Archive for April, 2025
Oil Tumbles 8% as China Retaliates with Tariffs on U.S.
April 4th, 2025Via: Reuters: Oil prices plunged by 8% on Friday, heading for their lowest close since the middle of the pandemic in 2021, as China hit back in an escalating global trade war with the U.S. after President Donald Trump’s barrage of levies this week. China announced it will impose additional tariffs of 34% on all […]
Trump’s Tariff Strategy Explained in 18 Minutes
April 4th, 2025I never thought I would see the U.S. resist China’s grand strategy. It would have been nice to have done it more slowly. Factories could have been built, the expertise could have been cultivated, markets could have adjusted in an orderly manner… Nope. That’s not how it’s going to go. Trump has less than four […]
SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Present in Cerebral Arteries Up to 17 Months Following mRNA Vaccination
April 3rd, 2025Via: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience: Spike protein expression was detected in 43.8 % of vaccinated patients, predominantly localized to the intima of cerebral arteries, even up to 17 months post-vaccination. … None of the cases showed nucleocapsid protein positivity, supporting the absence of active viral infection. Related: Elevated Levels of Spike Protein in Circulation, “Up […]
Bill Banning Geoengineering And Weather Modification Passes Florida Senate
April 3rd, 2025Via: American Greatness: The Florida Senate passed a bill prohibiting geoengineering and weather modification by a vote of 28-9, Thursday. SB-56, dubbed the “chemtrails bill” by the media, prohibits “the injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within the borders of […]
Trump Announces Sweeping Reciprocal Tariffs on Trading Partners
April 2nd, 2025I wonder if Ross Perot is smiling from the great beyond… Remember that? Because Ross Perot’s prescient warnings were not heeded decades ago, this is what a Made in USA car looks like now: President Pfizer Warpspeed Trump Gaza #1 is awful in some ways… and good in other ways. Bringing sanity to trade imbalances […]
Politico Claims: “Trump Tells Inner Circle That Musk Will Leave Soon”
April 2nd, 2025
Update: Musk – “Fake News” Yeah, fake news https://t.co/nPhTpZj3Fc — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 2, 2025 — Via: Politico: President Donald Trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon Musk will be stepping back in the coming weeks from his current role as governing partner, ubiquitous cheerleader and Washington hatchet […]
AI-Based Model Streams Intelligible Speech from Thoughts
April 2nd, 2025Via: Berkeley Engineering: Marking a breakthrough in the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), a team of researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco has unlocked a way to restore naturalistic speech for people with severe paralysis. This work solves the long-standing challenge of latency in speech neuroprostheses, the time lag between when a subject […]
Arkansas Gov. Huckabee Sanders Signs Bill Approving Purchase of Ivermectin Without Prescription
April 2nd, 2025Via: The Gateway Pundit: On Tuesday, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a bill approving the sale of Ivermectin over the counter without a prescription. Arkansas Senate Bill 189 authorizes Ivermectin for human use to be sold without prescription or consultation with a healthcare professional. Arkansas is the second state to make the drug available […]
Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
April 2nd, 2025I thought this train left the station a couple of years ago. Maybe not. Via: arXiv: We evaluated 4 systems (ELIZA, GPT-4o, LLaMa-3.1-405B, and GPT-4.5) in two randomised, controlled, and pre-registered Turing tests on independent populations. Participants had 5 minute conversations simultaneously with another human participant and one of these systems before judging which conversational […]
Is It Any Sort of Useful Signal That Someone with an Estimated Net Worth Between $60 and $80 Million Fled California Because of High Taxes, High Prices, High Crime and Government Mismanagement?
April 2nd, 2025Has the situation in California crossed some sort of red line, where even seriously wealthy people can’t stand it anymore? With this Producer Michael video below, you might be thinking, “Who cares? It’s one guy.” But here’s the thing: It’s not just one guy. I’ve known a few high net worth people and they usually […]
