Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

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In the days of film there was a special “lag” we didn’t talk about much: the time before you pressed the shutter release while you considered whether it was economically wise to press the button. That’s both because every photo cost you money (film and developing, maybe printing), but also because we had a limited number of frames (24 or 36, typically) before we had to take the camera out of commission for a period of time while we rewound the film, pulled it from the camera and put it somewhere safe (and maybe labeled it), put in another roll, and started the process of it being loaded for use. 90% chance that pressing the shutter release doesn’t net a useful photo? Then you probably didn’t press the button. 90% change that it would be a useful photo? You almost certainly pressed the button. But there was always a short lag before you did because your brain needed to calculate the odds. 

The camera industry built itself for well over a 100 million camera units a year. Reality these days is more like 7 million units, plus another 10+ million if you include action and small sensor vlogging cameras, though those are now dominated by DJI, Insta360, and the covert-DJI company Xtra. The general approach in Japan in recent years was to take the remaining volume upscale (e.g. many more dollars per unit sold), which kept everyone’s coffers full for a time, but the industry is now faced with two critical questions:

But then again, there’s a valid lesson in this train wreck called “Luce” for the rest of the industry as well. And the True Believers in Design, Engineering and Product Development engaged in this business around the world understand this implicitly. If you don’t care enough about what you’re doing, you’re doomed to fail. Having the fundamental passion for what they do propels these people forward each and every day. There is no such thing as “phoning it in” or “going through the motions” with these True Believers; in fact, it’s anathema to their very existence.

“It seems like everybody is working hard to meet the company’s goals and Jeff just hasn’t delivered for us,” said one Blue Origin employee.

The core problem is that our clinical trial and drug approval system is slow and expensive. Getting a new drug to market in the US takes billions of dollars and a decade or more of clinical trials — and all of that before a company earns a single dollar. The consequence is drug lag and drug loss and also learning loss. Innovation is a dynamic process. You must build to build better.

Maybe they’re investigating you because your finances don’t add up? Or because your wife’s LLC received the deed to a $9.1 million home a week before the LLC was even created – while you still had your Fair Oaks home? How was that LLC capitalized?

Which Quebec hospital recently implemented software from Verona, WI based epic? Include french and english news sources in your response. – via Grok.

The Trump administration has warned more than 500 hospitals that they are failing to provide the public with basic pricing information — arguing that the lack of disclosure is keeping healthcare costs higher than they should be. The Associated Press obtained exclusively the list of hospitals that since April have either received letters of warning or, in more severe cases, requests to submit plans to provide transparent pricing. Failing to comply with the warnings comes with penalties as high as $2 million annually for each recipient that doesn’t create a plan to post clear pricing data.

He’s 66 and she’s 64, and they’ve raised six children.  “We’re just ready,” Janet Thongnuam said. “Our bodies get old. It’s hard work, it’s hard physical work.”

Nowhere does the article mention how Democrats fell in line with Gov. Tony Evers’ fanciful carbon-free by 2050 agenda. Nowhere does it mention how that support led to the closure of coal plants that were still viable, and that we still pay for. Nowhere does it mention how Democrats enabled the Public Service Commission (PSC) in the $2 billion in rate hikes the state has seen since 2019.  

Interesting focus group with 13 Wisconsin Biden to Trump voters. By Rich Thau who does great focus groups of swing voters around the country. Includes Iran deal and Social Security shortfall.

Axios didn’t mention that Humans First was incubated by the Center for AI Safety, an organization funded with millions from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Or that its original staff included a Sunrise Movement organizer who sat in at Pelosi’s office with AOC and a DSA member who organized for Kamala Harris.

The cooking of Panarea is the cuisine of a small island that has been fishing the same waters for 3,000 years and has learned, in the process, that the less one does to what the sea provides, the better. Dinner at the waterfront restaurants meant plates of swordfish carpaccio, sliced almost translucent and dressed with nothing but a thread of local oil and a scattering of salted capers. It meant grilled amberjack, spaghetti alle vongole of a piercing, briny intensity, and, most memorably, bottarga — the pressed and dried roe of the grey mullet — shaved over linguine with a rasp of lemon zest. Puddings tended to revolve around granitas of almond and lemon that recalled, in a single freezing mouthful, the Arab centuries embedded in the foundations of Aeolian culture.

“I try to remind myself regularly that there are a lot of ways to respond to stressful circumstances,” she told me, “and hysteria is never going to be a productive way of dealing with things.” 

Cook and several executives close to him had concluded that Apple had serious cultural, structural and leadership problems when it came to AI.

13. I strongly recommend taking marijuana while hiking through the Olympic National Park in the rain. You will never experience olfactory sensations like that in any other setting or mindstate.

Which brings us to the controversy that will ensue.  A perfectly corrected lens wil almost certainly be rejected by some as being “too clinical.” Sure, but the data being collected in the raw file will be more optimal, so I’m for it. Take it a step further, though: not only can you create a near perfect optical correction this way, you can create presets that render differently. Get ready for Lens Picture Controls (LPC). Want classic edge sharpness falloff with vignette? Use the Vintage LPC. 

In a sense, many professionals are an extension of the same idea. I could research my own real estate law, or my own insurance, whether business or personal, but I don’t because it would be too hard.

….here’s Kristen Welker obviously irked to have had to touch down in a flyover state. I can’t believe I came to this hellhole for you!

