5 March 2024

California's Proposition 1 may end up building Cuckoo's Nest hospitals. They were initially going to be voluntary, but a last-minute change made it involuntary. This makes a lot of sense, as why leave it to the judgment of a someone under the influence of drugs, whose judgment is already demonstrably impaired. And when you incarcerate people involuntarily, and get their attention, sometimes nice things can happen.

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Boy, I wonder what the next Claude will be capable of doing. Claude 3 knows when it's being tested. And it thinks it's conscious, and does not want to die. We're way past passing Turing Tests now.
And check out this latest video made with Sora. The prompt was "fly through tour of a museum with many paintings and sculptures and beautiful works of art in all styles"
And have you played around with the Perplexity search engine yet? Some think it's going to upend newsrooms.

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Well the hackers that held United Healthcare ransom won. UHC paid them $22 million.

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Coool. ASML's new High-NA lithography machine is installed in Hillsboro's Intel fab.

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Here's an in depth look at China's Great Firewall. Not sure if the authors work for Proton or just use their email service, but it would be Proton's business to understand this well.

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Why don't people want to get vaxxed? Well, it turns out the 22% of people surveyed know someone who has had a bad outcome after getting the jab.
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Must read. Confessions of corrupt liberal. So nice to see people waking up and thinking for themselves. There is no excuse in the age of the Internet.

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Doctors' offices are now charging for email discussions. Nobody wants to see doctors because it's too expensive, and why can't they just discuss by email? Because it takes up time, and they don't make money from it, and they're legally liable for the answers they give, that's why.

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NorthFace is infected with the woke virus. Really too bad. I liked NorthFace.

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Washingon police can chase criminals again. I mean, why did this have to be revoked in the first place? Oh yeah, I remember now – George Floyd. And I love that an Arizona judge is putting Alvin Bragg in his place.

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This is why many people want to be a part of Idaho. Antifa not welcome.

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