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If you want to understand how Long Covid affects the brain, or the neuroscience of cancer, there's nobody better than Prof/Dr Michelle Monje to learn from.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/michelle-monje-the-brain-in-long

Michelle Monje: The Brain in Long Covid and Cancer

Ground Truths

Peter Gabriel on the future of AI: 'We might as well just grab the algorithms and dance with them, rather than fight them'

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/peter-gabriel-on-the-future-of-ai-we-might-as-well-just-grab-the-algorithms-and-dance-with-them-rather-than-fight-them-203833247.html

Yahooist Teil der Yahoo Markenfamilie

PLATO: How an educational computer system from the ’60s shaped the future.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/plato-how-an-educational-computer-system-from-the-60s-shaped-the-future/

PLATO: How an educational computer system from the ’60s shaped the future

Forums, instant messaging, and multiplayer video games all started here.

Ars Technica
Work Phones Make Comeback as More Employers Ban WhatsApp, TikTok - Slashdot

There may be a new ringtone in your life -- the urgent chime of a company-issued cell phone. From a report: In a throwback to the Blackberry era, telecom-service providers are seeing strong growth from companies handing out phones to employees. The phenomenon, which started during the pandemic, pick...

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This is brilliant data-infused journalism:

Washington Post correlates terrible credit scores in the U.S. South with the refusal of state governments to expand federally funded Medicaid, creating vast amounts of medical debt and bankruptcies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/bad-southern-credit-scores/

Republican ideologues have made their states even poorer, and their citizens far worse off in all kinds of ways. This is one of them.

Of course, they're proud of it.

Why the South has such low credit scores

Why does the American South have worse credit scores than the rest of the country? Hint: It's not just race or income.

The Washington Post
Tesla announces that only Tesla Blue subscribers will have access to brakes.
#TeslaBlue
If your two-factor authentication for Twitter is dead because they killed SMS, here’s an easy how-to about setting up iOS/macOS’s truly excellent built-in two-factor system. It’s super convenient and, best of all, even more secure than SMS. https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/02/setting-up-ioss-two-factor-authentication-for-twitter/
Setting up iOS’s two-factor authentication for Twitter

If you’re already using two-factor authentication on your Twitter, account, great! But with the company’s announcement Friday evening1 that it would be discontinuing two-factor authentication via S…

Six Colors