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https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/public/
recent bookmarks from jgordonUsing Apple Notes Note in place of a Reminders note field - the Shortcut workaround2026-07-02T21:52:35+00:00
https://tech.kateva.org/2026/07/using-apple-notes-note-in-place-of.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:be3d0062a703/"what becomes scarce when automation can replicate many if not all human production"2026-07-02T13:50:12+00:00
https://aleximas.substack.com/p/what-will-be-scarce
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:0a1b3b48cbea/Sonnet 5: "The same input text produces approximately 30% more tokens than on Claude Sonnet 4.6." - effectively a 30% price increase."2026-07-02T13:48:43+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/30/claude-sonnet-5/#atom-everything
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:802128f3344a/“Trump neglected to report the transactions for almost a year past the required deadline, but the penalty for a late filing, Shaw notes, is only $200.”2026-07-02T12:01:21+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-1-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:2397fc04cab8/“U.S. iPhone 18 Pro models get somewhat worse battery life than those in the rest of the world.”2026-07-02T03:01:43+00:00
https://daringfireball.net/2026/07/a_tale_of_two_modems
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:be7737442cdf/“genesis of Bram was my experience helping non-coders use Claude Code”2026-07-02T02:54:37+00:00
https://blog.jonudell.net/2026/07/01/what-is-the-terminal/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:3fd3b5b811bf/The American murder rate collapse: “Violence is not an efficiently produced phenomenon; it is not a market phenomenon”2026-06-30T11:31:03+00:00
https://www.persuasion.community/p/charles-fain-lehman
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:7bced38a791e/“external FDA advisory panel voted 9-0 to back Moderna’s mFlusiva (mRNA-1010), set to be the first mRNA-based seasonal flu vaccine in the U.S.”2026-06-30T11:23:57+00:00
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/heat-illnesses-flu-outbreak-in-the
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:98b9ee175591/AI and Liability: “Google’s AI summary falsely identified the Canadian fiddler Ashley MacIsaac of being a sex offender. His lawsuit, filed in Ontario, is ongoing”2026-06-30T01:16:07+00:00
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/ai-and-liability.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:b116380bc613/Greenspan was a marketarian cultist: “… admitting that the market could be irrational and that was the one thing central view that could not be abandoned”2026-06-29T20:20:37+00:00
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/objectively-yours
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:97b001339b19/People Shared 30 Future Predictions That Are Somehow More Terrifying Than AI Taking Our Jobs2026-06-29T20:14:32+00:00
https://www.buzzfeed.com/lily_grossinger/catastrophic-future-predictions
jgordonhttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:1a24cedfcdc7/RSA backdoor - probably.2026-06-29T17:41:09+00:00
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/factoring-rsa-keys-with-many-zeros.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:c7dacbafe83e/"Anyone remember that weird six months before the destruction of the World Trade Center, when for some reason the American media apparatus was beating the drums for a war with China?"2026-06-29T15:37:46+00:00
https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/06/24/the-personal-is-operational/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:bc96bf253e4f/Reference if need to respond to attacks on Fauci and lab leak2026-06-29T15:34:07+00:00
https://rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/drowning-in-a-sea-of-virus
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:48ed9e6993df/Fukuyama - AI Regulator needed2026-06-29T15:24:23+00:00
https://www.persuasion.community/p/we-need-an-ai-regulator
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:1548065e837c/Asymco on memory shock: "That leaves Samsung, who happens to be a huge memory maker and whose stock has actually benefited"2026-06-28T15:30:01+00:00
https://asymco.com/2026/06/28/memory-shock-six-readings/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:baa417e7d4c6/Atrocious Apple bug fixed ... after Gruber writes about it.2026-06-28T14:08:04+00:00
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/25/apple-journal-undo-bug
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:2ff615866c14/Price-Hiked Apple TV 4K Is 4 Years Old2026-06-28T14:05:46+00:00
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/26/price-hiked-apple-tv-4k-is-4-years-old
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:06d899aee6c8/Pete Buttigieg’s family injured by a fraudulent child protection claim.2026-06-26T22:27:32+00:00
