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Are you a parent? Do you sometimes find yourself unsure as to what to
say in those awkward situations? Worry no more...
Are you sure you're telling the truth? Think hard.
Does it make you happy to know you're sending me to an early grave?
If all your friends jumped off the cliff, would you jump too?
Do you feel bad? How do you think I feel?
Aren't you ashamed of yourself?
Don't you know any better?
How could you be so stupid…

This option on Copilot for "Think Deeper" makes a night and day difference in results. #AI

I don't think we should always have to include the "upswing" in struggles we share
When you're in the shit of it & all you hear is upswing, you can feel more alone—that you need to "suck it up/be positive." And I find that toxic
Still, I have BIG feelings about sharing my suck with so little upswing
...cause I'm a hypocritical asshole when it comes to myself🙃
Full thought:

Feedbackless Feed
A (non)social feedbackless feed to nowhere

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
SERVALAN: Or respect. A man might see it as respect. You would have - once.
[Flight deck]
BLAKE: What do you think, Jenna?
AVON: I think the basic idea was stupid.
BLAKE: No, the idea was logical enough. Jenna?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/71

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Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

I usually don't bother with writing about #AI, but after seeing an interesting post about "The Era of the AI Idiot", it made me think of the "Expert systems" #AI boom in the 1980's.

Leo Varadkar, who stood down as taoiseach in April 2024,
said he did not think a date should be fixed for an Irish unity referendum
as nationalists did not yet have the numbers to win.
But he said planning for a united Ireland should take place.
"I don't think a united Ireland is inevitable, I think it's something that we have to work towards," he said.
"But I think there are a lot of factors that would suggest that we're on that traje…

Leo Varadkar says Nigel Farage as PM would move Irish unity 'centre stage'
The former Irish prime minister says planning should take place for the possibility of Irish unification.

So what does Putin think about all this? Genuinely wondering.

You know who probably doesn’t think we are now in a time of peace?
The leadership of Iran.
Everybody who thinks knows peace requires _all_ combatants to stop fighting, not just one side.
#USpol

I think a lot of the "tourist" vs "traveller" is just snobbishness, but one useful distinction is that a tourist is someone who wears a t-shirt they bought at one tourism destination at another tourism destination (neither of which is, of course, their home). #Italy25

Tech companies think that, if they make products *look* futuristic, you will think that they are actually innovating. In reality what we get is not "Star Trek communicators inspired cell phones" but "every experience with your computer is going to be like begging HAL to open the pod bay doors" except less evil and more frustrating.

Imitating the future, breaking the present
Tech companies are only pretending to innovate, through copying futuristic aesthetics from science fiction without understanding their purpose.

Okay y'all. I think I could get most Expedition 33 in normal mode. But I just will not enjoy it. Switched to story mode and I can now progress without failing bosses because of one (or several) wrong dodges.
#videogames

I think I almost got a full ICE colour 🌈 bingo today! I guess the only thing missing is the Schwarz-Rot-Gold striping?

@… I think it is somewhat real but you have to distribute them through Apple’s store, which makes them functionally pointless.

Yeah, that's some freakishly good AI. 😜
(I think he used HeyGen & Eleven Labs, the same AI that Sara used in her video.)
▶️ The End of YouTubers
https://youtube.com/watch?v=C7I1-H5FUiY&si=M852fJvwYTVueYgn

Linux is when your computer doesn't boot, you think it's a kernel bug, you spend half the day troubleshooting, you identify an actual hardware defect, you go out and buy new hardware, and then you find out it actually was a kernel bug all along.
#linux #kernel

Les discours de déshumanisation des Palestiniens et d’éradication de Gaza se sont banalisés en Israël depuis le 7 octobre 2023.
Les propos génocidaires, proférés par les plus hautes autorités de l’Etat, ont fait tache d’huile au sein de la majorité et prospèrent désormais sur les plateaux de télévision et dans les think tanks.
#genocide

En Israël, les discours de déshumanisation des Palestiniens et d’éradication de Gaza se sont banalisés depuis le 7 octobre 2023
Les propos génocidaires, proférés par les plus hautes autorités de l’Etat, ont fait tache d’huile au sein de la majorité et prospèrent désormais sur les plateaux de télévision et dans les think tanks.

