27 August 2025

Duh. High-dose THC products linked with adverse mental health outcomes. Legalization of pot was one of the worst decisions made by Oregon lawmakers. This started the flood of homeless criddlers and gronks. The last thing we need now is something that increases mental illness in young people.

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Kroger lays of 100 at the corporate office at the Fred Meyer HQ. This time, it's not the cashiers and restockers. It's the executives. More loss of tax base to Portland.

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Pfizer lays off 100 Bothell employees. Seattle Genetics was a star in the biotech scene in Seattle, with their successful drug brentuximab vedotin.  Then they became SeaGen. Then Pfizer bought them. Now Pfizer is shutting them down and moving manufacturing to North Carolina.  More jobs lost to Washington, so unattractive to business.

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People are finding out about the Palisades Fire charity donation fund. Celebrities Raised Millions for LA Fire Aid. Much of the Money Went to Programs for Illegal Aliens and Nonprofits That Only Assist 'Black and Brown Communities.' Yeah, what a joke. I bed hardly any Black and Brown folk owned property in Pacific Palisades that got burned down. This was just a grift to get more money.

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Google could get broken up this week. Really? I find that hard to believe. Who would have the guts to do that?

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Some people are criticizing Trump's move to buy a 10% stake in Intel, and worry that this it is dangerous for government to own a piece of a private company. It was felt to be important to keep alive an American chip maker.  I doubt this will happen again, or to just any company.  But clearly, though, the Taiwanese rule this space.

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26 August 2025

CT Scans Projected to Result in 100,000 New Cancers Across The US.  Original publication here.  This is just a projection based on number of CT scans and the known cancer risk from radiation. But doctors should be doing CT scans to make a diagnosis and save lives. You have to substract the number of lives saved because a scan was obtained.

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Meta continues to develop Hypernova, its augmented reality glasses. I hate these. So privacy-invading. I don't want to live in a society like this.

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Counties with the most foreign-born in Oregon. Holy crap, what happened to Washington County – 17.8% are foreign-born???? Even Multnomah County is only 13%.

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A group at Stanford reports on the phenomenon of AI taking away people's jobs.
These six facts provide early, large-scale evidence consistent with the hypothesis that the AI revolution is beginning to have a significant and disproportionate impact on entry-level workers in the American labor market.
Not good.
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Google is going back to having in-person interviews. I love how this came out in indiatimes.com! 🤣

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40% of GenZ employees want to work in the office instead of WFH, because it's too lonely to work at home.

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25 August 2025

YouTube is upscaling videos automatically using AI, without informing content owners what they are doing. Some think they're editing the videos, too.

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When cancer invades nerves in tissue, it induces IL-6 mediated inflammation that can inhibit anti-cancer effects by immune checkpoint inhibitors.  This is reversible in vitro. But how to achieve this in vivo, is the challenge. Interesting, no?

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This is the drawback of current AI. Man who was previously enamored of his AI girlfriend now dropped her, because he had to do all the initiating of topics. And she probably had a poor memory of previous conversations. He had to pick all the topics to discuss, and eventually ran out of things to say. We're not there yet, folks.

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Oregon is projecting a decline in high school graduates. This will indeed impact the workforce. And Tina Kotek does nothing.

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And here's how Oregon may implement a mileage tax – force you to send pictures of your odometer.  Oregon is a joke. 🤣

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24 August 2025

RFK Jr is going to make the vaccine FAERS database public and transparent. I looked at it. Hard to tell what's going on, and I suspect that it will not make a big difference.  But hey, something good, I guess.

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How Apple helped China become a tech superpower. More like How Obama made China a Tech Superpower.  Then I read this: Why Boomers Have More Money Than Everyone Else. Well Boomers were able to get jobs that aren't available to millennials. Guess why? Because they all went overseas. Thank Bill Clinton and NAFTA.  Thank Obama sending all those juicy jobs to Asia. Now, college kids have almost nothing. Except Chipotle. But who do they hate? Boomers, naturally.

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Do LLMs store personal information?  It's not as straightforward a question as you might think. Your personal data might be hidden in there somewhere, in all those vectors. But it's not easy to know.

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This is why I don't use an AI browser. It'll suck up your data, and you won't have control and won't even know what's happening.

