According to other passengers on the flight, the flight crew told the man to remain calm and "not to panic," at one point passing a note to him under the door.
At least the guy in front of you won't recline his seat.
And no extra charge?
“Because modern facial recognition algorithms are trained neural networks, we just don’t know exactly what criteria the systems use to identify a face,” Garvie, who now works at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, tells WIRED. “Daisy chaining unreliable or imprecise black-box tools together is simply going to produce unreliable results,” she says.
“We should know this by now.”
We do.
Doesn't matter, I guess.
During the decades between Silva’s girlhood and today, clothing production worldwide doubled, while utilization—the number of times an item of clothing is worn before it is thrown away—declined by 36 percent. Countries like Chile, Haiti, and Uganda became depositories for fast fashion discards. In 2021 alone, Chile imported more than 700,000 tons of new and used clothing—the weight equivalent of 70 Eiffel Towers.
On a recent weekday, a group of Irvine Valley College students dressed in their professional best gathered at an Italian restaurant to learn how to navigate a multi-course business meal with savvy and finesse. In hushed tones and with minimal clinking, the students handled the multiple utensils, broke off small pieces of bread to butter and resisted the impolite urge to blow on their hot soup.
Almost. Not entirely. Nothing against the Italians, but I'd prefer French. If only for the escargot.
"One more shot of cold air is expected later this week. After that, the 'deep freeze' will ease its grip and odds favor above-normal temperatures for the following 10 days or so across the entire Lower 48."Or maybe true, at least.
So claimed the alert that arrived on my phone this morning flogging a NewYork Times podcast…but it's not. It's not Iowa's big day, it's the media's. The press has been slavering for a Presidential campaign year since, well, about three years ago. Or so.
So what is it in Iowa, really? It's cold. As we speak, the weather service reports -12ºF in Des Moines.
Also the Republicans are staging a race for second place (according to every pundit alive, first place has already been claimed). The Democrats are not even showing up.
The rest of us are planning to watch football. (One of the games will be in Buffalo, NY, where it is also expected to be cold.) Or most of us, at least.
It is theoretically possible a few of us are planning to watch something called "The Emmy's," although there is hardly any more reason to do that than there is to vote in Iowa. TV writers and actors were on strike for more or less ever during the last year (justifiably so, but still): This year's awards show will center on (justifiably) nostalgia.
"So Many Casts, Including ‘The Sopranos’ Gang, Are About To Reunite At The Emmys," reports an entertainment web site called UPROXX.If you warned Minnesotans every time it is merely freezing cold, you would struggle to get their attention when it was dangerously cold. Ms. Levens’s [Duluth] office issues a wind chill advisory only when the temperature reaches minus 25, and a wind chill warning when it reaches 40 below.
Meanwhile there's a wind chill advisory in Dallas right now, where it's 15º. No minus sign in sight.
Also they play football indoors in Dallas. They do in Minneapolis too, but in Minneapolis they mean it.
ADD: This is why I don't believe in "wind chill." Everybody knows wind makes cold feel colder. But "feels like" is an imprecise and arbitrary metric. As this article notes, what feels like cold to a person in Dallas may not feel like cold at all to a Minnesotan. Just tell me what the thermometer says and let's get on with it.
