Finally! SCOTUS strikes down race-based admissions criteria for elite schools. So will we see more Asians at top schools? Maybe, but "the attorneys said admissions officers could use information about overcoming discrimination gleaned from admissions essays, as long as their decisions aren’t focused on race specifically." This will be the way they get around the ruling. If they are truly race-neutral, Asian enrollment will increase, if the CalTech experience is any guide.
Ugh. Not even sucralose is safe. You still gain weight, and it's genotoxic. (Could this explain the rise in colon cancers?)
Even aspartame is getting a bad rep. I guess it means going back to the sweeteners that taste funny or that give you diarrhea.
Mental illness on the rise, but mental health counseling is in short supply. Is there anything not in short supply in this Administration?
Canada gets cheap skilled labor. The U.S. get cheap unskilled labor. Sounds like a deal, eh?
Is this a good thing? We're going to be flooded with open-source LLMs. This is early-stage. Things are going to shake out.
The Moral Crisis of America's Doctors. Before Obamacare, when it was feasible to own your own medical practice, doctors had independence. But since almost everyone had to sell and join a hospital or a private equity group, doctors are now employees, and we're seeing the effects of this.
Who owns you code if you got it from ChatGPT? The lawyers are working on this.
A legal way out of the homelessness problem? Portland says that it can't solve the homeless problem because of the Martin v Boise decision which said that there has to be enough housing before you can chase homeless people out of public lands. But that was in 2018, before Biden got elected and the drug problem got really bad. But no one talks about the Brown v City of Phoenix decision (2023), where the city was told it had the right to get rid of the homeless critters if there was evidence of crime, public drug use and a "biohazard" situation - all of which exist in Portland. So get going, Portland!
Great article on how American healthcare isn't that bad. Folks like Bernie Sanders like to say that U.S. healthcare is so expensive and that healthcare is a right. Well maybe it's expensive if you look at the initial figure, which this family was presented with. But with the cost, comes life-saving services which places like Canada don't provide. And this is why healthcare is not a right. It's just a standard of life that we as a society choose to set, if we can afford it. Which so far we can.
Your tax dollars at work. Portlanders, did you know you were paying for a Narcan subsidy?
