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and here in Seattle they added a $500 surcharge for new customers “because of high demand”. Surveillance pricing?

I agree, distributing this type of article can hardly be considered “partisan”. ADA has done itself no good with this stunt. Yes, all organizations have to be “careful” in the current times, but this action by ADA is a serious misstep that needs to be corrected otherwise the organization will...

Well, it’s certainly an expensive place to study medicine, leaves most graduates heavily in debt. Dr Means has done OK as a non-practicing doctor. Here, and I quote: Dr. Casey Means has a significant net worth, largely attributed to her role as co-founder of the health technology company...

nice napkin work :)

Dario Amodei?

I found this commentary useful : https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/16/the-obnoxious-github-openclaw-ai-bot-is-a-crypto-bro/

But, I read that, worldwide, something like 60-70 million videos are uploaded to Ticktock every day! So…..sample size?

and it’s quite likely that people in America ate less food, in the past, just less (unless they worked hard physically), and that the northern Mediterranean portions are way smaller than in the US even now. I remember being astounded at US portion size when I moved here in the 70s from England -...

I sort of understand why this comment is being downvoted, but do bear in mind that, particularly in the Pacific NW for some reason, addicts have been observed injecting blood drawn from colleagues who have themselves just injected fentanyl. Street term is “bluetoothing” Seems depraved, I know...

Quite. But the Democrats - and I’m a Democrat I suppose - now send all their spam to my Messages app - which is much harder to filter. Most infuriating, and leads me to a policy of never sending any donation to anyone anymore. I wish they’d stop this alienating bullshit and concentrate on the...

Product placement? Just like the movies!

good point - see the current concerns amongst our “allies” that the F-35 “may” have US-controlled kill switches (just like a John Deer combine?).

I toiled for 3 solid years face-to-face with floridly infected Covid patients (mainly intubating them then caring for them hands-on during surgery). My protection was the N95 mask. I did not become infected. This is anecdotal, of course, but I’d go with the simplest interpretation - that a...

agreed , once I have the pdf in my files I’m unlikely to search for, or be aware of, a subsequent retraction. It would just be by chance, unless I’m really, really involved with the subject at hand.

and smart self destruct

Why did she do what she did? It’s unclear to me. WAS there a “ romantic” angle? Was this just a piece of whole cloth that really had to do with public attention?

I agree that the full details of studies used to promote introduction of new devices need to be available; one problem is that many of these “experimental” design studies are never actually published in the open literature. The data are reviewed in some detail, but usually just by a small panel...

I played the files through my speakers (air play) just now - wife rushed in to fret about the scary sounds from outside! The sound is scary - I guess that’s what they were designed for!

Another way to decrease the cost of moviemaking would be to stop well-known film actors charging $20m for 6 weeks work?

Or what champagne is served