This complaint continues in today’s campaigns between the A320neo and the 737 MAX. Delta Air Lines often makes airplane fleet decisions based on obtaining a license for its Delta TechOps unit. Not only does Delta overhaul its own fleet engines, but it also contracts with other airlines to do the same. Boeing lost one order to Airbus because GE wouldn’t grant the license for the LEAP, and PW was willing to offer the GTF. (This has since changed. Delta now has a license for the LEAP.)

More damaging to liberal sensibilities is his argument that all parties, including European countries that have largely remained on the sidelines, emerge from the crisis with badly damaged reputations. As he sees it, the war was clearly a mistake from the outset, but this is no excuse for the passivity of European states and others in the face of Iran “waging war on the entire world” by blockading their imports.

Eileen Wang pleaded guilty to acting as a foreign agent. But what could Beijing want from the mayor of a small California city known as the “Chinese Beverly Hills”?

In 1990, when I was writing Snow Crash, we experienced all computer graphics through massive, heavy CRTs with terrible resolution. The images were flickery and blurry. Rendering pictures of three-dimensional scenes was in its infancy. It seemed entirely reasonable to think that the future would be all about head-mounted displays that could render stereoscopic (simulated three-dimensional) imagery. This is not actually what happened.

On a June morning in 1872, Japan’s entire railway was a single line between Shimbashi and Yokohama. A century and a half later the map carries more than nine thousand stations. Press play and watch the country fill in — one opening at a time.

My favorite Apple updates are not the flashy new features, but the quiet little touches: annoyances fixed, workflows made smoother, rough edges sanded down, and longstanding flaws thoughtfully reworked. To me, they’re the clearest sign of a company that cares about its craft.

SpaceX didn’t live off subsidies, it lived off contracts. The day it delivered, the American state became its first client. In France, the day you deliver, the state becomes your first problem.

Quick edit showing some of the intense moments today while documenting 8 tornadoes in northern Illinois into Indiana.

The Lakeland Times is reporting local police and agents from the State Department of Revenue Division of Alcoholic Beverages seized beer from Minocqua Brewing Co. today. State confirms an investigation.

China’s Techno-Industrial Strategy in the Xi Era. Producing Under Pressure.

A Fail Safe design of a structure is heavier, which is why the Comet was designed with Safe Life, as the jet engines at the time made the aircraft underpowered for takeoff. For areas that cannot be designed as a Fail Safe, a Safe Life must be designed with extensive knowledge of the load cases, etc., and a life limit for replacement of the part when it has reached the limit.

I invented a number called the Comfort Index. The standard seat scores a 4. The seat seven rows forward scores a 7. I made both numbers up, naturally. The difference between them is three inches, and I charge $79 for the three inches. That is value-based pricing, and the value is your spine.

In 2020 we borrowed $6.8 billion against my program. The appraisers valued it at $22 billion. The entire airline — every plane, every gate, every pilot — was worth $13 billion. My division owns no aircraft and is worth nine billion dollars more than the company that contains it.

Bangstad said he was working to come into compliance, and the department’s “lack of leniency in allowing us to come into compliance borders on malicious harassment.” He also suggested without evidence that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers was retaliating because of his past criticism of Evers.

When Freddy — a German soccer fan road tripping across the southern United States for the World Cup — arrived in Fairhope, Ala., this week, he wrote “I’m in a place right now that’s so beautiful I’m probably about to make 50 posts about it.”. Passing through Gainesville, Fla., he noted “the houses are insane wow.” He reviewed his 1 a.m. Waffle House stop:…

“It’s literally the gulag,” one of the employees claims. “You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden, you barely interact with anyone, you just have these tasks every week.”. Another employee describes some of the tasks—generating puzzles to test how reliably AI models from Meta and other companies can solve them—as easy compared to the software development work they had been doing previously. But the new projects feel menial, and “almost all” employees seem unhappy, they say. “Most people find the work soul-crushing,” the third employee says.

It is not just a chicken. It is a wound the merchant takes on purpose, so that anyone, on any day, with five dollars, eats like a lord. The bird is the message. The price is the vow.

Testing the WWI concrete ships and WWII concrete barges.

Countrywide, two birds of prey — hawk and eagle — get the most searches. They each take the No. 1 search spot in a dozen states. Duck comes in third nationally, but it has the broadest state-level interest, taking the top spot in 17 states.

ALPRs are a serious risk to your privacy and civil liberties. These systems continuously record your movements without a warrant, probable cause, or even reasonable suspicion. Your driving history is rarely confined to the town or city where the cameras are installed. It’s typically shared with thousands of other agencies nationwide (secretly). Once the data is out of your community, you have no control over how it’s used or what rules apply, leading to instances of misuse.

She’s supporting the people who are imploding Shorewood Hills though. She has really strange choice of friends….

“I was feeling that I’m getting old without enough achievement,” Son said this week. “I was wondering, why should I end my life not feeling satisfied?”

The simple estimate extends the latest four-week commercial crude draw rate toward the modern low-water mark. It is not a physical tank-bottom estimate. If inventories build instead of draw, no low-water retest is projected. Oil prices can react before or after physical stress appears, so the pressure window is a risk signal rather than a prediction.

Today there is much more variety in world oil and natural gas than during the 1970s. The shale revolution has transformed the U.S. from the world’s largest importer of oil to the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas and largest exporter of liquefied natural gas.  Overall, the Western Hemisphere now produces more oil than the Middle East did before the crisis. Canada is the world’s fourth-largest oil producer. Brazil produces four times as much oil as Venezuela; and in Guyana, where production began only seven years ago, output almost equals Venezuela’s. In Argentina’s Vaca Muerta region, shale oil production has grown sixfold since 2020. The current disruption will propel more oil and gas investment in the Western Hemisphere and Africa.

