Like other states, California won’t financially penalize violators, but it will post the names of violators on the state Department of Justice’s website.

Sounds like the state is just giving the violators free advertising to potential donors who want to exploit the practice.

Did they mean to say “overzealous”?

Because a “zealous” person is just someone committed to doing their job.

Yeah—I finally got a physical Kindle in part to simplify the process of downloading and backing up my ebooks.

To be fair, though, their devices and apps have mutually-incompatible file formats, so if the only point of downloading a file were to put it on an offline Kindle via USB (which is the only use case they acknowledge), they’d need to know what device you’ve got so they can convert it to an appropriate format.

I don’t know.

You can put unmanaged files (in a readable format) onto a Kindle via USB, though, so if you’d backed up the file somewhere you could presumably put it back again.

They compute the odds of a human ever getting hit by a PBH in the lifetime of the solar system, and it’s… considerably less than the odds of getting a stroke.

There are also Kindle books sold without DRM at the request of the author.

The article links to another article describing the effect of getting hit by a primordial black hole. At their typical assumed speed they’d pass through a planet without stopping, but the momentary distortion caused by their passage would be enough to kill a person in its path.

…and now the strategy behind the couch rumors becomes clear.

The rate at which your hairs emerge from their follicles is constant, but the rate of increase of the total length of the hairs slows down and eventually stops because the hairs naturally wear down over time.

Imagine that your hair is like pasta being extruded into water, and that it slowly dissolves over time. The more time the pasta is in the water, the faster it dissolves—and it eventually reaches an equilibrium where the length stops increasing at all. But if you cut off the pasta at the extruder and time the new pasta coming out, it will be the full extrusion speed instead of the extrusion speed minus the dissolution rate.

The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla, and X CEO claimed the Democratic Party would naturalize enough non-citizens as voters

Naturalized non-citizens like… Elon Musk?

Newsom on Sunday instead announced that the state will partner with several industry experts, including AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, to develop guardrails around powerful AI models. Li opposed the AI safety proposal.

That’s reassuring—Li is one of the best-qualified people for the role, and she isn’t in the pocket of any of the major players.

I would distinguish between authorities who engage in ”bad“ behavior that’s inherent to the institutional role they’ve assumed (in which case my negative feelings are directed more toward the institution than the individual), and authorities who exploit their institutional roles to serve themselves.

Abuse of authority.

Any other form of misbehavior might make me feel sad, or sickened, or determined to make things better; but the only time I actually feel angry at the people involved is if they sought out a position of public trust and then betrayed that trust.

Hmm… I could have sworn that the first time I followed the link it went to this page which ends after a few paragraphs with a subscription link. But the page I get now is fine.

(Edit: I see now that I got to that page from a link in your comments, and mistook that for the main link.)

Anyone want to chime in on the downvotes?

Maybe because the article is behind a paywall?

Zipping a file repeatedly typically doesn’t reduce the size further after the first time.

The Song That Never Ends—we’ll instantly save an infinite amount of time.

AKA “Why zip compression doesn’t reduce things any more”.

I wouldn’t be surprised if their AI rewrites their terms of service every time you try to print it.

One could use Perfect Output to quickly fix image sizes and remove ads and white space when printing something off a website, HP says as an example.

So Reader Mode for printing?

That seems like a feature that would be better handled by the browser than the print driver.