After about 50 years, Alaska Airlines is going to replace the Eskimo face logo. It's going to be replaced by a stylized aurora. The face in the logo is Oliver Amouak.
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Wow, supposedly the reason why RFK Jr pulled funding for mRNA vaccines was that for COVID, meta-analysis data showed that getting the vax was worse than getting the disease. This is just a X posting, and I'd like to see the meta-analysis data.
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Japan will require that Apple allow non-webkit browsers. This is a big deal, and finally the market may be open to better browsers than Safari. So far, all other browsers are inferior due to features that Apple apparently kept for themselves. This is like forcing Apple to go with USB-C connectors instead of just Lightning connectors.
Meanwhile, Apple is losing members of its AI team to rival companies. Tim Cook had better provide some vision for where the company is going, or frustrated researchers will look elsewhere to other companies that know what they are going to do.
The may soon be an eyedrop that helps correct presbyopia. It's called VIZZ, and it's a once-daily drop that lasts about 10 hours. Saves you from having to wear reading glasses.
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Low-dose lithium supposedly relived Alzheimer's symptoms in mice. Cognitive decline was reversed. Amyloid plaques apparently sequester lithium, depriving the rest of the brain. I didn't know that lithium was an essential element in the brain.
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Remember the guy who lost ten years of data on his AWS account? He got his account back. Because he posted it on his blog and someone in Amazon noticed and decided to help him. After reading about his experience, I would stay the hell away from AWS for my cloud services. The company got too big too fast. Lucky for him, but others might not have a blog that others read.
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Anthropic thinks they know how to prevent AI from turning evil. Interesting, it seems that Anthropic is the only company that is pursuing things like this, or at least talks about it. Everyone else just focus on releasing newer models, and release benchmark numbers, and that's it.
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Scientists have finally detected anti-neutrinos in their CONUS+ detector. I remember when it used to take large underground chambers filled with liquid and lined with detectors to detect neutrinos. Now it can be done with a detector "the size of a lunchbox".
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Providence lays off 128 workers, and warns more layoffs will come. Soon they'll have a shrinking pool of rich nurses. And consolidation. And now the ONA is saying that having less nurses won't be safe. Can't have it both ways, union leaders.
And Legacy Health nurse practitioners are going to unionize. What a headache it must be to be a hospital administrator in Portland.
It's about time. HHS will cut Medicare and Medicaid funding to hospitals that provide transgender surgery for children. I guess Hollywood actresses will have to take their kids to another country for genital mutilation surgery. OHSU doesn't do children so they won't be affected. Seattle Childrens already agreed to stop doing it.
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OPB has an article on the history of the Gateway district in Portland. It's sad to see that those early grandiose dreams got destroyed by City of Portland policies. Now that area is crime central, and looks so run down.
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