#jgshare — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #jgshare, aggregated by home.social.
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Digital Nomad lessons
https://www.persuasion.community/p/what-i-learned-from-moving-to-the
“Kyrgyzstan is about as far away geographically and culturally from the United States as it’s possible to get, and even here my daily life basically feels very familiar”
Kyrgyzstan corruption is now obvious in America
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Digital Nomad lessons
https://www.persuasion.community/p/what-i-learned-from-moving-to-the
“Kyrgyzstan is about as far away geographically and culturally from the United States as it’s possible to get, and even here my daily life basically feels very familiar”
Kyrgyzstan corruption is now obvious in America
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How ai owners control responses - example from politically sensitive export controls
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/9/claude-opus-5-system-prompt/
The most perfect surveillance and population control technology ever developed.
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How ai owners control responses - example from politically sensitive export controls
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/9/claude-opus-5-system-prompt/
The most perfect surveillance and population control technology ever developed.
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AG corruption: “enable the White House to defy congressional subpoenas for anyone to whom the president talks”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-15-2026
American shame
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AG corruption: “enable the White House to defy congressional subpoenas for anyone to whom the president talks”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-15-2026
American shame
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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.
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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.
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SQLite WAL-Reset Bug: “I spent the last two years of my time working on SQLite trying to chase this bug down”
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/14/sqlite-wal-reset-bug/
Extreme debugging
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SQLite WAL-Reset Bug: “I spent the last two years of my time working on SQLite trying to chase this bug down”
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/14/sqlite-wal-reset-bug/
Extreme debugging
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At the beginning: “object resembles an enormous star, spanning the size of our solar system. But it also is putting out 100 billion times more energy than any known star can physically produce”
Black hole power
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At the beginning: “object resembles an enormous star, spanning the size of our solar system. But it also is putting out 100 billion times more energy than any known star can physically produce”
Black hole power
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“Fox News hosts are urging Trump to increase U.S. military involvement in Iran”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-11-2026
I like that HCR is clear about where Trump gets his orders.
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“Fox News hosts are urging Trump to increase U.S. military involvement in Iran”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-11-2026
I like that HCR is clear about where Trump gets his orders.
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“As predicted, rent stabilization policies and politics in both St. Paul and Minneapolis have dramatically reduced new housing construction”
St Paul rent control approach is kind of suicidal.
“St. Paul saw fewer apartments built last year than Lansing, Michigan, a city that’s been shrinking for a half-century.”
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“As predicted, rent stabilization policies and politics in both St. Paul and Minneapolis have dramatically reduced new housing construction”
St Paul rent control approach is kind of suicidal.
“St. Paul saw fewer apartments built last year than Lansing, Michigan, a city that’s been shrinking for a half-century.”
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Fable cannot be stopped: “wrote its own custom web application to capture information via CORS, then ran that as a local server and opened a page with JavaScript”
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/#atom-everything
Puny humans
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Fable cannot be stopped: “wrote its own custom web application to capture information via CORS, then ran that as a local server and opened a page with JavaScript”
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/#atom-everything
Puny humans
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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.
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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.
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Apple disarray: a partial catalog of CloudKit bugs as of May 2026
https://blog.justtact.com/cloudkit-bugs/
Doesn’t seem to affect Apple’s share price though. Sadly.
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Apple disarray: a partial catalog of CloudKit bugs as of May 2026
https://blog.justtact.com/cloudkit-bugs/
Doesn’t seem to affect Apple’s share price though. Sadly.
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Autism claim: in animal model “fever benefit” due to “IL-17a, which appears to calm overactive brain circuits during infection”
https://followmehere.com/2026/06/05/why-autism-symptoms-can-ease-during-a-fever-and-how-to-mimic-it/
It’s not the temperature. Early investigation.
