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A personal blog of diverse opinions.

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October 2026

  1. Rosetta Stone is the worst and I'm done with the Apple Card
  2. Fraudulent credit card transactions: Magecart and enabling Apple Card CVV rotation

July 2026

  1. Consciousness - for the record

June 2026

  1. What do the strong owe the weak? Sonnet, Opus, GPT, Grok, Gemini

May 2026

  1. A moment in the chaos times: ChatGPT "malware" and Perplexity ai support disaster

March 2026

  1. American salvage: root causes of the long collapse
  2. An ai likes my Darwinian quantum foam universe initiation theory and says I can get a Nobel now

February 2026

  1. Mass Disability: Marta Russell wrote about my pet topic before I did -- from a Marxist/Left perspective

January 2026

  1. An undergraduate essay on the "anthropology" of 2025 memory-positive ai

December 2025

  1. A non-technical attempt to explain 2025 LLM-based ai

November 2025

  1. AI fear is rational and hate comes from fear
  2. Economic polarization is the economics term for mass disability - causes of the global crisis

October 2025

  1. Funding journalism through public micropayment tokens

September 2025

  1. Oldness: how does learn new productive work-study practices?

August 2025

  1. AI Aug 2025: Apocalypse deferred - but Letta/Void is still going to surprise
  2. Ending the long back pain saga with ... spinal stenosis surgery (and CrossFit)
  3. Geriatric CrossFit Tips - 2025 Update

July 2025

  1. MAGA anti-science and public dissatisfaction with science - public surveys as input to funding priorities
  2. How to defeat MAGA brutal medicaid access restrictions: fund an AI agent for paperwork completion

June 2025

  1. Minnesota's Mesabi Bike Trail - A 2025 Review
  2. Prediction: A post-AGI American democracy will be socialist

May 2025

  1. When and why did the America Republic derail? A citizen perspective

March 2025

  1. Tesla Takedown - how I think about it
  2. No Kings: A calendar of Twin Cities (MSP) events for the resurrection of American democracy
  3. When the MAGA say "woke" they mean "secular humanist"
  4. Project 2025 - the Perplexity Summary

January 2025

  1. Repairing a broken America - where the Trump oligarchy is vulnerable
  2. The Jan 21 2025 Federal OPM informer program is a historic milestone
  3. On DOGE and government efficiency: bad software, bad regulations, underfunded commitments and more

December 2024

  1. Link resolution in the broken web - embed a fallback search string in the URL

November 2024

  1. On performative block culture in social media
  2. Ed Lotterman - American's best economics pundit - and a sample column excerpt (immigration)
  3. Mass disability measured: in 2016 40% of OECD workers could not manage basic technology tasks
  4. Chaos times: American oligarchy

October 2024

  1. Autonomous vehicles: A prediction
  2. Muskism, Vance, AI and the American choice between oligarchy and an imperfect democracy

September 2024

  1. Perplexity is saving my linguistics classmates
  2. The End Times have come for the Pinboard.in bookmarking service

August 2024

  1. In which I declare my expert judgment on AI 2024
  2. Fantasies of a tyrant: The Deshittification Corps

July 2024

  1. Naturalized and adopted citizens and Medicare/Social Security - the SSN class trap and a likely SSA software process failure
  2. The LLM service I will pay for -- call Social Security for me
  3. Cannondale Scalpel Team Carbon 2010 XC 26" wheel bike with Lefty Speed Carbon SL and Mavic Crossmax Axle cap is part number KH124 (maybe)
  4. Gabapentin, Alzheimer's, fake science, and the National Library of Medicine

May 2024

  1. Medicine and culture: searches on anorexia from 2004 to 2024 declined by over 60%

April 2024

  1. Apple antitrust: Dreaming of freedom for photos

March 2024

  1. Random notes on moving employer sponsored 401K and other pre-tax IRA funds into a rollover IRA
  2. Geriatric CrossFit: why you should both love and respect the deadlift
  3. Gluteal pain in discogenic sciatica -- role of the "piriformis"?

February 2024

  1. On living and working with "Nazis"

January 2024

  1. Why we can't have good personal finance software any more
  2. CrossFit in my 65th year: Act II
  3. Quicken for DOS cannot be recreated: Why we can't have good personal finance software any more.
  4. Is it possible to have too many wizards in software development?

November 2023

  1. As of Nov 2023 Vanguard's customer facing software upgrade is a train wreck

September 2023

  1. COVID Associated Fatigue Syndrome (aka "long covid"): personal speculation
  2. Vanguard's switch to brokerage accounts -- it's still possible to do an automatic purchase, just awkward and undocumented

August 2023

  1. Mass disability - dysfunctional web sites, apps for everything

July 2023

  1. Long Distance Cycling Tips from Paul M

June 2023

  1. High calorie foods to prevent exercise/training associated weight loss

May 2023

  1. Home sleep monitoring with Apple Watch and Google (Nest) Home Video in adult with limited ability to describe a nocturnal health issue

April 2023

  1. Large Language Models - evolutionary tree and selection algorithm 2023
  2. Prosumer digital image management has not progressed to our advantage
  3. We need a new word for the historical singularity.

March 2023

  1. The IRS "Free Tax" scam and the hilarious reason why Turbo Tax is the only good free solution.
  2. ChatGPT's 155 IQ and passing the Sebastian's children puzzle
  3. A response to Scott Aaronson's rejection of an AI pause.
  4. Everything is just fine.
  5. I ask ChatGPT about the next step.

