Virtual Machines render fonts. It’s kind of insane.



TrueType has its own instruction set, memory stack, and function calls.



You can debug it like assembly. It’s also exploitable:

Little known thing about reality: it exists before the WSJ reports on it. So actually, Trump has known for years that he was in the Epstein files.

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

How it started. How it’s going

It was revealed during the trial that FHP had agreements with pathologists, where some % of tests with abnormal but inconclusive results would be reported as normal, preventing tests and costs. These agreements were once in writing, but for obvious reasons, became verbal. But the practice continued.

This week on the blog: Roman names! A (relatively) brief fireside discussing how standard Roman names form, for the benefit of the public in general and Ridley Scott (who in 24 years, still hasn't figured it out) in particular.

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So while Anton says this feud is about speech credit, I think it's about clothing. IMO, to understand Anton's psyche, you have to spend years with him on an obscure menswear forum. I invite journalists to contact me in the future on White House feuds involving Anton.

My latest labeler is finally working!

What it shows for each politician

- 3 labels for the top corp donators
- 3 labels for the top industries that donate to them

Subscribe to this labeler to be more aware of the interests our politicians represent 🚀

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There are currently only 22 films streaming on Netflix made before 1980 and not a single one made before 1960, with the oldest film on the platform currently being PSYCHO. I know I’m a broken record but: buy physical media, support your local library, etc etc