24 August 2026

Even papers from Google DeepMind contain hallucinated content. You'd think they'd be more careful. And I didn't know of this company, VerusCite, that checks for fabricated AI-generated citations. Could come in handy.

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Apparently some people feel that time is flowing back to normal now that the Large Hadron Collider is at rest. Come to think of it, I had been feeling that time was proceeding a bit faster than usual, but I just chalked that up to age.

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Here's a simple way of learning JH Conway's trick of determine the day of the week for any given date. Simplest explanation I've come across.

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Someone created a skywatching app that tells you the best time to see an astronomical object. Don't know if it works for comets.

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Would be a bummer if we had permanent Daylight Saving Time. Americans didn't like it before, they probably won't like it again. 

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NoOregon Universal Health Plan Proposes New Taxes to Replace Premiums and Deductibles. The state doesn't have money for this. They can't raise taxes high enough to support this. People won't be able to survive on their paychecks. Unless you get no care for your insurance. This is a terrible idea, and should be scrapped.

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Seattle's real estate market is starting to collapse. Thanks to Democrat governance and the current socialist government.

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Wow, we might have a Republican governor after all. SCOTUS upholds Trump's executive order limiting mail-in ballots
The first instructs the Department of Homeland Security to create lists of the adult U.S. citizens in each state and to send those lists to states at least 60 days before a federal election
The second provision commands the U.S. attorney general to “prioritize the investigation and, as appropriate, the prosecution of State and local officials … who issue Federal ballots to individuals not eligible to vote in a Federal election.” 
The third provision requires states to give the U.S. Postal Service a list of voters to whom the states intend to send mail ballots, and it prohibits the USPS from mailing ballots to voters who are not on the lists of “enrolled” voters that the USPS will create.”

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