25 February 2024

I saw this article about the Albedo satellite that will launch in 2025, that can spy on individuals, and there was concern worked up over privacy and face recognition. But that's the Daily Mail. I wanted to see more detail, and if the pictures shown in the NYT are any indication, then it will be more like what you see from the top of the Burj Khalifa. Making out individual faces will still be difficult though, but who knows what the tech will be like in a few years. But yeah, when you see contrails overhead, be wary.

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Don't rely on Generative AI for medical advice. Up to 30% of what LLMs say is unsupported. There's no substitute for a human physician. (Although during COVID-19, what some human doctors said about things like the vax product was also unsupported as well.)

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Great! A referendum to repeal rank-choice voting will be on the next ballot.
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Man is cured of acute myelogenous leukemia and HIV at the same time. He needed an allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for his leukemia, but luckily, his bone marrow donor carried a CCR5 delta-3 mutation, which made his T-lymphocytes, monocytes and dendritic cells resistant to HIV entry. So when his bone marrow was replaced, he became resistant to HIV, too. Lucky guy.

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