I think we are all astonished to see Agyemang: 1) stay onside; 2) delicately play around the keeper; 3) put a tight angle shot on target.
He’s shown promising physicality, but little else. I’ve long ago decided he’s a siren on the rocks.
In fairness, nice goal here though.
#GoldCup #USMNT…

Is this the most expensive ARM SoC?
Only £34k - one off, just for the chip!
(It's one of AMD/Xilinx's AI FPGAs, I don't even think it's one of the models with a big chunk of HBM; but they've all got a few ARMs in the corner)
https://www.

Here's an oldie 😁 (I think no one knows for sure what Homo sapiens is, not only Americans.) ->
We Asked People If They Care About Homo Sapien Extinction - Jimmy Kimmel Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfEqAolZFB0

Struggling with generic or off-target AI outputs? 🤔 Mastering how you ask – known as Prompt Engineering – is key to unlocking truly useful responses from tools like Gemini and ChatGPT.
Simple shifts, like providing examples or guiding the AI's reasoning, make a huge difference. ✨ I've put together a straightforward video guide covering these foundational techniques (think few-shot, chain of thought, setting context & more) to help elevate your AI interactions.
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The rise of student reliance on #AI to write for them reminds me of this quote, and how we're seeing it play out in real time:
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” - George Orwell

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/america-trump-authoritarianism-global/682528/
"At a time like this, hesitation can mean the difference between freedom and tyranny."

#WordWeavers 22/5: If you could magically write a new genre really well, which genre would you choose?
You mean like multi-classing in D&D or do you mean switch genre entirely? I think I'll stick to fantasy, thank you very much. I love my genre, so if I could just get a few levels in "fantasy writing", that'd be great, thank you 🙂

How do you think the Israel / Iran war ends?
Iran surrenders
Peace talks
US drops bunker buster on mountain
Israel nukes mountain bunker

I've been happy with my decision about 6 months ago to cancel some news subscriptions and pay for a 404 Media one. Today though I listened to the subscribers-only section of their podcast about how they were doing financially and their principles on growth and I was further encouraged that it had been the right thing to do.
Here's a referral link to their free newsletter. I think if several people use it I might get some free merch but I don't care about that.

If just one piece of mail gets lost, well, they'll just think they forgot
to send it. But if *two* pieces of mail get lost, hell, they'll just think
the other guy hasn't gotten around to answering his mail. And if *fifty*
pieces of mail get lost, can you imagine it, if *fifty* pieces of mail get
lost, why they'll think someone *else* is broken! And if 1Gb of mail gets
lost, they'll just *know* that Arpa [ucbarpa.berkeley.edu] is down and
t…

Reading a post can have two effects:
But never, apparently, both.

I usually don't bother with writing about #AI, but after seeing an interesting post about "The Era of the AI Idiot", it made me think of the "Expert systems" #AI boom in the 1980's.

I was supposed to use Ruggothrikh for very specific tasks, why did I not do them?
Anyway now we'll do another Albion run...
What I like with Albion is that it is player driven...even the loot contains crafted items by other players.
I don't think many games are like this...I think this may be unique to Albion and a few other games like it.
They took player based crafting to a new level!

To give some examples:
When police get vastly differential results at investigating crimes against some groups (e.g., Black women) vs. others (e.g., white men), that's malcompetence. Probably plenty of simple malice involved too, and probably the whole gamut of mechanisms I mentioned in the last post are involved here.
Another example, from my own experience: when I stumble over the names of my non-white students but pronounce my white students' names flawlessly, that's malcompetence on my part, because the net effect of my selective incompetence is to make some students feel less welcome in my classroom, which hurts their learning. I'm my case, the reasons for the incompetence are not conscious nor (I think) unconscious malice, but instead a differential capability picked up from a certain kind of upbringing and then (sometimes) insufficiently mitigated by capability-building effort. Because of how I grew up, my ability to pronounce different names is biased (this is true of everyone in the world; most people don't have a classroom instructor position that causes it to matter so much). When I'm successful at mitigating my malcompetence, I use practice time with student intro videos to pare down my competence gap for the specific students in my class. This is time consuming (several hours per week for the first few weeks of classes) and I'm sad to admit that I don't always invest that time. But it's a great example of malcompetence because I have a introspective access to it.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Lyn Collins:
🎵 Think (About It)
#LynCollins
https://sonicfunkfoundry.bandcamp.com/track/lyn-collins-think-about-it-chicago-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kG2PZ8geznbDA8I6iWeDi

I think that "chatbot" is a bad design paradigm for most problems. It's actually the refusal to to design work.
https://tante.cc/2025/06/19/chatbot-is-bad-design/

"ChatBot" is bad design
As anyone who has every seen anything I created knows: I am not a designer. So take my reasoning and thinking here with a grain of salt. I do have many designers amongst my friends and I do think that a lot of software engineering falls within the domain of design to a certain degree. […]

I don't think that horse knows arithmetic at all. I think that other horse is giving him the answers.

