25 February 2026

A summary of all the bad things about AI. These are legit concerns as new technology comes on the scene, but that's the price that is paid to explore it and develop it. I would not want things like energy consumption, etc to stop researchers from seeing how far this technology can take us. Even that Citrini regrets the post that brought AI stocks down recently. One guy suggests a treatment for AI derangement syndrome: just start using it. Play around with it, and get some experience with it. Your fears will melt away. 

And if you're a SaaS company, you have to think differently. Don't just build software. Build customer-changing outcomes.

Vibe-coding is not that easy. Ask this hapless software engineer who dissed his wife to code something ambitious. Ouch.

If you still think that AI is going to eliminate software engineering jobs, look no further than Anthropic, who is hiring for software engineers. You'd think they, of all people, could just vibe code it themselves, right?

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Don't install OpenClaw on your own computer. It should go on its own computer. Ignore this at your own risk.

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AI and mental health: New research links use of ChatGPT to worsened psychiatric symptoms. I'll be a LOT of things are linked to worsened psychiatric symptoms. How much do we want to ban because someone's psych symptoms might get worse?

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Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of Signal, wanted to create a secure and private chat engine. He created Confer, but it was based on open-source models that relied on China-based training. So they would not reply with answers unfavorable to China. Even a lot of AI is "made in China". It's hard to escape that.

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Most teens believe their peers are using AI to cheat in school. So if they're doing it, why not you, right? You think the Asian countries allow their students to use AI to pass tests? Somehow, I think not.

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The Misuses of the University. Here's an essay from a Johns Hopkins University professor who decries that his institution is no longer the academic dream center he felt that it was. Instead, it has become centers for the indulgence of wealthy donors, while faculty deal with the growing morass of labor politics and the imposed new social justice requirements. Everything is going to crap it seems.

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Clemastine fumarate promotes myelin repair in a nonhuman primate model of demyelination characterized by absent spontaneous remyelination. Wow, the old antihistamine, Tavist, can promote myelin regeneration. Will this be a treatment for multiple sclerosis? Probably not, but it might provide insight that might lead to such a treatment.

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RNA therapeutics shrink metastasized lung tumors in mouse study. In this study, they're not using mRNA like Pfizer or Moderna. It's siRNA (small interfering) which is used to recognize the gene for survivin, used by pancreatic cancers to resist chemotherapy. The siRNA forms an envelope with contains the chemotherapy, which kills the cancer. Paper here.

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Alex Kurtzman is the Kathleen Kennedy of the Star Trek franchise. Really too bad. I used to like Star Wars and Star Trek.

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Portland Public Schools faces mid-year cuts due to just-discovered shortages. A $10 million funding gap. And questions swirl as Portland Public Schools suddenly closes a high school for kids who struggle elsewhere.  Oregon will never get out of last place in education, that's for sure. Not with our current leadership.

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How many of these 15 interesting things about Oregon did you know? Or have been to?

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