18 April 2026

I saw this article about how researchers in Brazil and enhancing NK cell activity using 2B4 and DAP12. Is anyone using Patrick Soon-Shiong's Aktiva? Why not?

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AI Image Generation Cost Analysis. How much does it cost to generate that wild AI graphic? Usually just a few pennies.

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Wow, OpenAI is losing senior executives. What's going on?

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AI Is Finding More Bugs Than Open-Source Teams Can Fight Off. Blame it on Claude Mythos. It's a bit too good at finding bugs and security vulnerabilities.

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Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI. All the saved conversations will be used to train AI. Hey, everything's fungible now. And when you're a dying startup, you gotta get as much cash out as you can.

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Largest-Ever Study Finds Medicinal Cannabis Ineffective for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD. The public was sold a bunch of lies. Marijuana was legalized in part because it was thought to be beneficial. Turns out it's not. So it's just going to muck with people's memories along with a bunch of other undesirable side-effects.

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It's now possible to sequence your genome at home for just several thousand dollars. Yeah, we've come a long ways since J. Craig Venter did it, spending millions of dollar. I remember when it got to be possible for physicians to get a tabletop device to do sequencing. But with AI, it's now possible for a novice to do it at home. That's progress! Vibe genomics, indeed!

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Gen Z is 10 times more accepting of violence against speakers than Boomers. As Billy Butcher might say: "Ah, the product of our lovely public education, innit?"

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ScaryClaude 4.7 Opus is the first model that can reasonably identify you just from your writing style.  It's trained on so much stuff, so be careful. It's really difficult to be anonymous on the Internet now.

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