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    Varda signs deal with major US pharma firm to develop drugs in space

    Not if it doubled or tripled the cost of goods. And note both parenteral forms require the compound to be in solution, At which point solid forms are irrelevant, assuming you can get the damned thing to dissolve up at all.
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    Varda signs deal with major US pharma firm to develop drugs in space

    As a nerd, I love the idea. As a realist with over 40 years in Pharma, with a background in chemistry, it is somewhere between laughable and a complete boondoggle. The only thing we are talking about here is ability to grow better crystals occasionally. How often are better crystals the make...
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    “Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says

    While a product definitely should not be doing this, I can but note that the victim seems to have had very selective reading of the answers, and total amnesia for any negative input. Spinal Tap's drummer (pre-explosion) had the advice, "Have a good time, all the time", and it seems that this...
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    Amazon employees are “tokenmaxxing” due to pressure to use AI tools

    It is almost as though LLMs have become the MMSs* of my (friend's of course) youth * MMS Mutual Masturbation Society
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    How a melting glacier led to a 500-meter-high tsunami

    If they were filmed, the cameras are probably still on the ocean bottom, possibly not intact.
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    The US military just released a bunch of UAP files, but there’s no there there

    Nonsense. It is 100% correct that buying into Trumpcoin will exempt you from the anal part of the alien probe. Unless that is your thing, where investing in Doncoin will buy you twice the action.
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    The US military just released a bunch of UAP files, but there’s no there there

    Given the competency level "warmangling"?
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    The US military just released a bunch of UAP files, but there’s no there there

    Which orifice? Asking for a friend.
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    Trump admin censors more studies conflicting with RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine views

    Dear Beth, Thank you for continuing to call a spade a spade. I have always believed that one can be a scientist or a liar, and the Grima Wormbrain cabal has only corroborated how correct that is. And yes, on occasion in research I have had to eat the crow that I accidentally hand-raised...
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    How do you design a $30,000 electric pickup? Inside Ford’s skunkworks.

    You think that military alliances can alleviate the tantrums of the oversized diaper-wearer? How quaint.
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    Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags

    Meta analyses can help to answer questions, but one has to carefully curate the studies that go into them, and it requires a very wise and honest curator. And it could be that the garbage studies (methodologically speaking) are the ones which got the right answer, in which case the quality...
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    Startup says sound waves can replace fire sprinklers; experts aren’t so sure

    Sadly, my 1970s patent for microprocessor-controlled condoms expired before the arrival of AI-controlled blockchain teledildonics. Maybe gifs and crypto can cause its rearousal.
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    Startup says sound waves can replace fire sprinklers; experts aren’t so sure

    This sounds like an interesting idea. As long as one can tell when a kitchen fire is not the gas burner, one can imagine a kitchen back up which could put out small fires without the mess of a sprinkler system. However, one would have to see proof of efficacy for much larger fires, and edge...
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    There’s a lot of hype about Chinese EVs—is any of it true?

    That way we can fall even further behind. Our expensive to run dinosaurs are getting more expensive by the day, even without allowing for the fact that we do not cover most of the externalities. Or our incredibly high road death rate from the above mentioned "people mashers". BYD or Zeekr or...
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    Trump nominates Fox News doctor to be the next surgeon general

    Alkaline water works especially well in lead-acid batteries. Prevents heartburn every time.
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    Trump nominates Fox News doctor to be the next surgeon general

    I think the original Uncle Sam has gone the way of an honorable seppuko. The current one plays him on TV.
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    New Sam Bankman-Fried trial would be huge waste of court’s time, judge says

    There is a class for whom there are no consequences, and a class, us the little people, for whom there are consequences. However, just occasionally a loosely bound member of the former class does something outrageous enough to fall into the regular people class, and in this case rather...
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    Attempt to repeal Colorado’s right-to-repair law fails

    Most would have to order mu-mus from Omar the tentmaker. Or perhaps wedding dresses with 20 foot trains. But please, dear God, I do not want to see Ted Cruz in either of those outfits, although according to RFK Jr, Ivermectin makes eyeball bleach more effective.
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    Attempt to repeal Colorado’s right-to-repair law fails

    But they all understand campaign contributions, and the sixteen dimensional arcane process which makes them not actually bribes. So understanding something like how to repair an iPhone with a toothpick should be child's play by comparison.