Scams And Bribery Are Becoming the Foundation of Our Economy. “The United States government taking steps to deliberately introduce cryptocurrency into the heart of our nation’s economy is kind of like a healthy person deciding to pick up a syringe and inject an unknown, harmful virus into themselves. Stick it right in the heart there!” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/scams-a…
Cybersecurity “red teams” tell the UK government that AI is rubbish, and they don’t think much of quantum computing or blockchain either. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/1…
Events that mark the passing of the year: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, my birthday, buying another year’s supply of dog poop bags, Labor Day, Julie’s birthday, etc.
Mitchellaneous Vol. CIX: Thirteen things I saw on the Internet
“One way to think about AI’s unwelcome intrusion into our lives can be summed up with Goodhart’s Law: ‘When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.'” — Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr pluralistic.net/2025/08/1…
Our two elderly cats, who previously hated each other and couldn’t stand to be in the same room, now lay companionably next to each other on the bed or on the floor.
They seem to have grown fond of each other. For now. It may be leading to a whole “whatever happened to baby Jane” situation.
Also, they were both terribly afraid of the dog, and kept to the back of the house, but now they are conscious of which room the dog is in, and will roam freely around the other rooms.
Seriously, I am confused by these changes. If they were acting badly, I would attribute it to feline dementia, but what accounts for this sudden outburst of more well adjusted behavior?
ICE arrested a mother outside a Chula Vista, San Diego, elementary school for overstaying her visa. They arrested Kyungjin Yu, an immigrant from South Korea, as students were arriving for class. www.kpbs.org/news/bord…
Trump has said America was at its richest 1870-1913, a time when the average life expectancy was about 48 and many children died before their fifth birthday. Trump wants to go back to that. By Molly Jong-Fast. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/1…
The A.O.C. Deepfake Was Terrible. The Proposed Solution Is Delusional. By Zeynep Tufekci. Some clown distributed a deepfake video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denouncing the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad as racist. Andrew Cuomo denounced AOC. But it never happened. AOC never said it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/1…
A unvaccinated teen-ager brought 2025’s first case of measles to San Diego County. He may have exposed others in Scripps Clinic Torrey Pines Urgent Care and Rady Children’s Emergency Department. timesofsandiego.com/health/20…