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23 August 2025

I've noticed this article getting mentioned a bit: Google is killing the Open Web. So I was curious, and it's about Google dropping support for XSLT. What is XSLT? Then I chanced upon this article, which seems to explain it. Or tries to anyway. It's Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations – stuff only a web nerd would be concerned about. I love how even they mix up XSLT, calling it XLST. Clearly, being able to explain things well to other people is a learned skill.

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Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning is going to be great. Tom Cruise and his production team are taking it very seriously. There's no other actor quite like him.

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After all these years, the mechanism by which tamoxifen can cause endometrial cancer has been elucidated.

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It's your visceral fat that increases your heart aging risk. And that's the fat that semaglutide and tirzepatide eliminate the most.

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AI detects early prostate cancer in more than 80% of samples missed by pathologists. I think this is going to be de rigeur, like it is with screening mammograms.

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Cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate. I love this one:

I just knew it couldn't be true. Mahler, maybe. Also Scriabin. But not Mozart. 

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Double pendulums are not always chaotic. There's a pattern. Just watch the video, and it'll all be clear.

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Macrohard. Elon Musk is going to try to make the anti-Microsoft. "This is a macro challenge and a hard problem with stiff competition! Can you guess the name of this company?" I thought he was going to call it "Boner".  Maybe there will be a position, like "Chief Erectile Officer".

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Scientists identified a protein that causes brain aging in mice. This should be the actual title, because when they blocked the effects of this protein, mice became smarter and had their memory function restored.

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22 August 2025

Physics Grifters: Eric Weinstein, Sabine Hossenfelder, and a Crisis of Credibility. Is Eric Weinstein's theoery of everything BS or is there some value to his theory? Who knows?

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Han estimates that she has sent between five and 10 packages, with several lost on the way, according to the federal complaint.  
Well, whoever opens those lost packages is sure in for an unpleasant surprise.

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OpenAI offered their platform free to the US lawmakers. Then Anthropic offered theirs for 1 dollar.  Now Google is offering Gemini for 47 cents.  Is 47 a reference to Trump?

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People with LongCOVID have detectable ghost proteins (fragment of viral spike protein) in their blood.  I'd bet these people got the mRNA vax. But no one is making the connection.

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Alongside COVID-19 deaths were major increases in deaths from drug overdose, transportation, alcohol, homicide, circulatory disease, suicide, and other causes, as the country’s social structures and health system buckled under the stress of the pandemic.
But then the article says:
We don’t know exactly why this is happening. Some changes related to the pandemic seem relatively obvious: employment loss and insecurity that disproportionately impacted younger workers, increased alcohol consumption and drug use, and coincided with high rates of depression that continued to distinctly affect early adults following the peak pandemic. This age group experienced hardships during COVID-19 that are difficult to bounce back from.
People have gone through worse things in the past. Is GenZ that less resilient? 
Americans in early adulthood have fallen far behind their peers in other rich countries—to the point where more of them are losing their lives.
So it's not a global problem. It's an American problem. Man, people have gotten soft. Yeah, I'm seeing so many transgender girly-men everywhere. And society pretends it's OK.

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This is a great summary of the WokeSpeak the Left used during the Biden-Kamala era. It's supposed to be a primer of things the Left must stop saying if they intend to regain support of regular Americans and defeat MAGA.  Yeah, right.

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21 August 2025

Apple's iPhone17 looks like it will be a disappointment. Nothing really new to offer.  I don't want thinner – it will likely bend too easily.  Don't want AI on my phone either. AirPods 3 might be worth a look – the noise cancellation in AirPods 2 is so-so. And I can't help but feel there is a strong emission in a very high frequency that leaves my ears feeling like I'm recovering from a loud noise.

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Considering these results, we assume that some leftist political activists do not actually strive for social justice and equality but rather use political activism to endorse or exercise violence against others to satisfy their own ego-focused needs. We discuss these results in relation to the dark-ego-vehicle principle.
Yes, yes, so true. 

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Now the NYT is blaming colon cancer on marathon running and exercising. Anything but, you know, the thing. 

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Kroger is closing more stores in western Washington, primarily due to theft, and the mayor of Everett is complaining. She thinks it's greed, and Kroger wants to go where there is more money. And this is why Democrat cities are losers.

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Your Grok chats are now searchable by anyone on Google. Free almost always comes at a price.

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Eugene man ran one of the most powerful botnets. Yay, Oregon! Who says we can't achieve great things? /sarc

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20 August 2025

Oracle is laying off 161 employees in Seattle. Tax-base declining again. More unemployment.

