I’m curious why there’s a drop in the number of girls wanting to not get married but boys have stayed basically constant. The survey definitely shows like women have a lower desire for children, but how much does the decline in the institution of marriage play into this rather than an underlying change in a desire for families?
I’ve never realized what an ungodly hulking behemoth the modern web browser has become until reading through all the features required for PWAs.
Updated to macOS Tahoe. Of course Apple broke a whole bunch of scripting APIs that I use. Apparently you just can't get the currently playing song title in Apple Music with Applescript because fuck you I guess.
Every update, I start to more seriously consider switching to Linux for my next laptop. I hate feeling like I'm a guest on my own computer begging for the ability to get access to the internal state of my own laptop.
She definitely does not lol. She has enough of marketing acumen that she could release 3 hours of a single note and fans would eat it up.
The new Taylor Swift album feels like the songwriter version of computer scientists whiteboard masturbating. She spent so much time flaunting how clever she is at writing lyrics that she forgot to actually make good music. Everything just comes out sounding blandly floaty.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whiteboard%20masturbation
Just realized that all the icons in the macOS System Settings app change sizes when the window is frontmost vs not. Why in the world would this be helpful? https://blossom.primal.net/a3cfb9885692158dc29a67735cd819d11b1a62de3e97867e41843cf9a4f2bc34.mov
⚡️🇺🇸💉 NEW - Incredible revelation yesterday in the US Senate. A study showed that in vaccinated VS unvaccinated children:
▪️ 4.29 times higher rate of ASTHMA
▪️ 3.03 times higher rate of ATOPIC DISEASE
▪️ 5.96 times higher rate of AUTO-IMMUNE DISEASE
▪️ 5.53x higher rate of NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
▪️ Including 3.28x DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY
▪️ And 4.47x SPEECH DISORDERS
For conditions such as ADHD, learning disabilities and intellectual impairments, there were HUNDREDS of cases in the vaccinated group and ZERO in the unvaccinated group.
https://blossom.primal.net/35cbbd8988151b6eb1775923e831461ae42a1a772db90b9a22e0b0b897d0603c.mov
What a load of bs.
First of all, the statement at the bottom about zero diagnosed conditions in the unvaccinated group is a flat out lie. But don't trust me, verify. Unlike Flash I'll even give you the link. Go read the testimony. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Siri-Testimony-1.pdf
The unvaccinated group was far smaller so there should be less diagnoses. This is just basic stats illiteracy.
The Henry Ford study is an unpublished and non peer reviewed study. Read the response from the Stanford professor who also testified in front of the senate. https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/aaron-siri-smoking-gun-vaccine-chronic-disease-study-flaws/
If you scroll to the end of the study, even the authors admit that their study is fundamentally flawed. The vaccinated kids had far more health checkups than the unvaccinated kids, and therefore far more disease diagnoses. It's that simple. This is not a smoking gun, just a very poorly designed study.
The funniest part about all of this is that after all of the work RFK Jr. went through to find this study to cherry pick, the Henry Ford study still says that vaccines don't cause autism. Meaning RFK Jr. is now cherry picking results within cherry picked studies.
If you place any trust in RFK Jr. or Flash media on Nostr after this debacle I don't know what to say to you.
It’s 2021 and people are launching stablecoins again.
https://manifold.markets/nathanwei/will-the-un-declare-a-famine-in-gaz
Can't believe I got rug pulled by the UN. What a joke. I forecasted that the UN wouldn't declare a famine in Gaza because a real famine requires 2 deaths per 10k, which works out to ~420 deaths per day. The chances of this happening are insanely low and you've been brain rotted by your news feed if you think it is. What I failed to factor in was the possibility that the UN would just change its definition of what a famine is by removing the 2 deaths 10k requirement completely.
The situation in Gaza is definitely bad, but focusing this much on what words we use to describe it (genocide, famine) is not helpful and distracts from the actual situation on the ground. Semantics are stupid, just focus on the facts.
Kinda can't believe Taylor is actually getting married. What will all those celebrity shows do now that they can't speculate on her love life?
Fair enough. It’s on-device so it doesn’t really concern me, and I doubt most people care either way, but it’s easy to disable if it really does freak you out. I would still count it as Apple going out of its way to keep private information on your own device rather than uploading it to some AWS bucket to log forever like most companies would.
