17 November 2023

Another one (ones?) bite the dust.  Remember Burgermaster in the U-District in Seattle? Soon to be gone.  And Bartell's on Capitol Hill is closing, too. 

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Immigrant to Seattle gets red-pilled. Welcome to the Blue City, pal.

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This could be big. Social media platforms can't hide behind Section 230 and allow kids to access social media sites and be vulnerable to "design defects—including lack of parental controls, insufficient age verification, complicated account deletion processes, appearance-altering filters, and requirements forcing users to log in to report child sexual abuse materials (CSAM)—and failed to warn young users and their parents about those defects".  As I've said before, the Internet is not for children.

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United Health Care uses an A.I. algo with a 90% error rate to deny care.  Seems like this is mainly in the realm of the elderly and length of stay in rehab facilities and nursing homes.

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Videoconferencing fatigue is real. Did we really need a research paper to confirm this?

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Is ChatGPT automated bullshit? Well it can be, and you'd better know your stuff to be able to tell the difference. Right now, without appropriate prompting to promote accuracy, ChatGPT generates output that just looks like it's the correct answer. I've caught it several times at just making stuff up. It's not the authority many people think it is.

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Does California want clean energy or not? Newsom makes rooftop solar less attractive.  How any business can function in the golden state is a big mystery to me.

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