Susie Wiles will be the first woman Chief of Staff, NYT
Honestly, this is a fine choice. She’ll run a tight ship, and that’s good for everyone—by which I mean all Americans.
You can’t love your country only when you win, you can’t love your neighbor only when you win.
— Joe Biden, November 7, 2024
🐦 Via Twitter, Nate Cohn estimates 157 million voters, matching 2020 in raw votes, but lower % of eligible voters when accounting for population growth.
I’ve seen enough—baring a deep surprise, Trump will win re-election. Not nearly enough blame will land on the Biden team for not stepping down a year ago, or even sooner rather than later after that disaster of debate. If if you’re angry in the morning, look at Jill, Jeff Zients (chief of staff).
Happy Halloweeen, everyone!
🎥 If my baby girl looks at me with half the glee that Rana looks at her dad, shit, a third, then I’m a success.
Numero Dos got his first strip in jiujitsu tonight
He was quite embarrassed and shy when they called him up.
Claude can interact and control your computer. At some point, AI will cease to be something extra and just part of normal computing. (Sooner, I suspect, rather than later.)
Musk on Sharks, or, in the words of Alex Tabarrok, “A great little video on over regulation.”
I just signed up for a three month Apple TV free trial (it came with the new work laptop purchase).
What’s good that I should add to my queue?
Rebuilding Drafts from backup. Very straightforward. But those warnings. They mean it when they say, don’t do it unless someone in support tells you. (Someone did, and I’m glad to have my full database back.)
👨🏽🏫 Unfollowing hyperpartisan social media influencers durably reduces out-party animosity
We found that incentivizing Twitter/X users to unfollow hyperpartisan social media influencers improved feelings toward the out-party by 23.5% compared to the control group, with effects persisting for at least six months.
I suspect those trends would hold for other social media accounts as well.
First pumpkin pie of the season
My son just figured out the joke behind “A & B conversation so C your way out of it.” My wife has been saying this to him for years, and just now, I said it and he started laughing, “Ooooooo! That’s so good dad.”
Then he came back a minute later, “Dad, you could even say ‘C’ Ya!, get it?!”
“I don’t at all expect to resolve the Riemann hypothesis,” he says. “But we hope that wondering about something we don’t understand will help find something that is beautiful or maybe even useful.”
“Sensational Breakthrough” on the Reinmann hypothesis
A day of mourning
I prayed the Mourner’s Kaddish every day from last October 7th until Easter. I had a list of names, not all 1,200 to be sure, but any time I read a name of an Israeli in the paper, I added it to my list. Typically the Kaddish is said during a funeral service or during Shiva; I know very little about when and how long one might say that prayer. But Easter seemed appropriate, for me.
Glorified and sanctified be God’s great name throughout the world
which He has created according to His will.May He establish His kingdom in your lifetime and during your days,
and within the life of the entire House of Israel, speedily and soon;
and say, Amen.May His great name be blessed forever and to all eternity.
Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, extolled and honored,
adored and lauded be the name of the Holy One, blessed be He,
beyond all the blessings and hymns, praises and consolations that
are ever spoken in the world; and say, Amen.May there be abundant peace from heaven, and life, for us
and for all Israel; and say, Amen.He who creates peace in His celestial heights,
may He create peace for us and for all Israel;
and say, Amen.
I will say this prayer again today during my prayers throughout the day.
That feeling in which you realize that your University’s IT is actively blocking Apple’s Migration Assistant or its backdoor monitoring is preventing the app from opening.*
* The same IT that will let older machines upgrade to Sequoia but not the new machine they just bought for you.
Finished an R&R (Revise and Resubmit) on a paper with a co-author, a full day early. Enjoying a bourbon before firing up the submission website. I’ll have it in before the pizza arrives.
Rarely does it work out that I go into a weekend with such a relaxed work-state.