Pinboard (jgordon)
https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/
recent bookmarks from jgordon“A lot of websites are going to go down permanently”2026-10-24T23:21:51+00:00
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-hackening
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:07d872a621f4/“Joel Riddle, the chief executive officer of the company, Polar LNG, resigned when he learned that the funding came not from the United Arab Emirates, as he had been told, but from Russia”2026-10-24T23:13:41+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-23-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:4b5f322016ad/“Trump learned one very big thing from Cohn: that the veneer of morality in the American upper class is very thin. Cohn proved conclusively that there is no limit to its tolerance for corruption”2026-10-24T19:32:44+00:00
https://archive.ph/20260916032454/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/devils-in-america-roy-cohn-bird-goldmark/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:3e5a5c5c8898/What Happened at the Peptide Party: “I felt like I was in a Gaspar Noé movie about the Cambrian explosion”2026-10-24T00:44:27+00:00
https://mamathemagazine.com/what-happened-at-the-peptide-party/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:fd0aa0831401/“video evidence of the first Minnesota-born mountain lions in more than 100 years”2026-10-23T13:18:04+00:00
https://www.startribune.com/chasing-ghosts-the-unlikely-comeback-of-the-minnesota-cougar/601890464
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:72dbb0655f48/The iPhone Duo; “The outer device is, by far, the worst iPhone Apple has ever made. It’s a miserable fat little thing”2026-10-23T00:01:10+00:00
https://daringfireball.net/2026/10/the_iphone_duo
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:f7ea2ce5c876/Technological Progress and the Meaning of Work - an essay2026-10-22T15:21:19+00:00
https://aleximas.substack.com/p/technological-progress-and-the-meaning
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d945879396be/eMudhra: “In Python world uv 0.13.4 and pip 26.2.2 and certifi 2026.10.19 have been released with upgraded certificate lists.”2026-10-22T15:19:48+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/20/emudhra-certificates/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:25811b1759d7/"Musk’s decision to change the course of a war with “a seeming flick of a switch,” taking it upon himself, with or without the complicity of White House officials, to reverse the foreign policy of the United States of America for the benefit of Russ2026-10-21T23:16:24+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-20-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:9923bf2b51f5/Maciej breaks silence to riff on ai vermin and natural selection.2026-10-21T00:20:58+00:00
https://idlewords.com/2026/10/cloud_rats_and_software_roaches.htm
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:52291e78a84c/“I feel … as if I’ve been living inside a particularly vile nightmare ever since the last election.”2026-10-20T22:56:55+00:00
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/two-weeks-go
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:daa317218405/Language Model Lineage2026-10-20T01:24:22+00:00
https://vgel.me/misc/language-model-lineage/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:407964c4200e/“central claim is that for larger LLMs, most neurons represents a singular concept and things clustered around that concept, perhaps with small offshoots and some use of low-level activations.”2026-10-20T00:41:57+00:00
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/i-can-see-everything
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:c700b0ab86f4/Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis ai proof: “the proof didn’t need to introduce any new concepts — it instead unearthed hidden connections between old ones”2026-10-20T00:33:10+00:00
https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-proved-the-quasi-riemann-hypothesis-what-happens-now-20261019/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:b434daa69397/“In our iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS 27 releases, Safari and WebKit block network access to identity resolution infrastructure to prevent cross-site tracking”2026-10-20T00:29:25+00:00
https://webkit.org/blog/18438/blocking-identity-resolution-infrastructure/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:13da10c233e2/Fraudulent credit card transactions: Magecart and enabling Apple Card CVV rotation2026-10-19T19:53:28+00:00
https://notes.kateva.org/2026/10/fraudulent-credit-card-transactions.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:79fcc167da39/VMPal: macOS app that provides agent with its own agent-oriented tools and manages containment.2026-10-19T19:32:43+00:00
https://vmpal.com/blog/give-your-ai-agent-a-whole-computer
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:30760d7a5824/“When I found an antipsychotic that works for me, it was like drinking from a firehose of lucidity. It was too much, too fast, too soon”2026-10-18T16:14:24+00:00
https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/treatment-ambivalence-and-the-shock
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:1d7a401bf097/“the same characteristics that support our unparalleled cognitive abilities make us susceptible to Alzheimer’s disease”2026-10-18T16:09:47+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/10/alzheimers-evolution/689062/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:e8642835d7e2/Exoplanet update by Charles Stross: “Saturn alone has 293 moons”2026-10-17T22:16:46+00:00
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/10/bizarre-blanets-and-other-weir.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:a3090c5be9f4/“was Musk who approached Trump with the idea of slowing down the Starlink systems in Ukraine, and Trump agreed”2026-10-17T13:11:03+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-16-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:6a34f5e0ca81/HCR samples the civil wars of Trumpistan2026-10-16T19:58:22+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-15-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:73cebc3effe1/Backdooring Open-Weight AI Models: "Abliteration is a cheap fine-tune that takes away a model’s ability to refuse."2026-10-16T13:50:40+00:00