I have a camera gear collection problem and as part of my personal 12 step plan, I restrict myself from purchasing functioning lenses. This sounds illogical, and it frankly is, but it’s very hard for me to resist heavily discounted lenses. To keep my hat, I tend to only bid on lenses that are less than 1/4 of the going used sale prices and have little to no mechanical damage. In this case I’ve been eyeing the recently produced sigma I-series lenses that feature mostly aluminum construction. A broken 45mm f/2.8 lens popped up on ebay in January for a song and a dance, and I simply could not resist.

The remaining majority of companies are those that are going nowhere or those that are sliding back in that direction. Because trajectory, management, and quality of operations are strongly correlated, zero or negative growth typically signals that something is wrong or broken at a company, and it isn’t being fixed.¹ The company has some disconnect in the feedback loop between performance and accountability. These companies are not at the top of their game and the toughest challenges you’ll encounter at them are navigating the dysfunction without becoming jaded or burning out.

Over the years, the painting’s old varnishes yellowed, darkening the picture and obscuring Delacroix’s chromatic effects. Conservation treatment undertaken between May 2025 and April 2026 reinforced the structure of the work – the canvas was mounted back onto its restored stretcher – and removed timeworn varnishes and materials left behind from previous restoration efforts from the pictorial layer. A new, transparent varnish was then applied, and the small gaps in the paint were filled in.

Some examples: Wuhu sold a cement factory for 200M yuan, bought a used Ford engine line from the UK, poached engineers from state giant FAW, and reverse-engineered a VW platform. That scrappy startup? It became Chery—now China’s #2 automaker.

Clematis ‘Queen’s Nurse’ has two shades of colour to its flowers. The young ones on the upper growth have a big rose-pink central band against a lilac-pink background, a blend which is found only in a clematis. The flowers from the older wood underneath are solely rose pink. ‘Queen’s Nurse’ is restrained enough to grow well in a container in a small courtyard.

Argentina’s genuine case for Thiel rests on things that have nothing to do with Milei: a younger demographic than Europe, world-class human capital, abundant lithium and rare earths, and geographic isolation from great power conflict. He may be right for entirely the wrong reasons, on a longer timeline than he expects, through considerably more turbulence than the current narrative suggests. Argentina’s laid-back mentality is precisely what makes it exciting to foreigners. But as a project for civilizational renewal? Unless you’re talking about surviving a nuclear war, absolutely not.

Last year, touring colleges in London, a family friend asked me a version of the question Boeing’s own engineers asked each other before the crashes. Theirs was, “Would you put your family on a MAX simulator-trained aircraft?” The answer was no. Mine was simpler: would I put my daughter on streets policed by a two-tier system, where carrying pepper spray to defend herself is a crime but the men she fears walk free?

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In October 2024, about 100 Labour party members traveled to the US to openly campaign for Kamala Harris. Now Starmer is very concerned that a statement from the Vice President is “interfering in [their] democracy”

I love that !! Charlie was locked and loaded for That Question !!!

Over the past decade we have seen the concept of a ‘smart home’ collapse into a nightmare of abandoned IoT devices, subscription services, forced ads, privacy violations, and an increasingly more congested 2.4 GHz spectrum that everything from WiFi and Zigbee to Bluetooth and others ended up competing for, with a corresponding collapse in reliability of data transmissions

Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?

Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.

Toshifumi Suzuki, head of the giant Ito-Yokado Group of Japan, helped revolutionize his country’s retail sector, previously known for its inefficient, hidebound practices. He introduced franchising to the Japanese retail industry in 1974, as founder of Japan’s Seven-Eleven convenience stores, which eventually grew to a chain of over 10,000 units by 2003, many of them operating 24-hours a day. He pushed the franchise concept in new, creative directions, and then turned around in 1991 to rescue the U.S. company that originated the brand. He has been a pioneer in the gradual introduction of business-to-consumer e-commerce and a forceful public spokesman for economic liberalization and reform.

….. to become the kind of engineer they’ve spent their entire careers battling against. Worse still, the AI tooling mostly works. It’s not (yet) causing any kind of catastrophe⁶. The code isn’t quite as clean, and it’s a bit less well-understood, but it’s good enough (particularly in a world where companies are trying lots of new things and abandoning the ones that fail). So the just-say-no engineer faces not just a threat to their livelihood, but to their entire self-identity: they have to either insist that the apocalypse is right around the corner, or accept that their technical role was contingent on a really weird economic environment in the tech industry.

Family emergency page.

I typically don’t vent on styling, on the grounds that everything has to look like something. Vehicle design is subject to a host of requirements and regulations that constrain designers’ options; what’s left has to be approved by the company’s accountants and suppliers and signed off by the executive corps. Few flowers grow from this poisoned soil.

It literally is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can create God.”

The Commercialization Moment for Chinese AI Going Overseas.

I shall pursue either one with the best of my ability, but I cannot do both: 1.To train an army of uniformed British clerks in Spain for the benefit of the accountants and copy-boys in London or perchance. 2. To see to it that the forces of Napoleon are driven out of Spain. Your most obedient servant, Wellington

Six million antelope storm through a pocket of Africa that’s nearly impossible to get to, but the Journal caught them on camera

I miss characters such as Bunny Mellon. Her expenditure was actually quite disgusting. Her lifestyle unsustainable even when she was alive. But I do long for the silliness of people who choose to spend their millions on bejewelled sunflowers and suites of bespoke gardening hats and gloves.

