greasegum

Maybe I'm way off, but this post reads like AI wrote it, which diminished my interest in reading it. This probably has some bearing on the thesis. To wit: when mediocre analysis is so very cheap, actual human touch, i.e. editing/filtering/writing becomes way more valuable to anyone who cares to read it. Relatedly, reading becomes much more of a chore when I both have to filter for what interests me, and also simultaneously be on guard for whether I am reading the unedited machine written slop. The perceived value of the written word is taking a massive hit and that's frankly terrifying.

This is an inspiring project! I would love to see more stuff like this and updates if you decide to evolve the project further.

All I remember from seeing this as a kid is that, in the final scene, River Phoenix asks the hot government agent for her phone number. The number she gives is a real non-555 number--pretty sure it was 818 area code?. You could call that number and hear a message from the character for many years.

Was this the only movie ever to do this?

It's just words, obviously contradicted by many of Harvard's recent actions, but all I can think is what a fucking lay-up. If only Columbia's administration had half a spine they would have responded similarly.

Came here to mention this too. Seem almost so obvious that I'm surprised this isn't the dominant angle.

I think people are missing one very sympathizable effect of this joint research, that it prevents either country from gaining an offensive edge from dual-use research that could be used for bio-weapons. You could argue that this has the benefit of preventing a bio-weapons arms race.

Vertiginous to think about the layers of unknowns.

Part of the subtext seems to be that constructing these turbines was a greenwashing campaign on Chevron's part. This kind of project helps to bolster the naive impression that these are "energy companies", as one commenter alluded, not just "oil companies". So in a sense these turbines have fulfilled their purpose.

Even more insidiously, the fact that the wind farm is now sitting idle achieves oil companies' secondary goal of making green energy look bad and unreliable. Thus keeping people divided on whether to support other green power initiatives and allowing our reliance on oil to continue. Profits protected.

I don't think I'm giving them too much credit.

Software engineers don't want you to know this one weird trick()

>But where does the 1978 year in the title come from?

This seems to come from the fact that although MMWR has been in publication since 1978, 100% of papers they have published on the topic has been in the past 3.5 years.

Not discussed in the article, but I think relevant, is the breakdown of search as a useful tool even on such venerated platforms as eBay, which has become similar to Facebook Marketplace in its vibes-based algorithm. Laser-focused search precision is a losing business model, apparently, and not the way of the future.

The movie Michael Clayton springs to mind for some reason.

You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead.