tingilinde

imagine

 

If the US had competent leadership not zero, but several studies suggest that we'd be in the 100 or so new cases a day - nationwide - and be more or less back to normal with testing picking up the inevitable hot spots.  Instead it's going to get much worse.

 

 

 

trump tower in nyc

WeWork for organized crime

 

the confederates who fled

looking for land and slaves -- in Brazil

 

on re-opening schools

Kids need to schools, but America's failure to deal with Covid-19 forces difficult choices. Some of what has been learned. 

 

epidemiologist larry brilliant on how we're doing so far

Not well it turns out...  at least the US.

 

 

a rule of thumb

 

Don't take deadly pandemic advice from people who don’t care if children are gunned down in schoolrooms.

 

 

campus for sale

starting bids at three million - we're likely to see more of this

 

more on facebook

Seriously - why anyone still uses it.  A critic who has met with Zuckerberg.

snip

...

It’s so frustrating. We are doing a lot of work for a multibillion-dollar company and it’s just always dispiriting we have to do this for them because they won’t do it for themselves.

Mark was talking about how much hate they’re catching and throwing this number out: 89 percent [that the company catches 89 percent of hate speech before it is reported by users]. And I was like, “Come on. Even I see this stuff on my feed and my algorithms are pretty trained around progressive stuff.” And I tell you that to say that what they’re doing is gaslighting. You’re in these meetings and you’re listening to them explain their rationale and thinking, “Nope, that’s not how this works.” And you’re left with this choice: Do I argue with the very premise that they don’t seem to understand the actual problem of their platform? Or do I argue with the number — that catching only 89 percent of hate isn’t something to be happy with?

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the pizza bear dream

doubling down on stupid

 

trump goes after pregnant women

Trump and the CDC on pregnancy risks.

Also people in general it if makes him look bad.

a tip of the hat to Xeni