Semaglutide ameliorates osteoarthritis progression through a weight loss-independent metabolic restoration mechanism. Wow, it can actually promote cartilage restoration as well as help you lose weight. If it comes with any more benefits, we might have to put this in the drinking water.
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Two related articles:
Living in the inflection point: "It’s scary because I don’t know what the future of my own job looks
like. A skillset that was previously highly valued is now much easier to replicate with AI tools."
No one wants to admit the real reason corporations are laying off thousands: "If you are a corporate employee whose job is reliant on a computer, there is a high probability that you will someday be replaced by AI. This will happen. But there is something you can do to avoid this fate: Be valuable."
Rather than crank out code to meet the needs of some company, it's time to look around the world and see what problems need solving and use AI tools to start fixing them. Be valuable.
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Down the slippery slope they go. California Wants Gun Blueprints Treated Like Weapons. The excuse to take away a right is always "to protect the public".
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Bloomberg has this article: How to Tax a Trillionaire, and says that politicians need to find smarter ways to do it because extremely wealthy people will always find a way to escape. But it's clear that the author is pro-tax. He concludes with
After all, as Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once put it: “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.”
Yeah, well despite all the taxes we pay, we're not getting anywhere near a civilized society. I repost this meme:
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Just hope you remember which tool you used for this, and which friends you picked to hold the secret.
And hope your not ghosted by your /friends/.
And that your friends themselves did not forget or lost the piece of information they should retain.
Some hacker tips, which I will probably never use. I'm seeing IVPN come up again. Maybe I should give them another look.
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2 to 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It’s Decaf. Ordinarily I don't click on NYT articles, because I don't have Gell-Mann Amnesia, but I wanted to see that dataset. The study population was 100% women over 70. The "No Kings" protestor crowd! Drink up ladies!
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Problems we didn't know we had. The world is suffering from a shortage of tenors. Holy smokes, what shall we do? Thank goodness for AI, right? 😂
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Math, Inc. and AI for Science. Now THIS is the kind of research the government needs to fund. Not the Harvard or Stanford crap.
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The hidden link between blood sugar and anxiety. Maybe Till Brönner and Bob James were right? "The sugar melts away the loneliness. Make it nice and sweet!"
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The US Is Flirting With Its First-Ever Population Decline. Bloomberg tries to blame it on Trump's deportation policy. Nope. Obama deported more than Trump and there wasn't a decline then. What's happening is a stark drop in fertility, and guess what's causing it? I have my suspicions.
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National Cancer Institute studying ivermectin’s ‘ability to kill cancer cells. I gotta agree with the critics on this one. I don't think it's the best use of funds to spend to see if ivermectin can be repurposed as an anticancer agent. Oncology therapeutics is going beyond the old repurposing or screen-everything days. In the age of GenAI and other advanced drug discovery tech, there is no need to revisit ivermectin, especially when there is no compelling preliminary data.
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I saw this article: Do women really select for intelligence?. And then I read this article in the WSJ: A Stanford Experiment to Pair 5,000 Singles Has Taken Over Campus. Apparently its attracting a lot of attention, as new things often do. But it's not clear that people are getting hook-ups as a result. The data show that good-looking men score. Nerds generally don't. What women really seek is success, especially financial success. That's more than just intelligence.
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Really sad. Portland’s 20 largest office buildings have lost $2 Billion in market value since 2019.
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Which American city spends the most on homelessness? Turns out, there's no actual study to obtain an answer. But I would bet that for per capita spending, Portland and Seattle would be up there.
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