https://petebuttigieg.substack.com/p/a-terrible-thing-happened-to-my-family
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:5ea4228882d4/"male flies hold the world record for longest sperm, at a whopping two inches. That’s roughly twenty times their body size"2026-06-25T21:35:39+00:00
https://archive.ph/20260625212552/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/science/giant-fruit-fly-sperm-untangled.html#selection-1479.64-1479.185
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:73cd81f71391/“Schmitt’s philosophy centered around the idea that in a nation that is based in a constitution and the rule of law, power belongs to the man who can exploit emergencies that create exceptions to the constitutional order”2026-06-25T18:16:14+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-24-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:fe8330f9d374/“With built-in computer use capability, developers can now use 3.5 Flash to reliably build custom agents that can see, reason and take action across browser, mobile and desktop environments.”2026-06-25T17:33:47+00:00
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-computer-use-gemini-3-5-flash/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:71b3c60a2587/“As Trump crumbles, it appears there is in the administration a drive to create unlimited power in the executive branch that will survive no matter who is in charge”2026-06-25T03:02:27+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-23-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:324b423fa2d8/Walmart bike: “Ozark Trail G.2 Rebel Drop Bar Gravel Bike, it sells for $648, and it’s basically the PRJCT GRVL bike”2026-06-24T14:01:24+00:00
https://bikesnobnyc.com/2026/06/24/whats-that-saying-about-casting-the-first-stone/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:5f32ad9a1475/“Netanyahu assured the President that together they would topple the Iranian regime and end its nuclear ambitions before it ever had a chance to close the Strait of Hormuz.”2026-06-23T23:50:27+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/06/chronicle-of-a-disaster-foretold
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:c12e8a5d0925/“Marty claims Lyme disease was a bioweapon developed by a Nazi war criminal and it was a lab leak”2026-06-23T21:36:55+00:00
https://rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/trumpatrutide-and-unlimited-shrimp
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:931f61f2414e/“North Korea deployed an estimated 14,000 to 15,000 troops to Russia's Kursk Oblast in late 2024, with South Korean intelligence estimating that roughly 6,000 had been killed or wounded by early 2026.”2026-06-23T11:56:54+00:00
https://kyivindependent.com/south-korea-says-it-will-accept-north-korean-pows-captured-in-ukraine/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:da6fb4677000/Cutting social services through use of algorithms with high false positive rates.2026-06-22T20:37:52+00:00
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/the-algorithm-said-no
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:a1e25d0133e0/“Apple also acknowledged that Spotlight often doesn’t find things you know are there, so it completely rearchitected the search index”2026-06-22T12:14:44+00:00
https://tidbits.com/2026/06/08/wwdc26-keynote-shows-apples-tacit-acknowledgment-of-external-pressures/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:1b3cf933916b/The Forgotten Castles of the Garamantes • wild man life2026-06-20T22:44:21+00:00
https://www.wildmanlife.com/the-forgotten-castles-of-the-garamantes/
jgordonhttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:47ecbd568055/Trump party: “I arrive at the WWE ring just in time to see black-clad cops climbing through the ropes and into the ring” (no paywall link)2026-06-20T13:22:16+00:00
https://web.archive.org/web/20260616200951/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/06/trump-white-house-lawn-ufc-freedom-fight.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:62f1ed08737e/Obama library: “Comedians Stephen Colbert and David Letterman and Obama Foundation board chair Martin Nesbitt all showed up in tan suits”2026-06-19T12:59:56+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-18-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:97e71543ab82/On the Bond Villain, 2006: “When the real Napoleons of Crime walk among us today, they do so in the outwardly respectable guise of executives in business suits and thousand-dollar haircuts.”2026-06-19T12:49:05+00:00
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/06/rule-by-bond-villains.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:df8bcfd510cc/Fruit Specs site lets you see what features Apple hardware and software has across releases.2026-06-19T00:04:50+00:00
https://tidbits.com/2026/06/18/fruit-specs-slices-and-dices-apple-product-features/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d605333d9621/Broadview Six: “seems likely that something really, really bad went on here that goes far beyond what was contained in the already released grand jury transcripts.“2026-06-18T18:48:57+00:00
