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How craztupid are things getting? I had to invent a word for it
Yesterday, I read a talk Paul Krugman had with Azeem Azhar about A.I. There’s either very, very little or almost nothing I understand about A.I., except that I believe I’m using it when asking Perplexity.com to find some fact for … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Government, Judiciary, MAGA, Medical care in the US, The Facts of Life
Tagged AI, anecdotal data, Azeer Azhar, Craig Koniver, Dhruv Khullar, FDA, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Paul Krugman, peptides, Perplexity, The New Yorker
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Human animal news! The good, the bad and the weird
From Harper’s Weekly Review: The mayor of Columbus, Ohio, learned how to fill a pothole; the mayor of New York City announced that the city had filled more than 100,000 potholes since he took office in January; and in Johannesburg, … Continue reading
Posted in Crime & Punishment, Medical care in the US, News media
Tagged potholes, RFK Jr
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What’s a more extreme term than schadenfreude?
From Harper’s Weekly Review: Thousands of anti-abortion protesters who attended the National March for Life rally and concert this January may have been exposed to measles.
Posted in Journalism, MAGA, Medical care in the US, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, War on women
Tagged anti-abortion, Harper's, measles outbreak, National March for Life, schadenfreude
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