Musk, his tweets and predictions are irritating. I can never make up my mind if he is an unlucky genius or a lucky idiot.
I recently came across this unique app Mubi - a curated movies streaming app. “Hand-picked Cinema” is the message from them. The idea is interesting, a selected movie each day from across the world. 30 days to catch up on the movies. Sounds wonderful for discovery.
Any feedback on the Freedom app? I am into a trial period, however, feel that the trial is too limiting. 7 days, 7 sessions is too less to decide if the app will be useful. I feel the app can help, especially blocking access on all device in a single session is a nice feature.
Stop quoting politicians, making what meaningless they say the headlines. Quote experts, give them more space, more importance in what you write. Hopefully looking at the larger coverage that the experts gain, politicians will feel the shame. And stop playing politics for once.
Interesting to know what makes Llamas antibodies more effective again Coronavirus. Science, respect.
This more diminutive antibody can access tinier pockets and crevices on spike proteins — the proteins that allow viruses like the novel coronavirus to break into host cells and infect us — that human antibodies cannot. That can make it more effective in neutralizing viruses.
Tech news, especially about new products, just don’t interest me any more. Feel so futile. Superficial. Superfluous.
In this period of lockdown, we’re avoiding every visit outside the home as much as possible. It also means there are times when I wish we had more than the single iPad we’ve today. A privileged ask, I know. But just can’t help - it has been the most used device outside of work.
As much as we appreciate how effectively South Korea managed to contain the spread of the pandemic, the fact can’t be ignored that it involved steps that many democracies all around are just not comfortable signing up for and going through.
To expedite testing, it gave laboratories the green light to use unapproved diagnostic kits during a public-health emergency. To expand contact tracing, it gave health authorities warrantless access to CCTV footage and the geolocation data from the new patients’ phones. To increase transparency, the new laws required local governments to send prompt alerts, such as emergency texts, to disclose the recent whereabouts of new patients.
“People trust the government in part because it works to keep raw politics out of public health. And the government trusts the public to act as a responsible co-partner in public health.” Each democracy should aim to achieve this “delicate balance of trust” with their public.
Even I hope work from home culture stays. But I also hope this does not. It isn’t healthy. I still log off at the same time I usually would.
The days of logging off at the end of the workday and focusing on other things until morning, already dwindling, might be gone for good.
There’s still so much that we still do not know about the virus and the pandemic that followed.
If the timeline of when the virus appeared in Europe does change, the official efforts to combat the contagion will turn out to have been not just too late, but hopelessly too late.