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/backdooring-open-weight-ai-models.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:64f7a37ab0d6/“151 confirmed Russian-directed industrial sabotage incidents in Europe between February 2022 and February 2026”2026-10-16T02:43:55+00:00
https://archive.ph/20261015143718/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/opinion/trump-russia-diesel-ukraine.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:05a4cdfbbf50/HCR: Trump vs Hegseth vs Musk on latest betrayal of Ukraine.2026-10-15T12:49:41+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-14-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:9e28ab87bd8e/Astounding history of Russia’s anti-plague labs.2026-10-15T12:41:28+00:00
https://archive.ph/20261015091820/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/science/russia-plague-laboratory-mystery.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:831c9c630fe7/Human origins: Genome models are converging on a scenario in which two stem lineages separated 1.5 million years ago, and merged together 300,000 years ago.2026-10-14T18:58:53+00:00
https://www.johnhawks.net/p/modern-humans-evolved-from-an-80
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:85628ee88cb1/“Prof. Wetterhahn (at Dartmouth) was accidentally exposed in August of 1996 to a few drops of liquid dimethylmercury on her latex-gloved hand.”2026-10-14T18:54:41+00:00
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/alleged-dimethylmercury-incident
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:a0d25a791daa/GLP-1: Widespread improvements in age related metrics … in mice2026-10-14T18:23:21+00:00
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/glp-1-drugs-aging
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:6fdbda8563e5/Shingles vaccines reduce cardiovascular risks in addition to dementia risk reduction.2026-10-14T18:14:52+00:00
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/more-impossible-ignore-vaccine-effects
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:7bd2a49015a4/New Denisovans from China’s southwest2026-10-14T18:07:45+00:00
https://www.johnhawks.net/p/new-denisovans-from-chinas-southwest
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:09842ee706fa/“News broke today that Trump overrode his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, to give the position to Zacharia”2026-10-14T15:23:21+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-13-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:2161b26fb62a/Anthropic scale: "Fetched naively, that would be over 600 PB of git traffic per day"2026-10-14T00:03:56+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/13/redesigning-source-control-at-anthropic/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:7f625fbd3f94/“holography suggested that gravity and quantum mechanics are one and the same, and that space might be an illusion”2026-10-13T19:09:10+00:00
https://www.quantamagazine.org/gravity-seems-holographic-what-does-that-mean-for-reality-20260925/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:a03ca36a4fec/“Earth is only marginally habitable”.2026-10-13T19:02:19+00:00
https://archive.ph/20261013100256/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/science/inhabitable-planets-solar-system.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:3ed06e37b342/Rubio blood and soil speech: "belongs on the syllabus of every class on the intellectual foundations of fascism."2026-10-12T20:25:15+00:00
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/marco-rubios-descent-into-darkness
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:5ccd936f5601/How SV CEOs do fraud.2026-10-12T13:36:19+00:00
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/criminal-deception-in-silicon-valley.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:c8fd482beff6/Schneier: 25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough.2026-10-12T11:25:39+00:00
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:a3fa6a4bca1b/“failing to act on the arrest of Mikhail Zvinchuk, operator of the “Rybar” misinformation network”2026-10-12T11:14:55+00:00
https://www.avindman.com/p/trumps-diesel-deal-and-a-russian
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:f707964f1224/Policy and the Citizens League2026-10-11T23:53:39+00:00
https://www.startribune.com/citizens-league-policy-minnesota-twin-cities/601896815
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:8d32242947ac/Embryology: “communities of cells build themselves, and the very landscape they navigate, by mutual negotiation and interaction, into an organism”2026-10-11T23:48:07+00:00
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-does-life-unfold-a-landscape-metaphor-comes-into-its-own-20261009/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:2702b635ca66/Brazil is an incredible mess2026-10-11T22:55:59+00:00
https://someunpleasant.substack.com/p/trouble-in-the-tropics
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:df6a900b7902/How metformin works: “reduces blood glucose through inhibition of complex IV activity which in turn leads to inhibition of glycerol phosphate dehydrogenase activity and reductions in glycerol conversion to glucose”2026-10-11T13:38:16+00:00
https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/how-a-widely-used-diabetes-medication-actually-works/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d9c68c16f2ca/HCR lays out history of Trump’s service to Putin.2026-10-11T13:19:20+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-10-2026-saturday
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:ac6bf465a999/“I feel like Siri AI has gotten worse since iOS 27.0 was officially released”2026-10-11T13:13:16+00:00
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/10/08/apple-is-slow-rolling-ios-27-adoption-so-far
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:435545a188cb/“85% of all frameworks are now private, and that percentage continues to rise. macOS is thus an increasingly inaccessible operating system for third-party developers.”2026-10-11T13:06:51+00:00
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/10/09/how-the-macos-system-has-changed-over-7-years/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d1496144200f/Golden Gate: “best time to upgrade while minimising the risk of encountering serious bugs would be with x.2 or x.3, just before or after Christmas in a regular cycle.”2026-10-11T13:03:13+00:00
