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A low quality hodgepodge of words, masquerading as an article promoting the BBC's Panorama's Are you Scared Yet, Human?
A few low quality choice of quotes:
Speaking to BBC's Panorama, Brad Smith said it will be "difficult to catch up” with the rapidly advancing technology.
Eric Schmidt, former Google chief executive who is now chair of the US National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, has warned that beating China in AI is imperative.
Seth Moulton, chair of the US Future of Defence Task Force is urging tech companies to support the Department of Defence. "Because we're in a race, because we are in this competition, that’s really what it comes down to,” he said. “Are you going to help us win this race or are you going to essentially be against us?"
Are we sure this Ministry of Truth style doublespeak isn't already here?
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/facebook-ban-covid-...
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/debt-to-gdp-continues-to-ri...
Canada's deficit is among the worst of all relevant countries at the moment.
This resonates with me especially. In a time of excess we are led too often to believe we are on the brink of collapse. Manufactured crises.
Relevant readings talking about the NYT and journalism:
- https://savingjournalism.substack.com/p/how-newspapers-handl...
- https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...
[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/citadel-point72-to-invest-2-75-...
PR Puff Piece by Robinhood - https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/keeping-customers-...
Keeping people safe from themselves. Stocks where Retail investors are blocked from buying by TD Ameritrade, Robinhood, etc. yet hedge funds and others are free to continue...
Just yesterday Discord bans the WallStreetBets community.
Note: I held a few positions in some of these volatile stocks
Key point for me. Under the guise of 'hate speech' suppression is occurring. Of course every platform has the right to dictate users of their platform yada yada...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-31/victoria-coronavirus-...
When I used it, it seemed like a Jack of All/Master of None type of tool. Seemed like it was focused more on those who enjoy and find value in the act of taking notes rather the value of the note itself. I'm probably not the intended user, but for a lot of daily uses (Meeting notes, TODO lists, etc.) I found a barebones GDocs/Word/Pen and Paper to be more efficient and less taxing to pick up.
>San Francisco had four times as many deaths from overdose this year as it did from the COVID-19 virus.
Link to the tweet in question - https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13134498444139929...
Morton's Fork. If deaths are low it's because lockdown worked. If they're high we didn't lockdown hard or early enough. Two outcomes, same conclusion: More lockdowns. No consideration to the null hypothesis.
Relevant other discussion on Covid-19 and athletes. Exaggerated headline proven to be false.
Bad analogies are available for both sides of the debate.
+1 to __blockcipher__ 's points. Maybe in the beginning draconian measures might have been justified, but current panic over cases (casedemic) and continuing moral panic and lockdowns are not.
>The Family plan includes the same apps, but with 200GB of iCloud storage. It’s $19.95 a month
Seems like a deal worth looking into considering I'm paying $10 a month for Spotify alone. Not sure how the Apple TV lineup compares to Netflix though, but the iCloud storage is a pretty nice add-on as well.
New Jersey - At capacity, Elective surgeries cancelled
Alabama - Elective Surgeries Cancelled, state of emergency declared
California - set up tents outside, patients in hallways
Pennsylvania - Surge tents