Happy Triple Square Day. Today is 32/52/452 = 9/25/2025. We don't be alive for the next one.
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The 2026 Porsche Cayenne EV will have wireless charging. I am still waiting for someone to offer better batteries rather than the standard lithium-based batteries that take hours to charge. Then we wouldn't have to have charging mats, etc.
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Google is now admitting that it was censoring COVID-19 information at the behest of the Biden administration. But it's too late. It's 2025 now, and Google is just doing this because it's now safe to say this, because Trump is in power. We were right to be afraid of Big Tech's control over information, especially Google.
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A warning to those who depend on Tor for illicit activity. Determining the identity of a Tor user is possible if the government really wants to know.
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Why did psilocybe mushrooms evolve to produce psychedelic toxins twice? I didn't know that the presence of bluish bruising is a sign of the presence of psilocybin, due to the breakdown products.
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Dan Brown has a new book out, Secret of Secrets. This one doesn't deal with ancient mysteries. The most favorable review I found is the one from LA Times, which I linked to. I read books like this to learn new things, and I might check it out, not so much for the plot, but to discover things and links I wasn't aware of.
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Another one bites the dust. A woke bookstore in New York City's lower east side closes after trying to offer a concentrated version of Portland, like harm reduction, Narcan, and other neo-hippie offerings. Turns out it just lured gronks and criddlers, and paying customers stopped showing up. It wasn't able to stay afloat longer with NGO money or taxes, so it crashed a lot sooner. Just look at it – a Portlander would feel right at home.
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TriMet wants to know why you aren't riding their buses anymore. They can't keep those mostly empty buses riding around anymore.
Portland business continue to struggle. They're going to implement some sort of "storefront support". Because people still don't want to go into the City. Yeah, wonder why?
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Math fraud is out of control.
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For example, based on its database, the market leader for metrics, Clarivate Inc., calculated in 2019 that the university with the most world-class researchers in mathematics is a university in Taiwan -- where mathematics is not even offered as a subject. Megajournals, which print anything as long as the authors pay for it, now publish more articles per year than all reputable mathematics journals (which do not require payment) combined. Fraudsters anonymously offer everything that influences key figures for sale, from articles to citations, in exchange for payment.
It's not just math. It's science in general. Only reputable journals matter.
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Another large Oregon business closing: Roseburg Forest Products. 100 to be laid off. Really too bad.
And Washington state realizes that it will bring in $903 million less than expected over the next four years. Yup, so it's "cutting services and approving a sweeping package of additional taxes" to make up for the deficit.
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