What is your Work Number? I can't confirm this process is actually what's happening, but I can believe it does. This is immoral and should be stopped. Actually, there is a way to stop it (this guy tells you how at the bottom of the article). But most people probably don't know about it. I'm no longer in the job market, but if I were, you can bet I'd take steps.
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Being optimistic can lower your risk of dementia. I suspect that it's more the feeling of being thankful for where you are in life. Because there is always something to be thankful for. The attitude of gratitude. But maybe it's all just rotten egg gas - hydrogen sulfide. The more our brains produce, the less we risk Alzheimer's. And just enough gas and no more, please. 🐣
A week's worth of meditation can rewire your brain.
Compared to pre-intervention plasma, post plasma increases in vitro neurite outgrowth (p = 0.01), enhances glycolytic metabolism (p = 0.008), induces upregulation of BDNF (p = 0.001), inflammatory (p = 0.0001), anti-inflammatory (p = 0.03), and endogenous opioid (p = 0.03) pathways, and modulates tryptophan metabolism (pFDR = 0.03) and neurotransmission-associated exosome miRNA transcripts. This intensive non-pharmacological mind-body intervention produces broad short-term neural and plasma-based molecular changes associated with enhanced neuroplasticity, metabolic reprogramming, and modulation of functional cell signaling pathwaysYeah, these sound like positive changes. It still amazes me that Siddhartha Gautama was able to discover this phenomenon, because in the beginning, it sure feels like you're just wasting your time. The changes come on gradually, and you must be patient.
Claude mixes up who said what. This is actually a serious observation, and really makes me not want to use Claude Code. Or any platform where my code is running autonomously. I'd be too scared. Is it really that important to have a personal assistant, when that assistant might do something you don't want? And can't face consequences?
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The Small Private Colleges Dying in a Winner-Take-All University Marketplace. All those small private colleges won't exist without private support. They are luxury items, and can only survive in when society has lot of money. So much money has been wasted through fraud now, and we can't expect the government to pay for these things anymore. The sad thing is that most people just shrug at the fraud and still expect the government to keep subsidizing things.
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A group of developers made a better Thunderbird-type mail client, called Betterbird. They claim it was developed because Thunderbird developers were so slow in improving their product that they decided to take matters in their own hands. Funny because the Thunderbird website now displays this desperate help page.
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WireGuard VPN developer can’t ship software updates after Microsoft locks account. This is news everywhere because a lot of people use the WireGuard protocol. The last sentence is funny:
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“Anyone know a human with a brain that still works at Microsoft and can help?”🤣
Algebrica is a place to learn advanced math. It's still not easy to learn from this site. You have to know something about the topic already to understand what's there. It's more to help you brush on things you might have forgetten and need a refresher. Kudos to whomever put it together though.
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Washington and Clackamas Counties declines Portland mayor’s $4 million request to fund homelessness projects. Of course. They're not stupid. Waste your own taxpayer's money, Keith.
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