30 March 2024

Things are moving so fast. Open AI has a custom voice cloning model, but in an unusual moment of ethical hesitation, they aren't going to release it to the public just yet. Well, that's certainly kind of them, but who knows how long the embargo will last.

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Testing the main AI Chatbots. What they won't tell you. Guess what? They're all afraid to tell you certain things because of, you know, goes against the narrative. And they don't want to trigger you with stuff that might trigger violence. Because we all live in the era of violence against speech we don't like, right?

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Plaid Pantry employees don't feel safe anymore, and don't want to take bottle returns at night. Can't blame them. They're so vulnerable.

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This is creepy. This AI app shows you in scenarios that you may never get to enjoy - because you have metastatic cancer (they call it secondary, for some reason). This could generate profound grief and sadness. Or maybe even anger. And maybe some will be triggered to go out and blame someone, because they feel that someone should pay for their not being to enjoy these moments.

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Ah, Lena, we'll miss you. After all these years, IEEE suddenly gets cold feet. Sheesh. Just use her head, already. So how about men? Will that trigger the snowflakes, too? You want to know why male engineers are happy without diversity? Because they would have to walk on eggshells now.

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No Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Stopped Transmission When Authorized, Confirms Liberal Canadian Government. Yeah, for this, people had to lose jobs, or get jabbed against their will. All for nothing. Many of us knew this, or were at least skeptical enough to doubt that the vax should be mandatory. But the scared liberals wouldn't have it.

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We may have to have a negative leap-second. Because the earth is spinning faster. What's the opposite of leap?

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This is going on in Oregon. The attack on small farms.
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29 March 2024

CBD products don’t ease pain and are potentially harmful.  Well, well, CBD doesn't really lessen pain, and it may be harmful as well. And everyone was convinced that CBD was beneficial. Power of the placebo, is what it was.

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Oh-oh. Now that people have played around with chatbots, they're realizing that chatbots aren't really as accurate and trustworthy as it seemed. They were just really good and imitating coherent speech. But you had to double check their work. And they would hallucinate. I think people haven't learned how to use them. What you prompt them with is critical. But many of the ChatBots refuse to answer questions that might go against the left's narrative. Only Grok answered all questions. The others refused.
NYC's AI Chatboot tells you to break the law. Why not, breaking the law is OK in NYC anyway.

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Did you know that the NIH held the patents for the mRNA vax? And you thought it was all the geniuses at BioNTech, Pfizer and Moderna. No it was developed by the DoD, and licensed to the pharmaceutical companies. This is why they wanted everyone to get the jab. See it now? Now they want BioNTech to pay up, and they can't. Even Novavax has to pay $80 million/year until 2028 to Gavi, and no one is even using their product anymore. Womp, womp.

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The Francis Scott Key Bridge is estimated to take 10 years to rebuild. Incredible. They must have consulted with California or Hawaii. The bridge is never going to get rebuilt until they have a new mayor. Not the DEI one.

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Multnomah County lost 14 people/day in 2023. That's 5110 total. Doesn't seem like much, but it's probably the one's who could afford to leave. And just about everyone else in the neighborhood saw gains instead. That's an increase in the tax base.

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Ah, I remember when McCormick and Schmick's was one of Portland's top seafood restaurants. Now they've closed all their Portland locations, and is only in Tigard. Portland can't have nice things anymore.

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Biden wants every federal agency to have an AI chief. Why not just have one to oversee everybody. Now you have a multitude of conflicting policy and an expansion of the government. Just what we need – more government. Here'a an example: Even The Most Well-Meaning Internet Regulations Can Cause Real Harm. You don't need more well-meaning but dumb politicians making life more difficult with their ill-thought out legislation. 

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The Unintended Consequences of Academic Leniency. Guess what, grade inflation only encouraged truancy. You can't get something for nothing, I guess.

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This could come in handy. An AI tool can give you an approximate geographical location of an image. Like a geo-guesser.

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How Meta/Facebook intercepts your web traffic.

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28 March 2024

The Pentagon has a Silicon Valley problem. Several, actually. For one thing, many in the Valley don't want to work on anything that might help the war machine. The second is that they're depending on A.I. which isn't quite smart enough to rely upon for military purposes, and it showed. Plus, our enemies know how to defeat it.

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Amazon One is gearing up to use palm recognition technology to authenticate you. Those who give up security for convenience deserve neither security nor convenience. -- Ben Franklin, probably.

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More than half of chickenpox cases are misdiagnosed. More than half? Really?

