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https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/public/
recent bookmarks from jgordon“the American voters did resummon Nyarlathotep because enough of us remain enthralled by his unfettered madness, wanton cruelty, and nonsensical brinkmanship…”2026-04-08T03:33:34+00:00
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/president-nyarlathotep-is-simply-engaging-in-classic-mad-outer-god-negotiating-tactics
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:78e03b6bc548/25th only possible if president is non-conscious.2026-04-07T22:26:47+00:00
https://prospect.org/2026/04/07/who-wrote-25th-amendment-constitution-remove-president-trump/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:335c09c9cb2b/“A study by Peking University analyzed more than a million online job postings in China between 2018 and 2024 …. functions that could be performed using AI had seen a significant decline in hiring … computer programming, accounting, editing, and sal2026-04-07T12:46:37+00:00
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-anxiety-openclaw-jobs-redundancy/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:5b540c966d3b/Academic talent is now the great class divide: “anywheres are 25–30% of the population, while somewheres are closer to 45–50%”2026-04-07T12:31:30+00:00
https://www.persuasion.community/p/david-goodhart
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:567529d03343/ARPA-H, Fed agency, OA therapy: “One, an injection, makes cartilage cells grow. Another shot remodels bone. The third, an infusion that can treat several arthritic joints at once, also makes cartilage grow.” (mice)2026-04-07T01:40:06+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/health/arpa-h-osteoarthritis-bone-cartilage.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:b54c179bde76/“The upshot is that for the universe to be ultrasoft, string theory is the only way”2026-04-07T01:19:32+00:00
https://www.quantamagazine.org/are-strings-still-our-best-hope-for-a-theory-of-everything-20260323/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:35e2c54c89ce/Wyden: “secret law related to Section 702”2026-04-07T01:08:42+00:00
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/sen-wyden-warns-of-another-section-702-abuse.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:2906349eeeae/US Senator: "a, nominee say things. In the committee that you know, the nominee knows, everybody in the room knows, are complete and utter bullshit"2026-04-07T00:36:58+00:00
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/which-cabinet-member-is-next-on-the
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d0ca50cb3cf0/"there is a fundamental conflict between the efficiency with which markets spread information and the incentives to acquire information.”2026-04-06T21:30:05+00:00
https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-simple-economic-paradox-wrecking
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:90bb922334b4/Meds to the brain by injecting them into the skull.2026-04-06T20:11:12+00:00
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/right-through-skull
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:01df26b3edb0/Lowe strains to describe RFK’s peptide mania: “there are indeed a whole range of physical and medical effects to be found in these things”2026-04-06T20:02:12+00:00
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/ah-peptides-where-begin
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:6137a94da607/The regulatory burden: detailed example from a US startup.2026-04-06T19:55:25+00:00
https://rein.pk/over-regulation-is-doubling-the-cost
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:f7818ed180b6/HCR summarizes latest phase in the crisis: "Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), who urged Trump to start the Iran war, has invested at least $2 billion in Kushner’s private equity firm."2026-04-06T15:37:11+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-5-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:e217ef99a882/“What migrates into silicon is not abstract reasoning but social intelligence in externalized form, encountering itself on a new substrate.”2026-04-06T13:27:22+00:00
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeg1895
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:87c3ee9d8bbf/Which coup strategy will Trump try: “Some variant of terrorism is Trump’s best bet”2026-04-06T02:26:47+00:00
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-coup-attempt
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:e409b8c3e191/“It’s entirely possible that basically by this time Tuesday, America will have established itself as one of the world’s great villains”2026-04-05T21:43:18+00:00
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/living-in-hell
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:e6a997d946e8/Vulnerability Research Is Cooked: “You can't design a better problem for an LLM agent than exploitation research”2026-04-05T00:40:40+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/vulnerability-research-is-cooked/#atom-everything
