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https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/
recent bookmarks from jgordonVindman post primary loss: "Democrats shouldn’t self-deter from demanding significant economic reforms because Republicans might call them socialist."2026-09-03T13:27:28+00:00
https://www.avindman.com/p/what-comes-next-c4c
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:088955e6502f/Wi-Fi Gateways doing Motion Detectors for home security2026-09-03T11:57:16+00:00
https://tidbits.com/2026/09/02/comcast-turns-wi-fi-gateways-into-motion-detectors/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:82251d5b8818/Mutating every nucleotide in a (tiny) genome: “Protein K, in which no mutations seemed to affect fitness at all”2026-09-03T11:54:48+00:00
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/mutate-em-all-and-see-if-you-can-sort-em-out
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:31e9457a2e4b/Texas GOP vote rigging: “In 2022 there were 316 election sites; the Republican commissioners cut that number to 224. They also cut three sites for early voting, from 50 to 47.”2026-09-03T11:50:31+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-2-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:be18bea2e211/“The reason Carney walked out was because Trump’s demands were not about the economy; they were about sovereignty”2026-09-02T20:50:06+00:00
https://gwynnedyer.com/2026/canada-vs-united-states-evenly-matched/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:c71515cd85da/Slavery and history: “Sixty years later there they still were: Africans who spoke only a very old-fashioned Turkish”2026-09-02T20:23:07+00:00
https://gwynnedyer.com/2026/africa-getting-history-wrong/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:b81b5f7756c6/Codex bundles LibreOffice2026-09-02T12:53:27+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:db872f0a77b2/Ethan Mollick on instability arising from exponential growth in ai abilities2026-08-30T16:59:35+00:00
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-twilight-of-the-chatbots
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:0378faf77302/HCR tells Dolly Parton story2026-08-30T16:32:49+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-26-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:3632c1977cad/Culture shift and the decline of Lizzo2026-08-30T16:20:50+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/07/music-flop-era/687785/?lctg=6050e8354c8a1e4095fc2896
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:94bcd8509469/Hilbert Space: “The shadow the arrow casts onto an axis shall encode the odds of that possibility being realized when a measurement takes place.”2026-08-30T15:42:20+00:00
https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-hilbert-space-all-things-are-quantumly-possible-20260826/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:b2d75fc1dbdb/“The dirty secret is that many professors do not write their own op-eds. Bigwig profs … have research assistants and university comms professionals …”2026-08-30T14:34:15+00:00
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-unequal-terrain-of-the-ideas
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:070a0e704185/“Criminal responsibility rests on “Abrahamic” folk-metaphysical assumptions about free will, individual responsibility, and just deserts”2026-08-29T14:42:30+00:00
https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/lindsay-clancy-and-the-dream-of-a
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:0028873da0b6/Daraxonrasib and KRAS drugs for pancreatic and other almost untreatable cancers.2026-08-29T02:33:57+00:00
https://archive.ph/20260827051503/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/science/pancreatic-cancer-daraxonrasib-approval.html#selection-4393.80-4393.291
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:040094c36a60/Autism and brain protein networks2026-08-29T02:30:16+00:00
https://archive.ph/20260828211549/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/science/autism-treatments.html#selection-4355.2-4373.291
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:2aee9c3d8c42/The end of programming — Paul Dix2026-08-29T02:13:42+00:00
https://pauldix.com/the-end-of-programming
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:56bd17838ea2/“only safe way to run agents if there's any risk of attracting the attention of an adversarial attack is with a sandbox”2026-08-28T12:15:52+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/27/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-auto-mode/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:ee06ea19f92e/Vision Pro is dead and other Apple layoffs2026-08-27T01:36:58+00:00
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/24/apple-vision-pro-and-software-layoffs/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:483b99e83a2d/Gates on near term ai risk: “We need time to prepare for the social, political, and economic upheaval”2026-08-26T16:22:03+00:00
https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:b48e21ee99ed/1980: “Harvey’s bomb was the largest domestic bomb ever to explode in the United States until the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993”2026-08-26T16:14:03+00:00
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d63f59299240/“idea of having ChatGPT Work browse signed-in websites on your behalf is better than its implementation”2026-08-26T16:02:51+00:00
https://www.macstories.net/stories/hands-on-with-chatgpt-works-new-cloud-browser-feature/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:a53387bbe17e/Venezuela getting messy: "failure of her government to respond quickly and adequately to the devastating earthquakes of 24 June completely discredited her in the eyes of most Venezuelans. "2026-08-24T15:57:55+00:00
https://gwynnedyer.com/2026/venezuela-unfinished-business/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:3cacbb1881af/Dyer is only journalist who remembers Trump surrendered to NK nukes.2026-08-24T12:31:49+00:00
https://gwynnedyer.com/2026/war-weary/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:c5ab90ebcea8/Dyer on climate: we will have to do orbital sunlight blocking.2026-08-24T12:26:25+00:00