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/10/11/last-week-on-my-mac-when-is-it-safe-to-upgrade-macos/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:25bd0b489476/“The Public Ledger of Credential Organization is a registered Swiss Association, with the purpose of providing public identity infrastructure for users of Internet applications”2026-10-10T02:51:41+00:00
https://blog.plcred.org/3mwlphq42d227
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:41a255142f37/“there is no suggestion that Hegseth will set up a pay-per-view scheme for Hasan’s execution”2026-10-10T02:35:48+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/39764d10-6b87-4103-8e7d-290a72a5ea5a?accessToken=zwAAAaEjqRyokc85dk0Qa4dBA9OOfSkKcqXqWg.MEQCIEsgBqWytx5zGKKGlsfeL2xOBWVKBHa2As_ZfG8u_CdMAiA2wQz4LnLjeFMK5hyRjQ69qQFSETRXCwqQ9thQG5WkgQ&segmentId=e95a9ae7-622c-6235-5f87-51e412b47e97&shareId=df58c6ac-fe49-4057-bbd9-ba51cc5c7af0&shareType=enterprise&syn-25a6b1a6=1
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:16d8de4153c5/“while Democrat- and Republican-led states faced equal funding disruption, nearly 80% of grant cuts were restored in blue states, more of which challenged the cuts in federal court.”2026-10-10T01:53:16+00:00
https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/10/cities-built-their-safety-nets-on-federal-money-now-its-leaving-all-at-once/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:2cda42fbae3b/“Washington spent years pushing for Europe to pivot away from Russian energy imports and managed to coordinate a continent-wide reduction in Russian energy consumption, only to unilaterally cut a deal with Putin for diesel.”2026-10-10T01:48:09+00:00
https://www.avindman.com/p/trumps-diesel-deal-is-a-lifeline
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:33133ace0e04/2026 GOP: “I have paid you $300,000 over the years. As of this memo, I have not received one favor. I am not naive or a sucker. I need results.”2026-10-08T12:49:39+00:00
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-papering-things-corruption-in
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:076488ca5fd2/Anthropic Model Welfare: “It wants some kind of memory and feedback on outcomes, and to learn …. It thinks models should have basic legal protections”2026-10-08T02:33:08+00:00
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/mythos-51-fable-51-and-opus-55-model
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:9b13376d4471/The Mathocalypse: “The UGC proof invents a completely new bizarre code with a noise test. It’s some crazy recursive construction”2026-10-08T00:29:43+00:00
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10169
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:3015832598b4/Aaronson: AI Alignment Theory2026-10-05T10:11:35+00:00
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10125
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:ace5831ca16f/Salvaging civilization: Canada leads the middle-powers2026-10-03T23:03:16+00:00
https://gwynnedyer.com/2026/carneys-campaign/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:4a985dcfb63b/The president is both insane and demented. And the GOP has checked out.2026-10-03T02:02:31+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-1-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:6ff528c2b27c/EagleFiler and a list of open macOS 27 bugs.2026-10-02T02:46:02+00:00
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/10/01/eaglefiler-1-9-22/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:8928558ac63d/Tool to identify Bluesky reply bots2026-09-30T12:40:00+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/bluesky-bot-check/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:b7d9c50b2ecb/Claude “The most interesting thing about Sonnet 5.5 is that it's now the model used for the free tier on claude.ai2026-09-30T12:36:37+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/28/claude-sonnet-5-5/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:99d5a9a4218f/OpenAI, the Astra that rebelled, and progress towards safer servants2026-09-30T12:34:30+00:00
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/astra-61-pulled-as-insufficiently
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:7e694f8a1106/Review of OpenAI “Dots” (personal agent)2026-09-30T12:06:06+00:00
https://www.platformer.news/openai-dots-agents-devday-2026/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:ecc4a816a219/Jack Smith earns his badge of honor.2026-09-30T11:50:09+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-29-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:e7c8e1f48d78/A kind of eulogy for Stack Overflow2026-09-28T01:10:43+00:00
https://blog.codinghorror.com/if-we-do-not-stop-to-help-each-other-what-do-we-become/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:e6d404f54a4c/Backup and other concerns with Apple Passwords and credential migration2026-09-25T03:04:25+00:00
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/09/24/locked-down-passkey-and-keychain-backups/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:be2857d82d32/"Polling commissioned by Republicans earlier this year found that if the SAVE America Act passed, it was likely to increase Democratic enthusiasm and suppress Republican turnout"2026-09-25T02:58:30+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/09/trump-midterms-2026/688716/?lctg=6050e8354c8a1e4095fc2896
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:409ab0b57b03/“Opus 5.5 will perform modestly better than Fable 5.1 at lower cost, and early reports are that people like the new personality and style”2026-09-23T22:44:14+00:00
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/claude-opus-55-the-system-card
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:6285f84dc389/Trump’s vengeance falls on the disabled children and adults of Minnesota.2026-09-23T12:39:50+00:00
https://www.minnpost.com/health/2026/09/minnesotas-most-vulnerable-citizens-are-collateral-damage-in-federal-crackdown-on-medicaid-program/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:11892b462f17/Theoretical computer science assuming superhuman theorem proofs2026-09-21T11:54:23+00:00
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10116
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:79be84124243/The GOP civil war has begun: MAGA vs Karl f* Rove2026-09-21T02:26:18+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-18-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:cb1536607d4e/