20 December 2023

Bloomberg reveals a secret longevity research lab backed by Sam Altman. This one specializies in autophagy approaches, and using plasma from young people to rejuvenate older people. Sounds creepy but that's one of the strategies people are pursuing. More info here.

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Nobody knows what’s happening online anymore. The Internet has become so fragmented now. Everybody has retreated to their own Mastodon instance, or Lemmy, or Discord, or whatever.  Teens are on TikTok. Much of the rest are still on X/Twitter. There's not as much of a town square anymore. That's life.

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The price of being successful. In an internal meeting, Nvidia's CEO addressed a question about employees in 'semi-retirement' mode as unusual tension grows.  Heh. Unforeseen issues. This is the "problem" Microsoft had during the dotcom era. Everyone got rich and suddenly they didn't want to work so hard.

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‘Do we think the world is better off with more or less intelligence?’ Always interesting to read what Andrew is thinking about.  By the way, FT reporter, Andrew uses Zephyr, not "Zefa".

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I didn't know Rite Aid was using face recognition.

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Math team.  Brings back memories. This is a rite of passage for many Asian kids but also geeks in general, and you gotta wonder if there is a better way. Especially as the reward for all of this (getting into an elite school) is far less attractive today than it was before. With forced vaccinations, having your conservative voice silenced by the woke Left, who are not just your dorm mates, but your professors. Plus the debt.  Harry is the real winner in this story – because he followed his own path.

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59% of non-citizens are on welfare. Just as we suspected. We gotta have some control over how much of the world's poor we have to support, or we will go broke.

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Rich people are leaving California. Increasingly, the economy of California rests on the fortunes of the very wealthy.

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Oregon Coast towns close trails after lawsuit puts legal shield in jeopardy.  This is really unfortunate. All those nice hiking trails closed.

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Ouch. Africa's first female billionaire Isabel dos Santos loses £580m High Court case. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

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Bird Electric Scooter Company is going bankrupt. The scooters were everywhere. But vandals would just dump them in the river nearby. Never understood how they thought they could make money.

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