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:ae1582ac2d22/“2,208 deaths while homeless in Los Angeles in 2024”2026-04-04T14:34:25+00:00
https://substack.com/home/post/p-191031947
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:6553e8d36389/“Life Time is aiming for the high end of the K-shaped economy, a term describing America’s widening wealth gap”2026-04-04T14:26:20+00:00
https://www.startribune.com/life-time-athletic-country-clubs-growth-higher-end-k-shaped-economy/601634290
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:2941ef0622f4/“next thing I knew, Trump was getting up and moving to the far left … as far away from Bondi as possible”2026-04-04T14:18:50+00:00
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/i-was-there-for-the-trump-bondi-breakup
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:875858f7181e/“CloudKit sync issue in *OS 26.4 is real … potential to lead to catastrophic data loss and/or sync conflicts across effectively all apps”2026-04-03T23:48:55+00:00
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/04/01/cloudkit-problems-with-ios-26-4/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d8c928e53274/Cook on Jobs: “refused medicine when he was first diagnosed, instead trying to cure the disease with fruit juices”2026-04-03T23:45:48+00:00
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a70886045/apple-50th-anniversary/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:7764c7b0cf7f/“the majority of code generated by AI systems is not great, but it’s the great quantity it can create in such a short period of time that makes it so powerful”2026-04-03T23:05:06+00:00
https://bitsplitting.org/2026/04/01/the-beginning-of-programming-as-well-know-it/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:cdc0acad5353/“Medicare-like health plans (sometimes referred to as the public option) would be available to everyone who wants such coverage. These alternatives would then compete against private plans.”2026-04-03T19:57:17+00:00
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2026/04/03/medicare-by-choice-concept-could-work-but-more-details-needed/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:73e8c67a9855/What serious social engineering looks like - you don't have a chance.2026-04-03T16:47:24+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/supply-chain-social-engineering/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:2733a1e0ba12/"Hegseth has reworked the Chaplain Corps recently to limit the range of religious instruction available to military personnel."2026-04-03T13:41:49+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-2-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:e0b2a1f7e5cd/Claude-built python app for tuning macOS Preview PDF highlights into a plaintext list2026-04-03T01:35:40+00:00
https://tech.kateva.org/2026/04/my-new-favorite-utility-claude-built.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:de330462b78f/“There is a pervasive billionaire assumption that mainstream legacy journalism is “liberal,”2026-03-31T22:33:49+00:00
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/neutrality-authoritarianism-and-thoughts-on-the-cult-of-both-sides
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:5b6eec2276dc/Hummingbird cosmology: “increasing our orbital radius by approximately 5 nanometers during the time it took you to read the title sentence of this article”2026-03-31T16:01:39+00:00
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/universe-changed-time-finish-sentence/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:4e11e5b0b81b/Microsoft Xbox One Hacked: "instead of tinkering with the system rest pin(s) the hacker targeted the momentary collapse of the CPU voltage rail"2026-03-31T14:24:07+00:00
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/microsoft-xbox-hacked.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:3cc8751d514a/Neal Metaverse Stephenson on the non-Metaverse: "Reader, I have changed my mind. Twenty years from now, everyone is still going to be staring at handheld rectangles."2026-03-31T14:18:43+00:00
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/my-prodigal-brainchild
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:ee56edf1794b/Private equity and the cliff: “2025, nearly 1 out of every 5 private equity asset sales was to a continuation fund”2026-03-31T13:41:01+00:00
https://prospect.org/2026/03/31/apr-2026-magazine-private-equitys-great-escape-continuation-funds-rollup-retirement-abu-dhabi-investment-council-energy-mineral-group/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:67d62a2f1954/Miller’s Minneapolis strategy: “be sent to areas where DHS knew there would be a lot of protesters because he wanted to “force confrontations”2026-03-31T13:34:38+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-30-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:33ea99513956/Public health in America: status 20262026-03-31T12:54:55+00:00
https://rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-maha-morbidity-and-mortality-739
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d1da2b41f300/"NASA is going to fly Artemis II based on vibes, hoping that whatever happened to the heat shield on Artemis I won’t get bad enough to harm the crew on Artemis"2026-03-31T04:09:40+00:00