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Emergency rooms are hell now. In some areas, they've turned into a jungle. Like an urban MASH unit. What happened? And why can't things get back to the way they were?

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It's been a little over a year since we've been introduced to ChatGPT. How are things now? Not so good as we thought. There have been some dazzling things, for sure, but a lot of overblown hype. And already, performers are being replaced by A.I.

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27 March 2024

That's wild. About 34% of Americans have never heard of ChatGPT.

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All of a suddenly, fusion drive technology is here. I must have been asleep.

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Speaking of sleep. Two nights of broken sleep can make people feel years older. I believe it. I think the way you age is that when you are sleep deprived and look like crap in the morning, you eventually stay that way all day into the next day, then that's your new permanent until you are sleep deprived again. That's my theory and I'm sticking with it.

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But human brains are getting larger, and that's supposedly good for dementia outlook, but it gives us more time to lose brain matter, I guess.

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A.I. could take away 8 million jobs in the UK alone. Bet that's similar to that in the U.S.  Women and younger workers are expected to get hit the hardest.

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The Polar Vertex is spinning backwards. Man, doesn't anything work right in the Biden era?

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Scientists have found several parts of the brain that come online early, and then die out early (last in, first out), leading to age-related and Alzheimer-related dementias, as well as schizophrenia. The most significant modifiable risk factors for degeneration in the LIFO network were diabetes, traffic-related pollution (nitrogen oxides) and alcohol.

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26 March 2024

Oregon needs money. You thought you were being smart taking steps to reduce your gas consumption. You thought wrong. Lemme repeat that – Oregon needs money. You have it, they want it.

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Modern problems call for modern solutions. Squatter Hunters is a real business now. Check them out:


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Scientists have created artificial human chromosomes. This is huge.

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Another reason to beware of ordering fried food at restaurants.  Reused Deep-Frying Oil May Cause Neurodegeneration.
Deep frying is a common method of food preparation around the world and involves completely submerging foods in hot oil.  Due to the amount of oil used in this process (and to reduce food waste) restaurants and food vendors usually reuse their frying oil. However, according to new research, this not only removes many of the oil's natural antioxidants and health benefits, but can also increase its content of harmful compounds such as acrylamide, trans fat and peroxides.
Not only are these harmful compounds thought to increase our risk of various cancers and metabolic disorders, but they may also increase our risk of neurodegeneration.
Fry your brain, too.

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25 March 2024

The Danes have an ambassador to Silicon Valley. That shows you how much power the tech industry has.

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Japan is hoping that A.I. will boost their dismal birth rate. Worth a try. Anything's worth a try at this point.

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Stability AI founder and chief executive Emad Mostaque has stepped down. This is the company that developed Stable Diffusion. I'm not sure of his reasons – he didn't want a concentration of power in A.I. so he decided to fix it by stepping down. Does that make sense to you?

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Turn this off on your iPhone. Apple added the Journaling app and by default, makes you connected to everyone around you.

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Just one gene, TBXT, prevents humans from having tails. With mutations happening all the time, I'm surprised we don't see tailed humans more often.

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Gresham's Law 2.0. Internet content is deteriorating faster than you realize. So much content is garbage now. So far, it's mainly social media sites, where the kids lap it up, but it's heading to the second-tier "news" sites, too. Caveat emptor, baby.

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How universities lost the Internet. Yeah, I remember spending days at the terminal on the early Internet. It was the only place you could get access. Then came AOL, and the Eternal September.

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24 March 2024

NYC has a parallel economy - resale of shoplifted goods. I guess you gotta do what you gotta do in that Democrat economy.

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Sam Altman is going to create his own Siri and OK Google. Those two companies have been slow in using A.I. so someone's got to show 'em how to do it. At worst, he'll be bought out by Microsoft and make a killing.

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Typical California. The Golden State wants your electricity bill to be income-based. Then they can give you tax breaks if you obey their narrative, like switch to EVs or whatever. It's way past time to leave the state. After all, they have the highest unemployment rate. And they are the poverty capital of the U.S. – nearly one out of four Californians is poor. Wow. And Gavin Newson wants to be President. So he can do this to the whole country.

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China is way ahead of the U.S. in artificial intelligence research. I can tell because nearly all the research papers are by Chinese authors. The Indians are in data science. But there are few American authors doing research. 

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Now that there are devices that can capture your brainwaves, you might want to think about brainwave privacy. And about how laws should be crafted to preserve them. And thank goodness you don't live in the UK, where they really want to lower safeguards and steal your privacy.

