15 April 2023

The Cascadia fault is alive.  Gases and hot water are pouring out of cracks and holes on the ocean floor.


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I wish I was in Eugene today when a man threw out $200,000 from a car "to bless others".  It seems I'm never in the right place at the right time.

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New coronavirus variant is out - XBB.1.16.  More contagious but apart from coughs and sniffless, one can get conjunctivitis.  So far no increase in deaths or hospitalizations.  Good.  But in the infectious disease department, comes a report that Oregon's syphilis rate is the 9th highest in the nation.  Officials are somehow blaming the coronavirus pandemic for this.  Yeah, that makes sense. 🙄

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Minimum wage is increasing, starting July 1.  So, prices will increase accordingly, since employees cost more to the employer, and since people have more money now, why not?  Is everyone getting a pay raise?  No?

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Nature can be stranger than science fiction.  Worse than Oedipus?

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Why we can't have nice things.  So while most people just use Bing's new search engine, powered by A.I., other people find ways to exploit it.  Like leaving secret commands for Bing to follow, that can change someone else's profile.  Or tailoring chat prompts to make Bing talk like a pirate, or poison the search index, or to get Bing to extract data by injecting hidden commands.  These are early and crude attempts, but were successful.  What will others do?

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