Southern Oregon University is in dire financial straits. Reminds me of Marylhurst University. I think we are going to see a general decline in the university business model. There were way too many of these, and all they seem to do in entrap people into debt situations. And things are going to get tough for folks that still have student loans that they "forgot" to pay off during the Biden administration.
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7 dire economic warnings facing Oregon. In 2004, the region was so hot. Still coming off the dotcom boom, Portland was a popular destination for smart people, who made people think the city could be another Seattle or an outpost of Bay Area glory. Now, it's a dumpster, full of homeless and druggies, run by a city government that is clueless, but doesn't realize it. They went easy on crime, encouraged mind-destroying drugs, shackled the police, let protestors ruin the city, and taxed everyone to their limit. There's increasingly less of the city to enjoy, despite the high taxes. The mayor wants to uglify the city with shelters popping up everywhere. Nobody is stopping him. And Portland shit isn't staying in Portland, unfortunately. Beaverton and Gresham are experiencing it as well.
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Here's some of the bills passed in Salem recently. The one that caught my eye was SB 426, which
I wonder if you could demand a clause be inserted protecting you from this sort of thing....hold(s) homeowners financially liable if they are cheated by a contractor who doesn’t properly pay his workers. That means when you pay a contractor $200,000 to build a house, if the contractor doesn’t pay his workers and leaves town, the property owner is responsible, in part, for paying the entire $200,000 again.
Anthropic's CEO is upset about the way Mark Zuckerberg is changing corporate culture, making certain AI engineers and researchers super wealthy while others can only watch. He's pleased that Zuck was unable to poach any of Anthropic's engineers, but expectations are changed. People will demand more.
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Academia unmasked. Even in academics, there is bias and corruption. And it is not the place to be if you are prone to mental illness and have a weak mental constitution.
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Boy I missed this when it came out last year: Noncanonical inheritance of phenotypic information by protein amyloids. Such a nondescript title of a major discovery. Here is a more approachable summary of what this paper means. Certain amyloid proteins can effectively pass on traits to offspring in a manner that does not require DNA or RNA. Just protein. People continue to discover new stuff.
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