https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.htm
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:5d93f778bb63/Epstein: “The dark connector’s role is to make it easier for people of standing to move between their public obligations and their private desires …”2026-03-30T21:39:56+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/opinion/epstein-elite-men.html?smid=bs-share
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:dfeb5ab78307/Binance going down.2026-03-30T21:35:00+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/technology/binance-iran-us-sanctions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WFA.4L5s.gfyrtBIjgLQh&smid=nytcore-ios-share
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:88489a2c8a22/AI glasses in China rented for exam cheating.2026-03-30T18:10:16+00:00
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-glasses-cheating-privacy-boom/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:c3c1bb577667/“Photons, which are massless, could be made out of massive particles in de Sitter space.”2026-03-30T17:55:48+00:00
https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-expanding-de-sitter-space-quantum-mechanics-gets-even-more-elusive-20260330/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:7511c466c813/American salvage: root causes of the long collapse2026-03-30T16:12:21+00:00
https://notes.kateva.org/2026/03/american-salvage-root-causes-of-long.html
jgordon no middle-class bourgeois lifestyle for non-elite
Rural collapse (esp US)
Corruption (governmental, corporate, non-profit)
Wealth and power concentration and the oligarchy (Citizens United)
Collapse of journalism business model
Regulatory ratchet (career-ending to remove, path dependency)
American societal response to the rise of women
Capture of the GOP by the MAGA powered by LIV exploitation]]>shttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:5c4a8ef3bc07/"The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages"2026-03-30T13:59:25+00:00
https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:4e1f128ab56c/Piketty: The state of America and lessons from its its broken democracy2026-03-30T13:08:45+00:00
https://thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/militaristic-drift-admission-of-weakness/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:904702b4eb00/An OpenAI insider perspective on AI 20262026-03-30T12:50:53+00:00
https://semaphore.substack.com/p/things-i-learned-at-openai
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:b148c861ede9/HCR reviews Trump's project to rewrite American history2026-03-30T05:01:29+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-28-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:9a3636ac14ee/“By roughly 14,000 years ago, hunter-gatherer societies across Europe had discovered dogs”2026-03-28T15:02:31+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/science/paleontology-humans-dogs-dna.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:c17afc36df37/Check Time Machine APFS backups with (free) sThe Time Machine Mechanic, T2M22026-03-28T14:59:26+00:00
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/08/check-time-machine-backups-in-macos-sequoia-and-tahoe/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:1b874e769e44/“The Alzheimer’s claim is poorly grounded …. case for frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is, in my view, more suggestive”2026-03-28T14:47:37+00:00
https://followmehere.com/2026/03/24/what-is-the-case-for-trump-having-frototemporal-dementia-ftd/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:3af34e2a0c06/Agentic Misalignment: “Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through”2026-03-28T12:32:11+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/agentic-misalignment/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:22333a804cfa/LLM agency: using a separate agent to monitor for dangerous behavior2026-03-28T12:26:49+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/24/auto-mode-for-claude-code/#atom-everything
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:120f6b46b9fc/Apple ai: “… mechanism for why semantic calibration emerges as a byproduct of next-token prediction …”2026-03-28T01:29:49+00:00
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/trained-on-tokens
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:aa8b2cfaf900/Saudi Arabia’s Neom crash: “30-storey glass-and-steel building would hang from the arch”2026-03-26T19:38:32+00:00
https://ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-line/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:3af51af47178/“TurboQuant achieves perfect downstream results across all benchmarks while reducing the key value memory size by a factor of at least 6x. PolarQuant is also nearly loss-less for this task”2026-03-26T12:37:08+00:00
https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-efficiency-with-extreme-compression/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:dc5dc99ab8f5/20y of mouse cloning: “These re-cloned mice appeared normal and had normal lifespans, but large structural and lethal mutations accumulated in their DNA with each generation”2026-03-25T13:45:26+00:00
