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All this talent has delivered... Gemini. Oh well, emperors, clothes, ... you know.

Hi - we're doing tree removal in your area. Call us back at 1-800-SCAM Cheap messaging is as annoying now as calling. Ruining the phone experience overall. Soon Apple will have to …

In the Global Burden of Disease analyses, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) had the highest age-standardized STI incidence rate of any world region — around 19,973 per 100,000 person-years,…

I was poor, grew up in social housing. I did not use drugs. "I share needles because I can't afford my own" is an INSANE take. Don't shoot drugs in the first place! Poor people are…

"the only reason HIV transmission is high in poor countries is because, well, they're poor." This is factually untrue. Being poor does not equal a HIV transmission rate. There is n…

Tangent - I still mourn the death of WeAreHunted. What a great music discovery site that was, unmatched in its ability to give you a curated feed of new artists to check out. WeAre…

Well, even Krugman has now acknowledged the need for tariffs: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-06-27/why-krugman... Reminder, Biden, not Trump, introduced the first round…

It is legitimately impossible to purchase certain movies, especially classic, in any format due to regional blocks. Simple example: "The Things of Life", a classic French movie fro…

Word of caution, I used Claude to read my MRI images too. Looked legit. Until I really dug in, and found that all it did was read the embedded annotations. DICOM is a container for…

His latest thing was https://crazystupidtech.com/ - a joint newsletter with Fred Vogelstein.

Because that is where Carmack posted his thoughts, not anywhere else. Original source. Wether you like it or not, X/Twitter is still a primary posting ground for many key people in…

https://xcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2069799283369345247

Political and personal attack, no substance. Reid is a mega-donor for the Dems, Elon for the Repubs. Billionaires fighting, plebs on HN getting riled up.

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It's a shame, as AI will improve healthcare on an unprecedented scale. I cannot get a specialist without referrals and endless appointments to spend more than 30min to discuss how …

This is ahistoric drivel. China and Russia are simple examples of the fallout of "cutting king's heads". So awesome in China that they went straight back to a lifetime emperor now.…

Esperanto being created by L.L. Zamenhof ... a Polish Ashkenazi Jew. Full circle!

Lingua Franca, like literally. French used to be the language of diplomacy.

Balko was a big proponent of police body cams, as they would clearly reveal massive police abuse and brutality. Since the bodycam rollout however, we're inundated with videos of ju…

Picket Fences was similar to that, an early David E Kelley show (after LA Law). Some of that weirdness was then further carried over by Kelley to Ally McBeal and Boston Legal. Utte…

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Odd omission on CRM. They have HubSpot for Campaigns, but basic management of your customers, installed base, sales alignments, opportunities ... nothing there. SFDC announces "Hea…

That is not what I wrote - there was no judgement, just that other cultures weigh cheating morally different. It is all moralities. There is no absolute one.