Even if this isn't a blatant scam or phishing attempt, my inclination these days is to be sympathetic to fugitives. Tech such as this seems like another step towards a police or feudal state
I'd like Psylo [1] to be available on other platforms like Linux and MacOS. Psylo puts each tab behind a VPN and give them their own cookie storage space. It feels like a dramatically more private tool than Orion.
I tried Orion in Dec 2025 and it crashed more frequently than I could handle. It and/or VPNs I was using worked poorly with websites that I want to keep a page open on for days at a time.
re 12% vegetarianism in Argentina: One trip out to a steak house in the region almost turned me vegetarian. I can imagine vegetarianism rising in response to immense amounts of meat.
Jensen Huang (Nvidia CEO) says he is "perfectly fine" [WSJ, Fortune] with the Cali wealth tax. I am no billionaire, but if I hade made it big in CA, I hope I'd be thinking about economic inequality and would be more in line with Warren Buffet (who doesn't like paying a lower tax rate than his secretary).
If one wants to contribute to an open-source LTE modem, the best place to start may be OpenLTE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLTE The core of any LTE modem is software, even if it is written for DSPs or other low-level software.
As useful as that might be for the researchers, I felt completely stupid when doing it. Maybe instead of someone whispering ‘Remember you are mortal’ to us like story of the Roman emperor, we can just do an online test designed such that we largely fail...
Eric Topol has a more useful summary [1] of the peptides, including which have FDA approval and the health effects. Here's a quote:
"Why have peptides become so popular without data to support the promotional claims? This, in part, reflects the challenge and mistrust of the medical establishment, which worsened during the Covid pandemic, but was already showing strong signs of opposition by the wide adoption of supplements (with a very similar lack of supportive data on efficacy and safety) long before 2020. Ironically, anti-vax individuals are against shots with as rigorous datasets as we’ve ever seen (e.g. >70,000 participants in the initial mRNA Covid vaccines randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials released in late 2020) but happy to get injections of peptides for which there are scant if any data to support their use."
Someone who reads every email, or at least looks at the subject long enough to do something with it (delete, move, ...) and don't leave unread emails in their inbox
Yuval Noah Harari said something along the lines of "communism is a religion, but so is capitalism, and so is Google." Of course Harari is being a bit of a troll, but so is whomever wrote "Marxism is a cult of power" video. I find Harari's framework more useful than labeling any specific ideology as a "cult".
I agree the use of the word “cult” was perhaps stronger than necessary, and maybe even a bit trollish, however, I think James Lindsay’s analysis is still quite sound
If one ignores FICA (social security) taxes, the US has a negative income tax for the lowest income brackets. I think this is a wonderful thing in that it encourages low income people to get into and stay in the workforce, and encourages high income people to focus on investment, due to lower taxes on long-term capital gains.
On the other hand, I'm in favor of higher taxes than income on short-term capital gains, to encourage investors to focus on long-term gains rather than short-term extractive exploitation of assets. I favor lower rates than income tax on long term gains, say assets held for five years.
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