That's just cruel. Employees at King (makers of Candy Crush) will be replaced by the AI tools they helped train.
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What Caused the 'Baby Boom’? What Would It Take to Have Another? It's not too difficult. People need to be financially comfortable. It's hard to feel like taking on marriage when you're financially struggling and have low self-esteem. Plus, the dating pool is crazy these days. Saw this on X today:
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What's contributed the most to the obesity epidemic? It's the food that people eat. Avoid ultra-processed food. But improving muscle bulk wouldn't hurt either.
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Half of homeless people have experienced traumatic brain injury. I'm not surprised. And we're supposed to let these people make decisions for themselves? For a lot of them, this is how they got to be where they are. The sooner it is realized that we need to make the decisions for them, the better we'll solve the homeless problem.
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AI will cause harm, but it's worth it. That's what Jensen Huang says. And society will have to get used to robots everywhere. Gotta get American manufacturing going, too. Agree fully. It's not going to be easy but it will be necessary. But we also have to solve the energy problem.
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This study was promoted as showing the caffeine prolonged survival. Indeed, the authors conclude that caffeine is beneficial for chronological lifespan through AMP kinase, but it also synergizes with other genotoxic agents to increased DNA damage sensitivity (huh?). I'm OK with the former, but do I want the latter. Caffeine inhibits TORC1, just like rapamycin, and so that may be how it prolongs survival. It's not clear to me what the impact it's effects on DNA damage are. I'll still drink coffee until their figure it out, though.
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Japan recently set the record for the fastest Internet speed – 4 million times faster than U.S. broadband. I still chuckle remembering that some wag publicly states that 9600 bps was the theoretical limit to how fast the Internet could be. Yeah, sometimes it pays to ignore experts.
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The aluminum adjuvant in childhood vaccines was shown to be harmless. Well that's good, because I got it.
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If you ask Grok to show you a picture of a group of average Americans, it consistently shows you what looks more like average Baltimore. Or Detroit. That's the way it's been trained, I guess.
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What age is old? It seems to be getting later. That's great news for this ronin, who is probably considered old by anyone's definition. Shikata ga nai.
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Asians are avoiding traveling to the U.S. now. So ironic – they have little to worry about. Meanwhile the U.S. will get unbridled in-migration from the Middle East and Central America. They're not scared.
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People can't stop talking about the Intel layoffs, which will hurt Oregon. Someone pointed out that Multnomah County has the hospitals and Washington County has Intel, Nike and the datacenters. Everyone is hurting, though, but it may be that they will hurt differently, and at different rates. Each will pursue different strategies. I think the hospitals will be the most vulnerable, however.
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A great joke has been played on those whose homes burned down in the Palisades fire. Their tax money will be used to build low income housing in their neighborhood. How's that for adding insult to injury?
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The Fred Meyer in the Gateway district is going to close. They aren't saying why, but we know. More unemployed that the state has to support. Decreased tax collection for Multnomah County. Another empty building that will be a blight and a target for graffiti and vandalism.
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