31 December 2025

Happy New Year's Eve!
We made it.

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AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says David Bengio. This is actually old news, and people have been talking about this for some time. I'm actually involved in a research study that will hopefully shed some light on this. Can't say much more now.

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How Easy It Is to Steal Your Data with a Chrome Extension. It's not just AI chat conversations that can be stolen, but any information that is typed in when a malicious Chrome extension is active. This is another reason (and a good one) not to use the Chrome browser. Use something else!

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You Fund This. The creator of the Gab chat app created this lookup tool. You can see what your tax dollars are supporting. Andrew Torba recently announced it in response to the incredible Somali fraud scandal.

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Over 50% of Heart Attacks in Younger Women Aren't From Clogged Arteries. So if it's not just atherosclerotic plaque in many cases, then what is it from? Well there still is atherosclerotic thrombosis as a cause (47%), but it turns out that there's a lot of supply-demand mismatch, where there isn't enough blood flow to areas with high demand (34%). This is like in the lung, where ventilation-perfusion mismatch can drop your blood oxygenation capacity significantly. Men can have this, too, but not as much. There there are spontaneous intimal dissections of the coronary arterry endothelium that happens way more in women. Why is that? No one knows.

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Congrats to the hard workers who collected signatures to put the gas tax initiative on the ballot next November. Until then, there are no taxes, but the rumor is that Kotek and the Dems are convening to try to ramrod something else.

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