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Once we get good, universal real-time translation, we might start to see a new proliferation of local languages. And of small groups inventing their own cryptolects for privacy, trying to evolve them faster than AI can keep up.

Their “Values” reads just like the Bush-era Republican platform—so I guess it’s the kind of FORWARD that goes all the way around and points exactly backward again.

Agnosia or asemia?

Secretary of Health.

Not a movie yet (AFAIK), but Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower is downright uncanny.

Is that a reference to Use of Weapons or Excession?

Wikipedia’s current events portal covers current events and conflicts with links to plenty of background info.

That article reports that a drug targeted at clearing amyloid proteins didn’t suffice to restore the brain’s waste-clearing functionality; this article reports that a drug targeted at repairing the blood-brain barrier does restore waste-clearing functionality (including amyloid proteins). So they’re not completely contradictory.

It looks like the research was done by academic and government-sponsored institutions in Spain and China, so hopefully it won’t just become a profit-making tool for the biotech industry.

Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.

They should put that disclaimer on their entire operating system.

Unfortunately “climate leader” is a pretty low bar these days.

Montreal is just a subspace of Montcomplex.