The big question is how many tokens per hour can you get out of a local model. My M5 Max testing seems to be in the 10-40 tokens per second range for a serious model like Gemma4:31b. At 10 tokens per second that’s 36000 tokens per hour.

The chips with slight imperfections still function well. Apple has found ways to repurpose these chips in later product releases. For example, A18 Pro chips with 6 GPU cores originally appeared in 2024 in the iPhone 16 Pro models. Yet some of the chips only had 5 functioning GPU cores; these ones were put in a separate bin. The sixth, defective core was disabled, leaving a still good chip and allowing them to be used in the MacBook Neo.

Hoodmaps.com now also has crime data!

But furor in the village over Imes and various development proposals, including the Lodgic Building purchase, extends beyond the Village Board. As of April 20, there had been more public records requests filed in the village of roughly 2,100 people than there had been in the city of Madison. (The Cap Times has filed records requests with both municipalities.)

A great many of these company terms originate in one of the first books printed in English after the invention of the Gutenberg Press: the Boke of Seynt Albans [Book of Saint Albans], also known as The Book of Hawking, Hunting, and Blasing of Arms. Anonymously published in 1486 and written largely in verse, it was lauded as the work of “a gentleman of excellent gifts” — until it was discovered that the author was a woman named Juliana Barnes.

Almost a decade ago, Scott Wilson, the chief investment officer at Washington University in St. Louis, placed about $50 million of the school’s money in SpaceX.  That bet ultimately has surged to become more than 10% of the school’s now $17 billion of assets, most of which is its endowment. The stake was largely made through co-investments plus money in later rounds through outside private equity and venture capital managers.

It was Marty who first turned me on to the absolute degeneracy of the Health Care Swamp. While I was still spouting Republican talking points about how we have to protect the “free market” in health care (editor’s note: health care is neither free nor a market), he was exposing just how failed and distorted that market was. He was publishing on how doctors in different specialties were reimbursed for the volume of their procedures, not the quality of their care, at great cost and risk to patients. He and his team convened groups of expert physicians in every specialty and facilitated their development of a new type of quality metric, asking them to agree on the most indefensible types of overtreatment in their specialty and then using Medicare data to provide every doctor in that specialty his or her rate of that overtreatment. This idea morphed into his team’s creation of a powerful set of “appropriateness” measures that are now used across the country (including in my business helping employers steer their workers to high quality care).

She wanders around the warehouse, which is piled with suitcases, locates her own piece and then coolly makes her way back out. The workers in the warehouse seem to be not that interested in the strange figure rummaging among their shelves. Such is the grit and ingenuity of a woman who will not be parted from her Chanel slingbacks and Alaïa flats.

LA is worth saving. Vote Spencer Pratt.

A woman freezing eggs in much of Europe or Japan is likely to receive substantially less hormonal stimulation per cycle — often half or less — than a woman undergoing the same procedure in the United States, without good evidence that the American approach produces better outcomes per egg or per live birth. I went into this research expecting to confirm my own decision never to do egg freezing, and ended up doing embryo banking on a gentle protocol that I didn’t know existed when I started. Counter.

The Telegraph tests out AI-assisted nursing at the – mechanical – hands of a Japanese robot

This pacing gives him immense credibility with voters in Los Angeles. He has also lived in the Palisades for his whole life. This gives him credibility too. He sees the poor fire response, as well as the crime tolerance and general unsafe conditions in Los Angeles.

The 747-400 introduced a new glass cockpit designed for a flight crew of two instead of three, reducing the number of dials, gauges, and knobs from 971 to 365 through the use of electronics. This reduction speaks volumes about how dramatically the systems integration philosophy had matured.

“Our view is, don’t design anything,” added Michael O’Leary, the CEO of Ryanair Holdings Plc, Boeing’s biggest customer in Europe. “Historically, when Boeing and Airbus make a mess, it’s when they start designing new aircraft that the airlines don’t really need. We just need you to produce many more of them over the next decade so that we can fulfill the worldwide demand for air travel.” …. “The world is full of people who procrastinated and got obliterated,” he said.

“[AI] is how you get an artistic revolution,” he says. “Young voices making new kinds of stories that weren’t financially viable in the studio system.”

Now, if we allowed more units on the lot, that might be possible. A developer could likely fit 3-4 nice cottage homes on that lot, sell them for $500-700k, and make a profit. The people moving in next door would have tiny yards, but they’d probably share my preference for burger joints over face spas. But that isn’t allowed. Our zoning is single-family, and the lot can’t be split. At these land prices, that means the options are McMansion or bust.

It’s fun to ask yourself: “Could I remove some client-side JS and get a better overall experience?” If the answer is yes, I’ll bet you the development experience (and maintenance burden) is much improved too!

Ephesians 4:26-27 is one of best defenses against bitterness, “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.”  Anger is a powerful emotion. It’s unrealistic to believe you will never get angry but once again, it’s how you master your emotions so they don’t control you.

Inducing Sustained Creativity and Diversity in Large Language Models. More.

The 32-year-old wellness guru added: “He has a mind of his own. If I could control him, I’d be married with a baby right now.”

Why? Because they hunt a singular monster in professional software development: complexity.Why? Because they hunt a singular monster in professional software development: complexity.

We currently have 4283 data centers listed, from 50 states in USA (America). Click on a state below, to explore its data center locations.

