Yup. You just made me think of an excellent BBC doc about the topic, would highly recommend if you haven’t seen it:

Power of Nightmares

Hell no to Harris, she has negative charm every interview I’ve seen, like she has utter contempt for anyone else.

There were 4 opeds in the NYT over the weekend talking about Biden’s age, which felt remarkably candid for the elite rag it is. One of them in particular was an “interesting” idea where Biden is swapped out before the convention, but after the primaries / delegates are assigned. Democracy FTW (/s)

Now that I think about it though, why would the aides actually running the white house want a real leader? Seems like they have it pretty good as it is.

Yup, the same dynamic as the right and immigration. More to gain using as a political football instead. The tactics are from the same, cynical playbook, and partisans are happy to play along when it’s their team.

Some companies end their fiscal year at the end of January, i.e. FY23 ends January 31, 2024.

Ahh, interesting to read about the technique, thanks for the link. For anyone else curious, here’s a TLDR quote:

In 2021, researchers at Germany’s Technical University of Darmstadt reported that they had devised practical ways to crack what Apple calls the identity hashes used to conceal identities while AirDrop determines if a nearby person is in the contacts of another. One of the researchers’ attack methods relies on rainbow tables.

Why would China announce their zero day exploit to the Internet? FUDD.

“You can’t trust those iPhones, only trust Chinese company phones”. – CCP, probably

Great power competition / military industrial complex . AI is a pretty vague term, but practically it could be used to describe drone swarming technology, cyber warfare, etc.