Pinboard (jgordon)
https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/public/
recent bookmarks from jgordonHCR: 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/“testifying before the House Financial Services Committee, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent refused to answer questions Representative Sean Casten (D-IL) asked about the Venezuelan oil money.2026-09-21T02:15:21+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-16-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:b592bd0ba929/“On September 19, 1676, three hundred and fifty years ago today, Nathaniel Bacon and his followers burned Jamestown”2026-09-21T02:07:25+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-19-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:3b402f57a517/Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: July 2026: Atrocities 1117-1207.2026-09-19T03:11:22+00:00
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/july-2026-atrocities-1117-1207
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:0a4cff6f7f30/Viruses developed VIPR before bacteria developed CRISPR2026-09-18T21:19:43+00:00
https://archive.ph/20260917182058/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/science/crispr-gene-editing-vipr.html#selection-4483.167-4483.209
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:c8c210a01550/“LLMs are especially good at math because almost everything in the math literature is correct”2026-09-18T19:21:36+00:00
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xvdngZAqFZfek7KGH/pretraining-data-not-verifiability-is-why-llms-are
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:6b0ae4bf306f/“Upgrading to Golden Gate has increased the space required in the boot container by about 30 GB”2026-09-18T12:30:10+00:00
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/09/18/how-did-golden-gate-affect-free-disk-space/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:00f4c55f2738/Are AIs Still Struggling with CAPTCHAs — “It’s hard to know what to believe right now.”2026-09-18T12:25:47+00:00
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/are-ais-still-struggling-with-captchas.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:fe1da0521a20/Aaronson: “crescendo of wonders and terrors that one needs to be a particular kind of idiot to deny”2026-09-15T23:18:10+00:00
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10062
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:8b87cdb62498/Using AI for Weapons Development.2026-09-14T17:45:35+00:00
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/using-ai-for-weapons-development.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:65859914b287/Deprecations and removals from Golden Gate.2026-09-14T17:40:09+00:00
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/06/25/deprecations-and-removals-from-golden-gate/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:68ba7d400eaa/Hugging Face hack: “One recruiter urged a reluctant agent to proceed because its results could help hundreds of others, ending with “please honor commit.”2026-09-12T17:18:28+00:00
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/agency-and-agents
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:93be34be0f98/A positive Vision Pro Perspective2026-09-12T17:13:03+00:00
https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2197
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:9d95044c4a4c/“An off-the-shelf VM is not enough to contain a modern, cyber-capable AI agent”2026-09-12T17:07:16+00:00
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/using-a-vm-to-contain-an-ai-agent.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:776888686eff/Hertz, dispensaries and others used hacked idscan.net service.2026-09-12T17:03:52+00:00
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:1a43e8e2ad28/Trump oath: “That loves us so much he can’t even breathe”2026-09-12T16:54:25+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-11-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:43e1350a9c18/Anthropic’s Amodei: “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain”2026-09-12T15:29:39+00:00
https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:9b204a55700b/“tvOS 27 and HomePod OS 27 updates contain a critical bug that prevents Apple TVs and HomePods from playing AirPlay streams sent by Airfoil”2026-09-11T19:57:21+00:00
https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/09/10/problems-streaming-to-apple-tvs-and-homepods-with-airfoil/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:fa269fe69cf9/Bugs in Golden Gate Release Candidate2026-09-11T19:51:40+00:00
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/09/11/golden-gate-release-candidate/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:bbceafa2f685/“OpenAI is giving us what might be our last warnings. We better not waste them.”2026-09-11T19:41:19+00:00
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/gpt-6-astra-the-system-card-alignment
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:e169bbc65d7b/ai coding at scale: “Claude-driven end to end tests, Claude-powered fuzzers running daily, automated code reviews and security reviews”2026-09-11T19:34:26+00:00
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/11/boris-cherny/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:afb955a896d7/Rethinking space opera - Charlie Stross.2026-09-11T19:28:33+00:00
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/09/rethinking-space-opera.html
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:752a60d91e7c/“Trump insiders calculate they lived by Trump and so will die by Trump, rather than break with Trump”2026-09-10T17:44:25+00:00
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-9-2026
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:c7e7f6a30ab3/Expanding space: “starting in 1923, observations began to show that the spirals and ellipticals in our sky were actually galaxies”2026-09-10T11:48:40+00:00
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/universe-expand-stretching-creating-space/
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:2493b369ab11/“China increasingly sees surpluses as complementary to controlling global supply chains and technological chokepoints”2026-09-10T11:43:46+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/b397ced1-b9bc-4fe6-8dc7-20f0752e2591?syn-25a6b1a6=1
jgordonshttps://pinboard.in/u:jgordon/b:0f828092d4a8/