A physician was hired to work at an AI health startup and revealed that they were just a ChatGPT wrapper that was committing HIPAA fraud. They fired him, and now he's suing.
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Apple names former Microsoft, Google exec to succeed retiring AI chief. They need someone to buff up Siri, for sure. Steve Jobs probably would have fired the guy a lot sooner. Steve never suffered those who made their software the butt of jokes.
Mac software has really been channeling Microsoft of the 2000s. Remember those "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" commercials? The reason for this is because Windows software was so bad it was a joke.
And it looks like Intel will get back to making Apple's M-series chips. The stock sure went up.
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Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.25B to fund 'Trump accounts'. Ach, no. This is the wrong approach. Funding Trump accounts only feeds the beast. We need to dismantle the ACA instead and replace it with a better system than the one we have that just puts insurance companies in control and makes them rich. Your hearts are in the right place, Dells, but this is not the way.
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OpenAI's Altman is begining to panic. Competitors are catching up. And OpenAI is not going to get much sympathy when they try to capture pictures of children in a ChatGPT powered Santa elf toy.
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Legacy nurses and nurse practitioners and physician assistants go on strike. Man, can't the hospitals catch a break here? It's either nurses or teachers in Oregon. The hospitals will cave, of course, what can they do? No one wants to work in Oregon. Then they'll close some care unit or a small auxillary center somewhere. Eventually they'll run out of smaller things to close. Then what? A fire sale to some national chain, is what. And watch what happens to healthcare then.
In other news, Vibra is closing in East Portland. This is huge, if you're a hospital in Portland, because Vibra took people who were too ill to go home or even to a skilled nursing facility. This will have an impact on discharge planning.
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So many breweries and public houses in Bend. That's why Bend Police arrest more people for DUI per capita than any other department in Oregon.
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Another one bites the dust. Nordstrom Rack is closing downtown. Dominoes keep falling. And get this:
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The flagship store remains open but its future has been in doubt since last summer, when Mayor Keith Wilson said CEO Erik Nordstrom had told him, “I don’t know how long we can continue to operate in Portland.”Are you listening, Keith? The Oregonian goes on to say:
Downtown foot traffic has been improving steadily in recent months and Portland officials have been hopeful that the newly renovated Portland Art Museum and the new James Beard Public Market will help bring people back downtown. Thousands packed into Pioneer Courthouse Square last weekend for the annual Christmas tree lighting.Yeah, it's not the kind of foot traffic you want. Portland's Christmas Tree lighting ceremony was a Palestinian activism stunt. Who let that happen?
Portland's new dilemma. Nearly 1,900 affordable Portland apartments sit empty while thousands need homes. They're empty because rent is too high. They can't lower the rent because they need the income because expenses (think employees and debt obligations) still need to be paid. Can't refinance because interests are still too high.
From the article:
One solution, Salazar said, would be for the state to provide operating subsidies that would allow affordable housing providers to buy down debt at some properties.Yeah, if only they could get more of them "state subsidies". You know, throw more money on the problem. Welcome to reality.
With those resources, affordable housing operators like Reach could restructure their properties, she said, but high mortgage payments and other expenses preclude that option today.
“We can’t just drop the rents,” Salazar said.
Anyone wanna rent in of these "affordable" apartments? Don't mind the needles or the trash. Don't leave valuables in your cars. Don't go out after dark. And always pay attention to your surroundings. Why aren't these units renting?
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