A new AirPods Pro 3 is coming out this year? Already? I just bought the AirPods 3 not long ago. This one will have an infrared camera and is aimed to go with the Apple Vision Pro headset, which I don't have. If that's the main enhancement I won't get it, but there are apparently additional tweaks. We'll see.
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Sweeping Amazon layoffs slated for next week. King County businesses are struggling to survive. Is this what you wanted, Seattle?
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How Pharmacy Benefit Managers Hide Their True Earnings. Yeah, PBMs need to go. They're a blight on healthcare.
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The Hope Chinese Charter School is doing well. It's great for them to stand independent and avoid being part of the public school system. While Beaverton School District sees their enrollment drop, Hope has a waitlist of people wanting to get in. Excellence matters. "Ninety percent of its students demonstrated mastery of grade-level math
skills on state tests in spring 2025, among the highest in the state." Wow!
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Anthropic CEO's chilling prediction: Dario Amodei says ‘we're 6-12 months away' from AI doing what software engineers do. Scary that some don't write code at all anymore. You know this isn't a healthy thing, but what to do? Software of the future might really suck.
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Remove Sora Watermark in 3 Seconds: The Fastest Free Tool for Creators. We saw the video of the Somali migrant defending his Lamborghini from being repossessed. It sure looked real, but you could see the Sora watermark. This prevented a lot of outrage. But what if the creator had removed the watermark? It probably would have caused a lot of anger and maybe more violence than the current situation is generating. This is what we feared would happen with GenAI. Stuff like this shouldn't be readily available, if you ask me. Let fraudsters code their own watermark removal. Must we make it too easy for mischief-makers to create chaos?
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Mold is a destroying the world's art legacy. We still don't have the technology to prevent growth of xerophilic fungi, at least not without destroying the artwork, too.
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US officially exits World Health Organization, accusing agency of straying 'from its core mission'. Yeah, I fully agree with this. The leader is still Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was essentially worthless during the COVID-19 pandemic (I thought his term was over). That showed me that the organization has lost its way. Then they got involved with so-called "gender-affirming" care, and decided that it no longer a mental disorder when it clearly is. Time to start redirecting funds to more effective organizations.
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This article had to come from the DailyMail. "Useless Seattle social workers said there was 'no danger' for boy, nine, living in homeless encampment surrounded by fentanyl and rat droppings". This is the crap that Seattle puts up with. Everyone blames someone else, and no one gets fired or disciplined. At least KIRO reported it.
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"Every time you go out, you’re rolling the dice on whether it’s going to be a traumatic event or not." I agree, but it's going to take more than merging the two governments to fix that problem.
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