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  • Look at the stats, fentanyl has always been rarely prescribed and even more rarely prescribed compared to other opioids. The fentanyl crisis is a crisis of economics: there is less profit to be made in creating, smuggling and selling other opioids compared to fentanyl.

    If you want to be accurate, doctors prescribed non-fentanyl opioids in situations where they weren't needed, often illegally, when those prescriptions ran out, that caused a heroin crisis. That heroin crisis became a fentanyl crisis when drug dealers stopped selling heroin in favor of the cheaper and much stronger fentanyl.

  • www.theguardian.com US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’

    Heliospect’s services were marketed at up to $50,000 for 100 embryos, undercover footage shows

    US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’
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    Windows 10 only has a year of support: 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux
  • Different OSes for different use cases. You have a job to do. Just use Windows.

    If you want to use Linux, use it on your own machines on your own time.

    That said, there are a few things you can do if you really want to use Linux:

    1. Test if the app works on Wine, Proton, etc. Even GPU accelerated apps can work, depending on the software/driver stack.
    2. Run a Windows VM and pass-through a GPU. That way you'll get native performance on the app that's GPU intensive. Use KVM and the CPU overhead will be negligible.
    3. If you're doing 3D modeling/rendering, SFX, video editing or ML/AI, there are a lot of options on Linux. Some options that exist in Windows also have Linux versions.
  • Insurance 'nightmare' unfolds for Florida homeowners after back-to-back hurricanes
  • Insurance can still payout and people can still be made whole for property that's deemed uninhabitable. You do not have to "continue to rebuild in Florida", but you can make sure people's lives aren't completely ruined as a result of natural disasters.

  • Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS
  • You can test Linux out by using a live USB instance or in a VM. You can also dual boot so you'll always have Windows available if you need it.

    You can also install WSL on Windows or something like Git Bash or MSYS2 to get a Linux-y environment on Windows.

  • In a rare moment, the orange site asks where the emperor's clothes are

    Perhaps there will be some quality sneers, perhaps not. But in this moment the orange site becomes sentient and asks if the emperor is really wearing clothes

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    Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties

    It's the Guardian, but it's still a good read. All of Sneerclub's favorite people were involved.

    > Last weekend, Lighthaven was the venue for the Manifest 2024 conference, which, according to the website, is “hosted by Manifold and Manifund”. Manifold is a startup that runs Manifund, a prediction market – a forecasting method that was the ostensible topic of the conference.

    > Prediction markets are a long-held enthusiasm in the EA and rationalism subcultures, and billed guests included personalities like Scott Siskind, AKA Scott Alexander, founder of Slate Star Codex; misogynistic George Mason University economist Robin Hanson; and Eliezer Yudkowsky, founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (Miri).

    > Billed speakers from the broader tech world included the Substack co-founder Chris Best and Ben Mann, co-founder of AI startup Anthropic. Alongside these guests, however, were advertised a range of more extreme figures.

    > One, Jonathan Anomaly, published a paper in 2018 entitled Defending Eugenics, which called for a “non-coercive” or “liberal eugenics” to “increase the prevalence of traits that promote individual and social welfare”. The publication triggered an open letter of protest by Australian academics to the journal that published the paper, and protests at the University of Pennsylvania when he commenced working there in 2019. (Anomaly now works at a private institution in Quito, Ecuador, and claims on his website that US universities have been “ideologically captured”.)

    > Another, Razib Khan, saw his contract as a New York Times opinion writer abruptly withdrawn just one day after his appointment had been announced, following a Gawker report that highlighted his contributions to outlets including the paleoconservative Taki’s Magazine and anti-immigrant website VDare.

    > The Michigan State University professor Stephen Hsu, another billed guest, resigned as vice-president of research there in 2020 after protests by the MSU Graduate Employees Union and the MSU student association accusing Hsu of promoting scientific racism.

    > Brian Chau, executive director of the “effective accelerationist” non-profit Alliance for the Future (AFF), was another billed guest. A report last month catalogued Chau’s long history of racist and sexist online commentary, including false claims about George Floyd, and the claim that the US is a “Black supremacist” country. “Effective accelerationists” argue that human problems are best solved by unrestricted technological development.

    > Another advertised guest, Michael Lai, is emblematic of tech’s new willingness to intervene in Bay Area politics. Lai, an entrepreneur, was one of a slate of “Democrats for Change” candidates who seized control of the powerful Democratic County Central Committee from progressives, who had previously dominated the body that confers endorsements on candidates for local office.

