements you’ll be a trillionaire in just a few years!

In 1929 many investors expected a crash. Same in 1999. In 99 the market recovered very quickly; people who sold lost out bigly.

The delayed reaction to urban unrest of 2020 is weird. I thought then it would elect Trump but Biden won. Then 5y later the country reacts?

Really good mountain biking

An underrated part of Gulf tourism is for sex. Incredible amount of high-end sex work out of Dubai - and a lot of human trafficking at the lower end as well.

Honestly I find the idea of going to the Gulf states on holiday so instinctively repulsive that I forget how many people do. There are so much nicer and cheaper and less morally appalling places in the world!

Automation
Globalization
Women power shifts
Rural collapse
LIV concentration in 1 party

What broke America from 1950 to 2024?

I maintain a personal list of contributors that damaged both democracy and the economic infrastructure.

All but two are global problems, two are worse here.

tldr; too much too fast …