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Monday August 17th, 2026

Flex posts are not bollards Dan Lyke / comment 0

Reddit r/SelfDrivingCars — Tesla Robotaxi Rams through several Bollards and keeps going..

Among other places, via Fuel Arc: Tesla Robotaxi Mows Down Bollards & Keeps Driving, After “Impeccable” Record Touted on Stock Call.

surrealism escalates Dan Lyke / comment 0

mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

@xgranade @whitequark One thing to remember is scammers may now actually be writing their bot code with Copilot so it is actually possible for them to literally be doing something that makes no sense and not know it.

unauthorized immigration and crime (again) Dan Lyke / comment 0

Didn't think it needed more investigation, but... nature: Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds

UC Irvine School of Social Ecology: Large-scale study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration.

Journal of Urban Affairs: Does unauthorized immigration drive community crime rates? Evidence from 11,500 U.S. neighborhoods Charis E. Kubrin, Derek Christopher, Cheyenne Hodgen, Xiaoshuang Iris Luo & John R. Hipp

Yale Study on universal health coverage Dan Lyke / comment 0

Duh: Yet another finding that the US would benefit from becoming a developed nation: Yale School of Public Health: Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

For the study, which has not yet been peer reviewed, the researchers modeled what would happen if the United States adopted a national public insurance program like the one proposed in the Medicare for All Act. Using 2024 spending, insurance coverage, and mortality data, they estimate that the universal coverage would reduce annual health expenditures by $1.04 trillion, or nearly 20% — even after accounting for the additional care that uninsured and underinsured people would receive.

AI links OTD Dan Lyke / comment 0

Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It’s Almost Hard to Believe

Drawing from an CNBC poll, New CNBC Generation Lab poll shows almost half of 18- to 34-year-olds see democratic socialism positively

When given the names of nine key people in the AI industry and asked whether they trust each leader to act responsibly on AI, in each case a majority of respondents said they don’t. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella scored the best, with 65% reporting they don’t trust him. Palantir CEO Alex Karp scored the worst: 81% said they don’t trust him. About 75% of respondents said they don’t trust Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and about the same percentage said they don’t trust Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk all scored about the same, each with about 70% of respondents saying they don’t trust them, and 79% said they don’t trust Palantir Chairman Peter Thiel.

Catching up on older links: Operator fatigue is a thing: Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated, in which a transcription error snowballs.

Australia's peak regulator of medical practitioners, AHPRA, said clinicians must always check all output from an AI scribe for accuracy to ensure they meet their professional obligations. Ms Green said it was clear her doctor did not do this.

"If you had checked that letter you would have been able to correct that before it was sent out … why aren't you in tune with each of your patients and what's going on?"

Very Sane AI Newsletter: FelonyBench Style Points.

Cannabis and Heart Health Dan Lyke / comment 0

Unexpected Findings Add New Insight on Cannabis and Heart Health

Habitual cannabis users experienced about 9% fewer premature heartbeats on days they inhaled cannabis compared with days they abstained, a counterintuitive finding that adds to the complex and evolving understanding of how cannabis affects the heart, new UC San Francisco-led research found.

Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Acute Effects of Cannabis Inhalation on Cardiac Ectopy, Physical Activity, Sleep, and Glucose

Sunday August 16th, 2026

We're house sitting for some neighbors Dan Lyke / comment 0

We're house sitting for some neighbors who expressed that they're having a little trouble with some steps up and down in their house, I had some Simpson decorative bolts, and some Ipé I'm gonna slap these grab bars in those places when they're gone.


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