Google's Gemini is already getting lots of flack about being a racist generative AI app. Some have said that this is another example of Google spending billions to develop software that delivers lousy results, just like Google Search. Go woke, go broke. When you lose the trust of the public and turn your product into a joke, it's not easy to get trust back, especially when there are notable competitors. What was done with Gemini is probably happening with the flagship search engine – filtered results to make the woke crowd happy.
Our findings suggest that the vaccine mRNA is not localized to the injection site and can spread99 systemically to the placenta and umbilical cord blood.
A lot of pregnant women got the jab. I've heard of miscarriages soon after the jab. I wonder how would have if they knew this untested product would flow into their unborn baby? I suspect many would not. Too late now.
Are frozen embryos children? The Alabama Supreme Court thinks so. I don't think those judges could tell clumps of cells apart if they were presented with them. In reality, there is a gradual change from clumps of cells to an actual human being. The transition is not easy to define, but that's nature. By 13 weeks, it's clear that there is a human being, but not at the frozen embryo stage. Would you charge a woman who had a miscarriage with murder? It's like calling a seed a tree. It's a potential and future tree. But it is not a tree, yet. And it shouldn't be treated as such.
One thing that explains why people support Trump is that we don't have to wonder what it would be like if he were President. We already know. He was the President once, and life was good (until the Wuhan virus was released). This is something that Elizabeth Warren refuses to understand.
I saw this post on Reddit, stating that when it comes to saving auto manufacturing jobs, Biden delivers and Trump only talks. Anyone who pays attention knows that can't possibly be true, so I decided to look into the details. The video creator was referring to the time Trump attempted to save jobs in Lordstown, OH, when GM decided to close their plant. Many workers would soon be unemployed, but It seemed to have been saved by Lordstown Motors, a startup company, coming in and buying the plant and starting the manufacture of new electric trucks. Trump praised them, and for a while things looked favorable. But as you know, electric vehicle tech was still inadequate, and the owners got involved with SPACs, who wanted to take the company public before it was ready. There were overstated reports of how well the company was doing, and eventually they ran out of money and were not able to produce vehicles. Very sad outcome, but not really Trump's fault.
Then the Biden example involves the Stellantis deal, where Biden shilled for the union (UAW) and it appeared that things went in the union's favor. This is different, because we are not talking about an iffy startup playing around with shaky technology. This is just putting influence and pressure to score a union victory. One auto worker even stated
When he heard about the reopening, Robert Stacy, another laid-off
worker, said he felt “shock, happiness, and then a little disappointed
finding out that it was going to take so long.” He is grateful for the g
plant’s revival but said he felt the economy was better under Trump.
And Foxconn later bought the failing company and is continuing to manufacture EVs there on a Taiwanese platform, so all is not lost in Lordstown.
Meanwhile, Biden and Kamala tried to nurture Proterra, the electric bus company, but it failed utterly. So Biden ain't doing so hot with electric vehicles either.
What’s the fun in writing on the internet anymore? When A.I. and people can steal and paraphrase your good ideas. And obfuscate attribution to you so that your contribution doesn't register anymore. Well, this ronin writes for personal reasons. So there.
Reddit has signed a deal with the devil. They've erased all content priot to 1 January 2023, and will allow A.I. to train on its content. What a way to destroy something that took years to develop.
LongCOVID may be a type of brain injury, as assessed by markers of brain injury (tTau, GFAP, NfL, and UCH-L1), and there is correlation with acute dysregulation in innate and adaptive immune responses. The is consistent with other reports claiming that LongCOVID is associated with "widespread muscle damage, changes in muscle composition, and disrupted energy metabolism" and "inflammation, the damage, the scarring, the clots” found in the muscles of long COVID patients. Now to identify the underlying cause of all this, and the connection to spike protein, which is probably still present.
Nothing beats the energy density and cost-effectiveness of petroleum products. Windmill farms will be an expensive mistake. Only the prospect of subsidies will make it possible to build. But then there is maintenance. And repair. And replacement when parts get old. All very expensive prospects. Oregon doesn't have money to waste.
Much discussion in the scientific publishing world about this major goof of a so-called "PEER-REVIEWED journal". How in hell did they let this go through. It's a Chinese submission, which is not surprising. They used A.I. to generate their nonsense paper. It got retracted, as people noticed and called attention to it. Look at one of the figures - complete gibberish.
Air Canada's A.I. chatbot made a mistake. Now the airline has to pay for that mistake. Be careful with your A.I. If you don't know what you're doing, mistakes will happen.
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I came across this essay where the author decries that you can't tell people anything. The message is that people don't listen, or they just don't understand. But lately, I've noticed that people can't explain things well. I've been watching some technical videos lately, and some people have no business making these teaching videos, because they just can't explain things well. So it goes both ways. Maybe it's because we learn better from people we like? This is one good reason to strive to be liked – people will pay more attention to you.
A lot of folks are talking about OpenAI's Sora. Here are some of the videos made with it (although some suspect that at least one of the videos is not made with Sora). This old ronin gets the same vibe as when he saw the Commodore Amiga. What amazing graphics that had. We all wanted one. And it turned out that although we had those capabilities in the consumer sphere, it didn't replace artists and other creatives from dazzling us. It takes more than just the tools. There has to be something more. The low-hanging fruit is coming out now. When we get tired of that, we'll see some great stuff.
