Okay. Looking at this pic carefully, where the hell did Lake Okeechobee go? It seems like it should be there, looking at Tampa Bay.

A while back, people in Florida built an absolutely massive airport in the middle of the Everglades. They wanted to build the next big regional hub covering all of South Florida, but that never happened. So there’s a massive gigantic 12,000 ft runway, huge amounts of concrete apron, and space for a big passenger terminal that was never built. The runway remains open as a general aviation airport, and was until now mostly visited by students to practice touch and go landings.

My points:

1. The article summary saying it’s an airport used for training is true, but slightly misleading.
2. There’s a lot of things about this place that make logistical sense for the type of operation they want to do: cheap rent or land, lots of available concrete, not actually new build (easier environmental impact statement), easy on site access to a massive airport that can support jets of any size, low amounts of air traffic, and secluded from public view.
3. It’s not actually in Everglades National Park, and they aren’t filling in wetlands, like I’ve seen some say.

Those are probably not Cavendish bananas.

Several years ago at this point, Congress passed a bill, and that bill was signed into law by the President. What that law says, is that TikTok cannot continue under Chinese ownership. Byte Dance either have to sell the American video app business so that it is controlled by Americans, or they have to shutdown Tiktok.

Byte Dance did not sell the business, so under the law TikTok has to shutdown. This law was lawyered all the way to the supreme court, and the court said it’s a valid law, and must be followed.

Despite all of these facts, the law is not actually being followed. And Tiktok is still operating in the United States. There is no legally valid reason for it to do so. President Trump has issued extension after extension, even though he has no legal authority to do so.

The latest here is the top law enforcement officer in the US telling the app stores, “yes we know it’s illegal to keep Tiktok in your app store, but I am pinky promising we won’t go after you.”

Sadly most of the great maritime powers have signed onto the 1856 Declaration of Paris where they agreed to give up privateering as a weapon of war. The United States has not signed on, but has also not issued a letter of marque since that period. During the civil war, the confederates experimented briefly with privateering, but the Union declared that it would not.

In 2025, The Cartel Marque and Reprisal Authorization Act of 2025 was introduced in Congress. This bill would authorize privateering against “cartels” (apparently any cartel, like OPEC or the American Medical Association).

I’ve done some work with near infrared spectroscopy on a similar problem to the tricorder “molecular scan.”. There are two-three main problems as I see it.

1. A typical lab spectrometer might collect on 3,000 different frequencies to cover the spectrum. Meanwhile the sensor that is cheap enough to put in a tricorder has around 10 channels.
2. The lab instrument probably has expensive and fragile optics. You can’t do the same thing on the tricorder because the optics will break when you drop it.
3. Lab procedures rely on carefully controlling the illumination so it’s the same every time. Hard to do in the field, even in relatively benign field environments. This even comes down to using sample cuvettes that are precision machined to have two sides extremely parallel. You can’t make a tricorder that dispenses precision cuvettes for sample collection. If you can’t control the illumination, you have to measure it and calibrate.

But on the plus side, it’s a kind of actually readable font.

The compilation step should only be happening on reboot after updates. Of course, that may be the only time you reboot your device.

A meltdown is when the reactor overheats, and the uranium fuel pellets melt. Then the molten uranium metal falls down to the bottom of the reactor vessel, where it eventually after a long time cools down into a solid chunk of slag metal. That’s a meltdown in my book.

If LLMs train on text output from LLMs, the results will degenerate into total garbage over time. The people that buy reddit data for LLM training know this. They will stop buying if they think there’s a lot of LLM text on Reddit.

Non-Euclidean geometry was developed by pure mathematicians who were trying to prove the parallel line postulate as a theorem. They realized that all of the classic geometry theorems are all different if you start changing that postulate.

This led to Riemannian geometry in 1854, which back then was a pure math exercise.

Some 60 years later, in 1915, Albert Einstein published the theory of general relativity, of which the core mathematics is all Riemannian geometry.

He can’t let people poison the training data, or else his site will have no value to its customers.

They’re definitely throwing the whole book at her. But there’s also a small nugget of a case here. Having been through customs a few times, I think it’s clear that biological materials should be declared. In a normal situation, the infraction would lead to a long wait in the back room, a stern warning, and maybe confiscated embryos. Not felony charges.

I have a relative that was in Nam and wears that hat, but he claims he was POG. I have another relative who lied about his age to get into Nam, who definitely was in the shit, and he doesn’t wear the hat.

But the dam companies are incentived to verify the accuracy.

Wait! What is that wire antenna thingy on that guy’s helmet?

I’m pretty sure that the military understands in general that the bunker busters don’t really work all that well.

I think the more relevant factors in this calculation are (1) B2 is a technology from the 1980s, (2) B2 still looks fricken cool, (3) Tomahawk was also a big deal in the 1980s, (4) Israel already did all of the work suppressing air defenses, and finally (5) the big parade the week before kinda sucked.

Yeah. With this option, he still has to endure the death animation, which usually looks pretty painful.

I suggest you read the recent unsigned per curiam order in D.V.D.. The law of the land; it is a changin’.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia does not really have a “legal” status, as he has an active final deportation order, with withholding of removal to El Salvador only.

He can be legally deported to a third country (not El Salvador) that will take him. Pursuant to the supreme court’s decision yesterday, he can apparently be deported to these third countries with no advance notice whatsoever.

Of course, deportation would make it hard to appear in Tennessee for his felony case. But that hasn’t stopped ICE before. People have been arrested for failure to appear in criminal cases, because they entered ICE detention.