When Idaho Banned Abortion, OB-GYNs Fled. The Doctors Who Stayed Are Cracking.
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"Since last October, the families of every fallen soldier have been offered post-mortem sperm retrieval."
Longreads longreads.com ↗
Why Is the Internet So Afraid of Sex?
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…talk about their lack of financial rights. They want to talk about government policy, about foster Sesta. That helped me get in with them as more of a trusted person because I wasn't just in it to talk about, you know, the, The whips and chains. And they were so generous and funny and kind.
And of course, and you know this, that sex workers are like clairvoyance when it comes to censorship in the media. They see everything 2 years ahead of us. ◈ 5:05 So they were so ahead of the game and they clued me in on stuff that people in Fintech hadn't even thought about because, you know, I guess why would they?
You know, the adoption of crypto. Like they, they, they saw all of that. And they just said, we want cash. Stop trying to sell us stuff that our clients aren't going to use.
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clairvoyant sex workers? Knowing what’s ahead of the trend before the fintech Wall Street cumcupertino bro? I buy it.
The 404 Media Podcast pdst.fm ↗
This Will Be The World’s Biggest Park
The Calm Is Over: Cancun Airport Rebounds To Over 500 Flights In A Single Day
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Over a single weekend, the Cancun International Airport recorded an absolutely massive 953 scheduled flights. On Saturday, November 7, they hit a maximum of 500 flights in a single day. That figure completely shatters any doubt about a tourism slowdown and proves a massive rebound in air activity heading into the high winter season.
Cancun Sun thecancunsun.com ↗
The Calm Is Over: Cancun Airport Rebounds To Over 500 Flights In A Single Day
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escapes. Surviving The Peak Season Airport Rush Because the airport is already hitting these massive peak season numbers in early November, travelers arriving over the next few months need to be totally prepared for a highly crowded airport experience.
- escapes. expedia.com ↗
Cancun Sun thecancunsun.com ↗
The Calm Is Over: Cancun Airport Rebounds To Over 500 Flights In A Single Day
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Go Carry On Only If You Can If you can manage to fit your swimsuits and flip flops into a single carry on bag, absolutely do it. During these massive peak travel weekends, the wait times at the baggage claim carousels can easily swell to over forty minutes. When you just spent four hours on a cramped airplane, the absolute last thing you want to do is stand around a crowded luggage belt while everyone else is already heading to the beach.
Traveling light saves you a massive amount of time at the airport.
Cancun Sun thecancunsun.com ↗
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They may have upgraded the average skill set of software teams in a way we have not seen before. So why does software keep getting worse across the board? A few examples from last week alone: My banking app requires, on average, three FaceID logins before the 3D Secure confirmation view appears.
I opened Slack on macOS, the icon kept bouncing in the dock for a few seconds. I got impatient, switched to Ghostty, and started typing. Just then, the Slack window appeared, stole focus from Ghostty and the git pull command was sent to the group chat. My LG fridge started making weird sounds, so I tried to file a warranty claim, through a multi-step form with countless fields.
It failed with a submission error at the very end. And I only found out because I looked at the JavaScript console. My car's infotainment system got a software update recently. It was never great to begin with, but at least it didn't reboot itself during every drive.
Now, it's riddled with bugs: the turn-signal sound randomly goes silent until I reboot the OS; I tap the screen to open Google Maps — the radio app shows up; there's a 1-2-second lag before anything happens after I tap the screen. This is no longer just a UX problem at this point — those bugs affect your ability to focus on driving.
A few months ago, I saw a LinkedIn thread by a PM on the team that redesigned the car's OS. They were congratulating themselves on what an amazing job they had done. I keep thinking about that post every time I have to fight their product. While I can't know the full story, I'm willing to bet that most of the teams behind those bugs have access to the latest models, with generous token budgets.
LLMs can be really good at squashing bugs if given the chance
Dropping the Mask
Dropping the Mask
Hidden Brain hiddenbrain.org ↗
Are You Taking Fun Seriously Enough?
Are You Taking Fun Seriously Enough?
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos pdrl.fm ↗
New Metalio E Ink 4 Plus has 4.7″ Screen with 297 PPI
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The E-Ink 4 Plus has a 2,000 mAh battery and the device weighs about 100 grams. The smaller E-Ink 4 has a 1,000 mAh battery and it weighs about 70 grams. Apparently there's a variant with 4G wireless and a 2MP camera, but it doesn't look like it's available yet.
My note
I really like this guy.
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Torrenters are building epic media collections
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…supposed to be, just never cease to blow my mind. But as phones get bigger and bigger, enough's theory is that phones should be 5.3 inches. That's the display size that they're going for. I encourage you to go look at the pictures of this phone because it is hilarious how small 5.3 inches appears to be in the modern context.
Everything now is like 6 up to 7 inches. You open up the duo and it's like 8 inches. I mean, it's stuff gets crazy now. 5. ◈ 36:22 3 inches is their theory. You also get a 3500 million amp hour user replaceable battery. You get a media tech chip set, you get a 50 megapixel Sony sensor.
You get 8 gigs of RAM. All of these things are made to be just, I hate to use this given the name of the phone, but enough, right? No more than you need, no giant overhead capacity of power that you'll never use, no wild thing that's going to only matter to pros in the camera, just exactly the…
My note
5.3 inches for a telephone is what I want. I would take my 6-inch reader as a cell phone, meaning my B6 Pro is what I prefer to carry. I wish that I could take my iPhone and make it half the size.
The Vergecast podtrac.com ↗
Action at the old Bold Fork Books Space in Mount Pleasant – New Cafe Coming?
