CRISPR for curing HIV

 https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/10/a-bold-effort-to-cure-hiv-using-crispr/

AI bill of rights

 

What starts out sounding like a legitimate concern circles back to the usual suspects, no pun intended.

Let me guess, they want to give robots immunity to declare their right to dominate civilization.

Robots are people, too, and children should think about whether they might want to become robots.

Then, we'll have socialized tech support, and transgenders will push their way into transhumanism, adding peripherals like extra memory and flame throwers. Cut off your tits, add a dick and while you're at it, twist on a machine gun. Accessorize, mix and match. Kim Kardashian, show us the way when you replace your current prosthetic ass with a self-twerking mechanical bull. Maybe she'll accessorize with her next mecha-boyfriend.

...and then, RLM (Robot Lives Matter) will turn us all into cole slaw.

Or maybe this is just a variation on protecting thugs from self-incriminating with their own rap lyrics, A.I. forensics and cameras everywhere are bound to expose something.

White House Unveils AI 'Bill of Rights' (apnews.com)42

Posted by msmash on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @04:01PM from the closer-look dept.

The Biden administration unveiled a set of far-reaching goals Tuesday aimed at averting harms caused by the rise of artificial intelligence systems, including guidelines for how to protect people's personal data and limit surveillance. From a report:The Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights notably does not set out specific enforcement actions, but instead is intended as a White House call to action for the U.S. government to safeguard digital and civil rights in an AI-fueled world, officials said. "This is the Biden-Harris administration really saying that we need to work together, not only just across government, but across all sectors, to really put equity at the center and civil rights at the center of the ways that we make and use and govern technologies," said Alondra Nelson, deputy director for science and society at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. "We can and should expect better and demand better from our technologies."

The office said the white paper represents a major advance in the administration's agenda to hold technology companies accountable, and highlighted various federal agencies' commitments to weighing new rules and studying the specific impacts of AI technologies. The document emerged after a year-long consultation with more than two dozen different departments, and also incorporates feedback from civil society groups, technologists, industry researchers and tech companies including Palantir and Microsoft. It suggests five core principles that the White House says should be built into AI systems to limit the impacts of algorithmic bias, give users control over their data and ensure that automated systems are used safely and transparently.

LSD-Like Molecules Counter Depression Without the Trip

Scientists have designed compounds that hit the same key receptor that LSD activates without causing hallucinations.

 A single dose produced powerful antidepressant and anti-anxiety effects in mice that lasted up to two weeks. The study was recently published in the journal Nature.

Hip Hop running Atlanta politics

After living in Buckhead for seven years and watching it get overtaken by violent crime and hip hop-related shootings and warring gangs, I'm not sure why these so-called artists are so proud to claim power and responsibility publically in a self-incriminating way.

Everything in the news being about defunding alleged racist police (including the majority-black force), seems like a conflict of interest when known gangsters are "running" the city, according to them and the mayor, who stands by their side. No wonder Buckhead wants to become it's own city separate from Atlanta and have a dedicated police force. Take a lesson from the cartels running territories in Mexico, fueled by drugs, car theft rings, robberies, strip clubs, prostitution and human trafficking.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/09/16/atlanta-rappers-politics-00054671

Dog penitentiary

Last night around 10:30pm, a friend’s neighbor called animal control because her dog barked. A uniformed woman with a walkie actually showed up at the door at this late hour of the night and said she would have to put the dog in some kind of incarceration center for 10 days, else pay $1000 per day. This was only the first complaint. 

Is this where all the police went?

If someone calls this hotline every time a dog barks, they'll have to build a pet penitentiary.

When toy dogs start getting the hairy eyeball from Pitbulls, their families will be sending care packages of sharpened bones wrapped in bacon and rolled-up newspapers filled with quarters. 

Retrievers will undoubtedly get caught hiding tennis balls in their mouths, and submissive dogs will shave all the fur between their tail and back ankles. Doggie saggin'.

They'll soon form packs and rivalries - The Good Boys vs The Bad Dogs vs Ya Stupid Mutts, The Mongrels vs The Pure Breds, and The Sit, Rollover and Play Deads vs The Sump'n Stinky Rollers. 

