Happy Tax Payment Day! It's a good day to be reminded of how much Oregon has wasted your tax money.
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Really? According the US News & World Report, the John A Burns School of Medicine in Honolulu is a Tier 1 school in primary care, beating a lof of the bigger names. Am I reading this right? Better than UCLA or Dartmouth? How did that happen?
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I'm confused. First Trump announced that he's giving smartphones and chips a break from his tariffs. Then he says that there are no exemptions after all. You would think that Apple would try to shift production to the U.S., but no, it's shifting production to Thailand, while it squeezes what it can from India and Vietnam. What's the deal, Tim Cook? Even NVIDIA is opening up production in Arizona.
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Speaking of chips, Intel has found a buyer for the Altera division. Man, FPGA chips were supposed to be one of the promising directions for AI processing, and in better days, Intel would be developing this tech themselves. Now, they're having to sell parts for the money.
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U of O's Institute for Policy Research and Engagement School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management says that Oregon is going to see more businesses fleeing the state due to the unfavorable business climate. Oregon needs to figure out how to retain businesses, but I guess that's not one of Tina Kotek's priorities, is it? Meanwhile, there's the infamous Khanh Pham, who now has the idea that big tech companies like Google and Meta should pay for local journalism. At least $122 million apiece each year, she says. What a joke. And all because AI doesn't refer back to the news sites as much as before. Get a clue, Khanh. Google is well-aware that AI is changing the business model, and they're afraid that it's not bringing in as much revenue to them as well. I guess every blue state has their own AOC.
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Democrat solutions to Democrat problems. I wasn't aware that if you're overdosing on fentanyl and someone calls for medical assistance, "the person calling for emergency medical assistance — as well as the person overdosing — will not be arrested or prosecuted for drug possession". It's called the Good Samaritan Law.
Man, this wasn't the Good Samaritan parable I remember reading, where the Samaritan supplies illegal drugs to someone, and then when that person gets close to death, calls for help. I guess Oregon legislators read a different biblical translation. Laws like these are why Oregon has so many druggies.
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Bidaya AI is noticing some weird behavior with Gemini 2.5 Pro. Seems it doesn't use LLM tools. But from the screenshots, I can't tell if the problem is with Gemini or Google's AI Studio.
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