Seattle closes gifted and talented schools because they had too many white and Asian students, with consultant branding black parents who complained about move 'tokenized'. And look at that smug picture of Chandra Hampson.
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JAMA Open Network thinks that vaccine injuries happen mostly in red states because there are more VAERS reports originating there. Filling out VAERS forms is an onerous task, like applying for a loan or refinance. If you're a vax believer, knowing you got the vax yourself, how eager would you be to fill those out? The AMA is such a woke organization. I would never join that group.
Then this came out – the CDC hid 780,000 adverse vax reports that came out just after the rollout. What the hell? Is deception and lack of transparency a Blue state thing?
An inside look into the Boeing executive culture. The infestation of DEI is sickening, and explains a lot of why the company has been having problems.
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Taiwan actually fared relatively well after their magnitude 7.4 earthquake. Portland would not likely fare as well. There's a list of unreinforced concrete buildings to avoid, at the link.
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Everything's going the wrong way in Portland. Multnomah County’s Cardiac Arrest Survival Rate Dropped 19% Last Year.
Many-shot jailbreaking. Anthropic researchers wear down AI ethics with repeated questions.
How do you get an AI to answer a question it’s not supposed to? There are many such “jailbreak” techniques, and Anthropic researchers just found a new one, in which a large language model (LLM) can be convinced to tell you how to build a bomb if you prime it with a few dozen less-harmful questions first. They call the approach “many-shot jailbreaking”.
Is this why Stable Diffusion has become so lousy? Much worse than DALL-E. The company has run out of money.
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Google considers charging for AI-powered search. But this guy has been able to use the open-source SearXNG engine to make a local LLM-powered interface, like Perplexity. No OpenAI or Google API key necessary. And it's private. This could change how we do search. No fees to Google.
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World's oldest man dies, aged 114. He lived in Venezuela, not in a Blue Zone. I'm gonna see if I can get some aguardiente and check it out.
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Time for some graphs:
Lower than average. Oregon school performance:
Lower than average. Oregon school performance:
No one wants to be in the City of Portland. How many people have left Oregon in the past few years?
How depressing. Percentage of people in the world on antidepressants:
