Social Health Jessica Wildfire Aug 14, 2023 ShotPrime Studio August 14 2023 10:21 AM 4 min read Share Email Back in the 1950s, this guy named John B. Calhoun built a rat paradise. Actually, he built s

Social Health Jessica Wildfire Aug 14, 2023 Shotprime August 14 2023 1:59 AM 4 min read Share Email There's this play by Eugene Ionesco called, "Rhinoceros." You should read it sometime. It's about an

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Post Pandemic Opinion Long covid has derailed my life. Make no mistake: It could yours, too. By August 9, 2023 at 5:45 a.m. EDT Madeline Miller, a novelist, is the author of “ The Song of Achilles ” a

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Eleon Update: Over the next day, I’ll probably be migrating my entire Substack over to the new site. Ghost has a tool that will bring over everyone’s emails and (paid) subscriptions. I talk more about

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ChatGPT and its artificially intelligent siblings have been tweaked over and over to prevent troublemakers from getting them to spit out undesirable messages such as hate speech, personal information,

The EG.5 variant now makes up the largest proportion of new COVID-19 infections nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated, as multiple parts of the country have been reporti

I guarantee that no one wants to hear about this. Heck, I don't, either, but I'm going to write about it anyway. That's because while most of the world has been enjoying a respite from the coronavirus

Unispace found that nearly half (42%) of companies with return-to-office mandates witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated. And almost a third (29%) of companies enforc

Dan Guido, CEO The second meeting of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) on July 18 focused on the effects of AI on the financial sector. During the meeting,

Lion Design Here’s a bunch of stories that should be on the front page of every newspaper, but they’re not. They’re buried. As Caitlin Johnstone recently pointed out, the news media is largely run by

There’s a new column out by Ashish Jha in The Boston Globe that assures everyone we can finally ignore Covid with “a few basic steps.” I don’t know about you, but I think it’s weird that these public

Perhaps a strong and positive purpose in life can immunize against both Daniel Miessler July 31, 2023 I heard a great thing on a podcast recently. It was a guy saying alcohol addiction is confused bec

Linda J You might’ve seen recent headlines about saguaro cacti keeling over in Arizona after spending nearly a month above 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Not even a week later, The Washington Post ran this a

The saying “You’re the average of the five people spend the most time with” is still true, but has been redefined by the digital world. The Impact of Digital Influencers The introduction of podcasts,

Will AI remove jobs or add them? Will it help people or harm them? Will it create prosperity or create despair? The answer is yes. It’s not one or the other. They’ll all happen simultaneously. The bet

Members of the John Snow Project editorial board were part of the Delphi consensus, which set out how to address the challenges posed by SARS-CoV-2 and end the pandemic. The measures proposed include

Lion Design There’s a lot going on, so let’s jump right in. We’re definitely heading into a Covid wave . Wastewater surveillance has shown infections almost doubling over the last month. This wave fol

Grandfailure In Chinese mythology, the dragon king commands oceans, lakes, rivers, and rain. He controls dragons and sea creatures. He makes the weather. He would be a good god to pray to right now. H

Ever since some of the earliest projections of climate change were made back in the 1970s, they have been remarkably accurate at predicting the rate at which global temperatures would rise. For decade

Grandfailure The California Supreme Court has ruled : If you catch Covid from work and then a family member dies from it, you can’t sue your employer. The ruling was unanimous. Their reasoning might m

The Federal Trade Commission has opened an expansive investigation into OpenAI, probing whether the maker of the popular ChatGPT bot has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reput

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Dzmitry You might’ve seen that India recently banned exports for non-basmati rice this week in an effort to control inflation. It’s a big deal because they produce 40 percent of the world’s rice. This

There’s frequent discussion now about how AI will help hackers do X and Y. Phishing and BEC scams are at the top of the list. And there’s also lots of talk about AI helping with static code analysis,

MadMat The media wants you to believe the pandemic “ really is over ,” but they’re lying. They’ve been lying, and they’re going to keep lying. Ordinary people like us have figured out that they’re man

Sponsored By I recently said something that ended up making the rounds on Twitter: "If you're a developer, you need to spend money on a great computer, an awesome monitor, a fantastic chair and a good

Lion Design Recently, a burger joint called In-n-Out banned masks for all of their employees. You can only wear one with a doctor’s note now, and you can’t even wear your own. You have to wear one the

Universeal There’s an opinion piece in The New York Times heralding a new “positive milestone” for Covid. It declares that excess deaths have magically dropped back down to where they were before the

Unsupervised Learning Unsupervised Learning is a security, AI, and meaning-focused newsletter/podcast that looks at how best to thrive as humans in a post-AI world. It combines original ideas and anal

NorseGhost How many times has the pandemic ended now? I’ve lost count. The pandemic officially “ended” back in May, but the virus just won’t cooperate with the affluent decider class. As I wrote the o

NEWS 11 July 2023 The first genome-wide search for long-COVID risk factors could pave the way for larger studies. Heidi Ledford View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed G

By Jay Jacobs“Infosec twitter” has been used to describe the vibrant, active and often enthusiastic community of security practitioners working in and around the industry. It’s been a source of insigh

Grandfailure As Covid rips through Japan, alerting us to the possibility of a deadly new variant, bureaucrats in D.C. sit back and debate whether or not they’ll even offer most of us updated vaccines

June 29: Updated with statement from Facebook, from the author of the study, and from the editor of the academic journal that published the study. Facebook is the best human research lab ever. There’s