Big day today, after the removal of Maduro yesterday. Kurt Schlichter sums up how big this impacts global affairs. China may be especially hard hit.
And this is so funny!
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That's a good thing. New privacy laws take effect in California. I've been using DeleteMe for a long time. Works great.
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S. Korean team develops AI model for 'customized' cancer vaccine. Article is light on the details. Could be promising, but I'd have to know what the delivery system is and what the payload is, too. No mRNA vax for me.
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CHIP is still a mysterious condition that seems to be a consequence of getting older. The causes have been unclear. But now it seems that a specific genetic variant that lowers levels of a protein called Musashi2, or MSI2, seemed to be less likely to develop myeloid cancers. Maybe this will eventually get to the root cause.
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This is an old article, but it's good to know which LLMs are able to recognize people in images and are not afraid to say so. Look to the Gemini models for answers. Because sometimes this ronin has a bit of prosopagnosia.
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It's interesting how one doctor (presumably) is so against the belief that lowering cholesterol with statins is a big sham, while another doctor is a firm believe in statins. I tend to believe the latter doctor, because the former doctor made some statements that are clearly wrong, like treating hypertension should be reconsidered since the reason blood pressure is high is the body's way to pump blood through narrowed arteries. That's clearly insane because you can observe hypertension in patients without much atherosclerotic disease, and it doesn't taken into account hormonal factors (e.g. renin-angiotensin or aldosterone disorders) and that hypertension can result is reflex arterial constriction to prevent damage from the excessive pressure.
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Stack Overflow is changing, to try to adapt to their falling viewership. They're trying to get people to come back by turning it into a lounge for geeks. Will they leave Discord for the new StackOverflow. I think it's been confusing to have both StackExchange and StackOverflow. I could never figure out which one had the better answers. In the era of really good LLMs who will fix your coding problems and explain stuff to you right away, it's a hard ask to get people to come back.
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Crazy. ‘Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World. So injecting yourself with unknown and poorly-understood products from China are thing now among techies. All to get that special advantage. It's wild what people are willing to do to themselves.
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By blocking a protein called 15-PGDH, researchers at Stanford were able to get cartilage to grow back in aging mice.
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The Trump administration has given Oregon a significant amount of money with a goal of improving health care in rural areas, potentially including Baker County. About $197.3 million for 2026, and the state could get a similar amount for each of the following four years. But the money has to go through the Oregon Health Authority, instead of directly through the hospital. So who knows how much money will actually be spent to fix things in Baker County?
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