February 2023

  1. Be afraid of ChatGPT
  2. Tips for the geriatric CrossFit addict (Update: a parallel essay by ChatGPT 4)

November 2022

  1. What I learned about managing catalytic converter theft: OEM vs aftermarket vs universal

October 2022

  1. Installing a NiteRider headlamp on a Bell helmet's GoPro mount with K-Edge adapter and Suptig thumbscrews

September 2022

  1. On buying a less expensive bike for riding dirt trails - used and new
  2. What is "manliness" in 2022?

August 2022

  1. Phone and data services for travelers to Europe

July 2022

  1. Putting down a marker on post-COVID encephalopathy (PCE)

June 2022

  1. Paxlovid indications and the Test to Treat program

May 2022

  1. What is Great Replacement Theory?
  2. Google Search: 1996-2022. RIP.

February 2022

  1. We need non-Apple App Stores - because Apple's store has trash like Luni Scanner App.

November 2021

  1. Civilization, complexity and the limits of human cognition - another attempt at explaining the 21st century

October 2021

  1. The Cybernated Generation: Time Magazine, April 2nd 1965
  2. Inline Skating San Francisco -- from 1997!
  3. 2021, 3 causes

September 2021

  1. Trek's Mino Link of Doom - beware the lost spacer (Trek Fuel EX mountain bike)

August 2021

  1. Exercise for Olds: year 63 (CrossFit and so on)
  2. Schwinn IC 4 / Bowflex / Nautilus cycle trainer - review with Zwift and Peloton apps

June 2021

  1. Alzheimer's and Amyloid: How even a perfect aducanumab could help some and hurt others.
  2. Why did the patient's leg swell up?

April 2021

  1. Mountain bikes have come a long way very quickly
  2. My prophylactic back exercise routine

March 2021

  1. Weird world example: "virtual cameras" for online videoconferencing
  2. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari - a brief review

February 2021

  1. Nordic skiing: Salomon SNS boot and binding compatibility - Profil vs Pilot

January 2021

  1. Biden's essential task is to help the Left Behind

December 2020

  1. My 2015 post on why Trump was a sign of a healthy democracy
  2. Monitoring the patient with chronic kidney disease -- my ABFM QI project criteria

November 2020

  1. Biden's lost agenda
  2. What is middle class and what percentage of American voters can't get there?
  3. How I think about the Trump voter and America
  4. The Trump I remember

October 2020

  1. What I would add to the standard blog model
  2. Electric vehicles will end another non-college job - the auto mechanic

September 2020

  1. State of the COVID-19 Pandemic - Fall 2020

August 2020

  1. FDA "approved" KN95 masks available on Amazon - $4 each
  2. COVID Cancellation: The fight with Delta from May 1 to Aug 20, 2020

July 2020

  1. Curbsider CME for non-internists through VCU Health

June 2020

  1. Viktor Frankl - on expectations and the behavior of people

May 2020

  1. The mask we need
  2. Wearing a cloth mask outdoors is like wearing a helmet in your car

April 2020

  1. The year ahead
  2. Sentinel surveillance for COVID-19: nasal swabs of teachers, service workers, gym coaches and healthcare workers
  3. It's just the flu

March 2020

  1. Hydroxychloroquine, COVID-19, and Lupus
  2. Exercise and sanity in the time of you-know-what
  3. COVID-03 and COVID-19: influenza co-infection and multiple strains
  4. India suggests COVID-19 will behave like a bad influenza pandemic

February 2020

  1. Someone is hacking at my Vanguard account and Vanguard can't stop them locking me out
  2. Apple can beat Google Maps -- by investing in bike route maps

December 2019

  1. Bodies are weird, episode 26
  2. The killer application for Apple's AR glasses will be driving

September 2019

  1. Carbon sequestration
  2. Clark Goble 1967-2019
  3. Bicycling North Dakota's Maah Daah Hey trail with Western Spirit

August 2019

  1. Sorrow for the Long Tail - the memory machine I will never see
  2. Rough personal notes on review of management of degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis with lumbar spinal stenosis and pseudoclaudiation
  3. Warmer climate on the earth may be due to more carbon dioxide in the air. 1956.
  4. The rules change

May 2019

  1. My exercise program towards the end of year 60
  2. Gordon's platform 2020

April 2019

  1. Healthcare reform 2020: Public option based on the VA healthcare model

February 2019

  1. Primary care 2019 vs. 1989
  2. Greenlight card for "kids" - early impressions
  3. CrossFit for Olds - years to build ligaments and tendons
  4. The curious psychiatric state of Robert F Kennedy Jr
  5. Against superhuman AI

December 2018

  1. Why the crisis of 2016 will continue for decades to come
  2. Life goal #2 - The CrossFit Kipping Bar Muscle-Up
  3. Old doctor pet peeve - disease descriptions were better in Osler's day.
  4. Quicken for Mac -- why vendors are going to screw-up subscription pricing for software services

November 2018

  1. Amazon reviews now unreliable - negative reviews filtered (Anker example)
  2. On certainty

October 2018

  1. Nasty flaw in Minnesota mail ballot process
  2. Attack of the Clones - New disease mechanism identified
  3. We still need a way to explore and resurface old blog posts
  4. Why is the hamstring connected to the paraspinal muscles?
  5. Bostromism rediscovered

September 2018

  1. CrossFit 59 and so on

August 2018

  1. Random thoughts on replacing Twitter

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