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  I really tried to get anything but Arcteryx to replace my disintegrating Marmot technical jacket but nobody else met my specs. So now I'm paying the fashion penalty, I figure that's about $100 because the damn brand is still in fashion.

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  @Schouten_B I did! It’s much less common here though. And REI had the Arc. When I gave Opus my specs those were the two it suggested

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  I was surprised to see my Intel* MacBook is now running golden gate! I don’t think it will autoupdate from sequoia so I gotta figure I dementedly updated accidentally. So far it has not melted down. UPDATE: It's an M1. We have 4 and I thought this was the intel orphan.

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  I couldn't figure out what was so wrong about Tahoe (installed two wks ago). Windows were weird. Opus reminded me Tsai wrote about this. You have to go to Keyboard Shortcuts / Spotlight and turn on search for app names. I navigate by Spotlight AppName so things were behaving oddly Despite the UI appearance you can't actually add a new shortcut key, instead the standard key returns more things. Yes, that UI is really stupid, but that's modern Apple.

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  Ran into the weird Tahoe bug where app search can't find safari. Killing spotlight process seemed to fix it... Anyway, it's a thing

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  Wow. Tahoe really is a POS. I upgraded a month ago in prep for GG and I'm running into all the festering bugs @mjtsai and @eclecticlight.co write about. Abominable.

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  Now that I've been using Tahoe for a few weeks I realize that all the online whining and complaining was misleading. It's much worse than I expected. Like, Tim Cook should have resigned over Tahoe. Going to GG next week.

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  RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF/117518185590643625 Crazy science

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  Craig Hockenberry wrote about his lymphoma therapy -- https://furbo.org/2026/10/28/a-health-update/ He's doing better now.

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  Reviewing new-to-me Tahoe I’m impressed by how much changes that I care about but never appears in the popular reviews. https://appdot.net/@jgordon/117293001725227119

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  Minor sorrow. I broke my 26yo Bose QC 2 headphones. The new gen is huge, heavy and needs a LiOn battery. So I took a swing on a $150 refurb 9yo QC 25. Yeah, defective. Via Amazon, so easy return. I woudn't have chanced it without that easy return. So ... I may be stuck in the future. Anyone have a noise canceling over ear headphone they like? I'd like a wired attachment as well as bluetooth

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  I used up my free Claude credits with antigravity so I tried Gemini. Ummm. Anthropic kind of owns this space don't they?

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  I won’t quote ai stats here, but they fit my perception that over the past two years email spam has gotten much worse. Not just cybercrime. Lots of desperate marketing from legit business. My local paper alone has many spam streams. But it goes unremarked. I suppose there is nothing left to say.

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  Ukraine 2026: “Drones are the dominant force on the lines today, causing approximately 75–80 percent of all casualties. Ukraine now has 1.3 drones at the front line for every 1 Russian drone” https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/ukraines-surprising-2026 I read that a lot of pre-war Russian weapons tech came from Ukraine. #jgshare

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  “Lutnick had said he had cut all ties with Epstein in 2005 … the two maintained contact until at least 2018” https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-6-2026 Only the worst of the worst work for the MAGA. #jgshare

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  Every PDF document should also include a structured text version of the document. Images and the like can be shared between the two. (Inspired by the frustrations of text search across PDFs)

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  “given the structure of legal and political institutions in America, the Supreme Court must function as a kind of crypto-Super Legislature” https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/05/the-law-question Novel take “All of which is a very convoluted way of saying John Roberts is either a liar or a fool. Knowing what I know about the institutions that educated him, which happens to be a lot, I’m going to go with the latter conclusion, which may be rather charitable of me” #jgshare

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  “singing mice had approximately three times the number of neurons sending signals from the motor cortex to two specific downstream regions of the brain” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/science/a-mutation-gave-humans-the-gift-of-speech-these-mice-have-it-too.html Language features emerge in small brains without novel anatomy but through expansion of existing pathways. I strongly suspect something like this enabled humans to read. #jgshare

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  For worse and for better Trump chaos is changing the world. Nobody know where it leads. Chaos is where Trump thrives. Probably a result of his demonic heritage. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116482457780190375

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  “He hires for spineless sycophantic loyalty, and anyone who is spineless and sycophantic enough to satisfy him is committed to grotesque fascism, corruption, or both.” https://journa.host/@atrupar/116482390005967625

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  “World, a project designed to distinguish humans from bots using biometrics, announced strategic partnerships with Tinder, Zoom, and Docusign” https://restofworld.org/2026/sam-altman-worldcoin-zoom-tinder-partnerships/ Send this sentence back in time. #jgshare

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  ““HD Map”. It has not only a ton more data, but centimetre level accuracy too.” https://maphappenings.com/2025/11/06/bee-maps/ Industry guy on history and future of nav maps. #jgshare

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  Dems prepare for MAGA attacks on voting https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-democrats-election-wargames-trump “ task force has identified “about 150 threats, … each one of those we go through and we have sort of a matrix — what we think the likelihood is of this, whatever it is, happening, and then … what’s the damage that it could cause?” #jgshare

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  iMessage text effects are iOS implementation of <blink>. I interact with them often - always to undo accidental activation. Their addition to Messages should have set off alarms at Apple.

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  “a fault-tolerant quantum computer able to break deployed cryptosystems ought to be possible by around 2029” https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9718 Something to be said for platinum bars in the home safe. #jgshare

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  Another week another assassination attempt: “same people already used this exact blood-and-thunder language for the Little Mermaid casting announcement” https://www.theringer.com/2026/04/30/national-affairs/donald-trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner-conspiracy-theories We are so tired. Best take on MAGA frothing and raging #jgshare

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  Oman and the MAGA debacle: “…What can we do to extricate the superpower from this unwanted entanglement? ... “America’s friends have a responsibility to tell the truth.” https://www.firewalledmedia.com/p/losing-friends-and-alienating-people-2c4 Oman keeps a low profile. #jgshare

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  Distillation: “Modern LLM processes could look like using a GPT API to build an initial batch of synthetic data to build a specialized small data-processing model.” https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-distillation-panic I imagine how BYTE would have covered this era and I miss it again. There really has never been an adequate replacement. #jgshare

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  Wordpress Reader: “… use it as a [RSS] sync backend. That includes Reeder, NetNewsWire, ReadKit, lire, Unread …” https://activitypub.blog/2026/05/05/radical-speed-month-the-reader-meets-the-fediverse/ Similar to Feedbin but they want to support AT and Fediverse as well. #jgshare

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  Andes Hantavirus ship update https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/world/hantavirus-cruise-ship.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gVA.4cgB.NX_7_n10l9_e&smid=url-share It would be good to accelerate vaccine work. mRNA tech will help. (Maybe in Canada? Spain? China?) #jgshare