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Saw this inside the old Bold Fork Books location: Is there a new cafe opening?? We would love that in Mt. P
- Bold Fork Books popville.com ↗
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Dropping the Mask
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So this is the most aggressive form of assimilation where you desire to change the underlying identity altogether. And it's very difficult, Shankar, for me to remember that young man knelt down in prayer because he so ardently wish the annihilation of the human being I have become.
So I'm now currently, happily married. My husband and I have 2 kids and so on and so forth, but that would have been unimaginable to that young man. ◈ 15:59 This is 1991. Hmm. He just thought, if I'm gonna have any kind of life at all, not just a professional life, but also, perhaps more importantly, to him at the time, a personal life of marriage and children, that it was inconceivable that you could be an openly gay person and have that life.
So what I desperately wanted was to convert and to change the underlying identity.
Hidden Brain hiddenbrain.org ↗
Are You Taking Fun Seriously Enough?
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…3: that's my job. And I just thought, oh my God, Speaker 3: I like to think of myself as a self-aware person Speaker 3: who lives fully and I can't think of anything to do. Speaker 3: And so I asked myself a question.
I asked when Speaker 3: I was writing How to Break Up With Your Phone Speaker 3: that I post to you all today now, which is Speaker 3: what's something you say you want to do, but you Speaker 3: supposedly don't have time for? ◈ 4:06 Hmm. Because what I realized Speaker 3: is I did have time.
In fact, I had this Speaker 3: reclaimed time, but I didn't know what I wanted to Speaker 3: do with it. So I said, well, I want to Speaker 3: learn how to play the guitar because I play piano. Speaker 3: I had a guitar that my grandmother had given me Speaker 3: money for in college.
So I started going to this Speaker 3: guitar class and I started being filled with this feeling, Speaker…
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos omny.fm ↗
Are You Taking Fun Seriously Enough?
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…exception there was time with friends. Time Speaker 4: with friends was almost like chocolate chips in a cookie. Speaker 4: You can just add more and it keeps being better. Speaker 4: So that was pretty interesting.
And We also found one Speaker 4: of the surprising findings in that data was that spending Speaker 4: time on relaxing and leisure was actually associated with a Speaker 4: lower probability of having an especially good day. ◈ 8:36 And we Speaker 4: were like, I thought my grad student analyzed the data wrong.
Speaker 4: I made him go back and look at it again. Speaker 4: But it turned out it was about 70% of the Speaker 4: time that people were engaged in leisure and relaxation. They Speaker 4: were actually like watching Netflix, watching TV. And again, going Speaker 4: to what you're saying about that sort of false flow Speaker 4: or whatever.
It wasn't actually…
My note
This entirely makes sense. I know what it's like to force myself to have quote-unquote leisure time where the whole time I cannot stop thinking about what I could be doing, even though really what I need to be doing is taking a break.
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos omny.fm ↗
Wig Budgets with Casey Spooner
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…the spotlight and he was like on the cheat sheet. And he didn't understand the system. And so I'm kind of telling you, this is how it works and this is what you do, and this is what they're done. I'm actually good. Like 3 hits and I'm lit. And he was listed on the cheat sheet as a musician.
And he's not. He is. He's a musician, but he's that's not, he hasn't, he's been, he hasn't been doing it professionally for as long as I have. Right, sure. ◈ 14:42 And, um, I was not listened as a musician. I was listed as a content creator. A content creator. Shut up. That's ridiculous.
Yeah. And I was like, that's offensive. And thankfully, I don't think the picture ever ran. There was a shit. I didn't want to go to this event. What was it, you know? It was a really fancy French. go to a lot of fancy stuff. I don't. Yes, you do. I do a lot less. Okay. I used to.
And wearing fancy clothes?
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Oh, I love it when people are up in their feelings about their art and status.
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How to turn (almost) anything into a great soup
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Yeah, that is a really good move. And I was going to say a pinch of MSG to add a little bit of savory depth, but the Parmesan rind, like that's also what it's doing. Parmesan is a natural source of like a ton of MSG. Um, So just like adding a little bit, rounds it all out, gives you this like savory umami thing that makes you want to keep eating more.
What do you think about toppings? ◈ 13:53 I feel like we've been seeing a lot of that in recipes lately. I love toppings, especially, you know, if you're making a big batch of soup and having it over a couple of days, it can get a little boring, so you can jazz it up with a different topping.
If you want to go for something fresh, you can make like a little quick kind of salsa vibe with thinly shaved onion and a bunch of herbs and lemon and maybe like sumac for maybe a little bit of…
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Did early humans collect keepsakes 500,000 years ago?
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Most of us are familiar with the urge to pick up a seashell from the beach or keep a stone from a hiking trip. The object itself may be ordinary, but to the person who keeps it, it serves as a reminder of a particular moment, place or person. Where did this behavior come from? Did early humans do the same?
A new study by Tel Aviv University researchers suggests that this practice stretches back approximately half a million years, with important consequences for the evolution of memory.
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Did early humans collect keepsakes 500,000 years ago?
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The study combines archaeological findings with insights from evolutionary theory, psychology and neuroscience. Its authors point to objects that early humans collected, carried and kept despite having no apparent practical purpose. They propose that these objects may have served as personal keepsakes, reminding their owners of a place they had visited or an experience they had had.
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Trump says FBI investigating Nvidia boss's affair with alleged Chinese spy
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US intelligence officials believe Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, was a spy for Beijing, according to a New York Times report. The report said Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a memo to top officials in Washington last spring warning that the Nvidia boss was in a close relationship with a Chinese spy.
Alice Huang was managing director of Singaporean company Megaspeed, which has had dealings with Nvidia, the company at the centre at the development of AI worldwide through its microchips.
- Alice Huang bbc.co.uk ↗
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