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2020/09/02
Wind & Solar adoption Spreads.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-01/the-world-added-more-solar-wind-than-anything-else-last-year
Hopefully this trend continues, and maybe even excellerates.
2020/08/14
Giant Repercussions
This will be big.
https://www.wired.com/story/epic-games-sues-apple-fortnite-app-store
2020/07/08
good take on this
What Russia Understands about Trump
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/08/02/what-russia-understands-about-trump/
2020/05/08
2020/04/24
Food Chain Strain
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-23/some-canada-hog-farmers-have-culled-pigs-with-prices-in-freefall
Food is going to become a much greater issue in 6 months if this continues.
Food is going to become a much greater issue in 6 months if this continues.
2020/04/16
The Yearly Shutin
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/14/science.abb5793?
https://www.wired.com/story/what-if-covid-19-returns-every-year-like-the-common-cold/
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The role of seasonality “is certainly not zero,” Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard who coauthored the study, said at a press conference held Tuesday. He cautioned that seasonal variability is not the same thing as saying the virus will go away in the summer. Outbreaks could occur at any time, he noted, but those that begin in the fall might be more severe. That kind of variation could have important implications for how social distancing measures are timed.
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https://www.wired.com/story/what-if-covid-19-returns-every-year-like-the-common-cold/
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The role of seasonality “is certainly not zero,” Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard who coauthored the study, said at a press conference held Tuesday. He cautioned that seasonal variability is not the same thing as saying the virus will go away in the summer. Outbreaks could occur at any time, he noted, but those that begin in the fall might be more severe. That kind of variation could have important implications for how social distancing measures are timed.
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2020/04/13
Very Good Read
https://forge.medium.com/prepare-for-the-ultimate-gaslighting-6a8ce3f0a0e0
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But you did. You are not crazy, my friends. And so we are about to be gaslit in a truly unprecedented way. It starts with a check for $1,200 (Don’t say I never gave you anything) and then it will be so big that it will be bigly. And it will be a one-two punch from both big business and the big White House — inextricably intertwined now more than ever and being led by, as our luck would have it, a Marketer in Chief. Business and government are about to band together to knock us unconscious again. It will be funded like no other operation in our lifetimes. It will be fast. It will be furious. And it will be overwhelming. The Great American Return to Normal is coming.
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But you did. You are not crazy, my friends. And so we are about to be gaslit in a truly unprecedented way. It starts with a check for $1,200 (Don’t say I never gave you anything) and then it will be so big that it will be bigly. And it will be a one-two punch from both big business and the big White House — inextricably intertwined now more than ever and being led by, as our luck would have it, a Marketer in Chief. Business and government are about to band together to knock us unconscious again. It will be funded like no other operation in our lifetimes. It will be fast. It will be furious. And it will be overwhelming. The Great American Return to Normal is coming.
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Even the military says watch out
https://prospect.org/economy/government-wants-to-let-financial-predators-off-hook/
Rent-to-own outfits, such as Aaron’s and Rent-A-Center, fill an important segment of this alternative economy. They offer appliances, electronics, and furniture on weekly or monthly payment plans. If a customer makes payments for the full term of the contract (usually 12 to 24 months), they own the good outright. Even though most customers aspire to, and ultimately do, own items obtained through rent-to-own, the industry insists it offers rentals and so is not subject to federal and state credit protections. Disclosing the cost of credit under the federal Truth in Lending Act would mean informing customers that a rent-to-own TV comes with an annualized interest rate as high as 370 percent. The industry also criminalizes debt, routinely filing police complaints and threatening criminal prosecution to extract payments from distressed consumers. The Department of Defense, in a 2006 report, described the rent-to-own business, which targets members of the military, as predatory.
