Trump is now trying to distance himself from Project 2025, claiming he has "no idea who is behind it."

Don't be fooled.

The playbook is written by more than 20 officials Trump appointed in his first term. It is the clearest vision we have of a 2nd Trump presidency.

It turns out Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on `*.google.com` access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage

You can test it out by pasting the following into your Chrome DevTools console on any Google page:

chrome.runtime.sendMessage(
"nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome",
{ method: "cpu.getInfo" },
(response) => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(response, null, 2));
},
);

More notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/

Just finished writing a sketch that involves #Project2025 and Mein Kampf. I can say without exaggeration: I wildly underestimated how bad it would feel reading them.

They are full of truly awful ideas and often feel like they borrow from one another (because the newer one does).

#comedy #sketch #ComedySketch #screenwriter #funny #horrible #awful #fascism

"While a precise estimate of #LongCovid prevalence is still emerging, current research suggests that up to 10-30% of people who contracted #COVID19 exhibit symptoms corresponding to long COVID in the weeks and months following acute infection …at a minimum, this would represent upwards of 39 million people who had or are currently living with long COVID."

"More than 7 million quality-adjusted life years may be
lost annually across OECD countries."

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/the-impacts-of-long-covid-across-oecd-countries_8bd08383-en

#CovidIsNotOver

So, something I heard recently on my local NPR station on borrowing ebooks vs. hardcover from your local library:
Apparently, the library pays ~$15 for a hardcover book, but ~$150 for the ebook - and the ebook is a LIMITED LICENSE for, say, 52 loans of that book. After which they have to pay ANOTHER $150 for the book, AGAIN.

The takeaway here: If you can get the hardcopy from the library instead of borrowing an ebook, please do so. The impact on their budget will be SIGNIFICANT.

Here's a related, but older, reference:
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118289764/the-surprising-economics-of-digital-lending