Is OpenAI in trouble? Wow. One of the clearest examples of how quickly the winds of fortune can change direction in the AI world, where things move fast. Remember when Sam Altman was so powerful that he couldn't be fired? Would that be possible today? Today, Google and Anthropic are riding high. But that could change.
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The Stanford Emerging Technology Review 2026. Good document to catch up with all that's going on in tech. Good to plan investments. I was struck by this statement: "Evidence suggests that universities’ role as the engine of innovation is increasingly at risk, and there is no plan B." Yeah, if the universities would stop hiring and admitting for racial makeup instead of focusing on merit and scholarship, that would help greatly. No more tolerance for pro-Palestine protests. China doesn't have to worry about that. Everyone they admit to their top universities is probably a Chinese genius. Meanwhile, Harvard and UCSD have to provide remedial courses for their DEI students. Don't blame insufficient grant funding or Trump for this.
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GPT 5.2 may have helped show a physics result: Single-minus gluon tree amplitudes are nonzero. Lots of signed spinor brackets to keep track of.
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Someone found out that behind Discord's age-verification system, was Persona, an app linked to Peter Thiel. Yeah, it would have been a mistake to sign on to that. But it would have been helpful for law-enforcement to keep track of what goes in the dark reaches of Discord.
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Looks like iPods are popular again. They are nice, and I was sorry that they fell out of favor.
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Google Maps wants you to sign in to get access to all their features now. I like how they say that Google Maps "might be experiencing issues" and that you can improve your experience by signing in.
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After chasing out oil refineries, California is now having to import oil from Bahamas, Japan and India. How dumb is that?
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Nice explanation of the adenovirus COVID-19 vaccine induced VITT complication. It's a combination of an inherited polymorphism in the FCGR2A gene, as well as the immune system reacting to a specific adenovirus protein.
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I Analyzed Every Nootropic Study on PubMed. This guy's findings are similar to that of Scott Alexander's 2020 survey. And nicotine is becoming a popular nootropic.
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Ever wonder if you might have a touch of autism – just enough so that you think differentiy? Misinterpret social cues? I think we've all been there. But I've never heard of AuDHD before. Seems like they're always making up new disabilities. New technology and societal change is introducing us to stresses we've not had to deal with before. And it's not helped by the taking down of social norms and structures that have been developed to help make sense of daily life's challenges.
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Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds. I know a doc who never got sick until he did a pediatrics rotation. Might as well use a pediatrician's blood to make antiviral medicinals. Those guys probably have high levels of antibodies to all kinds of stull.
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Much bigger data center tax breaks on deck in Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek’s bill. Why does Tina Kotek want to turn Oregon into datacenter hell?
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Bill Would Allow Oregon To Withhold Federal Payments. This is how the U.S. cracks. If Oregon is allowed to withhold tax payments to the federal government, then other states will do the same thing. And then we won't have a country anymore. Oregon has to stop being the first state to do stupid stuff. I'm tired of this crap.
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Chart: People misread economy … at our peril. Related: Trump's economy is resilient. So why doesn't he get more credit? If you live in a Blue state, things can seem pretty dire. Because the state economy is not built on business, but on federal handouts. So of course, you would think that economy sucks.
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675 shelter beds on chopping block as Multnomah County faces budget shortfall. It appears that turning Portland into crap actually costs money.
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Portland City Council experiences some of that progressive goodness. Wh at's the thing they always say? Oh yeah: "Fuck shit up!" Good and hard, Portland.
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Oregon Senate Advances Unusual Plan to Regulate Conversations With Artificial Intelligence. And how are they going to enforce this?
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