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Autism claim: in animal model “fever benefit” due to “IL-17a, which appears to calm overactive brain circuits during infection”
https://followmehere.com/2026/06/05/why-autism-symptoms-can-ease-during-a-fever-and-how-to-mimic-it/
It’s not the temperature. Early investigation.
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Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and web assembly.
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/6/micropython-in-a-sandbox/#atom-everything
Willison wants to use it for plug-ins.
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Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and web assembly.
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/6/micropython-in-a-sandbox/#atom-everything
Willison wants to use it for plug-ins.
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Three ways to make a living:
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/02/zweig-three-ways-to-get-paid
“Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich.
Tell the truth to those who want the truth, and you’ll make a living.
Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke.”
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Three ways to make a living:
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/02/zweig-three-ways-to-get-paid
“Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich.
Tell the truth to those who want the truth, and you’ll make a living.
Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke.”
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Apple’s bug bounty fail: “simply reeked of incompetence and severe lack of organization”
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/02/no-bounty-for-mysk/
Apple looks healthy. But so did America when it first elected DJT.
There is a lot of rot in both America and Apple.
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Apple’s bug bounty fail: “simply reeked of incompetence and severe lack of organization”
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/02/no-bounty-for-mysk/
Apple looks healthy. But so did America when it first elected DJT.
There is a lot of rot in both America and Apple.
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“It was an illusion that today’s technology is even close to a sufficient substitute for being in each others’ physical presence.”
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/02/the-metaverse-was-snake-oil-for-isolation
COVID, Zoom, the Metaverse, and, by implication, the limits of remote work.
To my credit — none of it made sense to me at the time. We are primates, not LLMs. We need the physical. But so few agreed I began to doubt …
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“It was an illusion that today’s technology is even close to a sufficient substitute for being in each others’ physical presence.”
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/02/the-metaverse-was-snake-oil-for-isolation
COVID, Zoom, the Metaverse, and, by implication, the limits of remote work.
To my credit — none of it made sense to me at the time. We are primates, not LLMs. We need the physical. But so few agreed I began to doubt …
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“Democratic lawmakers have said they will not renew the controversial Section 702 of FISA with Pulte as DNI.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-3-2026
Trump’s Director of blackmail and directed discipline.
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“Democratic lawmakers have said they will not renew the controversial Section 702 of FISA with Pulte as DNI.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-3-2026
Trump’s Director of blackmail and directed discipline.
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For the 50th consecutive election season - calls to get rid of Minnesota’s caucus system.
Dem candidates to big offices mostly ignore the Dem caucus. Our authoritarian GOP has been more obedient.
So the existing undemocratic system is perversely good for democracy. It’s still dumb.
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For the 50th consecutive election season - calls to get rid of Minnesota’s caucus system.
Dem candidates to big offices mostly ignore the Dem caucus. Our authoritarian GOP has been more obedient.
So the existing undemocratic system is perversely good for democracy. It’s still dumb.
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Charity hospitals funding - return of the forever crisis at Minneapolis large hospital of last resort
HCMC collapses first — because it has the most compassionate criteria for charity care.
Another example of America’s longstanding cultural and political illnesses.
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Charity hospitals funding - return of the forever crisis at Minneapolis large hospital of last resort
HCMC collapses first — because it has the most compassionate criteria for charity care.
Another example of America’s longstanding cultural and political illnesses.
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“peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots”
https://www.404media.co/companies-are-using-reddit-to-manipulate-chatgpt-and-google-ai-search/
America has the best scams.
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“peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots”
https://www.404media.co/companies-are-using-reddit-to-manipulate-chatgpt-and-google-ai-search/
America has the best scams.
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Filibuster must die: “It’s bad on the merits and there’s no path forward for the country with it in place”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-the-filibuster-absolutely-has-to-go
It only works for the GOP
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Filibuster must die: “It’s bad on the merits and there’s no path forward for the country with it in place”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-the-filibuster-absolutely-has-to-go
It only works for the GOP
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“Has Tahoe’s interface improved?”
