University of Minnesota Medical School researchers discover a way to formulate oral amphotericin. This is great because for some diseases, you need amphotericin, which sometimes goes by the nickname "Shake and Bake" because it induces the shakes and a high fever. The oral formulation was found to be "non-toxic".
How A.I. will destroy us. This article is probably true. We will see demoralization as A.I. can generate higher quality stuff than humans (provided someone knows how to generate it), and A.I. threatens to lessen actual human interaction (not a universal thing, but I can see it happening to some degree). So why do we continue to develop this potentially harmful technology? "Short-term profits." Spot-on. Who wouldn't pursue near-term monetary gains. Down the chute we go.
Although ChatGPT can pass medical knowledge assessment tests and can sound more empathetic than some humans, it seems that it won't yet replace human physicians. The A.I. app Babylon couldn't make a go of it, and is shutting down. But what led to its demise? Sure it lost some contracts, but was it just bad timing? Something else? Perhaps replicating the skills of a real physician is more than A.I. can achieve just yet. We'll see if its buyer, eMed, succeeds.
How to use ChatGPT to teach you Spanish. This tells you what prompts to use to let ChatGPT correct your mistakes and act as a private tutor. This is s great example of what A.I. can do to help humans.
Why DeFi won't go mainstream. DeFi is banking without regulations. Why would you do it?
Spike protein is dangerous - whether from the SARS-CoV2 or from the vaccine. Really surprised this got published, because they conclude:
We also advocate for the suspension of gene-based COVID-19 vaccines and lipid-nanoparticle carrier matrices, and other vaccines based on mRNA or viral-vectorDNA technology. A safer course is to use vaccines with well-tested recombinant protein, attenuated or inactivated virus technologies, of which there are now many for vaccinating against SARS-CoV-2.
Think anyone will listen?
And I missed this CDC Risk Assessment summary from last week. It says:
BA.2.86 may be more capable of causing infection in people who have previously had COVID-19 or who have received COVID-19 vaccines.
Well that's just great, huh?
Be careful when you eat at a Beaverton restaurant. You might get an asshole charge.
Kudos to Oprah and Dwayne Johnson for helping the Lahaina residents. Nice to see celebrities pitching in.
Edit: Well, maybe it isn't quite what I thought it was. Changing that sugoi to a yokunai.
Money down the drain. Washington state let the inexperienced and incompetent Washington State Lived Experience Coalition whose only qualification seems to be "lived experience", run the homeless shelter agency. $3 million gone and nothing to show for it.