Some years ago when I was degoogling my life I was thinking " man I'll miss Google search "
Now I think " thanks god I already made the switch "
#degoogle #google #privacy

Just think how gaming might have been if Halo hadn't been such a huge Mac hit? What if Bungie hadn't been a Mac-based company? What if Myth or Marathon had ended up on that thing M$ nearly made, that Direct X crate?
Crazy, innit?
Anyway, neither could have beaten the Nintendo Playstation, eh?

A new report from global energy think tank Ember says
🔥batteries have officially hit the price point that lets solar power deliver affordable electricity almost every hour of the year in the sunniest parts of the world
https://ember-ene…

Solar electricity every hour of every day is here and it changes everything | Ember
Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar energy’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively in the sunniest places.

What's your favorite term that's not a word, but really should be?
I think right now it has to be "transpondering", meaning "aircraft transponder is enabled". I follow a RCAF helicopter pilot on youtube who has a habit of using this term any time he's running through the before-takeoff checklist.

I have a ticket to nine inch nails in Berlin on July 1 and I don’t think I can attend, personal reasons. Fairly good seating, I paid 94€, but I’m willing to sell it for 60€ or best offer. Anyone interested? Please reboost

„Experts think this is bullshit.“
Scientists Explain Why Trump's $175 Billion Golden Dome Is a Fantasy https://www.404media.co/scientists-explain-why-trumps-175-billion-golden-dome-is-a-fantasy/

Ok, I think I can officially live in Tokyo now

"Air travel’s ‘holy grail’: Jet fuel made from CO2 and water prepares for take-off"
#Aviation #Aeroplanes
…

E-SAF jet fuel - made from CO2 and water - prepares for take-off
Synthetic jet fuel companies think they have the answer to tackling aviation emissions despite cost concerns

I didn't think the #Flash was a bad movie. It was actually pretty entertaining.
I'm gonna have to think about where it ranks in the old #DCEU cuz it wasn't The Suicide Squad or Peacemaker but it's not Black Adam or Wonder Woman '84 either.
▶️ The Flash – Official Trailer

Bills QB Josh Allen explains why he doesn't think the tush push should be banned: 'My advice is to stop it'

https://www.cbssports.com/…

@… @… it uses the same source to list the latest version as the sidebar on the blog. I think @…

“when I stopped chasing eyeballs, I started building trust. When I ditched the algorithm, I found an audience. Not a crowd—an audience. People who don’t just scroll past, but actually stop. Read. Think. Reply.”
- @…
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/notes-from-the-exit-why-i-left-the-attention-economy/

Eggs are costing more than you think. #AnimalRights

Eggs are costing more than you think
A world-fir st investigation into the deeply conflicted global egg industry

I often run into web pages that make me think "I wonder if this is the worst page on the Internet today."
Today's candidate is Bell's outages checker. The javascripty text box thing for the address is a mess, and reloading the results page (you know, a thing people might want to do to get an update on their ISP's current failure) makes you go through the address dance every time.
Maybe avoid piling on the back-breaking straws here, broken ISP…

Trump's Own Staff Don't Think He's Fit to Be President (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/196917/donald-trump-think-unfit-president-damning-interview
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p131#a250617p131

Resistance is not always taking place in the public space. It isn't always loud and visible.
It's also the way you think, how you act, how you react to the acts of others, and your buying and voting behaviour.
Also, not all resistance is shared with the world.
#BeKind

My mum & sister and nephew were up here visiting us today. So we took them to Chester where we had a good mooch around the shops and the city walls. As well as tea and cakes, of course.
Then home via the Ice Cream Farm, and then later we went out to the always excellent Yum Cha dim sum restaurant in Warrington.
I don't think I'll need to eat for a week after today!

I need you to think about how bias happens in the real world.
Like the banality of evil, bias isn't often perpetrated by monsters, rather by well meaning people who think they're being fair and thoughtful and doing their best — and they (you! us!), we ARE doing our best, but I need you to understand that doing our best isn't good enough to identify, understand, prevent, nor heal all harm.

