We all are living through a transition in how information circulates. Sorting out the new dynamics of influence—the processes of how media and social media can best curate and promote authoritative information, on health and other matters—will take years.
I imagine Gutenberg would be amused.
Some claimed it was an earthquake, but that’s not the case. Our team of meteorologists said there were no earthquakes reported around that time.
…the gender so explosively announced turns out to be wrong? With gender being as fluid a concept as it is right now, any such party might turn out to be, well, a bomb.
(As in, Honey you can't change your mind now, we already blew up half the state.)
(Of course, it's a pretty small state.)
“Emergent has raised the government purchasing price of the anthrax vaccine by 800% since acquiring the drug in 1998,” the lawmakers write in their letter.
…this seems like one of he wackiest.
“They know how to get press, they don’t worry about being too outrageous.”
Imagine!
Yesterday was Patriots' Day (spelled Patriot's Day in Maine because, well, Maine). It's recognized by five states (including the aforementioned Maine) and "encouraged" in another (that being Florida, which seems to encourage all sorts of shenanigans).
It celebrates the revolutionary battles of Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy, which haven't happened for a very long time due to history, and the Boston Marathon, which hasn't happened on Patriot's Day since 2019 due to the plague (it was canceled last year and is postponed now).
It also, because it always happens on a Monday (the third in April) delays trash pick-up where I live by one day, so it's a good thing I noticed it when I did.
In Pickle’s case, emphasizing human supervision means that they may be able to deploy faster and more reliably and at lower cost and with higher performance—we’ll just have to see how long it takes for other companies to come through with robots that are able to do the same tasks without human supervision.
Pro-Pfizer sentiment is all over TikTok, where you can find skits of bros bonding over their shared Pfizer status, or one creator declaring that the name itself “Sounds rich. Decadent. Luxury!”
Finally, an appropriate time to say smh.
But Huawei’s plans for 6G and beyond make U.S. concerns over 5G look paltry: Huawei is proposing a fundamental internet redesign, which it calls “New IP,” designed to build “intrinsic security” into the web. Intrinsic security means that individuals must register to use the internet, and authorities can shut off an individual user’s internet access at any time.
…personally I'm not a big fan of any governance at all (of the internet)…but whatever "renewed commitment" is, it still sounds better than this Chinese/Huawei plan.
