This is what the Trump administration has really been up to.  Stealing Americans private data and sending it to companies like Palantir.  I’m certain this was all the Elon Musk shenanigans was all about.  People really need to go to jail over this.

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn’t supposed to have with Palantir

We all live in the same world today, the uni-context. A good (no, great) read for anyone trying to understand things today.  From Derek Thompson’s SubStack.

A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird

Well there may be more than a little truth to the old science fiction trope (“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”).

ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophesy, lawsuit alleges

I enjoyed Denis Johnson final book, The Largess of the Sea Maiden.  I read it, then read it a second time.   Somehow I haven’t found anyone else who has read this one but I did find this nice blog about it. I also keep meaning to watch the film adaption of Train Dreams.  Maybe tonight.

Blog about Denis Johnson’s story “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden”

Yes. Please don’t move here. Next worse is Louisiana. After that California.

Report names New Mexico as the worst state to move to for third year

A year later we are still getting settled in the new house.  When we moved in we were given a bag of keys, all well labelled.  There are also electronic locks on the front and garage entry doors.

My first lesson was learning that my two electronic lock are different brands.  They look very much alike, but the instructions for programming one won’t work on the other.  Trust me, I spent hours trying.

We also decided that instead of a bag of keys we might like just one key.  I read up on, and watched YouTube videos on, re-keying locks.  Not beyond my skills but seems like a place to call in the pros.  $500 or so later the best we could get was two keys for the whole house.

Seems there are two (or at least two) completely incompatible types of keys.  The grooves are different and you can’t physically put one type of key in another type of lock.  Who knew?

I decided I would have a run at the problem.  About half our doors are one type and half the other.  We have 6 total external doors.  Seems like a lot.  One I learned has a bathroom style lock that you can open easily with a screwdriver.  Why I can’t say.  Even the locksmith didn’t mention this one.

So I bought four of these KwikSet smartkey knobs (and one deadbolt) that you can re-key yourself. This should get nearly all doors on the same key.

Now I just have the incompatible smart lock in the garage to replace.  Then we will have a single key for all the locks, like God intended.

It seems in the US almost anything you can buy is made in somewhere else, usually China.  Except cars. And Pharmaceuticals.

Republicans & Democrats in Congress Unite in Effort to Ban Chinese Electric Vehicles

The AI data center boom continues.  From Tom’s Hardware.

Samsung chip division’s single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined, due to increased memory and storage prices — Samsung passes Nvidia to become most profitable company in the world, notches 19x quarterly increase in profit

There is a large data center project here in New Mexico run by Oracle that keeps getting into trouble, for, well, all sorts of stuff.  I’m not sure why this pattern of behavior is allowed to continue.  I’m also not sure why anyone would trust these people.

Even with all the scrutiny, Project Jupiter forged the names of local citizens on letters of support.  Now they are making similar fraudulent claims of support from local officials.  What are they possibly thinking?

New Mexico residents say their names used without permission to support Project Jupiter data center

Impersonator pretends to be New Mexico public officials supporting Project Jupiter