Here's a report in the Oregonian about a struggling downtown business. Too much theft. Barely enough profit margin to pay employees. Nearly none for the business owner. But this statement caught my eye: "Ly no longer bothers reporting shoplifting." Yeah, going through with prosecution is no longer worth it. Crime goes unpunished. And have you seen this video?
Democrats vote down policies that Republicans propose to help children's education. HB 4095 re-establishes basic proficiency standards for reading, writing, and math. HB 4161 effectively removes the cap on students who can enroll in a
virtual charter school without their resident school district’s
approval. And HJR 203 proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to establish
the fundamental right of parents to direct the education, upbringing,
and care of their children. Democrats want kids locked into the public school system, where the teachers can expose them to critical race theory and gender deviancy studies. And to give the Teachers' Union a reason to exist.
Removing the bottleneck. Oregon lawmakers are considering removing the need for a Certificate of Need, which should allow for more healthcare facilities. Not surprising that the law was put in place to prevent new healthcare facilities from attracting those with good insurance, leaving the socialist Medicare and Medicaid patients to other hospitals. Once again, fallout from lefty policies beget bad law, which begets other bad outcomes. Also, Oregon will pay for more "public guardians" to take care of those in need of nursing care, because they can't find regular staffing at nursing homes and assisted living homes. Stopgaps.
It's come to this. The future of precision cancer therapy might be to try everything. I thought this was a bad thing. So, it's apparently frowned upon to "try everything" serially, but it's OK when you do it all at once.
Written by a supporter of M110. And she uses the term "LatinX" which is a clue. She went on the Soros-funded Portugal boondoggle, so she's doing her bit to justify the trip expenses. No, Mercedes, M110 isn't working, and needs to be scrapped.
Teachers are sending more kids to psychiatrists. Not sure if they really need it, or if they're doing this to cover their butts. In any event, this was not a problem when I was growing up. Of course, that world no longer exists.
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Generative AI Turns Ordinary Computers into Weapons of Mass Copyright Violation. And the problem is too big now, for any law to prevent. It'll just happen, and when it's out there, who cares? Bad time to be a creative. Your unique work, that you worked so long to perfect – it'll just be trained on and commoditized. With tools like img2dataset, your unique art style will just be an option in someone's dropdown menu.
OpenAI is giving ChatGPT memory, so it will remember stuff from session to session. Could be interesting. Could be scary. But then, you could delete the memory you don't want, but it's not clear how well that works.
And A.I. Girlfriends are a privacy nightmare. A data-harvesting horror. But who uses a hosted girlfriend. If you're that stupid, you don't deserve privacy. It may not quite be free, but you're still the customer.
Now even Nature recognizes that the world has a Bill Gates problem. Bill's crazy ideas get funded and the world suffers. Look what happened to Common Core Math? A whole generation of math-stupid kids resulted from that. Now it's the vaccine effort, all to enrich himself further.
Slavery is back! Thanks to the Biden Administration, it's OK to own black slaves again. Then they will want reparations. And social services. Remember this guy, fearing that Trump was going to bring back black slavery again? Heck no! It's Biden that's doing that.
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California: Home of politicians with stupid ideas. First they banned plastic straws, then plastic bags. Then they allowed thicker plastic bags. Guess what happened? Then Rep Barbara Lee thinks $50 /hr minimum wage is a good idea. Because burger flippers just ought to make enough money to support a family of four. Legislate wealth. Legislate clean energy.
And now, the United States may lose control of the First Island Chain. It may be a good thing that the Chinese are hurting economically such that war with Taiwan is not guaranteed to be affordable, else we'd be in a world of hurt right now. That might be the main thing saving us now. Even Japan is willing to pay for the United States to continue, which shows how important it is, but the problem is that the United States may not have the armed forces personnel to staff this defense.
Even though the city is full of vacant office space, Portland can't find space for the 12 extra city council members that were voted in. The reason? They think their offices should have internet fiber, for the fastest connections. They're not doing internet-intensive work, like medical centers do with electronic health records. They're not providing cloud services to edge computing devices. They're just doing routine government work. Why is it necessary to rip up the streets to install fiber to the offices. This is why Portland is dysfunctional, and why they need all that tax money.
Caesars will no longer host DEF-CON. Caesar's got tired of getting hacked and losing money. What were those hackers thinking, anyway? Now, nobody will want to host them.
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Sad.Hong Kong is no longer the vibrant city it once was. It took communist China 26 years to bring the great city to its knees. And Hong Kong stocks are back to what they were in 1997, at the time of the takeover.
Inflation was higher than expected, according to today's report, leading to the stock market crashing. With all of Biden's giveways and free stuff, how could inflation not be higher. Student loans being forgiven. Free stuff for all the migrants entering the country. All this amounts to cash dumps into society, like quantitative easing. Money flowing into business and banks, when the economic production hasn't really changed. Gas prices are predicted to increase above $4/gal again, and when gas prices increase, the price of everything increases, because it affect shipping and deliveries, too.
