24 May 2024

UCLA medical school found to have severely compromised their standards to let black applicants in. And if you refuse a minority physician, you are judged racist. This is how unconscious bias starts – and perpetuates.
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Cannabis tops alcohol as America's drug of choice. Getting dumber and dumber. And more psychotic. Just what we need. /sarc.

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Google's AI-assisted search results now cites The Onion!  Garbage-in, garbage-out.

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The world's top chip makers can flip a kill switch, should China invade Taiwan. The companies are ASML and TSMC. China will not get the crown jewels.

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California is crazy. After Learning Her TA Would Be Paid More Than She Was, This Lecturer Quit. Lefty policies, while trying to correct inequities, seems to always do it the wrong way, which leads to more problems. Everyone wants more money, and there are so many unions vying to get more money for their members. If you are not a union member, you will be taken advantage of. Eventually it leads to absurdities, like the one in the article.

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Google Search is getting to be a joke now. They've ruined their brand. Inserting AI into the mix has only led to trouble.

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More on the Greater Idaho story.  Maybe it'll happen.  On Tina Kotek's watch.

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