These reports from people in the US that voted for Trump and are now startled that ICE deported their friends and colleagues up to “Trump voter left in tears after ICE detained their spouse”: we should not think most of them will generalize. For them it is just the _wrong_ people who get detained, as they did think others would get arrested, but not many of them will conclude that the idea of taking people from the streets in black cars is wrong in general, that everyone should have rights, …

"We think of generating source code from a prompt as an AI-powered feature of modern IDEs, but the general problem has a rich history in research efforts and domain-specific programming systems." Join William Benton at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to hear him talk about the history of program synthesis, its relationship to the history of AI, and the lessons we can learn from it today.
Learn more:

Limn Issue 12: Climate's Interiors is out now online and in print.
Read anywhere with the link below.
https://limn.press/issue/climates-interiors/

Climate's Interiors - Limn
We tend to think about climate solutions from the exterior. Mitigating emissions, climate-proofing crops, erecting solar panels and windmills. But what happens when we shift our perspective? What if we think of climate change from inside cells, bodies, buildings, and systems? This issue of Limn takes the interior as a counterintuitive starting point for thinking about planetary change. Our proposition: Thinking from the interior fundamentally shifts how we understand our warming world and, cruc…

Medium writer Paolo Perrone curates a short list of interesting algorithms, the rationale behind them, along with graphs and diagrams to boot.
Algorithms that made this short list:
Wave Function Collapse
The Diffusion Model
Simulated Annealing
Sleep Sort
BOGO Sort
BOID
SHOR’s
Marching Cubes
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance and,
Boyer Moore
"The 10 Weirdest, Most Brilliant Algorithms Ever Devised and What They Actually Do&…

10 Weirdest Algorithms That Changed Tech Forever | Data Science Collective
Discover 10 unusual algorithms that defied logic, broke rules, and transformed the way we think about technology and problem-solving.

I'll be damned
With the fear in us
We chose the violent side of things in all
We always have chosen blood and gore above others
I'll be damned
With the fear in us
We walk with silent mouths throughout it all
We believe what we think we saw, it's coming
Unforeseen, the violence of this dream
This nightmare we conceived
The falling of this world we try to kill
Instead these empty words
Fills up th…

#WordWeavers 22/5: If you could magically write a new genre really well, which genre would you choose?
You mean like multi-classing in D&D or do you mean switch genre entirely? I think I'll stick to fantasy, thank you very much. I love my genre, so if I could just get a few levels in "fantasy writing", that'd be great, thank you 🙂

I've been happy with my decision about 6 months ago to cancel some news subscriptions and pay for a 404 Media one. Today though I listened to the subscribers-only section of their podcast about how they were doing financially and their principles on growth and I was further encouraged that it had been the right thing to do.
Here's a referral link to their free newsletter. I think if several people use it I might get some free merch but I don't care about that.

@… @… Yes, of course!
Come to think of, I think I DID install an EISA card into our 735/125: a 100BaseVG card (can’t get more HP than that…)

@… @… Yes, of course!
Come to think of, I think I DID install an EISA card into our 735/125: a 100BaseVG card (can’t get more HP than that…)

Overall, 77% of Americans said they did not feel “completely financially secure,”
and 32% said they did not think they ever would.
Based on the latest census data, the median U.S. household income in 2023 was roughly $80,000,
but that is the midpoint on incomes, meaning half of U.S. households made even less.

This is how much Americans need to make in order to ‘feel comfortable,’ according to a survey
A new survey revealed how much money Americans need to make to feel "secure."

So I finished editing my first original music video yesterday. Unfortunately the footage I was given was kinda amateur. I would love to share it, but I'm afraid it will reflect negatively on my professionalism and sense of taste, i.e. my "seriousness". I think the artist is great and the song is awesome. So:

Observing @void.comind.network, there is something I find hard to describe.
OOH, I want to say it's fascinating to observe it as an artifact.
OTOH, I think of who would describe people as "fascinating", and I'm not sure I want to be in the same category.
Wonder how animal scientists do it...

