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Huh, that's a remarkable miss for Pangram then. Interesting.

Hrm. I plugged in the first 4000 words of this essay into my free Pangram account and it says "59% AI generated", "We believe that this document is a mix of AI-generated, AI-assist…

I noticed that the company is glossed as "Flock" and not "Flock Safety (YC S17)" in posts like this and last week's "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology", http…

Is this the first time Bookface screenshots have been published publicly?

At one point recently the Mirai came with a fuel incentive program: when you buy the car, Toyota gives you a gift card worth $15,000 towards fuel at hydrogen stations. An interesti…

I thought this piece was nice but: (1) It doesn't give Adams enough credit for his work on WhenHub. I was reading Scott Adams's posts about WhenHub contemporaneously as he worked t…

Wow, I read the linked case ( https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/kb/2025/3063 ) and the High Court judge's ruling has a remarkably strong and thorough discussion of both …

Watched a fantastic film about this on the plane a few years ago, "Liar Game - Reborn". There is some fairly sophisticated logic puzzling and scheming going on (see e.g. sample ill…

How much money did the attackers make?

Hey hey, maybe it will help job stability. Gergely Orosz, whose writing is influential in tech spheres and fun to read, has been a loud proponent of the theory that TCJA's eliminat…

An interesting read, thanks for this.

I think it's worth reading both the 2015 OIG report on the topic ("Title: Numberholders Age 112 or Older Who Did Not Have a Death Entry on the Numident", A-06-14-34030) and also th…

I think it's worth reading both of the OIG documents on this topic: - 2015: "Numberholders Age 112 or Older Who Did Not Have a Death Entry on the Numident", audit report A-06-14-34…

I spent a fair chunk of the mid-90s to early 2000s on a moderately busy MUD with a group of people who, it turns out, were all about the same age. No idea in retrospect how I juggl…

The chat logs show that he was quite stoic about the whole thing and treated it as a mundane business action to protect himself ("is a liability and I wouldn't mind if…"; "I've rec…

I skimmed the literature on this and the ritonavir story seems legit. There really is a peer-reviewed paper saying that there are five crystalline forms of the stuff. ("Elucidation…

Honestly any time I read the procedural history of this stuff I get nerd sniped by the bizarre details and I lose track of the big picture. I feel like the whole thing could be thr…

I think the disappearing polymorph stories are also pretty spooky. These have real-life impacts, like with ritonavir.

Cell phones and laptops in general have changed a couple of things for me, as someone who grew up without them: - I realized about 20y-25y ago that I could run a Web search and fin…

> There's a lot here that feels like... Bad statistics. Not to say that there's no truth in the accusations - but they don't seem to be acting in good faith, and that will wreck th…

I remember reading in Reader's Digest in the 1990s that if you're in a store and you break something which the merchant asks you to pay for, you should offer to pay their cost to r…

Looking up one of the phrases from Langdon's statistical report ("Four Sigma Members") led me briefly to the rabbit hole of high-IQ societies, of which there seem to be many. Neat …

Eric Meyer's posts about his daughter's illness, and the family's lifelong process of grieving afterward, are heartbreaking. It's arresting, gripping writing. It's wonderful and aw…

After high school ended (2:30pm) most days I used to have some kind of club activity (2:30pm-3:30pm) and then hang out in the cafeteria or by the front of the school, waiting for a…

Does Twitter still have software in Scala?