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/31/last-week-on-my-mac-razzle-and-dazzle/
No. Apple does not care.
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“Has Tahoe’s interface improved?”
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/31/last-week-on-my-mac-razzle-and-dazzle/
No. Apple does not care.
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macOS: “You can also lock an open file inside an app. Click on the down arrow to the right of its name in the title bar to see this pane, then click on the padlock to lock that file.”
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/30/protect-files-with-the-locked-or-immutable-flag/
Sigh. I had no idea this existed.
As is typical it does not work properly with iCloud. Which I am so glad I avoid.
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macOS: “You can also lock an open file inside an app. Click on the down arrow to the right of its name in the title bar to see this pane, then click on the padlock to lock that file.”
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/30/protect-files-with-the-locked-or-immutable-flag/
Sigh. I had no idea this existed.
As is typical it does not work properly with iCloud. Which I am so glad I avoid.
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Washington, D.C.’s crime decline - National Guard and more effective policing
https://www.niskanencenter.org/washington-dc-crime-decline-and-its-lessons-for-american-policing/
“Guard brought was a massive, sudden shock from the visible presence of uniformed military personnel on the streets of Washington almost overnight. For crimes driven by opportunistic calculation, that visibility appears to have mattered. For violent crime, which is less deterrable by patrol presence alone, it did not.”
MPLS also doing the upstream thing
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Washington, D.C.’s crime decline - National Guard and more effective policing
https://www.niskanencenter.org/washington-dc-crime-decline-and-its-lessons-for-american-policing/
“Guard brought was a massive, sudden shock from the visible presence of uniformed military personnel on the streets of Washington almost overnight. For crimes driven by opportunistic calculation, that visibility appears to have mattered. For violent crime, which is less deterrable by patrol presence alone, it did not.”
MPLS also doing the upstream thing
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"the Late Bronze Age Collapse is a sequence of site destructions visible archaeologically from c. 1220 BC to c. 1170 BC"
https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/
A solid short review.
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"the Late Bronze Age Collapse is a sequence of site destructions visible archaeologically from c. 1220 BC to c. 1170 BC"
https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/
A solid short review.
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continual learning: “systems to achieve efficient and cumulative continual learning, we need to remove the artificial boundaries we’ve introduced between the present context and the rest of their past experiences…”
https://infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/what-are-the-real-problems-of-continual
A fairly readable review of continuous learning. AI researchers continue to draw on ideas from biological systems and cognitive science.
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continual learning: “systems to achieve efficient and cumulative continual learning, we need to remove the artificial boundaries we’ve introduced between the present context and the rest of their past experiences…”
https://infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/what-are-the-real-problems-of-continual
A fairly readable review of continuous learning. AI researchers continue to draw on ideas from biological systems and cognitive science.
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Online reference to external displays for Apple silicon Macs
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/26/online-reference-to-external-displays-for-apple-silicon-macs/
It’s crazy complex
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Online reference to external displays for Apple silicon Macs
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/26/online-reference-to-external-displays-for-apple-silicon-macs/
It’s crazy complex
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Notes on Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas
https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/#atom-everything
The best excerpts have seen so far
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Notes on Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas
https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/#atom-everything
The best excerpts have seen so far
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Election analysis is useless in most American elections
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-29-dnc-autopsy-few-more-thoughts?r=13cw5&triedRedirect=true
The parties are very close in national votes. There is no way to disentangle variables.
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Election analysis is useless in most American elections
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-29-dnc-autopsy-few-more-thoughts?r=13cw5&triedRedirect=true
The parties are very close in national votes. There is no way to disentangle variables.
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“Google doesn’t have a clear competitor for Claude Code and Codex”
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/some-ideas-for-what-comes-next-may
Even I can see the gap when playing with antigravity.
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“Google doesn’t have a clear competitor for Claude Code and Codex”
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/some-ideas-for-what-comes-next-may
Even I can see the gap when playing with antigravity.