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Back in 2024 I helped to launch a new events and media series focused on the science of longevity. We called it DOC. Over the past two years, DOC has thrived, and a fascinating community of leaders in medicine, finance, policy, and entrepreneurship has flourished. This year we’re hosting our third annual DOC October 21–23 … Continue reading "What’s up: DOC!"

Hey all :) This looks like a blast!

“A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by a competent, honest person for nearly thirty years, was crushed between two features of the new AI economy.” (AI bots and prediction market dipshits.)

If you knew you only had weeks to live, how would that change your attitude towards life and death? What if you had been dead before, and this was your second, but brief, go-around? Author C. J. Beshara examines life and death through the eyes of the titular main character, as well as on a […]

A few random phrases that are currently annoying me: “step change”, “hill climbing”, “first principles”. I can’t even really pinpoint why.

In 1978, the Federal Trade Commission, the agency that regulates unfair or deceptive advertising, proposed limiting TV ads for sugary foods on programs targeted at children. The Washington Post’s editorial board scoffed that the plan would “turn the agency into a great national nanny.” Congress clipped the agency’s wings, and “kidvid” entered history as a […]

Added rudimentary support for loading RSS.chat conversations from a timeline post that has been added via a user’s RSS.chat feed.

Flock's CEO Garrett Langley says people don't understand the capabilities of its ALPR system, but they do.

Sooner or later, you just run out of sports. There are currently a couple of regular seasons going on at the moment, but after a thrilling NBA playoffs led directly into a blast of a World Cup, a three-game series against the Cincinnati Reds happening 71 percent of the way t...

OpenAI and Anthropic both rolled out major voice updates on Thursday afternoon, but the frontier AI labs seem to be

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Pretty much all the movies you can catch in the Twin Cities this week.