It's not official (yet) but TSA is allowing flyers at select airports (including PDX) to keep their shoes on during security checks. About time.
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Zuckerberg continues poaching AI experts – this time from the Apple foundational models group. They'll join his Superintelligence team. Being nerdy finally pays.
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Will Trump's new student loan policy make it harder to be a doctor or lawyer? I don't think so. It will shift the loans away from government and into the private sector, where it really belongs. And if you can't demonstrate that you have the potential to succeed, you won't get the loan. And a private lender will not "forgive" the loan, so you'd better make sure you make those payments.
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Nice review of how Mozilla's leadership has been failing the company. Firefox isn't dead, but the user share is steadily decreasing, for sure. I'm still not ready to abandon Firefox for Brave, as long as LibreWolf continues to work.
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The NYT wants your ChatGPT history – even the deleted ones. Why should the NYT have access to this? It's none of their business.
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In China, those with congenital deafness due to functional deficiency of the OTOF gene, were able to get restored hearing with just one injection of a gene delivery vector. Paper here.
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Oregon is going to hurt real bad. Specifically hospital and associated healthcare providers. It doesn't have to be that bad, but Oregon refuses to stop supporting non-citizens, and it's causing a drain on the economy that Oregon can't afford.
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A retired PSU professor says that Multnomah County had 4.5x the number of high income earners (> $500,000/yr) from 2014 to 2023. Really? Are you all seeing this? Were there that many new jobs in the county that paid that much? I don't think so. I bet that nearly all those jobs were NGO leadership positions or union leader positions that flourished under the Biden administration. All that COVID stimulus money. This has got to be bogus data.
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