14 May 2023

Party pooper.  Security holes posed by prompt injection are going to greatly limit applications of current Chat/GPT technologies.  This is until we truly understand what's going on under the hood.  For now, giving Chat access to all your computer files is very, very risky.  There's always someone out there who's smarter than you.

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All the Exciting Media Outlets Are Dying. What the Hell Comes Next?  I clicked on this wanting to know what "exciting media outlets" this writer was talking about.  To save you a click, it's Vice, Insider and BuzzFeed News.  These outlets are dying because people want news, not activism promoted by the progressive new crop of "journalists". 

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In 2022, about half of Internet traffic was bot traffic.  No wonder we have to deal with reCAPTCHAs and Cloudflare browser checks everywhere.  As with a lot of nice things in life, once everyone has access to it, the experience is going to deteriorate. 

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California's reparations committee advocates to raise minimum wage even more — to that of a "living wage", whatever that is.  And a New Yorker writer wants you to believe that raising the minimum wage is associated with job creation!  Well, turns out that the data supplied by the writer to bolster his argument comes from 2010 and other times before 2022.  Before A.I.  It's looking like this is a bad time to be demanding higher wages if your skillset is limited, as Wendy's employees are learning.  As Thomas Sowell said, "the real minimum wage is always zero". 

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Junk science.  It was really amusing to read these two articles in my newsfeed this morning.  Is It Time to Quit Coffee for Good? and Coffee May Be Good for Your Eyesight: Study.  Don't get your health recommendations from pop sources.

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How safe are autonomously driven cars?  The answer is nuanced — don't just listen to Elon Musk.

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Legacy Health has to decide what to do.  Whether to lose money operating a money-losing birthing center, or lose money by not being able to bill Medicare and Medicaid.  A Hobson's choice.

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This is a major reason why downtown Portland sucks.  Crime goes unpunished.

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No mail service if you live in Seattle's 98118 district.  Everything seems to be going to s#&t under Democrat governance, where the only things that get dealt with are those having to do with gender, abortion, climate change and racism.

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