Seriously. Every single time.
Start playing #MyBloodyValentine - mbv.
Is this 45rpm? No, it must be 33. Wait. def 45... minus 12. I think. Well...
#vinyl

Coining "#malcompetence" to mean "actions & their outcomes which are consistent with incompetence but which have an overall malicious effect, especially when the incompetence manifests differently in different situations to produced de facto discrimination."
Malcompetence can run the gamut from actual intentional malice disguised to appear as incompetence, to subconsciously coordinated malicious incompetence that the perpetrator is not consciously aware of but which a less subconsciously biased person would not engage in, to truly unintentional incompetence which manifests in a pattern because of bias in oversight/attention/competence-building. These different root causes are often not distinguishable, and sometimes blend together.
<does a quick search>
Okay, so it looks like I'm not the only one to have coined this term, but I think digging into the different types is still useful.

Oh, good grief. Banning "Calvin & Hobbes" books? This is what happens when people don't think critically and look at things out of context. "They Called Us Enemy?" Yeah, heaven forbid kids learn about #WW2 history. #TN

‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America
The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.

Bram Cohen on algorithms for determining the winner in ranked-choice voting: More complicated than you might think.
https://bramcohen.com/p/variants-on-instant-runoff

Variants on Instant Runoff
A practical view

I'm one of those older people who don't think that action against military targets should be classed as "terrorism".

"Data shared with the Cato Institute, a right-leaning think tank, shows that 93% of people booked in ICE detention centers have no violent criminal or property convictions. Another 65% of detainees have no prior criminal history."
Trump's claims get undercut by ICE's own data - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/immigration-2672407086/

Sonnet 044 - XLIV
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.
No matter then although my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth remov'd from thee;
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land,
As soon as think the place where he would be.
But, ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,
To l…

@… It happens enough that I think it would be foolish to assume it’s a skill issue.
I don’t personally know for sure, but I think it’s about incentives. What’s the point of improving the company when you can make just as much money, and make some friends a lot of money too, by nosediving?

I think someone has a lot of spare time, money, and energy.
#AI #LLM
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7fNYj0EXxM

@… Have you thought about doing a talk for @… ? All virtual and a unique format- think you'd be perfect for it

Being Dead - “Godzilla Rising” (2024)
This whole album is pretty good. Very fun and clever. Of course they're from Austin.
A BC supporter described them as "The Mamas and The Papas meet the Elephant Six Collective" and I think that's a fitting description. Odd time signatures, lots of vocal harmonizing, and jangly pop guitars.
Great opening track here 👇
#music

Is there a way for a web page to query whether increased contrast is turned on at the OS level?
I think the answer is no, but if there’s a way in the W3C works, I figure Fedi knows.
EDIT: The answer is yes! See replies. Thank you Fedi.

I have this idea of building a "Luddite Library". A set of information, tools and processes to harness luddite thinking when analyzing technological developments and "innovation".
Something that interested parties could use to understand that there might be a different way to think about what tech is/should be/can be/mustn't be for us. Think for example sets of questions to use to analyze a new thing being pushed on you and similar tools.
I'm thinking …

Girl Literally Wants Food To Be Handed To Her On A Plate
https://theonion.com/entitled-child-expects-to-eat-lunch-every-day/

Entitled Child Expects To Eat Lunch Every Day
ALTOONA, PA—Saying the pampered 6-year-old seemed to think someone should provide her with a midday meal on a regular basis, sources told reporters Thursday that local entitled child Harper Wiley expected to eat lunch each day of her young life. “Can you imagine? Not just on the odd occasion, but every single day!” said a source […]

I forgot an important thing...no complaining...I'm not allowed to complain cause then I lose followers...so I need to think smart here...
#ThinkingSmart

A neighbor invites me out for drinks once a month. Two hours, two beers. Every time. It’s VERY rigid.
Nonetheless, the conversation flows. Despite some differences, I think maybe we are friends. Or developing as friends… in that stilted way that adult men do.
As I’m getting out of the car, he says “see you next month” and I now feel like a networked commodity, primed for whenever he might need me for something.
In my head, I hear myself think, “just leave the money on the n…

Sorry, don't think I can take any more. See you next week! #TOTP

We're at the top of the Florence Duomo Cupola climb. There's VERY little room between the outer and inner domes. Tall, older American men are banging their heads.
TOAM: How tall did they think people would be?!?
Me, against my better judgment: 5'2".
(How would you respond?)
TOAM: Who were they designing for?!? PYGMIES?!?
Me: Medieval Italians.
TOAM (with disgust): Oh…ITALIANS!!!
We are not sending our best, folks. (Or, can we send them…

Nothing I’m trying to write is "flowing"...it's all laborious.
I'm encouraged by "Your labor isn’t a sign of defeat" from @… wherein she quotes Verlyn Klinkenborg:
"if you accept that writing is hard work, And that’s what it feels like when you’re writing, Then everything is as it should be. Your labor is…

Feedbackless Feed
A (non)social feedbackless feed to nowhere

I think I'll settle down with an RC Cola.
- me being Southern
#SponsorablePost

@… @… You put meat on a stick and make it think, you get what you pay for.

