Sludgehammer

The difficulty I see here is that it took the yeast not very long to mutate a beneficial effect, but it could just as quickly mutate away from that and even mutate something harmful.

That seems unlikely. The entire way it works is the yeast produces proteins that "look" like a virus to the immune system, causing a immune response. However that's the only part of of the virus in the yeast, there's nothing else that completes the virus. It's like... a steering wheel without a car, no matter how hard I mime swerving to run over a pedestrian nothing's gonna happen, because there is no car.

If the viral protein mutated it'd either A) still be recognized as a viral protein and generate immunity for a virus that doesn't exist, or B) generate a non-functional protein that the body would simply digest.

There already are oral vaccines? There's one for rabies that's been airdropped across the US for years now... however to be fair that one is a live attenuated virus.

Edit and FTA:

Oral vaccines against rotavirus, cholera and polio exist, so it’s a viable strategy.

In this case it's my understanding that they're using the yeast to "smuggle" the viral proteins through the stomach acid, and then when the yeast is digested in the intestines the body is exposed to the added viral proteins. So since you need live yeast you can have vaccine beer, but not vaccine bread.

Well, duh... it's the next techbro "We'll replace all our workers with technology!" wet dream. And just like 99% of techbro projects (such as LLM's being cast as "AI") it's very obviously an unworkable solution propped up by the techbro's lack of understanding and billions of venture capital from rich but dumb investors.

Yet another reason to support Ukraine, maybe they'll knock out Moscow's power more often.

Ran out of black markers I'd guess.

McDonalds want's new customers too, but that doesn't mean that they should announce that they're going to be focusing on expanding McDonalds into a sushi restaurant. Sure sushi is great, but it has an entirely different supply chain and preparation method than hamburgers. By pushing McSushi you both risk driving away driving away customers who only wanted a simple burger joint as well as risking introducing inefficiencies as your hamburger cooks and sushi chefs trip over each other in the kitchen.

Fuuuucckk!

The seat is what really bugs me, it looks like hitting a pothole could easily jostle you enough to make you fall out.

Everything about the vehicle screams "Collisions are fatal at anything faster than walking speed".

I mean LLM's can only regurgitate their training data in various configurations, and CEO's usually just repeat whatever popular buzzwords/tech trends they've recently heard. It seems like it would work.

It is creepy how close to Trump's cadence the article is.

Reeeally hope those were dentures... otherwise, ow.