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I sometimes think about how much the CIA risked setting back global health when using a fake vaccination program to find Bin Laden.

Neat! Benford’s Law was the first topic I dove into in undergrad math that got a minor publication. Given how well known it is for forensic accounting I’ve always wanted to look in…

Ads, especially personalized ads, are the alternative that powers much of the open internet. More options are great.

Many of the links have soft 404s as well. Seems like a dead site.

As someone that naturally used a rule of 3 and em dashes I hate AI for taking that away from me.

Get a custom domain. Strat using that. Route to Gmail to start but easily decouple. It took me about a year of updates but now I rarely get anything to a @gmail

This is a very US centric view in part because of the low confidence in the American government to be able to effectively regulate negative impacts. https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-ind…

I’ve always liked this idea but I think it eventually ends back up with essentially our current system. Users have multiple devices so you quickly get to needing a sync service. On…

Just as parallel construction [1] is used by law enforcement to conceal methods and practices no reason to not expect the same for financial gain. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

I use Fastmail and the main difference I notice is less effective spam filtering — it’s good but not as great as Gmail was. Overall it’s been an acceptable trade off and I’m glad y…

In my experience it is a lot like finding time to work on "strategy". There's never really explicit time given, you have to make it in the day, and its often the most valuable time…

I am sympathetic to the argument that I’d rather elected officials that have a path to be removed have the control of use more so than unelected executives.

Microsoft stopped chasing the education space with the wind down of 11SE [1]. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/microsoft-kills-wind...

It will be interesting to see if this is an exit for investors and which ones. Given it wasn’t an acquisition but licensing.

While an earlier poster is over stating Ostrom’s Nobel prize winning work — it is regularly shown that averting the tragedy of the commons is not as insurmountable as the original …

Many of the fly by night digital proscribes just jack the dosage to show rapid gains. Coupled with people lying on BMI to get a script is a bad combination and why it’s so obvious.…

Likely because (very?) few would associate LLMs in their current form with "digital slaves". Attributing personhood to a non-corporeal entity is likely a multi-generational change,…

Don’t forget you can’t dare offer water or food to those stuck in lines else that’s considered tampering in many (all?) locales in the US. Mail in voting is just better all around …

This feels like getting taught in school not to cite Wikipedia when the actual digital literacy challenge is deeper— learn where the info comes from and to critically think.

Very cool. I love the tactical board game experience but automatic upkeep for rules is appealing. As a parent I wish it had more details on the durability. I can just imagine spill…