https://gwynnedyer.com/2026/climate-what-to-do-now/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:259f0f08da33/Suffrage blip: “lawmakers in Utah Territory followed suit in 1870, expecting that women would vote against polygamy there. When women in fact supported polygamy …”2026-08-24T12:19:15+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-18-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:dc554682be0d/Review of WhatCable - macOS utility for characterizing usb-c cables2026-08-24T03:03:13+00:00
https://tidbits.com/2026/08/20/whatcable-reports-on-usb-c-cable-power-and-speed/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:1fa01c11ec63/Get off Dropbox now — RTCReporting Logs consume a user drive2026-08-23T19:43:28+00:00
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/21/huge-rtcreporting-logs-and-dropbox/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:435546611a31/Eero network instability with an M1 Macbook Air and using a Quantum Fiber (Gemtech W1700K) as a wifi bridge2026-08-23T14:14:21+00:00
https://tech.kateva.org/2026/08/eero-network-instability-with-m1.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:f66158d4541b/DHS illegal spying on activists is legal because turns out there is no law any more2026-08-21T18:06:27+00:00
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-exempted-itself-from-normal-law-for-undercover-investigation-into-protesters
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:157be22ee6d9/Custom mRNA therapy for melanoma: 49% better than placebo2026-08-19T22:29:31+00:00
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/merck-and-moderna-s-melanoma-results
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:bc5494a97c26/“called into question the entire procedure used by the Colombian team to evaluate Alzheimer’s symptoms and progression”2026-08-18T23:40:28+00:00
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/more-alzheimer-s-research-trouble
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:69c53a3ba366/Heritage: “Yenor suggests that women are biologically programmed not to take part in certain high-impact sports and that proportional equality in school sports isn’t desirable or backed by science.”2026-08-18T13:59:48+00:00
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-cited-by-heritage-foundation-report-title-ix-womens-sports-say-it-misrepresented-their-research/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:e017c83a2e6c/“data-driven investigation into Democratic fundraising, documenting how a network of consultants, vendors, and party committees extracts money from elderly donors through manipulative digital fundraising.”2026-08-17T17:09:19+00:00
https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/with-fear-and-favor?r=7n61q
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:44365115ebd0/Hacking Public Wi-Fi DNS to Steal Credentials2026-08-17T17:04:20+00:00
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/hacking-public-wi-fi-dns-to-steal-credentials.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:47f1777ffabc/Gold Rush 1890s: "Stampeders had to carry their gear and the year’s supply of food the Canadian authorities required to prevent starvation ... weighed about a ton ..."2026-08-17T16:13:48+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-16-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:ff3b72be46e5/“in May 2026, Japan approved its first MMR vaccine in more than three decades”2026-08-17T13:14:17+00:00
https://marcveldhoen.substack.com/p/the-japan-mmr-myth
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:6b5ac96c2979/Digital Nomad lessons2026-08-16T18:50:35+00:00
https://www.persuasion.community/p/what-i-learned-from-moving-to-the
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:ec0130a460cd/How ai owners control responses - example from politically sensitive export controls2026-08-16T17:28:49+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/9/claude-opus-5-system-prompt/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:a6a87353371b/AG corruption: “enable the White House to defy congressional subpoenas for anyone to whom the president talks”2026-08-16T14:32:12+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-15-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:4abd7201070a/Why are Americans unbothered by Trump corruption?2026-08-16T14:14:09+00:00
https://followmehere.com/2026/08/16/why-arent-we-more-upset/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:8955246b2a52/National Academy of Sciences disgraces itself to kiss Trump ass.2026-08-16T03:01:30+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/climate/national-academies-climate-chapter-judges.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:594e9d5e5905/Trump vaccines: “We are being governed by ignorant, malevolent fools who are leaving death and destruction in their wake”2026-08-16T02:58:12+00:00
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/proposed-changes-childhood-vaccination-strongly-felt-opinion
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:423891d3f40b/Translating long documents with Microsoft Edge Immersive Reader2026-08-16T02:51:13+00:00
https://christianheilmann.com/2026/08/12/quick-tip-translating-long-documents-with-microsoft-edge-immersive-reader/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d6d68042e01b/“Maybe private, for-profit is just not the right economic model under which to develop AI”2026-08-16T01:50:50+00:00
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/if-the-markets-reject-openai-and-anthropic-the-us-should-nationalize-them.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:6d15de9892de/Tsai review: SuperDuper 4 vs CCC2026-08-15T01:05:15+00:00
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/13/superduper-4/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:11cc42cacb7e/End user software creation: from HyperCard to FileMaker to AppleScript to ai2026-08-15T00:55:56+00:00
https://tidbits.com/2026/08/14/decades-after-hypercard-ai-is-democratizing-development-again/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:290dd1e95ff7/Bahrain: “Iranian attack, retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli assault on Tehran, destroyed much of the base.”2026-08-14T22:53:28+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/us/politics/uss-abraham-lincoln-trump-supplies-diego-garcia.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:61ac7a3ed8f1/SQLite WAL-Reset Bug: “I spent the last two years of my time working on SQLite trying to chase this bug down”2026-08-14T22:24:49+00:00