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/it-must-be-super-bad-broadview-six-edition
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:e2eb849a5b4c/Best analysis of Iran’s victory by instructor on strategic intelligence at Georgia Tech2026-06-18T18:36:03+00:00
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/the-clock-is-tehrans-friend
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d7d9b9b36ced/My macOS ai coding projects to date2026-06-18T16:10:50+00:00
https://tech.kateva.org/2026/06/my-macos-ai-coding-projects-to-date.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:4fd05c3971a0/Migrating from Microsoft To Do to Apple Reminders2026-06-18T16:09:04+00:00
https://tech.kateva.org/2026/06/migrating-from-microsoft-to-do-to-apple.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:38afa8821eb2/What do the strong owe the weak? I ask Sonnet, Opus, GPT, Grok, Gemini2026-06-18T01:18:42+00:00
https://notes.kateva.org/2026/06/what-do-strong-owe-weak-sonnet-opus-gpt.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:6bab729705df/“Anthropic had asked Moussouris to review the jailbreak, and the administration decided she was a “radical Democrat.” That’s it. That’s the reason the models are offline.”2026-06-17T22:15:58+00:00
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/16/apparently-the-real-reason-anthropics-models-are-offline-a-six-year-old-trump-grudge/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:2b36f9b4cda4/“use emoji in your songs' tags and/or playlist names. It'll screw things up like you read about.”2026-06-14T13:41:40+00:00
https://dougscripts.com/itunes/2026/06/another-thing-you-thought-was-ok-to-do/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:f5572693a54b/“Fox News hosts are urging Trump to increase U.S. military involvement in Iran”2026-06-12T16:56:23+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-11-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:2754b3efcc64/“As predicted, rent stabilization policies and politics in both St. Paul and Minneapolis have dramatically reduced new housing construction”2026-06-12T16:51:18+00:00
https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2026/06/lowlights-and-glimmers-of-optimism-from-a-new-st-paul-housing-study/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:608fa2c85c06/Fable cannot be stopped: “wrote its own custom web application to capture information via CORS, then ran that as a local server and opened a page with JavaScript”2026-06-12T11:42:12+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/#atom-everything
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:73e6645e4b5c/Why Apple ai can’t do EU: “Trusted System Agent is currently vaporware.”2026-06-10T21:09:39+00:00
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/10/no-siri-ai-in-eu/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:c8c7e1e3ce97/“We head down to the shelter, wait for the drones to pass, and then we go right back to our workstations.”2026-06-10T21:06:20+00:00
https://www.persuasion.community/p/ukrainians-will-never-be-the-same
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d7e380e86c4d/Fable review: Mythos muzzled2026-06-10T13:23:15+00:00
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-feels-like-to-work-with-mythos
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:480906d5597c/Epstein focus pivots to Blanche2026-06-10T12:12:56+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-9-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:092fe32ce6ed/Peak oil? “Oil demand is increasingly fragile, and the slowdown appears more structural than cyclical. Efficiency gains continue to …”2026-06-10T12:07:58+00:00
https://about.bnef.com/insights/commodities/have-oil-prices-already-peaked-three-things-to-know/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:7f9abd1fdae8/“The single largest contributor to DXA-measured lean-mass loss during GLP-1 treatment is probably the liver, which counts as lean tissue on DXA alongside muscle”2026-06-09T01:58:29+00:00
https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/glp-1s-and-muscle-loss-what-the-evidence-shows/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:a209a79d1948/“Glasswing status report. It’s finding a lot of vulnerabilities in software—yay! Some of them are even dangerous. But almost none of them has been patched. It’s weird.”2026-06-09T01:48:59+00:00
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/anthropics-project-glasswing-update.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:13eb23242ca1/“hard to believe that any of us want to live in a world where our “personal agents” are influenced by the incentive structures inherent to a scaled digital advertising ecosystem.”2026-06-09T01:47:29+00:00
https://battellemedia.com/archives/2026/06/wait-chat-is-dead-does-that-mean-openai-is-abandoning-ads
