15 Jun 2023

Are we surprised?  U.S. Intelligence admits that they have acquired sensitive data on just about every American.  And of course, they need to have permission to spy renewed because "security".  Of course, I would bet that everyone surf without a VPN, and searches Google directly, has a Facebook account and uses Instagram. 

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Is it still science when no one can reproduce the experiment?  There used to be a journal for such science. Of course, it's no longer funny if you've invested money in a company that can't reproduce the science that induced you to shell out the big bucks.

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Crawling a quarter of a billion web pages in 40 hours.  If everyone started doing this, the web would be kneecapped.

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Can a laxative make you smarter? Jokes aside, it appears that the laxative, prucalopride activates serotonin receptors in the brain, boosting resting activity, especially in the frontal lobe, improving cognition and memory.  And it reduces abdominal bloat, too!

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14 Jun 2023

Noice.  Oregon joins the entire West Coast in exhibiting early signs of recession.

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ER doc uses ChatGPT - to explain things to patient's family members because he is too busy.  No, I don't think so.  This guy will stop doing this once someone gets upset at him for relying on ChatGPT for family communication and says something inappropriate, or worse, something false.  I would be upset if a doc just shoved a display and just told me to read what it said.  Nah, big nah.

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13 Jun 2023

Not suprising.  If you use the Microsoft Edge browser, images that you view get sent to Microsoft, unless you change a browser setting.

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Google's AI search engine basically plagiarizes the Internet.  They've tried something like this once before, so no surprise.  This is going to break once websites start siloing their data. 

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This article resonated with this old ronin.  Yes, how do some people walk around carrying around a lifetime of pain?

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How to convey "executiveness" to people.  Yeah, hard truth is appearance matters, and people judge you for that, sorry. 

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11 June 2023

Putting pressure on works!  Oregon Dems will give up the corrupt FTX donation money.  Well, at least they say they will.  Let's see if they follow through.  After all, Shemia Fagan still hasn't donated campaign money to the Humane Society as she said she would.

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How to invest like a Congressperson.  No, it's not A.I., Yahoo!  It's insider trading.  But now, you can play, too.  NANC for Dem-leaning equities, and KRUZ for GOP-leaning equities.

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When is the Singularity?  Checking in again with Ray Kurzweil.

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When Apple's Vision Pro catches on, I doubt people will be using it to look at spreadsheets or reading business proposals.  Heh.

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Five formulas to get wealthy.  Robert Kiyosaki has been saying this for years.  Just gunning for a higher salary isn't a guarantee of wealth, and even just retail investing won't cut it either.  I read pieces like this many years ago, and it was frustrating that the advice of the wealthy was more philosophical than "show me the way".  Advice like this only made sense in the rearview mirror.  But now I realize that it really is a mindset.  You really do have to think a certain way to achieve wealth.  You have to educate yourself, and be smart so that you know what risks are good to take, and to be of value to others.  It's not easy, which is why not everyone can be rich.  But you can train yourself.

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9 June 2023

This is acceptable?  From the CDC website:

'Parents of 211 (7.1%) children aged 6 months–5 years reported at least once during the week after vaccination that their child was unable to perform normal daily activities."

When are people going to wake up.

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Someone posted this on Reddit.  Is this what people think?

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Willamette Week wakes up to the fact that ambulances have been unavailable a lot lately.  This Twitter feed has been on it.

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8 June 2023

Greater Idaho movement scores another victory.  Wallowa County is interested - they're in!   Jeff Merkley hates it, but who cares?

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Measure 110 has got to go.  What a dumb idea that was.

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This is what's wrong with expensive subsidized housing.  This is why you don't spend extra money to build nice stuff for people who don't earn it.  It turns to shit pretty quickly.  This is why New York City only restores older architecture, but the new stuff is just functional and plain, except in wealthy areas.  They already know that people in the city don't respect nice stuff, so they don't bother.  Portland, on the other hand, still thinks that everyone is just down on their luck and just needs a break.

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Almost time for the Legislative session to close for summer break.  Hang fast, Republicans.  Don't let those Dem bills pass.  Even this one.

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7 June 2023

Ken Griffin of Citadel thinks that there is too much hype regarding A.I.  Probably true, but the media is just as much to blame as is the tech companies, who want to raise their profiles.  And someone commented that Ken may have just purchased some short positions that he wants to cash out on, so you never know.

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This is a cool illusion:
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Tucker Carlson touched on this on his recent Twitter appearance.  Others are also working to slay the censorship Leviathan.

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Carbon Health is using A.I. to speed up doctor's medical record throughput.  But the doctor's won't get to enjoy the extra time they save.  Nope, it will allow them to see more patients!  And people's medical information will go through Amazon Web Services medical transcription facility which uses GPT-4.  Hope the privacy has been worked out.  My opinion FWIW: The technology we really need is not here yet. 

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American men are becoming hikikomoris.  This is definitely not good.  Could it be the decline in testosterone?  Will we eventually have a nation of effeminate men, obese with gynecomastia?  Gah...  (Could this explain Target's new clothing line?)
Where are the manly men of yore?

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6 June 2023

Sign of the times.  San Francisco's Union Square Hilton is being abandoned by the owner.  So worthless is the property now that it was not worth throwing more money at it.  Who would have believed this would happen a few years ago?

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What we learned from the lockdown.  A must read.  Society was not really how we all envisioned it.  What we thought was a democratic cohesive society, turned into a place with mini-dictators, oppressors, wimps and cowards.  Money corruption pervaded the government.  Corporations and authority figures were too eager to placate the heavy-handed leadership.  An eye-opener for sure.

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The finally admitted it.  Multnomah County leadership has no actual plan to end homelessness.  It's always the same excuse: "citing a lack of coordination between the government agencies".  Can't do anything because of other people.

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I used to recommend GoodRx.  Thought it was a good way for people to save on prescription money.  But apparently they've been sharing customer information with Facebook, Google and others.  Trust lost.

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