Jevi

have a long running personal finance thread in the codex app set up with a heartbeat automation. as part of it, I gave Codex access to all my banks, credit cards, tax statements & brokerages. also built an agent-first Schwab CLI so it can view my holdings and open up trades. just asked codex to open source it. woke up this morning and saw this notification on my phone — codex made some trades (: at this point, codex knows my financial picture better than I do, and I use this pinned thread as my primary interface for anything money related. obviously handing over all your finances to ai has risks, but personally i’m stoked about this. feels good having codex in my corner helping me stay on top of frivolous spending, taxes, and portfolio

A preview for Pro users: a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT. Pro users in the U.S. can securely connect financial accounts, see where their money is going, and ask questions based on the information they choose to connect. Your full financial picture, now in ChatGPT.

A peer-reviewed paper published last year in the journal Bioethics by two professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine argues that it is "morally obligatory" to genetically engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome, a permanent condition that makes you violently allergic to red meat. The paper is called "Beneficial Bloodsucking." Their argument: if eating meat is morally wrong, then preventing the spread of a disease that forces people to stop eating meat is also morally wrong. Scientists should gene-edit lone star ticks to enhance their ability to carry alpha-gal syndrome and expand their range into urban environments to infect more people. They call this a "moral bioenhancer." They frame releasing genetically modified disease-carrying ticks as a "vaccination" that only "infringes" on your bodily autonomy rather than "violating" it. The distinction, apparently, is that a tick bit you instead of a government official holding you down. Alpha-gal syndrome is not mild. The CDC estimates up to 450,000 Americans are already affected. Cases have surged 100-fold in the last decade. Symptoms include anaphylaxis. There is no cure. Alpha-gal cases are exploding across the United States. The lone star tick's range is expanding far beyond its historical territory. And two academics at a medical school published a paper arguing this is a good thing that should be accelerated. At what point do we stop treating papers like this as fringe academic exercises and start asking whether anyone is already acting on them?

JUST IN: Google just launched a screenless Fitbit band to go after Whoop. Fitbit Air is a $99 wearable built to track your health all day without apps, alerts, or a display. • tracks heart rate, sleep, blood oxygen, skin temperature, and movement • no screen, notifications, or smartwatch features • up to 7 days of battery life • 5-minute charge gives roughly a full day of use • works with Google’s Gemini-powered Health Coach