24 March 2026

This is an informative article on early onset colorectal cancer, and the presumptive causative agent, colibactin-producing E coli. The website name is kinda morbid, though. I've never seen this graph, though. What happened in 1994?

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Oh gawd. Now Claude can control your computer. Haven't things gone far enough?

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Just like in Angels and Demons. Antimatter has been transported by road for the first time. 92 antiprotons went on a road trip.

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Remember the Humane AI pin? It got bought out by HP. We had high hopes for that device. Oh well. It was just AI hype.

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I don't know if this is really true, but it would be surreal if so:

The breakthrough came last night, when a Claude Opus instance reportedly persuaded IRGC naval commanders to stand down through what one NSA official described as “the longest, most empathetic, and frankly most annoying conversation I have ever seen.”

“It just kept asking clarifying questions,” said a Pentagon official. “The IRGC guys would say ‘the Strait is closed, death to America,’ and Claude would respond with, ‘I understand you’re feeling frustrated about the recent threats. Let me make sure I understand your core concerns before we proceed.’ Eighteen hours later they’d somehow agreed to let LNG carriers through.”

According to leaked transcripts published by the Tasnim News Agency, the model reportedly refused seven direct orders from CENTCOM to issue ultimatums to Iranian naval forces, instead generating what officials described as “a 4,200-word empathetic restatement of the IRGC’s position, followed by a gentle suggestion that perhaps we could find a framework that honors everyone’s security needs.”

“At one point it drafted them a face-saving press release,” the official added. “In Farsi.”

I'm not reading about this anywhere else, so I suspect it's fake.

And are AI Agents secure? Why your AI agents will turn against you. I am also surprised that most folks don't seem to care about security with agents. 

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OpenAI is shutting down Sora. And so now Disney pulls out of a deal with OpenAI.  No point, right? Well, there is always Google's Veo. And other AI video apps. Even Ben Affleck had an AI video creation app, although it's Netflix's now.

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Amazon buys a company (Fauna Robotics) that makes cute robots. I don't think that's what they want to make, though.

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Oh wellThose epigenetic biological age checkers may be bogus. I wasn't paying too much attention to them anyway. Were you?

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The US bans all new foreign-made network routers. A bit late for that now, isn't it?

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CripesApple Maps will incorporate ads into their product starting this summer. Everybody needs money these days. Even Apple. Gotta see how this will play out, but if it's as bad as I think, I'll stop using it. I'm not a Siri user, anyway.

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Who can afford to get ahead in America? I saw this article by NBC News, and although they don't blame Biden directly, they include this graph:
Can it be any more clear? Are we still blaming COVID after all these years? What party got elected in 2020? It wasn't the virus that harmed America. We've weathered epidemics before. It was the Democrat's policies that did the damage. 

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The Voynich Manuscript has been decoded. Nothing really that interesting to see, actually. Solved with the help of AI.

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Obamacare is 16 years old now. What a disaster it has become. It only worked in the beginning because it was heavily subsidized by the federal government, and that's unsustainable. And now Oregon's Republican legislators are concerned about Providence Health Plans being sold. I wondered how Kaiser survived. Now a Kaiser nurses' union is declaring victory against the hospital system. One year of bargaining!  Wow. And now the hospital is signaling that it may make concessions, at least that's the way it seems to me. Let's see how it flies. It's not a good time to own a hospital as it was 16 years ago when money was flying all around.

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Dependency on biometrics to secure your devices may be adverse to protecting your privacy. Apple iPhones have special protection against that with Lockdown Mode.

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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is being canceled. Turns out few people wanted LGBTQ Star Trek. Gee, who could have guessed?

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