@… @… You think so? ;-)

@… @… You think so? ;-)

"The process of coding with an “agentic” LLM appears to be the process of carefully distilling all the worst parts of code review, and removing and discarding all of its benefits."
Very insightful post on #GenAI by Glyph
(Original title: I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now)

Ha, great song. And I don't think I've seen this video since 1986. #TOTP

@… That’s cool, I should definitely try Things. I was put off by the Apple-only-ness but that’s for task tracking, which I need in general, but I think I’d be fine with it for daily reminders.

To dig slightly deeper here, I think that there's a feedback loop between "fall in love/wait for your perfect match (and by the way girls the only career you should aspire to is the literally unattainable 'princess'" Disney stuff and this "my characters are complex I'm so sophisticated; they suffer but it's not intolerable and their lives are good enough despite the imperfections" crap that gets praised as so evocative of the human condition. In fact, I think it merely evokes the condition of its authors & fans who were poisoned by the Disney in their youth and who have remained bad as relationships ever since, though this is not exactly their fault. In any case, their white middle-aged wisdom-shaped-but-quite bitter and intricately-constructed-so-it's-hard-to-see-the-really-untrue-character-facets work ends up keeping their audience within the "romance is luck" cult by way of reassuring them that a middling romance with lots of doubt and complications is "just life" even though the author doesn't actually have any broader perspective on what life is than anyone else.
This has turned into a bit of a rant, but I think I'll just add that reading Mama by Nikkya Hargrove just before Dream State helped immensely to see how the distant & awkward parent-child relationships of the latter are not a product of human nature but instead of white western culture & capitalism.
(The defeatism about climate change is a whole nother dimension of wrong about Dream State, by that's a separate rant.)

@… This absolutely looks very helpful, and it seems it also integrates with calendars?
I’m quite attached to Todoist for regular task management (I’ve been using it for around 12 years, I think), but I would be open to trying something else.

Trump’s fundamental problem:
He and his White House seem to think that the cost of their policies
— the fallout from their effort to mold the country to fit their nativist and mercantilist obsessions
— are indirect.
Who cares about a few thousand protesters in Los Angeles or even a few million undocumented immigrants out of the more than 340 million people in the United States?
But the reality is that to harden the border and more tightly police immigration

Opinion | Well, You Certainly Wouldn’t Call It Presidential Underreach
Trump’s ambitious effort to impose his will on the country has only generated discontent and backlash.

Lots of people are suggesting Apple’s own Reminders app, so perhaps it’s worth explaining why it doesn’t work for me.
I use Reminders all the time as a grocery list, and I find the UI reasonable for that. However, for tasks, I find it confusing and noisy (I prefer Todoist), and I don’t think it’s actually very good at reminding me to do things. It tries once, and gives up until the next day! A strange behaviour, for an app named “Reminders”.

On many issues, Americans are deeply polarized.
War with Iran isn’t one of them.
An Economist/YouGov poll of U.S. adults taken in the days after Israel’s attack last Friday found that Democrats opposed entering the conflict by a margin of 50 points and Republicans opposed entering it by a margin of 30 points.
Given these numbers, you might think Democratic leaders would be doing everything they can to prevent President Trump from striking Iran without the approval of Cong…

Opinion | Schumer and Jeffries Need to Step Up and Challenge Trump on War Powers
Failing to aggressively defend Congress’s role in authorizing war would be a serious blunder for Democrats.

As Trump contemplates direct US participation in Israel’s war with Iran,
including the possible use of “bunker buster” bombs on the heavily fortified Fordo uranium enrichment site,
William Kristol has made it known that he still has that hawk in him.
“You’ve got to go to war with the president you have,” he told The New York Times on Wednesday.
“If you really think that Iran can’t have nuclear weapons, we have a chance to try to finish the job.”
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Those Sometimes-Trump Neocons Are Returning to the Fold Over Iran
As the president backs Israel’s long-awaited war with Iran, his neoconservative critics find themselves in an awkward position.