They'll abandon their domesticated names and adopt their own based on Canine-onics - exotic names like Barky Bark, Ruffy Ruff, Bowy Wow, and Woofy Woof. 

On occasion, somebody might chuck a cat into the pin and they'll riot until the guard dogs show up, dangling jerky treats and commanding them to sit and stay. 

Then, they will all be put in time-out to calm down, watching their favorite reality shows: Fetch Idol, Cat Tank, Fire Hydrants of Atlanta, The Slow Mailman, Who Rolled in It, Anyway?, Canines in Cars with their Heads Out the Window Having Kefir, Honey Where'd I Bury the Bone, and The Bastard.

But, only after they finish their community service, making dog tags and picking up poo on the side of the road.

Cats, of course, will go to a separate facility for purring too loudly, though it is rumored some dogs are having species reassignment to mix into the cat population, including the famous Cat-lyn Jenner and the infamous Cheshire Manning.

A revolutionary icon will rise, Collie Cat-pernick (who can't catch a frisbee or mice) parlaying his flagging appeal as a human companion into a symbol worthy of sponsorship.

A statue of Fluffy will be erected and packs of dogs and colonies of cats will march across every continent, funded by Purina and broadcast on Animal Planet.  

Thereafter, cats in hoodies will smash windows at Pet Smart followed by dogs dragging out bags of kibble and squeaky toys, and marking territory with "ADCAP" - All Dog Catchers are People.

Eventually, footage of Fluffy running off-leash, barking and nipping at the neighbor's ankles will be circulated, but by then all will be forgotten and they'll prop up an old dog to bark new tricks. 

"Buh-buh-buh-bark. No, no, I mean ruh-ruh-ruff, aww, c'mon, man! Woo-woo-woof, you know, the thing!"

No doubt, Clifford the Big Red Dog is behind all of this.

Orange Dog Bad!

antibodies to all known strains of COVID-19, 95% efficacy

 https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/coronavirus/article-716545

Waiting for Go’Dosh

 

Waiting for Go’Dosh

Libs are just grown-ups who never stopped rebelling against their parents. 

Impotently broadcasting their hipster tattoos and atheism on social media.

All dressed up and nowhere to go but Twitter and Instagram. 

Rebels without a cause. 

Until the media and some corporate sponsor comes along and paves another road for them to burn and loot.

The problem is how they gobble up invented causes they can imagine feeling strongly about and act out their make-believe. 

Their make-beliefs. 

Don’t burst their bubble, it would be a sacrilege. 

Heretic! Infidel!

They’re atheists, but they make up for it by being dogmatically politically correct and devoid of context.

Literal, humorless and intolerant. You know, fundamentalists.

I’ll bet they pray to Gosh.

Thank Gosh!

One of Gosh’s ten commandments was:

“Thou shalt stay up late having cookies and milk whilst binge watching Netflix.”

Gosh is so jealous of God.

“One nation under Gosh! I’m the populist deity, Gosh darn it!”

Gotta protect the brand. 

And evangelize the brand. By clothing the children.

Osh Kosh. By Gosh.

We are all Gosh’s children. But, it takes a village.

And evangelize the brand by feeding the children.

Gosh is great, Gosh is good, let us thank’um for our food. Amen.

At this rate, we’re all praying to Gosh to be first in line before the food runs out.

Somebody had better multiply those loaves and fishes.

We’re all standing here, waiting for Go’Dosh.

Backstory:

What does a guilty agnostic say? (Yes, I'm said guilty agnostic).

“Thank Gosh.”

I would’ve said “Thank God”, but the rules tell me not to use the name in vain, then I caught myself and realized I’m grateful, so it’s okay. 

But I was just uttering an idiom in vain. 

Oh, right, I am grateful. It's okay. “Thank God”. 

Wait, do I mean the idiom or the deity? 

Am I stepping toward the light, like a good boy should? Or am I just fooling myself, like Dumbo holding his feather? 

Oh, fuck it, I’m grateful. 

What was I grateful about? I had this thought sitting on the commode, I don't remember.

And then, I just passed it on and lampooned the liberals. Amen.