AI browsers are a hot mess of security risks. It seems that everybody is talking about it. I'd stay away for now.
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How to Use YouTube to Learn Tacit Knowledge. Yeah, from YouTube, you can learn things they don't actually teach you explicitly. A lot of things can be learn just be watching. I've seen that work.
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Historical language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades. So, our language patterns apparently reveal a surge of depression in the current zeitgeist. I don't know if it's just the influence of social media or that the world is just getting enshittified (see below). Maybe it's the "tiny sugars" in our brains.
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But yeah, a lot of things are getting enshittified. Including websites. Maybe it's the effect of AI. But this is a natural process for when you introduce something nice into the world. Once the public gets a hold of it, quality deteriorates and it's no longer a nice service or the mind-enhancing, mood-enhancing thing it once was. If Cory Doctorow can get credit for the word "enshittification" perhaps I can get credit for the phrase "epimethean" after Epimetheus, the brother of Prometheus. Epimetheus represents carelessness and regret on hindsight when actions have unintended negative consequences that harm mankind.
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Idiots. A greenie in California bought a hydrogen-powered Toyota, but now can't find a hydrogen outlet nearby that will let him refuel. The best part is, he still owes money on the car. Yeah, not using the car also decreases CO2 emissions. Do these liberals think at all? I can't believe these guys were willing to let themselves be publicly identified.
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Public servce: if you're going to have an MRI scan, don't take vitamin C before or each oxalate-rich foods. In practice, however, most MRI centers in Portland don't use contrast agents that use linear gadolinium contrast agents, but use macrocyclic agents, like Dotarem.
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The supplement PQQ can decrease fat accumulation and decrease obesity progression. PQQ stimulates mitochondria biogenesis, so perhaps that's how it works.
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Where are we on making Daylight Saving Time permanent? The answer is nowhere close to making it happen. Politicians can even do something as simple as making this change, although they were able to turn it on in 1966. Politicians were different then. Things got done.
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Speaking of frogs in boiling water, I don't know how people living near the ICE building put up with the crap night after night. In times past, people would be storming City Hall. Now, people just take it, and complain only to reporters.
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Someone who previously worked for Gavin Newsom makes a veiled threat to San Francisco governance that if they resist building dense towers with affordable housing units built-in, instead of keeping density low, there will be consequences! Enshittify your city! Or else!
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Japan’s Okada Museum Forced to Sell Works to Settle Founder’s $50 M. Legal Bill. On the auction block: Hokusai's "Great Wave off the coast of Kanagawa". Wonder who will buy it.
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Do you believe it? Violent crime plummets 36% in downtown Seattle, lowest since 2017. I sure don't think so, when I visit. Maybe there's more policing around the Market, to save tourism, but the rest of Seattle is going to crap, especially the I-District and Ballard, Northgate.
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