Why do they still call it “New” York? It has been around for ages.
Here’s an explainer, Hamish!
even old New York was once New Amsterdam
why they change it I can’t say people
just like it better that way
Building trust in media
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Why do they still call it “New” York? It has been around for ages.
Here’s an explainer, Hamish!
even old New York was once New Amsterdam
why they change it I can’t say people
just like it better that way
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How can you get a bigger story than the head of the chemical biological nuclear and strategic missile program in Iraq? Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law who is in charge of all that tells us what he defected in 95 that those weapons (there were no nuclear weapons) but the others were all destroyed at his order?
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Initially Socrates claims that rhetoric falls short of being a genuine art (τέχνη) for two reasons. (1) It has no concern for the good of the audience, specifically for the best condition or “health” of their souls. And (2) it cannot give a rational account (λόγος) of both the nature of the soul and the methods whereby it gratifies or “flatters” the soul.
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Quanta Magazine reports: Because nonnegative Ricci curvature is a condition that appears often in math and physics, “one would hope that you have a certain amount of innate control over these things,” Naber said. But it turns out that shapes with nonnegative Ricci curvature are more flexible and less well behaved than mathematicians had expected
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Matt Taibbi writes about Canada’s Online Harms Act (C-63) which provides $20,000 bounties for those who turn in those who are successfully prosecuted for “Hate Speach”:
this is where it trips over into as yet unimagined dystopian territory. If the courts believe you are likely to commit a ‘hate crime’ or disseminate ‘hate propaganda’ (not defined), you can be placed under house arrest and your ability to communicate with others restricted. That is, a court can force you to wear an ankle bracelet, prevent you using any of your communication devices and then instruct you not to leave the house. If the court believes there’s a risk you may get drunk or high and start tweeting under the influence – although how is unclear, given you can’t use your phone or a PC – it can order you to submit regular urine samples to the authorities. Anyone who refuses to comply with these diktats can be sent to prison.
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Doomberg describes how government technicalities has resulting in 6 generators in the UK switching from coal to wood:
By government decree, burning wood no longer produces more CO2 than burning coal. It apparently produces no CO2 whatsoever, at least according to the carbon counters in Brussels and London—surprisingly convenient for those in the burning business instructed to care about CO2 emissions. Not actual CO2 emissions, of course, just the ones the government has decided to count
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Stacy Plaskett said: this is not the kind of free speech that I know of
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I happened to be over at the White House the afternoon later in the evening after the afternoon of the hearings and the president said that he had seen it on CNN and that he was shocked at some of the things that he had heard and they were thrown out of the incubators. President Bush repeated the incubator story at least 10 times in the following weeks babies pulled from incubators and scattered like firewood across the floor.
In the senate the war resolution passed by five votes and incidentally six senators referred to the baby incubator story as a reason to go to war.
Craig Fuller who until last week was president of Hillary Knowlton was George Bush’s chief of staff when he was vice president i was involved in President Bush’s campaign.
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CNN’s Clare Duffy writes:
Ultimately, Neuralink’s ambition is to use implants to connect human brains to computers to help, for example, paralyzed people to control smartphones or computers or blind people to regain sight. Like existing brain-machine interfaces, the company’s implant would collect electrical signals sent out by the brain and interpret them as actions.
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The New York Times May 26, 2004 article from the editors wrote:
Some critics of our coverage during that time have focused blame on individual reporters. Our examination, however, indicates that the problem was more complicated. Editors at several levels who should have been challenging reporters and pressing for more skepticism were perhaps too intent on rushing scoops into the paper. Accounts of Iraqi defectors were not always weighed against their strong desire to have Saddam Hussein ousted. Articles based on dire claims about Iraq tended to get prominent display, while follow-up articles that called the original ones into question were sometimes buried. In some cases, there was no follow-up at all.