4chan really pulling out the big guns here. They’re threatening to call on daddy Trump.
The letter translated from legalese pretty much just reads “Do you even know who my dad is?”
Oh I see what you mean. I assumed you meant data for Apple’s LLM training. But yes in iOS there’s the Siri Intents framework. AFAIK it’s all on device and not very invasive. It sounds good in theory—suggesting common actions in apps—but in practice for me at least it’s rarely useful.
I don’t think they train on private user data. For a bit when Apple was trying to get into the LLM game they had their own scraper running to get data.
We need more EQ benchmarks. I bet there are way more normies who want capabilities like this than nerds who just want to write code.
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Note to self: never ask an LLM for flirting suggestions. It'll take a while for capabilities to improve enough to become useful.
Just wrote a Python script to extract messages from a conversation in iMessages, then fed it into an LLM to get feedback and suggestions as a test. After reading LLM flirting suggestions I think I might die of cringe. I have never felt such a strong urge to gag while reading non-NSFW text.
For all the other people who may have, like me, seen this meme graph all over the internet with everyone attributing it to their favorite pet theory for the decline of society, it turns out the data had to be tortured pretty hard to get this.
https://grimoiremanor.substack.com/p/no-conscientiousness-hasnt-collaped
I finally made a decision and took the Giving What We Can pledge. Instead of feeling helpless about the evil going on in the world, do something about it and improve the world as much as you can with what you have.
Don't settle for giving to the charity that has the best marketing materials or the most emotional appeal, look at the numbers and give to the charities who are doing the most good for the least amount of money.
Every dollar matters. Every person can easily save many lives every year. Make a difference and take the pledge.
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/
"Saruman believes that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk, that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love." - Gandalf
If you want to leave Substack because you don’t want to be beholden to a centralized platform, then great! That’s a decent reason to leave.
But everyone whining about Substack not having tight censorship is silly. The only reason there’s censorship online is because of advertisers. Companies don’t want their names next to Nazi propaganda, which is fair. Substack is subscription based so there’s no point in all the pomp and show of censorship.
Censorship is stupid, leaving Substack because you want Substack to decide what people can and cannot write is stupid.
https://kiro.dev/blog/introducing-kiro/
Days without new AI IDE: 0
Interesting concept tho. The basic idea is to break every task down into smaller and smaller subtasks to implement. This might be a more scalable architecture, since you can assign agents to different tasks simultaneously. It also probably scales better with AI capabilities since the AI can break each task down into fewer larger subtasks as model capabilities increase.
https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-plugin
The blog post’s point about MCP servers being a universal protocol for doing stuff on other platforms cracks me up because we already invented this. It’s called a REST API. The internet collectively spent 15 years hooking everything up to APIs before companies realized that they weren’t making money from their free APIs and shut them down (think Reddit, Twitter, etc).
Now all the LLM agent hype is just making everyone remember how awesome it is to be able to do stuff on a platform without being forced to use some proprietary app. At least for now, it seems like we’re seeing a resurgence of APIs and more open and accessible data which I’m all for as long as the hype lasts before companies go back to locking everything down again.
Google just can't stop winning. New test run for the Aider Polyglot benchmark is out and Gemini 2.5 Pro with extra thinking turned on is actually so stupidly good now that it trounces o3 by itself AND o3 and GPT 4.1 working together, all while being much less expensive.
Not only that, but just yesterday Google brought the 2.5 update for its Gemini models out of preview and dropped the price at the same time, so the models are actually less expensive than what's listed on the benchmark leaderboard. Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro is now better than the top of the line models from Anthropic and OpenAI, Opus and o3, while costing less than Sonnet.
Google is winning and its not even close right now.
That's def not selfish lol. Probably best to wait at least until the Public Beta rather than the Developer Beta if you're worried about performance. I personally don't use my phone much so it's not really an issue for me but YMMV.
https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1925591505332576377
Finally found the Claude 4 benchmarks on Twitter. Really impressive stuff for the agentic coding. I’m still waiting to see the Aider Polyglot benchmark results to see how well it performs.
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https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/
Fascinating article from Simon Willison talking about how good o3 is at guessing your location from a photograph. We’re only beginning to learn the new capabilities of reasoning models using tools during the thinking process.