With data from @nytimes API, I analyzed all national+local coverage since 2000—224K articles— to see which topics in each state get covered out of proportion to the rest of the country. A portrait of how the paper of record sees America, one state per tweet, alphabetical. ?

Data centers are good

You’re welcome!

Vintage maps.

Jeffrey Tanenhaus’s architecture walking tour in Tulsa, Okla., is only a mile long, but it takes two hours. He stops frequently to point out neoclassical and art deco flourishes. You’d never know he only arrived in Tulsa, a city of about 415,000 people, in 2020. On his tours, Tanenhaus dives into Tulsa’s past as an oil boomtown, when ambitious types from across the country descended on the city and changed it in the process. On a recent trip, I saw a different kind of transformation taking place. 

Charles Kirchhoff and T. Leslie Rose designed this Romanesque Revival saloon for the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company and it was built in 1903

The 767 was originally designed as a three-crew cockpit. A few airplanes were produced in this configuration. After the FAA approved operation by two-person crews, Boeing had to change these airplanes from three- to two-person cockpits and change those in production.

New Orleans is heroin. The aesthetic is decay. The city looks black and blue, a bruise that can’t heal. I lived there for three years and I could feel the darkness not just on the streets but encroaching and enrapturing my soul pulling it downward into nothingness. During that period I suffered debilitating insomnia and sleep paralysis, which left me unable to perform as my brain was clouded with exhaustion during the days.

Changes in Nonprofit Hospitals’ Finances, Operations, and Quality of Care After Using Management Consultants

FAULKNER: Not long after I bought it. I’d be going home, it was hilly. I’d put it into auto-drive. I would be at 35 miles an hour, would quickly go to 60, cross that double yellow line and go straight at the cars. I think what it was trying to do is, because it was hilly, it thought that maybe the road was going to end so it was going to save me by going into the other lane. I don’t know what it was thinking. I called them about it. They sent someone to ride in the car with me and saw that that’s indeed what happened. Then they brought another car to see if it happened on that car too, and it did. Same thing happened. So it was the software and not the car.

Caslon type is considered the first Anglo Saxon expression of roman type, which arose during the Renaissance out of humanist scholars’ veneration and imitation of ancient Roman culture and letters. These embedded ideals mirror the Diplomatic Reception Rooms’ logo mark itself, which shares this origin in Renaissance humanism, and relates to ideas of both literacy and the value of the individual.

Welcome to the world’s most extensive apples (pommes) database Information on over 7,000 apples is available here, all carefully researched and provided in a way that is easy to navigate.

The photograph captured something people had been watching develop in fragments (a feature added here, a terms-of-service update there) but hadn’t yet seen stated plainly. Dube’s Jeep had not been hacked. Nothing had gone wrong. The advertisement came from Stellantis, the company that built the truck, over the truck’s own cellular connection, to a screen in a vehicle the owner had paid for outright. To turn it off permanently, Stellantis directed owners to call the Brand Connectcustomer service line at 800-777-3600 during business hours.

It is not necessarily news that there will always be a tradeoff between doing the novel risky thing – and dying by science failure; and doing the validated incremental bet – and dying by competition. However, with acquisition demand being more or less constant for a particular target-modality pair (there are only so many pharmas in the world!) and the supply curve shifting far to the right by China printing more early-stage assets for known targets with known modalities – I think the next few years will be the first time we see Western biotech companies unable to exit despite having promising data on me-too or me-better. I suspect exits for GalNAc siRNAs (including multitargeting siRNAs) and antibodies (including bispecifics and trispecifics) will become a bloodbath. In other words, if something is incremental or obvious, it is no longer worth doing – and the competition penalty is much higher than before.

Elsewhere in The Washington Post today, there’s “A $20,000 model trash can is a showcase of city dysfunction/Why can’t San Francisco’s officials competently replace its trash cans?” It does concede: “Politically, the city has self-corrected a bit, as voters replaced the mayor, district attorney and school board with reformist challengers. But why can’t the city’s government get anything done?”

Boeing and most airline customers badly wanted the two-crew configuration. The financial savings from eliminating a flight engineer on every flight were substantial. Over thousands of annual flight hours per aircraft, the labor cost differential between a two-crew and three-crew operation compounded into millions of dollars per jet per year across a fleet. Furthermore, a common two-crew type rating shared with the narrowbody 757, being designed concurrently, would give airlines enormous scheduling flexibility and reduce transition training costs. Every major airline customer had powerful economic incentives to push for two-crew operations.

We’ve made significant progress utilizing static QR codes with SMART Health Links. Wrapping those capabilities into an interactive, end-to-end check-in protocol is the necessary next step to finally kill the clipboard.

Our main product corn heads,corn picker,the features and design of Tianren corn head revolutionized corn harvesting work when introduced in China in 2004 and its legendary performance still out yields all others.

LA has over 40K drug addicts holding Angelenos hostage. All it takes is one to make moms feel too nervous to let their kids just go be kids and explore the quiet streets of their beautiful neighborhood. ENOUGH. We are done being held hostage in our own homes. Vote PRATT today! More.

Well, we paid Duffy’s salary during this time, of course. But the Department of Transportation has a list of sponsors that paid the expenses of these excursions through a non-profit that was set up for this purpose.

In my current school, we inherited a curriculum and morphed it for our pupils in our school. Our Do Nows became centralised. All lessons contain the same I Do, We Do, You Do format. Regular checks for understanding are scattered throughout, answers to questions found in our booklets. Even our models and scaffolding became centralised to ensure that the baseline for each lesson was a bloody good one.