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/14/sqlite-wal-reset-bug/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:50c38240e3e4/At the beginning: “object resembles an enormous star, spanning the size of our solar system. But it also is putting out 100 billion times more energy than any known star can physically produce”2026-08-14T22:02:49+00:00
https://news.mit.edu/2026/astronomers-discover-brand-new-type-astrophysical-object-black-hole-star-0812
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:c1914bcffb3d/GLP-1 blocks insatiable hunger of neurological obesity.2026-08-13T12:20:31+00:00
https://www.startribune.com/obesity-can-be-a-cruel-side-effect-of-brain-tumor-removal-childrens-mn-helped-find-solution/601866238
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:7164eb0d20c8/Sad ending for Raleigh: “Accell is the owner of the bike and e-bike brands Raleigh, Haibike, Winora …”2026-08-13T12:13:43+00:00
https://bikesnobnyc.com/2026/08/13/oh-raleigh-you-dont-say/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:72b4391a4e44/“Gemini can call businesses on users’ behalf for table reservations or appointments.”2026-08-13T12:04:54+00:00
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/pixel-11-has-few-hardware-changes-and-more-gemini/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:82dafb6ec4b9/Lion roams 40 miles west of MSP2026-08-13T11:59:48+00:00
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/cougar-sighting-howard-lake-minnesota/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:63a7e08a2fb7/Netflix has peaked2026-08-12T12:20:22+00:00
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/11/netflix-has-peaked
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:8dabcc60f7fe/Microsoft kills user cloud data and licenses- only relents after press attention.2026-08-12T12:16:01+00:00
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/11/microsoft-account-with-files-photos-and-games-almost-lost/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:ce708b9f0430/“Sony plans to wipe 551 movies and TV shows from the PlayStation Store libraries of customers who paid full price for them”2026-08-12T12:13:03+00:00
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/11/sony-removing-purchased-content/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:427e4aec6368/Neanderthal, Denisovan, Sapiens … and two others.2026-08-11T12:17:31+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/08/human-origins-dna-tools-earthworks/688225/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:0cc296fd335d/“Claude Opus 5 system prompt, ensuring Claude doesn't provide incorrect answers about the export controls situation”2026-08-10T13:40:58+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/9/claude-opus-5-system-prompt/#atom-everything
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:015edb5070ef/“first responders performed CPR for 20 minutes, including open-chest CPR in a last-ditch effort to save his life”2026-08-10T13:34:32+00:00
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/ash-opened-his-eyes-new-details-on-teen-who-fell-20-stories-in-decommissioned-grain-elevator
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:b5838cd3dc34/mRNA Flu vaccine: more effective, injection site hurts more2026-08-09T16:01:16+00:00
https://rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/theres-a-new-mrna-flu-shot-coming
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:975ab87e0873/“pending some breakthrough in complexity theory, the reality of quantum advantage is no longer a live question”2026-08-09T15:50:07+00:00
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9979
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:0f14312fe4e0/Chronic inflammation hypothesis takes a hit with heart drug failure.2026-08-07T17:40:25+00:00
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/why-we-run-trials-unfortunately
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:5b01863a062c/“Increasingly … households can reach middle-income while falling short of their middle-class expectations”2026-08-06T17:43:41+00:00
https://www.startribune.com/middle-class-income-us-economy-consumer-sentiment/601849703
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:a9477433f22f/BMW pushes ad to customer consoles.2026-08-06T17:29:55+00:00
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/06/bmw-no-ads
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:0fe49cb7a96d/“the story of Trump wanting immunity from IRS audits and the revelation that his bank activity mirrored that of money launderers might well be the same story.”2026-08-05T17:46:05+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-4-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d7045b3f4d28/“Evangelicals and Jews, Netanyahu told the assembled group, are part of the same “Judeo-Christian heritage” that is “under attack from the rising tide of antisemitism and anti-Evangelicalism”2026-08-04T12:51:35+00:00
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/how-netanyahus-maga-evangelical-backers-are-grappling-with-backlash-against-him
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:c5d1fedb2cbb/Ulysses S. Grant: “dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.”2026-08-03T21:21:17+00:00
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/03/grant
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:289e7b3430fe/An anthropologist description of Falun2026-08-03T16:47:27+00:00
https://religionnews.com/2026/07/29/what-is-falun-gong-and-why-does-the-chinese-communist-party-want-to-suppress-it/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:34961a2d2292/Flatworm therapy explains clonazepam benefit for burning mouth syndrome.2026-08-03T12:31:35+00:00
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/flatworms-ion-channels-and-burning-mouths
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:a993014155b6/“Models keep getting more impressive at the rate the short timelines people predict, but more useful at the rate the long timelines people predict.”2026-08-02T00:25:31+00:00
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/thoughts-on-ai-progress-dec-2025
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:eb675fb486d9/