Hmmm. AI Is Causing Layoffs, Just Not in the Way You Think. The thesis is that companies had overhired and they had planned to lay off people but didn't have a reason. Now they use AI as a cover to streamline. Is that true?
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Local LLMs are how nerds now justify a big computer they don't need. Nah. I need it for when I train ML models or run large open source models with many billions of parameters. No quantization for me, baby. Unless I have to, of course.
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South Korean astrophysicists think the universe will end in a Big Crunch. Well, I'm not changing my weekend plans.
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Sam Altman is hiring someone to worry about the dangers of AI. That person is responsible for:
In other words, predict the unpredictable.“Tracking and preparing for frontier capabilities that create new risks of severe harm. You will be the directly responsible leader for building and coordinating capability evaluations, threat models, and mitigations that form a coherent, rigorous, and operationally scalable safety pipeline.”
Oregon really wants to cheat, I guess. The requirements for being eligible to vote in the state are so relaxed now. Anyone, I mean anyone, can register to vote, if they really want to. This state is so screwed up, in so many ways, it's beyond belief. There's no way they're going to let anyone but a Democrat win.
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Oregon Live has an article about "The saddest Portland restaurants closures of 2025". But they avoid any talk about WHY these restaurants are closing. Yeah, Oregonian – try being journalists for a change. Do some journalism for a change. Because we're going to see more of these.
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Who knew that kratom had anticancer properties? It's due to mitraphylline. But it's only present in minute amounts in the plant, so don't expect using kratom to protect you.
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Ph.D.s Can’t Find Work as Boston’s Biotech Engine Sputters. This article describes a guy from Hong Kong who comes to Boston, goes on welfare while he gets his chemistry degree, then because he can't find a job, will move back to China. What did America gain from this? Why did American taxpayers have to pay to train Chinese scientists? Is that right?
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Households with NO INCOME. How can society function with so many people who have no income? Some people need to start supporting themselves. What a joke welfare has become.
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