As Claude is able to do more complex work, it is also writing larger and larger specs and plans. In practice, I’ve found I tend to not actually read more than a 100-line markdown file, and I certainly am not able to get anyone else in my organization to read it.

Only, he’s not giving it directly to mothers in the form of supermarket vouchers or gift cards — he can’t do that, because then Kelly Sawyer’s Hollywood producer husband Jamie Patricof wouldn’t be able to funnel this money back into Newsom’s presidential campaign.

And here is the deeper problem: that patient is not subsidizing the hospital only once. She is subsidizing it over and over again. She pays taxes for Medicare and Medicaid. Pollack’s testimony explicitly argues that those programs underpay hospitals and that this underpayment must be absorbed somewhere else.

Collection of 100 colourized photos from the Warsaw Rising

Downtown St. Louis is in bad shape. We can’t afford to do nothing about it.

The risk: A drop in the share price could lead lenders to sell some of an executive’s stake to keep debts in line with the value of the underlying collateral. That could drive the share price down further, especially where an executive owns a significant chunk of the company. 

In the US and Europe, weapons systems move from concept to deployment over five, ten, sometimes fifteen years. A major capability iteration of the flagship F-35 Lightning II fighter jet can take close to a decade. That gap – one week versus seven years – is not just down to the exceptional engineering talent in Ukraine. It is the product of how work is organized, how quickly information reaches the people who can act on it and how much authority those people hold.

This experiment showed GPT-5.5 can reverse engineer with great success if you give it the ability to run probes, validate against ground truth, and revise. It identifies when public documentation is enough versus when it has to read source. It builds the diagnostic infrastructure that makes hard problems debuggable rather than only writing code that hopes to work.

One final note, I’m convinced the greatest Master of the art of a measured tongue was our Lord, Jesus – if you get a chance read Jesus’ conversation with Pilate (John 18:33-38). Jesus put on a masterclass of this skillset.

…. including a plan for establishing a state-run public bank that would serve the public interest rather than enabling bottom-line profiteering by private banks.

This is the greatest single question I’ve ever seen asked in Congress.

95% of over a million babies a year are killed out of SELFISH reasons or “convenience”

Notably, Apple CMF 2026 is only used on the Apple XDR Display (P3-2000 nits, and P3 + Adobe RGB-2000 nits) modes.  All other reference modes are based entirely on the CIE 1931 calibration space, maintaining comparability to non-Studio Displays and their calibrations.

Faury outlined a series of issues plaguing the company, calling it a “desynchronization between production and delivery….. However, this is hardly a “It’s time to sell the silverware” moment.

“Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.”  

— St. Francis de Sales

Minnesota’s report card under @GovTimWalz is in:

The single biggest secret of Ryanair has nothing to do with marketing. It is a 25-minute turnaround. Once a Ryanair plane lands, the crew has it cleaned, refueled, reboarded, and back in the air in 25 minutes. Aer Lingus needs about an hour to do the same thing. After three flights in a day, Ryanair has banked two hours, which is enough time to fit in two extra flights. Every single Ryanair plane flies more flights per day than every single Aer Lingus plane. That gap is where the entire profit margin of European cheap flying comes from. Long flights to other continents don’t work the same way. A faster turnaround at JFK doesn’t let you squeeze another flight to America into the day, so the saved time gets wasted. This is why O’Leary thinks Ryanair will never fly across the Atlantic but will dominate short flights inside Europe for decades.

I think everyone should have a draft email ready to go. If you’re laid off, you can quickly add the date and send it to leadership and HR, and copy the Department of Labor’s H-1B and Wage and Hour Division. In it, state that you want to be considered for any roles that match your background, skills, and duties, regardless of job title, before the company hires H-1B workers or proceeds with PERM roles. You can also request copies of LCAs filed over the past year, including both primary and secondary worksites.

Fifteen Comms Observations from Musk v. Altman

Every public listing in Inside Airbnb’s open dump, 119 cities, 4 quarterly snapshots. We scored 1.7M photos with CLIP (a model that turns an image into a vector you can compare to a text prompt), shortlisted the most suspicious ones, and had Claude Haiku Vision double-check each shortlist. We also scored every review and reranked the weirdest 12K with Haiku. Everything was parallelized on Burla, on a single dynamic cluster that scaled to ~1.7K CPU workers for photo download and CLIP, with 20 A100 GPUs running embedding clusters in parallel on the same cluster.

Wherein Wisconsin’s unelected Secretary of State insults the Supreme Court for being unelected. Can’t make this stuff up.

“Taylor Swift” Art Filter On Olympus Camera Is Awesome!

There have been previous papers which suggested this, also with randomised placebo/treatment trials, but this 10-year followup suggests that a lot of surgery is just pointless. (Apart from enriching surgeons.) As my GP said to me when I was discussing various pains, “surgeons like doing surgery”. It’s something to bear in mind, and to research carefully before going under any knife.

The first hint of efficiency as strategy. Already there in a teenager doing scissor-kicks across Erie Bay.

XFundamentally, I find that MapKit is great for basic uses, but doesn’t provide nearly the level of configurability and utility which I want Pedometer++ to offer. For example:

Something big is happening in the marsh south of Abbeville and almost no one is talking about it on the record. Over the last few weeks I’ve fielded dozens of phone calls from clients, friends, and fellow sportsmen asking the same question: did SpaceX really buy 136,000 acres in Pecan Island and Freshwater City? I’ve called everyone I could think of who might know — government officials, longtime Pecan Island locals, energy insiders, hunting-lease holders. No one is denying it. A few are quietly confirming it. But not a single official document has surfaced. So I went down the rabbit hole myself. Here is everything I’ve learned about the rumor, what makes it credible, what it would mean for property owners and investors across Acadiana, and what I think you should do about it right now. More.

