2 October 2025

Taiwan isn't going to move chip fabrication to the U.S.  And why would they?

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So many Portland bars are closing recently. Here are some recent ones. It feels like during the Obama years, when the only establishments that thrived were strip joints, tattoo parlors and cannabis stores. But now, even cannabis stores aren't thriving.

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Irony lostPortland-area artists invited to turn garbage into masterpieces. Plenty of material to work with, that's for sure.

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Oura Ring is going to partner with the Pentagon. It's going to be a War Department wearable. That's turning a lot of people off, but it's turning me on, actually. I toyed with the idea of getting one, but the subscription put me off. I wasn't convinced it was that good, but if the military thinks it's good, then perhaps it's worth a look.

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As Jane Goodall passes way, we also say goodbye to the myth we all learned years ago that the genetic makeup of humans and chimps differs by only 1%.  Not true. More like 14% to 15%.

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Work is not school. This is so true:

Managers will claim they are, and we want to believe them. But the reality is that the best don’t always rise. At least not as easily or automatically as we think they should.

Sometimes they do. But often, what gets rewarded isn’t performance but proximity to power, timing, perception, and political usefulness.

I didn't learn this until too late. It's who you know, not what you know. And as Trump always said, "presentation matters".

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Managers, read this. Distracting software engineers is way more harmful than most managers think. Don't disturb the flow for dumb meetings. 
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"It could even allow same-sex couples to have a genetically related child."
Antonio Gramsci was right: “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”

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Anti-Aging Breakthrough: Stem Cells Reverse Signs of Aging in Monkeys. I never heard of the FoxO3 protein before.

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