Northern lights may get stronger in the n ext two years as the sun enters a turbulent decline. Maybe I'll finally be able to see the aurora visually from my home in the Pacific Northwest, instead of just the photographic ones where people set their cameras to long exposure and see some green and purple on the horizon. That doesn't count for me.
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Jeff Bezos does think AI is in a bubble, but says not to worry. If you're not heavily invested in AI, sure, not to worry. OK, Jeff, if you say so.
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What's going with Hillsboro?. First, it's become a datacenter dumping ground. Now it's the potential site of a lithium battery BESS. If you don't know what a BESS is, you should read up on it, especially if you live near where NW West Union Rd and Cornelius Pass Road intersect. Wow, could be a disaster for property values. And worse if the BESS catches fire. Who thought it was a good idea to locate it there?
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AI copyright conundrum. Who owns what when AI creates something? Especially if it's derivative. One thing that I got out of this article: save your prompts, because that may be the critical factor deciding whether you are infringing or not. OpenAI better worry about this with Sora2. I think OpenAI made a mistake releasing to the public without restrictions. This is what's causing the headache. Perhaps it would be better if they licensed it or restricted its use, and made it a paid model.
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When I was a student, I was taught that the background cosmic radio wave background was isotropic. Turns out, that's not the case. And there's a odd streak that cannot be explained. It's colder on one side and hotter on the other.
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Gone are the days when working in a Silicon Valley company made you rich. Those techies are struggling as much as everyone else. Must be hard when you see all that wealth around you. Remnants of the old dotcom years.
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Even after all these years, saturated fats can't be blamed for cardiovascular disease. Restricting it didn't make any difference in preventing cardiovascular disease or reducing mortality.
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Wow, this is unexpected. Having a glioblastoma brain tumor causes changes in the skull and the bone marrow immune cells. That's wild. How do these changes come about?
This also abolished the survival benefit of the checkpoint inhibitor anti-PD-L1, by reducing activated T cell and increasing inflammatory neutrophil numbers.
That could explain why checkpoint inhibitors don't work well for high-grade brain gliomas.
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Going through the menstrual cycle "exert(s) powerful behavioral, structural, and functional effects through actions on the mammalian central nervous system". This is something men have always suspected was true. 😉
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If your Lyft driver spews progressive political crap on your during the ride, and you complain to Lyft, don't be surprised if you can't use Lyft again.
But don't worry, Gavin Newsom just signed a law giving Lyft and Uber drivers the ability to unionize. So, don't be surprised if both companies pull out of California.
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Seattle Times uses the Democrat line that it's Trump's tariffs that are making it different for business to survive. No, it's not the tariffs. It's the high taxes, high minimum wages, and high energy costs that are raising the prices of everything.
Portland is seeing this too, with the disappearance of low-cost jobs. Only higher cost jobs have increased, because with minimum wage increases, everyone's pay increases. But that doesn't mean it's good for the local economy.
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