9 December 2025

Could this be why Apple struck a deal with Intel to start manufacturing its M-series chips? Time to outsource chip expertise?

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Trump's overturning the Humphrey's Executor rule is HUGE. One of the agencies he can gut is the National Labor Relations Board, which shapes how unions operate. This could be the end of unions telling companies how to operate. The labor landscape of much of the West Coast would be radically transformed if public unions were disbanded. Oh boy! Trump certainly is a transformative president. 

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This came out of OHSU: Insufficient sleep associated with decreased life expectancy. Not only that, but you increase your risk of dementia. Making doctor trainees perform while sleep-deprived was the worst thing that was done in medicine. Didn't medical leaders know that Halsted was abusing cocaine to maintain his work routine? Yet he was able to set the pace for residency programs in the U.S.

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Nuclear physicists are always discovering amazing things.  There's a new "island of inversion" located in a very different and unexpected place in the N-Z plane. How did that happen? Such is our universe.

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We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers. Well, it was known how to generate them, but now it's just more practical. The device used is the Colorado University Randomness Beacon, nicknamed CURBy. The process involves quantum entanglements and Trevisan extraction. But it's provides an explainable pathway to prove randomness, and the process can't be gamed.

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Not goodPonderosa pines are disappearing in the West.

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I agree – RSS matters. I love what RSS can do, but the spec is brittle. You don't really need an RSS reader if you can webscrape that sites you follow and create your own CSS styling and formatting.

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The Oregonian disable comments in their paper. But on Tina Kotek's X feed, comments are allowed. And boy are they brutal. 😂

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Mayor Keith Wilson wants to increase foot traffic in Portland, while he peppers the city with crime-ridden shelters and recovery centers, and lets tents and campsites sprout up everywhere. Is it my imagination, or is he slowly turning into Lori Lightfoot?

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Portland Public Schools is finally realizing that trying to create the Center of Black Excellence at the One North commercial building was a big and expensive mistake.  Really looks like they didn't do a lot of planning and thinking before they made that purchase. So cui bono?

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