Tanning beds induce way more mutations in the skin that natural sunlight does. Those should be banned. Or modified. The general public in not likely aware what they are putting themselves at risk for.
––– 良くない–––
Umbrel is selling a personal cloud. Only 4 TB though. Can't tell from the website how it connects. It is through WiFi. Do you just connect it to the home network? Is it accessible through the internet? It should be more than just another portable HDD.
––– 凄い –––
Google's attempt at AI-provided recipes is turning out to be a disaster. You can't just glom together different bits and pieces of different recipes from here and there. Doesn't work that way.
––– 良くない–––
FDA Not Adding ‘Black Box’ Warning to COVID-19 Vaccines. Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad had a change of heart? Seems like a political decision. Not wanting to put the highest level warning on something that people were told was "safe and effective".
––– 良くない–––
40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity. A lot of people (myself included) had assumed that fMRI signal meant brain activity. Because that's how it was presented. But remember this report that showed that a dead salmon can register fMRI signals?
––– 凄い –––
Mozilla has a new CEO. I didn't even know that they replaced Mitchell Baker last year. The last CEO was the one that wanted to embrace AI in the browser, which a lot of geeks object to (myself included) and the new CEO seems to want to continue that. Yuck. Well, I'm going to continue to stay off Firefox for the time being. LibreWolf got booted out when I upgraded to macOS 26.2, so I switched to Floorp.
––– 良くない–––
Some meth head plows into famous Portland clock at Lloyd Center while fleeing cops. So symbolic of Portland. The drug crisis continues to destroy all the nice things about the city. And things that have already been destroyed are not coming back.
––– 良くない–––
Legacy Health striking workers up to 80 now. It's never the doctors that strike. Always the physician assistants and nurse practitioners, because they know that the doctors will pick up the slack for them. So now it'll cost more to operate the hospital system. Boy, I bet those hospital systems really regret buying out healthcare providers now, huh? Naturally they will have to raise costs. Naturally they will demand higher insurance reimbursement. Naturally premiums will increase and subsidies won't cover enough. Blue state blues.
––– 良くない–––
Seattle area has nation's second-biggest drop in job listings. And all the Redditors are blaming AI. But does AI mean "artificial intelligence" or "actual Indians"? Some blame outsourcing of jobs to Indian tech workers overseas. I think Seattle tech is lightening up due to local policies increasing expenses. So deadweight and non-productive people have to go. Still, for Seattle, it's going to hurt. Bellevue, Redmond, Issaquah must feel it, too.
––– 良くない–––