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    www.nj.com N.J. college cancels drag queen event to ‘respect comfort levels’ of employees

    The drag queen story hour was supposed to be part of the college's "Bring Your Children to Work Day" event, but was called off the night before.

    N.J. college cancels drag queen event to ‘respect comfort levels’ of employees
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    Proposed Missouri bill would make teachers register as sex offenders if found supporting transgender students who socially transition
    www.cnn.com Proposed Missouri bill would make teachers register as sex offenders if found supporting transgender students who socially transition | CNN

    Legislation has been proposed in the Missouri state House that could see teachers and counselors charged with a felony and require them to register as sex offenders if they’re found guilty of supporting transgender students who are socially transitioning.

    Proposed Missouri bill would make teachers register as sex offenders if found supporting transgender students who socially transition | CNN
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    www.nbcnews.com Voters in a California beach town approved an LGBTQ Pride flag ban

    Measure B in Huntington Beach enshrines into the city charter a prohibition on nongovernmental flags being flown outside city buildings and other facilities.

    Voters in a California beach town approved an LGBTQ Pride flag ban
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    www.oregonlive.com Portland bartender who shoved transgender woman in bathroom dispute guilty of hate crime, jury rules

    Jake’s Place bartender Cassie McIntyre pushed customer Riis Larsen, a transgender woman, outside the women’s restroom.

    Portland bartender who shoved transgender woman in bathroom dispute guilty of hate crime, jury rules
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    www.oregonlive.com Portland bartender who shoved transgender woman in bathroom dispute guilty of hate crime, jury rules

    Jake’s Place bartender Cassie McIntyre pushed customer Riis Larsen, a transgender woman, outside the women’s restroom.

    Portland bartender who shoved transgender woman in bathroom dispute guilty of hate crime, jury rules
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    www.mediamatters.org YouTube and right-wing creators are profiting from anti-trans vitriol

    YouTube is allowing right-wing creators with millions of subscribers to misgender and deadname trans people on its platform — and monetizing that content through advertising.  YouTube has claimed for years to be committed to protecting trans people from hate speech and harassment on the platfor...

    YouTube and right-wing creators are profiting from anti-trans vitriol
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    www.mediamatters.org YouTube and right-wing creators are profiting from anti-trans vitriol

    YouTube is allowing right-wing creators with millions of subscribers to misgender and deadname trans people on its platform — and monetizing that content through advertising.  YouTube has claimed for years to be committed to protecting trans people from hate speech and harassment on the platfor...

    YouTube and right-wing creators are profiting from anti-trans vitriol
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    www.kjrh.com Response grows as Westboro Baptist Church plans protest at Owasso Schools

    National and local organizations are responding to a protest planned by the Westboro Baptist Church at Owasso Public Schools on March 6.

    Response grows as Westboro Baptist Church plans protest at Owasso Schools
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    www.advocate.com Libs of TikTok, other right-wingers lose it after X reinstates bans on misgendering, deadnaming trans people

    Advocacy groups say the quiet policy change and weak enforcement mechanisms leave a lot to be desired for the safety of users on the platform formerly called Twitter.

    Libs of TikTok, other right-wingers lose it after X reinstates bans on misgendering, deadnaming trans people
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    www.nbcwashington.com Old Guard soldiers charged with stealing pride flags from Arlington home

    Two soldiers assigned to the U.S. Army’s elite Old Guard were arrested and charged with stealing pride flags from a home in south Arlington, and neighbors have rallied to support the targeted couple.

    Old Guard soldiers charged with stealing pride flags from Arlington home
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    www.nbcnews.com New Hampshire town manager resigns after homophobic harassment

    An art display and a performance at the town theater led to comments Jim Gleason didn’t want to have to hear anymore.

    New Hampshire town manager resigns after homophobic harassment
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    www.theguardian.com Florida’s new anti-gay bill aims to limit and punish protected free speech

    SB 1780 would make it a defamation to accuse someone of homophobia, transphobia, racism or sexism and punishable by fine

    Florida’s new anti-gay bill aims to limit and punish protected free speech
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    www.theguardian.com Florida’s new anti-gay bill aims to limit and punish protected free speech

    SB 1780 would make it a defamation to accuse someone of homophobia, transphobia, racism or sexism and punishable by fine

    Florida’s new anti-gay bill aims to limit and punish protected free speech
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    www.atlantanewsfirst.com Fire at Decatur gender clinic was intentional, being investigated as hate crime

    The Decatur Fire Department confirmed on Jan. 26 that a fire at a gender clinic inside a historic building was intentionally set.

    Fire at Decatur gender clinic was intentional, being investigated as hate crime
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