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Sick people leaving workforce at record high. Started some time after 2019. Gee, I wonder what would be the cause of that???

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What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? And they really move fast.

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Very cool. Those without vocal cords can speak using a small electronic patch on their throat, using A.I. technology.

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Google's Chrome browser is apparently the last main browser that still saved third-party cookies. They have begun to stop this in January 2024 for about 1% of Chrome users, then it will be eliminated for the rest of users in Q3 this year.  Good! But some think it will reshape the Internet. But for the better.

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23 March 2024

Conscious A.I. is the second-scariest type of A.I.  The scariest is probably that one that causes you to lose your job.

And here's a new one that makes anyone a composer - Suno.AI.

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Heads in the sand over vaccine links to cancer and disabilities. These kinds of links always take you to conservative sites, which have cheesy web designs which detract from their credibility, but the underlying message is true. There's quite a bit of data to support some concern, and it is amazing how little attention it is getting. Take a look at this data. Why isn't this getting more attention?

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What's going on in the Courts? The SCOTUS said it's OK to strip custody rights of a parent for not going along with gender-affirming care? What happened to the sanctity of the family? Who's going to protect kids from this new cultural insanity? And a federal judge (Obama-appointed) says that illegal aliens can now vote. And this is on the basis of standing. Absolutely crazy. At least NY high schoolers know that this gender craziness is insane.

Governmental COVID-era stupidity really taught us a lot about mind-control and believing the brainwash. It was rabid vax-craziness before, and now it's rabid transgender-craziness. We're not fooled this time.

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Google was forced by Feds to reveal who watched certain videos. You think watching YouTube videos is free?

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About time. Oregon's stalking law is now covers electronic stalking.

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Did you know this?  Since 2017, Bull Run Watershed has routinely tested positive for dangerous parasites. Little by little, our infrastructure deteriorates.

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It can get expensive when you listen to AOC and the greenies. And it can cost you your job. As the former Hertz CEO found out.

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The FDA recently removed all the negative ivermectin information on their website. This got almost no mention in the media. You weren't supposed to notice.

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The squatter problem is really getting bad in NYC and Atlanta. Some people are afraid to go on vacations. We need more of this problem solver. In fact, in the Biden era, we're probably going to need more vigilantism than ever.

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Amusing. Bentley CEO accounts for declining sales saying that the rich are showing more "emotional sensitivity" and not wanting to show off their wealth with expensive cars.

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22 March 2024

Fusobacterium nucleatum has been found in about 50% of all aggressive colon cancers. Well, we know that finding Clostridium septicum is linked to colon cancer, too, so it may be just an association.

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Wow, Rudy Giuliani was right, the elections were not secure at all. Only now all this is coming out. Why didn't we hear about this before? Because roadblocks were in place.

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Hackers can break into hotel rooms that are secured by those plastic key cards. Do we have to provide our own security now?

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Apple has a new Documentations page, where you can browse manuals.

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There's a drug-free nasal spray that can protect one from viral pathogens. Too bad it's not commercially available.

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Soon to be Portland?

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21 March 2024

Hmmm. Too much energy spent combating stress linked to earlier death in men. 

The amount of effort expended by older men in coping with stressful events has the greatest impact on their mortality risk over and above how stressful an event is -- or the coping strategy employed to deal with it, new U.S. research published Tuesday indicates.

Most coping strategies were weakly to moderately positively correlated, and adaptive coping strategies were employed more frequently than dysfunctional responses, such as avoidance or confrontation.

Of these, only social coping, reaching out to others, was significantly associated with mortality risk with a 15% higher risk of dying from all causes. However, the study caveats this finding, noting social coping included "other-directed action that may deplete emotional and physical resources instead of bolstering them."

So don't reach out? But social isolation is bad for you, too. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I think this underscores the need to develop and train resiliency from a young age. Similar to the training that the samurai underwent. They needed their own brand of Zen, as described in the Kamakura Koans.
Also, people need to find their ikigai.
Instead, apparently Americans are crankier.

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Despite what the Biden administration says, the numbers tell a different story. People are hurting. Not only that, but California is hurting, too.

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Doctors Transplant Crispr-Edited Pig Kidney Into Living Patient. If this works, it will greatly lessen the waiting list for kidney transplants. May the days of dialysis are waning. That would be a good thing.

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Neuralink brain implant allows a quadriplegic man to play chess with his mind. This is truly amazing.

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Is this what being a far-right extremist means?

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So illegal aliens can carry weapons now? But regular citizens cannot?

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Well, there goes Star Wars.

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