22 December 2025

Google wants to study your online habits; what it wants to track. Participants in their Device Usage Study will likely be a specific isolated demographic than the rest of us. I'd never participate. But that's just me.

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Laid Off After 25 Years in Tech: The Anxiety, Sacrifice, and Reality No One Talks About. Very poignant video of a mid-40s software engineer who just got laid-off from a job with a large tech company. It's the same struggle between working hard and having a home life with your family. Now he has time, but suddenly pulling out of Big Tech is jarring. What should you do for the rest of your life? He's a bright guy, and there are certainly people in worse positions than him, but still, I hope he finds a satisfactory solution. 
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Always on Top is like the old Afloat app. It's great, and could really help out with my workflow. There's no free trial, though. You gotta pay and request a refund if you don't like it.

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We've come to this nowAI Bathroom Monitors? Welcome To America’s New Surveillance High Schools. This is in Beverly Hills, in Southern California. There's really a compelling case to get out of the public school system.

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It's so easy to spread AI misinformation.  Make up stuff, and AI will suck it up and spread it around.

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Trump AI czar David Sacks starts to worry the industry. No, Politico has it backwards. David Sacks is worrying Democrat governors who want to regulate, regulate, regulate. And now they can't because of this ruling. We can't have 50 different AI rules, just like we can't have 50 different Internet rules. I think Sacks is right, and those in the tech industry support this.

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Tiny Lab-Grown Spinal Cords Could Hold the Key to Healing Paralysis. Hopefully this will lead somewhere.

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Nobody wants to eat lab-grown meat. C'mon.

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New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Medical Center investigators, with co-authors across additional US centers, report greater cognitive worsening at 78 weeks with valacyclovir than with placebo among adults with early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease and herpes simplex virus (HSV) seropositivity.
"Researchers were uncertain about the reasons for the observed effect." Paper here.

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