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:32ebcae88289/Gruber: “There’s something really wrong with SwiftUI”2026-06-08T15:48:58+00:00
https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/swiftui_only_makes_it_easy_to_develop_bad_apps
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:391f768d257f/Psychiatry reboots: “neurocognitive severity continuum that loosely aligns with the schizophrenia-bipolar psychosis spectrum”2026-06-07T12:08:04+00:00
https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-brain-architecture-of-schizophrenia
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:7b961c736301/The tragedy of X: data show many clever people fail the values test.2026-06-06T11:52:15+00:00
https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak-show
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:4f4f59cbdf9e/Apple disarray: a partial catalog of CloudKit bugs as of May 20262026-06-06T11:47:20+00:00
https://blog.justtact.com/cloudkit-bugs/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:cf770e6a5d52/Autism claim: in animal model “fever benefit” due to “IL-17a, which appears to calm overactive brain circuits during infection”2026-06-06T11:44:43+00:00
https://followmehere.com/2026/06/05/why-autism-symptoms-can-ease-during-a-fever-and-how-to-mimic-it/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:32d9f802478e/Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and web assembly.2026-06-06T11:38:57+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/6/micropython-in-a-sandbox/#atom-everything
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:2f2bc2bdd23e/China biz: “brothel visits …give only slight leverage over the other party. These ties can be deepened through more serious offences, like sharing drugs, most popularly ketamine”2026-06-05T01:54:08+00:00
https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/postcard/bro-code
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:5cda514ff50a/Three ways to make a living:2026-06-04T23:25:53+00:00
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/02/zweig-three-ways-to-get-paid
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d462372b2f5d/Apple’s bug bounty fail: “simply reeked of incompetence and severe lack of organization”2026-06-04T23:24:01+00:00
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/02/no-bounty-for-mysk/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:e427353ac660/“It was an illusion that today’s technology is even close to a sufficient substitute for being in each others’ physical presence.”2026-06-04T23:20:48+00:00
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/02/the-metaverse-was-snake-oil-for-isolation
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d4a575680b6b/Smartphones and social media causing global damage to human mating?2026-06-04T22:51:08+00:00
https://gwynnedyer.com/2026/is-demographic-collapse-a-good-idea/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:f957aa0c1b7a/“Democratic lawmakers have said they will not renew the controversial Section 702 of FISA with Pulte as DNI.”2026-06-04T12:15:31+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-3-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:bf0ac027896e/For the 50th consecutive election season - calls to get rid of Minnesota’s caucus system.2026-06-04T12:11:33+00:00
https://www.minnpost.com/elections/2026/06/chaos-at-minnesota-conventions-reignites-calls-for-a-new-way-of-choosing-candidates/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:2e87b11849fc/Charity hospitals funding - return of the forever crisis at Minneapolis large hospital of last resort2026-06-04T12:05:50+00:00
https://www.minnpost.com/community-health/2026/06/on-hcmcs-list-of-financial-troubles-generosity-is-a-leading-culprit-charity-care-hennepin-county-medical-center/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:0dc2ea72718f/“peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots”2026-06-03T20:34:05+00:00
https://www.404media.co/companies-are-using-reddit-to-manipulate-chatgpt-and-google-ai-search/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:f3202f3f1037/Filibuster must die: “It’s bad on the merits and there’s no path forward for the country with it in place”2026-06-02T19:38:58+00:00
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-the-filibuster-absolutely-has-to-go
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:65d5fafe50e3/Huntington’s clash of cultures - did his predictions hold up?2026-06-01T18:17:04+00:00
https://www.persuasion.community/p/samuel-huntington-is-still-wrong
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d20cda19db51/Vulnerability Disclosure in the Age of AI: “decades of accumulated technical debt created by a software industry that prioritized rapid deployment over secure-by-design engineering practices”2026-06-01T18:10:23+00:00
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/vulnerability-disclosure-in-the-age-of-ai.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:6972b820b342/