3 May 2024

Incredible. Remember those activists who disrupted Seattle's I-5 for four hours? This judge dropped all charges.

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The report is another piece of grim news for a town that’s struggling to get its mojo back after the pandemic, 2020′s riots, ire over new local taxes, and a surge in open-air fentanyl use. Reports from commercial brokers regularly show downtown Portland as among the most vacant places nationwide.
Another reason employment isn’t growing....lackluster in-migration. Newcomers juiced the Portland economy for years before 2020. Lately, the Oregon Trail isn’t quite as busy.
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Canadian doctors are already using AI scribes in their practice. I don't think we're ready yet. There's still a risk of hallucinations and privacy and confidentiality breaches. I'd never use a third party service for this.

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Wow. 27 volumes of new Brothers Grimm material discovered in a Polish library. These were thought to be lost in WW II.

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A small molecule inhibitor, ESI1, may be effective in repairing myelin sheaths in diseased nerves. Currently, there are no drugs that can repair the myelin sheath. For diseases like multiple sclerosis, people often get steroids, which is aimed at inhibiting inflammation that might be involved in the myelin damage. But nothing to actually trigger repair. Hopefully this becomes the first.

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