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A Flea and a Fly and the Worst Flu Season in Years

A Flea and a Fly and the Worst Flu Season in Years

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Again, the headline is courtesy of a poem by Ogden Nash
“A flea and a fly in a flu
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, “let us flee!”
“Let us fly!” said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.”

It’s winter. It’s the height of flu season, and it’s being reported as one of the worst flu seasons in years. We’re always curious as to why and while we’re not a conspiracy theorist at all, it’s always interesting to connect the dots and to separate truth/science from media talking points. If you believe that the latter is an exaggeration, we came across this, and it’s worth a watch.

We’re hearing from more and more of our readers who took the Covid vaccine about what we’ll call ‘buyers regret,’ and this just in: Yale scientists link Covid vaccines to alarming new syndrome causing ‘distinct biological changes’ to body, the Daily Mail et al reported. Read More...

Pharm to Table – and That’s Not a Typo

Pharm to Table – and That’s Not a Typo

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Newly minted HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr stated that he will immediately focus on soil  restoration/agriculture. Pay attention, founders: with fewer dollars, both VC and governmental, going to climate change, it may be time to focus on a different shade of green, and if it makes you feel any better, Latest Arctic Ice Data Shows 26% Larger Than 2012 . As for global warming/climate change, a Former NOAA Scientist Confirms Colleagues Manipulated Climate Records, so it looks like we all won’t be dead by 2016, as Al Gore had predicted. Since many inconvenient truths seem to be surfacing of late, here are 10 times ‘experts’ predicted the world would end by now. And as many a failed founder will tell you, it’s hard to fix a problem that may not be as critical as we were led to believe, so focus.

Here’s one that is: Big Ag Treats Us Like Dirt: Why Kennedy Believes Regenerative Agriculture Can Make Americans Healthy Again.

Who exactly is Big Ag? “Four companies (Bayer, Syngenta, BASF, and Corteva) dominate the agricultural market, with Bayer controlling 18.2% of global agrochemicals and, together with Corteva, over half of U.S. retail seed sales for major crops, Mercola reported. Read More...

The Three E’s of Entrepreneurship

The Three E’s of Entrepreneurship

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We’ve said it before and given what’s going on with the forensics that DOGE is performing at the speed of tech, it bears repeating: investor money is not a founder piggy bank, meaning, use the funds as if it’s your hard-earned cash. There’s not necessarily an unlimited supply of it, and the waiter always comes around with the check.

For those of you attempting to sort out how much to raise, here’s Y-Combinator’s Guide to How Much to Raise.  As the author points out, “Raising too little can put you in survival mode—slowing down progress, increasing stress, and forcing you to fundraise again sooner than expected. On the flip side, raising too much too early can lead to unnecessary dilution and misaligned expectations. The ideal amount? Enough to reach profitability if possible.”

Which leads us to the three Es, once you’ve secured funding:
Execute, Execute, Execute. Read More...

All the News that’s Fit to Spin

All the News that’s Fit to Spin

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The tech community was taken by storm last week by DeepSeek, which in our mind, we refer to as DeepSix, which seems much more accurate, all things considered: all the news that we see as fit to ‘print’ and bugger all to the rest. The technology has the same problems that all LLMs have: it scrapes/is trained on the information readily available on the web. And picks and chooses what you can see.

From a technical point of view: “What’s clever about what DeepSeek has done is that they’ve figured out a way to squeeze out more performance from Nvidia’s chips by going a level deeper and tinkering with how the chips work. In short, this is better engineering, and it has allowed them to overcome the constraints imposed on them due to US chip controls. In doing so, they have shown the world a new approach to building AI models much more cheaply,” wrote Om Malik in Crazy Stupid Tech.  “I think the hysteria is hugely overblown…If you read the original paper, two things are clear: DeepSeek has done something clever that will help lower the cost of the AI revolution for everyone, and they’ve shared how they’ve done it.”

Then there’s this: “OpenAI Furious – DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us,” 404 Media reported. “OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else’s data without permission or compensation.” Read More...