12 December 2023

Bruce Schneier thinks that A.I. will fuel the era of "mass spying".  He's right. And it will be done in the name of providing extra security.  And now your password can be guessed by the sounds of the keys being pressed. Of course it has to be trained to your keyboard, but if it's a common keyboard, it may already have been pretrained.

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Single-dose psilocybin is effective treatment against major depression. So I would support medicinal use. But Oregon wants to legalize it all over so people will just use it whenever. Fortunately, there is tachyphylaxis, so repeated usage is not likely, but why take a chance.

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Seattle student failed quiz for saying men can’t get pregnant.

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Oregon launches online database to track public investments. Transparency is good. The website is here.

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Major helium deposit discovered. This is great news, as there is a global shortage of helium.

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Apple is introducing a 3D Spatial video capture feature in the iPhone 15 with the iOS 17.2 update.  Reminds me of the Memories scene in Minority Report.  So much of that movie is coming true now.

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Holy crap, this is big. This came out in September, but I missed it.  A combination of two monoclonal antibodies cures symptomatic rabies. Cures! Rabies is a disease that previously we could only try to prevent from happening, with urgent vaccination. But once established, you were never really sure it wasn't going to emerge later. And symptomatic rabies was universally fatal. Why wasn't this all over in the news?

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What would a second Trump term look like?

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