“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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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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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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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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“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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“Opus 4.8 is around four times less likely than its predecessor to allow flaws in code it has written to pass unremarked.”

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/28/claude-opus-4-8/#atom-everything

Described as a minor update

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