Keep an eye out for wet bulb temperatures in your area. They are already becoming common in southern parts of the USA and can easily kill people.

We are deeper into the FO phase than I thought we would be at this point. Drought, wildfires, unprecedented flooding, plants no longer able to take up carbon, the poles and oceans 20 degrees hotter than what used to be normal... and it's going to continue to accelerate as the profiteers are still fucking around as hard and fast as possible.

It's interesting to see all these indignant denials when in February, "Kroger began working with Intelligence Node, a company that uses artificial intelligence to 'provide dynamic pricing and market analytics solutions.' "

They are also working with Microsoft to implement "smart shelves" and facial recognition. Why do they need all that if they aren't gearing up to gouge based on recognizing individuals?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestreet.com%2Freta...

Agreed. AI trained to recognize faces and human bodies combined with drones bearing thermobaric grenades is the kind of thing that gives me nightmares.

...if the big companies cared. How about Microsoft's logging? Every single event has a huge block of boilerplate attached to the Event ID. It's a colossal waste to ship the boilerplate to your expensive SIEM so it has to get filtered at the host or sent and dropped at the end. Multiply by billions and billions of these a minute around the world.

Memes and email don't come close.

Wasn't Walgreens caught lying just last year about shoplifting? They used it as an excuse for closing stores but it wasn't true.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheweek.com%2Fcrime%2F1020039%2Fdid-walgreens-lie-about-its-shoplifting-problem and https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcounciloncj.org%2Fshoplifting-trends-what-you-need-to-know%2F cover the topic pretty thoroughly. IMO, it's a convenient cover story to stoke class & race warfare and redirect attention from the unprecedented price gouging they have been engaging in since the pandemic started.

Sounds like he probably went to the hospital with influenza B (high in Kansas recently), where he got a bonus dose of MRSA and maybe Covid --> pneumonia, which killed him. Nobody wears masks in the hospital now; it's one of the most dangerous places to be.

I consider hospital-acquired-infections to be bioweapons of a sort. They're totally avoidable with proper PPE.

"We've run out of things to steal" isn't engendering a lot of sympathy in me. Why not pay people to generate content? They could have an infinite supply of text, art, video, music, if they'd just ... pay for it.

Covid causes damage to the brain, heart, lungs, circulatory system, etc., etc. It damages the immune system and makes other illnesses more severe. We're doing nothing to mitigate any of it - not installing better air filters in classrooms or requiring masks or encouraging sick people to stay home.

Instead we're forcing kids and teachers into catching Covid, flu, RSV, measles, etc., over and over again. No wonder kids' health is crumbling. It's hard to do schoolwork when your body and brain is constantly under attack.

I predict the media will blame lockdowns from four years ago, ignore that kids have summer vacation every year and manage to not go into 'immunity debt,' and call for ever-more-punitive actions against sick children and their families to force them back into unventilated classrooms to catch the next round.

He survived polio all those years but somebody brought Covid to him.

"Substack's leadership team said in a statement: "As we face growing pressure to censor content published on Substack that to some seems dubious or objectionable, our answer remains the same: we make decisions based on principles not PR, we will defend free expression, and we will stick to our hands-off approach to content moderation."

For someone that claims he doesn't like Nazis, Hamish McKenzie is pretty mealy-mouthed about it. "content ... that to some seems dubious or objectionable"

It's not censorship when a private company decides not to do business with somebody. That's the government you are thinking of, dudes. As private company leadership, you think they'd know that.

"we make decisions based on principles not PR"

and our principles are, MONEY TALKS

"creators who might've inadvertently contributed to the data set" is a funny way to say "creators whose work has been ripped off for profit."

Could I characterize it as "tellers whose cash may have inadvertently contributed to my wallet" after robbing a bank?

Of course creators need to be protected and compensated! If AI keeps stealing everything people make public, what do you think creators will do? They won't share new work to be stolen, which makes everyone poorer.

"Lockdowns" didn't cause this. Everyone seems to forget that students are off for 3+ months every year and nobody cries about "Summer learning loss." It's not "immunity debt," either. That's a made-up term meant to convince people it's a good idea to catch diseases.

Covid can and does affect every part of the body, particularly the vascular system. There are many high quality studies on this now.

Covid literally causes brain damage. It's harder to do math with shrunken brains, with fused neurons, with damaged lungs and hearts. We're going to see skyrocketing rates of misbehavior, plummeting ability to learn, but sure, keep blaming it on a lockdown that happened four years ago, not the 6+ Covid infections many students have under their belts now.

"StarLink satellites are designed to burn up completely upon reentry"

Treating satellites as disposable is making climate change worse and will continue to have effects we don't even understand yet.

See https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fearthsky.org%2Fearth%2Fspa...

Don't forget, the starlink satellites are also looking at you

Each one has high-rez cameras.

If you want to feel a little ill, go to in the sky's 3-d globe page and uncheck everything but Starlnk.

Indoor vertical farming, using natural light from windows as much as possible to reduce electricity use & filtered rainwater to reduce water use.

Solar panels and films on the outside to power the inside.

Bodegas, apartments and jobs for workers, caretakers, people in need of low-cost housing.