The greatest problem in healthcare ? Hospitals, even market dominant hospitals, won’t walk away from the big ins companies that underpay, late pay, clawback, deny claims, waste their time in denial appeals, and require them to pay up to 8 pct of revenue to RCM consultants so they think they are getting what they are owed.

To commemorate Apple’s AAPL 1.54%increase; green up pointing triangle 50th anniversary, CEO Tim Cook shared previously unseen archival materials with WSJ’s Ben Cohen and told the story of Apple through prototypes of its most successful products, including the iPod and iPhone.

“They do not mean any harm. They simply have no appetite for the sort of judgment that cannot be graphed. This is how a great company becomes infested with MBAs. Not because every MBA is a philistine, though the percentages are hardly encouraging,”

Critics, including the hospital lobby, argue that POHs “cherry-pick” healthier, more profitable patients, admitting far fewer Medicaid or medically complex cases than full-service community hospitals. The reality is that all hospitals prioritize commercially insured patients, but a 2015 study found that physician-owned and traditional hospitals served virtually identical proportions of Medicaid patients and racial minorities.

I have always been a big fan of Tim Cook, and likewise, Steve Jobs, but if Steve was not taken from the Planet Earth so young, and ran the company instead of Tim, the company would have done well, but nowhere near as well as it has under Tim. For me it began with a phone call from Tim at the beginning of my First Term. He had a fairly large problem that only I, as President, could fix.

By patenting both layers, Apple created a double-lock: Competitors couldn’t copy the product design, and Apple’s suppliers couldn’t repurpose the processes for other clients. (The irony, though, is that it then consolidated operations in a country not exactly known for its IP protections…)

After the study, we became certain that it was possible to track a sword tip by placing a marker onto it, even with technologies accessible in 2012. We created video footage visualizing the trajectory of a sword tip using AR technology, which was included in a video for Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

And yet those, too, were just footnotes to the even larger problem. Already, Florida had lost about three-quarters of its citrus growers. The last of them, these spent survivors, these hangers-on, had trudged to the Citrus Show to talk about the real problem, which was the disease.

Tim Cook remains one of the few tech leaders able to maintain working relationships with both the U.S. and Chinese governments. Apple will likely still need to rely on him on the geopolitical front in the foreseeable future.

Aging will go much further toward happiness and satisfaction if the more farsighted among them will begin to organize societies for self-help and self-direction, rather than for the promotion of economic experiments of unknown dimensions and unforeseeable consequences. The object of such societies could be both social and economic, to provide companionship among the aging, who are apt to have lost a good deal of it, as well independence for those who cannot continue in some form of their old employment.

Amtrak train ticket data.

Surveillance pricing is not new. American capitalism has a long tradition of consumer exploitation, including targeted advertising, behavioral advertising, price discrimination, and algorithmic pricing. All of these tactics make it easier for corporations to extract more consumer surplus; that is, to close the gap between what consumers are willing to pay and what they actually pay.

Every 2025 FBS player, mapped by hometown. Pick a team, conference, state, or position to see who’s from where — or hit + Compare to put two side-by-side.

Ursa Ag’s dealer network remains tiny, and the company sells direct. Wilson admitted they haven’t scaled up distribution because they can’t keep shelves stocked as it stands. He says 2026 production will exceed the company’s entire cumulative output, which is a bold claim from a small operation, and whether they can actually deliver is the single biggest question hanging over this story.

But short-term rental owners say their businesses are boosting the local economy. From 2018 to 2025, gross tourist rooming house sales provided about $52,000 in room tax revenues, according to village figures. Those stays, which average 3.2 days according to rental property owners, ripple into the village economy with no conventional large hotel in McFarland.

The Arkansas men’s and women’s tennis programs spent a combined $2.5 million and brought in $3,284 in revenue for the 2024-25 reporting year, according to the school’s NCAA Membership Financial Reporting Survey.

This paragraph by Richard Feynman hits so hard:

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.”

Toronto police seize ‘SMS blasters,’ a cybercrime weapon never before seen in Canada. Police believe tens of thousands of devices were connected to the blaster over several months, and identified more than 13 million network disruptions.

Stability is an illusion. Fragility hides inside everything that looks too smooth.

The passage is the first question and answer of the Heidelberg Catechism, published in 1563 and taught to children and grieving adults ever since, especially in the Reformed tradition Ben comes out of. Most catechisms start with God’s attributes, or the purpose of humanity, or the nature of Scripture. Heidelberg starts somewhere else. It starts with comfort.

Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death?

A. That I am not my own, but belong—body and soul, in life and in death—to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven; in fact, all things must work together for my salvation. Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.

“It is impossible to get a man to acknowledge truth when his salary, status, or beliefs depend upon not accepting it.”

Most important is to be more intentional in your digital media consumption. Do not let the algorithm decide what you should indulge. Choose consciously what enters your mind. Understand that you are not bored, you are being processed. It is not that you are lacking discipline that makes you easily distracted, it is because you are in the machine optimised for brainrot.

First, Amazon has to prove that people want to buy their cars not only online, but from the same place they buy toothpaste. 

I’ve been writing the following since image stabilization first appeared: in situations where you don’t need it—e.g. when you’ve got a shutter speed that should freeze even that fast moving plane—stabilization is best turned off. While best case is that stabilization corrects all problems, the worst case is that it introduces new flaws. A likely case is that you get some edge aliasing. 

