Bloomberg: What a Century of Disease Outbreaks Can Teach Us About Covid-19
This is a video of the Dave Brubeck Quartet playing some other song. but edited to make it look like they’re performing a cover of The Stranglers’ Golden Brown as a tribute to the recently-departed Dave Greenfield. But that sax was played by one guy who edited the video, too.
That’s confusing, but whatever… the music and the editing is so good.
I’ve been waiting a really, really long time for this.
[…] what the virus has done is accelerate existing trends. Heavy industry has been reckoning with stagnant spending on capital equipment for years; the oil industry has long been pummelled by falling demand for carbon-based fuel; and falling interest rates have been squeezing banks on and off since the great financial crisis (positive trends have gained momentum, too, from online retail to cloud computing).
Prospering in the pandemic: the corporate losers
Keen is Google’s AI-powered alternative to Pinterest. (I wonder how long it will last before it gets killed by Google.)
If you were to join the Alternative Health Science News group, for example, Facebook would then recommend, based on your interests, that you join a group called Sheep No More, which uses Pepe the Frog, a white supremacist symbol, in its header, as well as Q-Anon Patriots, a forum for believers in the crackpot QAnon conspiracy theory. As protests in response to the death of George Floyd spread across the country, members of these groups claimed that Floyd and the police involved were “crisis actors” following a script.
Facebook Groups Are Destroying America
Should have named that function fomo() and put that logic in the back end, huh?