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WSJ wants to send Chinese students home. I can understand concerns about security but the Chinese have been the source of a lot of advancements in mathematics and science, especially AI.  Do we really want to lose this?  Too bad we can't ask them to leave their brains and talent behind and then leave the country.

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"...structured exercise training can induce epigenomic rejuvenation". I suspected this. Elderly folks that exercise seem younger and also intellectually more intact.

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RFK Jr was right about eliminating doctors on the board of the American Academy of Pediatrics from the vaccine advisory board.  Look at the top donors to the AAP: Merck, Moderna, Pfizer, and Sanofi. Interesting that regular doctors couldn't go to evening educational dinners anymore because there was fear that they would be influenced by Big Pharma money. But this does apply to the top guys?

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The governor's task force recommended caution in increasing taxes to Multnomah County residents for fear that they might flee the state. Portland was noted to be in a Doom Loop back in February. But socialist Mitch Green doesn't believe it. His office thinks Multnomah County can afford it, and issued this document to defend his stance. But the only reason why Oregon is ranked 22 of all the states is that we don't have a sales tax, even though we have all sort of fees that are like a sales tax. So down we go.

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Sad. Providence Seaside is closing their labor and delivery department. That's going to be a big burden on expectant mothers living there. A boon for Astoria, maybe. Hood River is probably going to see cuts, too.

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So predictable. Oregon lawmakers are going to propose raising taxes. Meanwhile, Tina Kotek doubles down on her vow to support illegal aliens. More money spent for non-citizens. Less money spent for Oregon citizens. This is why the Democrat party is in decline.

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19 August 2025

Remember Egghead Software? I always wondered what happened with that company. Here is the story of their rise and fall. Bad timing, basically.

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It's interesting how different people view the firing of the BLS director. Those who are savvy know that she was inappropriately using the birth-death model to create her statistics, and make the Biden administration look good. It was all fake. Trump needs better people.  But here's an article from Shrewd, and it makes no such reference. Instead they blame it on “the risk of politicizing the data collection process”.  To the Left, it's always that Trump is just politicizing things. And other Lefties eat this up.

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Ukranian sniper kills someone from 2.4 miles away. It was AI-assisted, using a drone. But still.

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Injectable “skin in a syringe” could heal burns without scars. This would be really cool for second and perhaps some less-severe third degree burns.

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11 famous AI disasters. Cautionary tales.

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I don't see the need for an AI browser. Here's why you should avoid them, too. You'll just find some new trouble you never had before.

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But the overall population of BIG:LEAP recipients weren’t overall better off — measures of psychological distress were actually worse in the treatment group at 12 and at 18 months. 
Money is not a solution. It's just energy to help you do what you want to do – what you would likely be doing anyway. If you're lazy and stupid, you're going to get to the bad place sooner.

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The Portland Rose Festival and Portland Blues Festival wants to be relieved of having to pay $300,000 fees for their events.  Do you think the city will let them weasel out?  Highly unlikely, given the city's financial straits, too.  Everybody's in trouble.

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18 August 2025

Terry Tao is upset that his funding is being cut by the Trump administration. I hope he's able to regain his funding, but he works at UCLA, and they sure have the money to sustain him and keep him there.

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Not good.  Respiratory infections, such as influenza, can flip dormant breast cancer cells into active state again. At least in a mouse model. This is due to cytokines.

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Solar rooftops can be hacked and can be a national security issue.  Think of it, the power inverters are made in China. The electrical system is often connected to the grid. There's too much potential for mischief.

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What a disaster.  Someone discovered a serious vulnerability that exposed all Intel employees. What idiot thought it was a good idea to outsource this to India? Sheesh.

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The iPad will finally turn into a mini-computer. Sorry, Steve.

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What's in a cryptocurrency wallet? Surprisingly, very little.  Is it even needed?

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MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI. Well, I guess this is good news for humans.

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Brain cells learn faster than machine learning.  More good news for humans.

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There's a new fibromyalgia medication now – Tonmya.  It's just a sublingual formulation of cyclobenzaprine (Flexeril), a drug that some doctors didn't think really worked all that well.  Oh well.

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Camas considers ordinance to ban camping and personal property storage on public land.  Yes, do it, Camas. This ronin approves.

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Easy come, easy go. Oregon will likely lose its newest Congressional seat, due to shrinking population.  Good going, Tina. hacving less Democrats in the House is always good 

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