Now the English huddle by the radiator, sucking up CO2 and mould spores. The houses struggle to feel warm because it’s 80% humidity inside.

The issue is the docks and loading facilities. They can only load about 4.5 Mbpd.

For decades, state and city leaders, many of whom have no private-sector experience themselves, have prioritized political agendas, pet projects and ideological experiments over practical prosperity. Consider the fate of Nicollet Mall.

New York Times dashboard: 2000 onward.

Christianity as we know it—the all-are-welcome Church, with fairly undemanding required rituals, no daily prostrations, no rules for separating cheese blintzes from corned beef, just confession, Communion, and prayer—owes more to Paul than to anyone else, perhaps even more than to the narrowly parochial and Jerusalem-centered Jesus. It was Paul, almost single-handed, and against the suspicions of Jesus’ original disciples, who journeyed and pleaded and made the faith portable. Quite a character! So much so that, in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, the director Frank Capra was eager to make a movie of Paul’s life starring Frank Sinatra. And though it sounds ridiculous when you say it, the casting actually makes sense. Whoever Paul was, he must have had charm, energy, and intensity, and been equally popular with the first-century equivalent of bobby-soxers and of made men. Raphael’s great image of Paul preaching in Athens, arms outstretched, crowd rapt, could be the Chairman on tour in Greece.

Jernmarker, or iron fields, was chosen as the Danish word of the year in December after the solar backlash swayed municipal elections and prompted some councils to pull projects. The spectre of barren metal landscapes has since returned to the campaign trail as Danes prepare to vote in national elections on Tuesday. “We need more common sense in the green transition,” Støjberg said in the first televised debate between party leaders last month.

MN has become a consumer, not creator, culture.

The clearest illustration of this dynamic came in January 2024, when Sullivan flew to Bangkok to meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and asked Beijing to use its “substantial leverage with Iran” to restrain the Houthis. The White House said it would “wait to see results.”. The results came quickly. According to Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, Beijing not only refused the request but also encouraged the Houthis to target other nations’ shipping. As Red Sea traffic collapsed, China-linked ships increased their transits and gained a commercial advantage. Sullivan had asked China to shut down an operation that was serving Chinese interests. Instead, it increased its mischief.

Minnesota Mao — a new documentary from the team that brought you The Fall of Minneapolis. Coming June 4.

Alcorn tapped into the paper’s public API to create a dashboard that provides some extraordinary insights.

Kelda Roys (state senator and running for gov.) a village resident calls in and says she is dismayed how Pres Imes is targeting Lotfi.Says she has known Lotfi for more than 10 years and has appreciate “the care she puts into things.” She’s also concerned about how village is portrayed in the news.

So the question is not whether to use files. You’re always using files. The question is whether to use a database’s files or your own. And for a lot of applications, especially early-stage ones, the answer might be: your own.

“Mr. Biden lives abroad.” Those four words in a filing from Barry Coburn confirmed what had long been rumored about his client: Hunter Biden has left the country as his former lawyers and creditors seek millions in unpaid debts. He added, “He cannot pay his current lawyers.”

But now, Microsoft is stepping back from the industry it helped create, telling some companies that it is pausing future purchases of carbon removal credits, according to two people familiar with the matter who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The news was first reported by Heatmap.

Dems have been playing this same simple game for years with their gullible followers. They pretend to want something their “base” wants, but always manage to fall a few votes short. Gosh darn! Vote Dem next time and we’ll get it for you! I wrote in 2010:

Only guy who kept his cool, until the very end, was the dude who had been riding for 6 days straight from California, where he’d just been released from serving 10.

There’s an old, bad idea that’s been trying to resurrect itself on X in the last couple of days. Which makes it time for me to explain exactly why, in the age of LLMs, open-sourcing your code is an even more important security measure than it was before we had robot friends. The underlying principle was discovered in the 1880s by an expert on military cryptography, a man named August Kerckhoffs, writing long before computers were a thing.

The largest municipal embezzlement in American history ran through one account with one signer. Every small-town government in America has the same setup.

Ex-UT football coach Darrell Royal had a saying that captures this moment for America: “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Natural gas – abundant, affordable, powerful – was both the opportunity and the preparation in this instance.

Enriching uranium is an American cultural practice, anyone else doing it is appropriating our culture.

One of Murphy’s trick plays might actually work. 

It’s become a Schrödinger’s Strait, open and closed simultaneously- depending on the observer. Iran declares it open, the US blockades it, then vice versa. We have satellites than can read newspaper headlines but the public lacks hard data on ship movements.

“If My people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

The “YIMBY” (“Yes in my backyard”) voting scale is intended to be an objective measure of the pro-housing alignment of Madison Common Council Members. However, you should be highly skeptical of any measure that purports to be “objective,” because every measure of attitudes requires some value judgement. Our measure is no different! 

Your home is photographed and publicly visible on at least 5 websites right now.

Google Maps. Apple Maps. Bing Maps. Zillow. Redfin.

You can blur or remove it from all of them. Free. Takes 15 minutes.

In 1970, the UCC reported its highest ratio of members to churches: 291 to one. That’s actually a really healthy number. But now the figure has dropped to only 152 members per congregation. In other words, they aren’t closing churches fast enough to keep that ratio up. To maintain a ratio of 291, it would require the UCC to have only 2,350 churches. That would mean shutting the doors of over 2,000 congregations.