Once you have passkeys enabled for google you are kind of screwed if you lose the passkey -- even if you have multiple other authentication method (phone, recovery email, etc).
Learned that trying to help my son today. He can access his email, but not the account security settings. And he can't delete the account.
Shingles vaccines reduce cardiovascular risks in addition to dementia risk reduction.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/more-impossible-ignore-vaccine-effects
Very weird
Robert X Cringely has passed. I remember when his young child died of SIDS.
He had many wonderful dreams, including curring or preventing SIDS, and, , later, a space launch project.
His wife's obit said; "He was preceded in death by his beloved sons, Chase and Cole Stephens"
That's a lot of heartbreak. Somehow he endured.
Why are Americans unbothered by Trump corruption?
https://followmehere.com/2026/08/16/why-arent-we-more-upset/
The problem is with us and our culture.
Anyway, discovered it because CarbonCopyCloner says not supported on HPFS+ (sparse).
(I"ve been putting off reformatting my spinning disks to APFS)
My Claude Install includes a 20GB folder in Application Support. (Sparse so size misleading).
Includes claudevm.bundle with a 10GB session data .img file (encrypted I think).
One of the weirdest omissions in macOS is the uninstaller. So so bizarre.
Google misclassified a class action email notification as spam.
Class action was against Google.
I don't think it's directly nefarious actually. I think Google's spam filtering has followed the same death march as Google Search.
The tragedy of X: data show many clever people fail the values test.
https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak-show
Revealed preference - when actions do not align with stated values. Values are what you do, not what you say you do.
Most humans go with the flow.
Jan 6: “Shortly thereafter a rioter grabbed Hodges by the face and tried to gouge out his eyes.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-20-2026
Hodges et al suing to block Trump slush fund. I very much hope a jury gets involved.
“Trump bought and sold at least $220 million in stocks like those of Nvidia, Apple, Tesla, and Microsoft while making policy and public announcements that affected the value of those stocks.”
King Trump seizes assets of the peasants: “With the announcement of the agreement, the Treasury Department’s top lawyer, Brian Morrissey, resigned.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-19-2026
Another name to add to the hall of honor in former Trump ballroom
How to read Gibbon of Decline game.
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/bangers-from-gibbon
An extraordinary writer.
THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES BY DR. TERENCE TAO AND ZACH WEINERSMITH
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/spheres-part-1
Nerdvana
“the American voters did resummon Nyarlathotep because enough of us remain enthralled by his unfettered madness, wanton cruelty, and nonsensical brinkmanship…”
“What migrates into silicon is not abstract reasoning but social intelligence in externalized form, encountering itself on a new substrate.”
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeg1895
Essay from researchers on intelligence and ai. Good description of “community of mind” emergent intelligence.
Really enjoyed Hail Mary. It felt like an antidote to the Trump era.
AI glasses in China rented for exam cheating.
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-glasses-cheating-privacy-boom/
I suspect proctors know they are being used … but they aren’t enforcing rules. That is curious.
“Our data on the USA goes back to 1789. What we’re seeing now is the most severe magnitude of democratic backsliding ever in the country,”
Fascism surging.
Anthropic v Trump: “using these systems for mass domestic surveillance is incompatible with democratic values. AI-driven mass surveillance presents serious, novel risks to our fundamental liberties”
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
OpenAI has indicated it will do the mass surveillance.
School choice and charter schools: “here in the Twin Cities that market freedom has yielded schools that are siloed by race”
Charter schools have many ways to discourage high cost students.
My favorite macos feature is being able to drag an email from Mail.app to the desktop and put the .eml file into the file system when it belongs there.
I suspect it's a feature that dates back decades. Maybe last century. I wonder how many use it and when it will go away.