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https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/public/
recent bookmarks from jgordonGates 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/“Dwarkesh found that we’re about 4 orders of magnitude off from the level of hardware to scale today’s agent approach to the entirety of society”2026-08-02T00:18:54+00:00
https://timkellogg.me/blog/2026/07/07/lanius
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:cb0a45cab4ab/Why the Trumpets fear the ICC: “Duterte is now behind bars in The Hague”2026-08-01T20:20:49+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-31-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:af71392bf06e/'eBay’s Bizarre Cyberstalking Saga: "this settlement seemingly makes the Steiners some of the most successful independent writers in history"2026-07-29T21:15:30+00:00
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/29/ebay-stalking-settlement
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:602a3af05721/Apple died years ago: "The App Store is more than 18 years old. The idea of patrolling the top charts probably occurred to Apple before it even shipped. They just don’t want to do it."2026-07-29T21:11:56+00:00
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/07/29/hidden-gambling-apps-in-brazilian-app-store/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:da43b8dc7d17/40kya: “artistic capabilities on display at Hohle Fels and nearby caves mark a shift in cognitive and cultural sophistication that might have helped these humans to flourish in ice-age Europe”2026-07-29T14:33:38+00:00
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02312-y
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:deaa58e2bd95/“in April alone, Mythos had uncovered 90 “critical” bugs and 141 “important” ones in SharePoint”2026-07-29T12:02:03+00:00
https://www.propublica.org/article/anthropic-mythos-microsoft-software-vulnerabilities
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:438144daab40/AI lab staff call for timeout: “world's leading AI companies believe they could be close to automating AI research.”2026-07-29T02:13:53+00:00
https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:be90cc23701f/Ellison’s CBS executives pressured journalists to insert Trump lies into stories of the Minneapolis resistance.2026-07-28T00:10:19+00:00
https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/when-news-execs-help-fascists-whitewash
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:317e190266ec/Hong Wang Fields Medal: “Whenever she got a new textbook, she’d complete all the exercises before the semester started”2026-07-27T22:29:58+00:00
https://www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wins-2026-fields-medal-the-third-woman-ever-20260723/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:85c56f79d0c2/"Biden swatted away expected likely criticism that he should be civil to the president of the United States."2026-07-27T19:16:50+00:00
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/hunter-biden-meets-the-moment
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:3729c3468f42/Photosynthetic eyes for humans with keratoconjunctivitis sicca2026-07-27T19:13:12+00:00
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/taking-tip-plants-eyes
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:57c76ac90c82/China - sell face rights for $15+ for ai video2026-07-27T11:46:35+00:00
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-microdramas-face-licensing/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:c556504a6f5e/Hackers pooling API keys to buy tokens - including stolen keys.2026-07-26T20:53:09+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/26/relay-market/#atom-everything
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:cba505a67fac/Grant cuts to blue states: “Rather than combatting waste, it appears Trump and his cronies are trying to take control of the United States government”2026-07-25T11:59:22+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-24-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:b3275afb24be/Pharma’s life with a 91% failure rate2026-07-24T18:18:55+00:00
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/clinical-failure-rates-over-decades-yikes
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:02b662633253/Gordon's Notes: Consciousness - for the record2026-07-24T14:59:06+00:00
https://notes.kateva.org/2026/07/consciousness-for-record.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:fdb4ad0b5a80/Economist interview: “Musk has a hard time answering normal questions about his often fascist and sometimes incoherent worldview.”2026-07-23T23:57:04+00:00
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-economist-interview-2000790016
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:11f4d20e8327/Dyer reviews state of the climate: “There is an almost universal reluctance to engage with the reality of what is happening right now”2026-07-23T12:34:57+00:00
https://gwynnedyer.com/2026/its-not-the-weather-its-the-climate/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:516598022a20/