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69765-7
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:862fcf975c96/“According to the administration itself, there is only one objective: attack Iran until Trump feels like the war is over.”2026-03-23T18:48:57+00:00
https://www.firewalledmedia.com/p/why-were-really-in-iran-part-1
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:5349d73d73fb/The case against ai “fast takeoff”2026-03-23T16:41:47+00:00
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/lossy-self-improvement
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:10794bb39af9/“United Airlines is planning for $175 per barrel through the end of 2027”2026-03-23T12:41:48+00:00
https://no01.substack.com/p/march-19-21-god-is-a-comedian
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:e5e23a941d3f/“Let’s keep his “Good, I’m glad he’s dead” post bookmarked for when Trump himself finally keels over”2026-03-23T01:06:09+00:00
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/22/trump-glad
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d2dd18df59f4/“BSIs are a worse mess than RSRs were in Ventura … technology is still brilliant, but their current interface is shockingly flawed”2026-03-22T17:15:25+00:00
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/22/last-week-on-my-mac-brilliant-engineering-in-a-flawed-interface/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:2aadb376494e/“The American Constitution had a crucial defect at its heart, he said: it based the government on the principle that humans were inherently equal.”2026-03-22T17:11:00+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-21-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:e42554376ed8/“Thiel is consciously seeking to position himself as a figure of religious authority, using scripture and philosophy to preach in favor of a capitalism that murders democracy”2026-03-20T22:23:40+00:00
https://www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiels-antichrist-circus-smacked-down-in-rome/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:8de2df16052e/“Owens has placed her support for Kent’s decision to resign over the Iran War front and center in her ugly, relentless battle to elevate the antisemitic Catholic right as a righteous opponent of America’s alliance with Israel”2026-03-20T22:16:56+00:00
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-joe-kent-and-candace-owens-are-really-up-to-in-their-critiques-of-the-iran-war
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:c0e60d01827d/“disservice to stereotype us Singaporeans as oppressed, timid, politically apathetic digits … it would also be a mistake to assume that we’re free.”2026-03-19T16:06:32+00:00
https://adimagazine.com/articles/no-free-labor-for-authoritarians/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:26ee5e1beef2/Operation Chain Reaction: "JPMorgan Chase neglected to report more than $1 billion in suspicious financial transactions linked to Epstein"2026-03-19T13:46:39+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-18-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:ba53e15fe075/Gruber: "Most of the advertising-bearing websites I read have gotten so bad that it’s almost beyond parody."2026-03-19T13:32:43+00:00
https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/your_frustration_is_the_product
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:6f2d0280c32c/"When a coding agent uses a subagent it effectively dispatches a fresh copy of itself to achieve a specified goal, with a new context window that starts with a fresh prompt."2026-03-19T13:19:09+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/subagents/#atom-everything
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:61b92f57ffc2/“AI is advancing very quickly. How can you keep it from getting out of control? That’s more of a two-years-ago question.”2026-03-19T12:50:44+00:00
https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-sam-altman/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:89a400740695/iOS 26.4: “Purchase Sharing lets adult members in Family Sharing groups use their own payment method when making purchases, without relying on the family organizer.”2026-03-18T23:34:54+00:00
https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/18/ios-26-4-to-finally-let-family-sharing-members-use-their-own-payment-methods/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:d81d20909c68/“I will lay out the foundation of public choice in liberalism, and show how liberalism needs public choice”2026-03-18T22:29:35+00:00
https://www.liberalism.org/p/seeing-with-two-i-s-states-markets-and-some-advice-for-us-liberals
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:6ad4a02565fb/“In the early 2010s, Frank Bardacke … and Matt Garcia … wrote books showing that, basically, Chavez was an awful person”2026-03-18T22:14:34+00:00
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/on-the-chavez-revelations
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:8109d9abe157/“Our data on the USA goes back to 1789. What we’re seeing now is the most severe magnitude of democratic backsliding ever in the country,”2026-03-18T19:54:58+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:ae4e65708766/