Rent-to-own outfits, such as Aaron’s and Rent-A-Center, fill an important segment of this alternative economy. They offer appliances, electronics, and furniture on weekly or monthly payment plans. If a customer makes payments for the full term of the contract (usually 12 to 24 months), they own the good outright. Even though most customers aspire to, and ultimately do, own items obtained through rent-to-own, the industry insists it offers rentals and so is not subject to federal and state credit protections. Disclosing the cost of credit under the federal Truth in Lending Act would mean informing customers that a rent-to-own TV comes with an annualized interest rate as high as 370 percent. The industry also criminalizes debt, routinely filing police complaints and threatening criminal prosecution to extract payments from distressed consumers. The Department of Defense, in a 2006 report, described the rent-to-own business, which targets members of the military, as predatory.
Quote
"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life." - John F. Kennedy
2020/03/21
Supply Chain Meltdown
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-20/a-covid-19-supply-chain-shock-born-in-china-is-going-global
Will be interesting how many companies adopt a distributed internet like model for their supply chains. Who knows.
Don't here to much about LATM::
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Peru’s state of emergency and nationwide lockdown have led major mining companies like Freeport-McMoRan Inc. and Newmont Corp. to curb copper production there. The same is happening in other mining centers like Chile, Canada and Mongolia, with economists at Scotiabank saying the initial result from the hit in Chile and Peru alone leading to the loss of some 325,000 metric tons of copper production, or about 1.7% of global annual output.
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“I think it’s irresponsible for anyone to make assumptions right now.”
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Will be interesting how many companies adopt a distributed internet like model for their supply chains. Who knows.
Don't here to much about LATM::
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Peru’s state of emergency and nationwide lockdown have led major mining companies like Freeport-McMoRan Inc. and Newmont Corp. to curb copper production there. The same is happening in other mining centers like Chile, Canada and Mongolia, with economists at Scotiabank saying the initial result from the hit in Chile and Peru alone leading to the loss of some 325,000 metric tons of copper production, or about 1.7% of global annual output.
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“I think it’s irresponsible for anyone to make assumptions right now.”
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2020/02/07
2020/02/01
2020/01/20
Any privacy is now gone
Bye Bye last of your privacy
But without public scrutiny, more than 600 law enforcement agencies have started using Clearview in the past year, according to the company, which declined to provide a list. The computer code underlying its app, analyzed by The New York Times, includes programming language to pair it with augmented-reality glasses; users would potentially be able to identify every person they saw. The tool could identify activists at a protest or an attractive stranger on the subway, revealing not just their names but where they lived, what they did and whom they knew.
But without public scrutiny, more than 600 law enforcement agencies have started using Clearview in the past year, according to the company, which declined to provide a list. The computer code underlying its app, analyzed by The New York Times, includes programming language to pair it with augmented-reality glasses; users would potentially be able to identify every person they saw. The tool could identify activists at a protest or an attractive stranger on the subway, revealing not just their names but where they lived, what they did and whom they knew.
2019/12/27
Neat Map
Neat map of LA traffic, but that is a whole lot of cameras looking at us all.
https://www.sigalert.com/?lat=33.79328&lon=-118.21708&z=3
https://www.sigalert.com/?lat=33.79328&lon=-118.21708&z=3
2019/12/09
2019/12/04
a strange assassination story
Russia Ordered a Killing That Made No Sense. Then the Assassin Started Talking.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/31/world/europe/russian-assassinations-putin-ukraine.html
Wow......
"Assassinations happen frequently enough in Ukraine that they are often just blips in the local news cycle. In 2006, Russian President Vladimir V. Putin signed a law legalizing targeted killings abroad, and Ukrainian officials say teams of Russian hit men operate freely inside the country."
This could be in other places, and not just in social media. It would not surprise me if global chaos is an end goal. This way Russia can rise up, stop their meddling and gas lighting, and then seem the heroes to the world.
"“This is part of an interlinked chain of crimes, the main purpose of which is to destabilize the country,” Serhii Knyazev, the chief of Ukraine’s national police, told me."
2019/10/11
2019/10/01
2019/09/26
Bucking the Trend
Newly Discovered Planet Challenges Astronomers' Notions Of How Planets Form
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/764247918/a-peculiar-solar-system-has-scientists-rethinking-theories-of-how-planets-form
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