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Philip Bump: "Only one part of Atlas’s three-part approach to combating the pandemic was actually enacted. That, unfortunately, was the part where Atlas shrugged at the spread of the virus itself."
\n" }, { "id": "lock-yourself-down-now", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/11/17/lock-yourself-down-now.html", "title": "It’s Time to Hunker Down", "date_published": "2020-11-17T00:22:29+00:00", "content_html": "Zeynep Tufekci: "All of this is unpleasant, but the alternative is much worse. There is a Turkish saying for times like these, when we can see a light at the end of the tunnel: Time passes quickly if we can count the days until the end.
We are no longer in the open-ended, dreadful period of spring 2020, when we did not know if we’d even have a vaccine, whether any therapeutics would work, and whether we’d ever emerge from the shadow of this pandemic. We can see the cavalry coming, but until it’s here, we need to lock ourselves down once again."
Bloomberg CityLab: "A 2014 study conducted by the Federal Highway Administration was able to use environmental factors — like the presence of a right-turn lane or the distance between crosswalks — to predict with 90% accuracy whether or not a pedestrian would cross mid-block. Criminalizing a rational, predictable response to poor infrastructure is unjust."
\n" }, { "id": "elimination-is-the-only-strategy-for-covid-19", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/11/05/elimination-is-the-only-strategy-for-covid-19.html", "title": "Elimination Is The Only Strategy For COVID-19", "date_published": "2020-11-05T09:06:01+00:00", "content_html": "Indi Samarajiva: "America, the UK, Sweden. These places are not doing well. Either humanly or economically. BECAUSE HUMANS ARE THE ECONOMY YOU FOOLS. Healthy people healthy economy. That’s it."
\n" }, { "id": "the-sadness-of-american-collapse", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/11/05/the-sadness-of-american-collapse.html", "title": "The Sadness Of American Collapse", "date_published": "2020-11-05T08:48:51+00:00", "content_html": "Indi Samarajiva: "If anybody mails me I try to close with the same thing, which is both meaningless and the only thing that’s true. It’s the only way people survived the shelling in the last days of war.
\n\nGood luck."
\n" }, { "id": "collapse-lasts-a-lifetime", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/10/31/collapse-lasts-a-lifetime.html", "title": "Collapse Takes A Lifetime. America Is Just Getting Started", "date_published": "2020-10-31T04:31:23+00:00", "content_html": "Indi Samarajiva: "You need to start thinking about your children. If you’re lucky they’ll remember the lives you lived, and not the news."
\n" }, { "id": "how-do-you-make-god-laugh", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/10/26/how-do-you-make-god-laugh.html", "title": "\"How do you make God laugh?\"", "date_published": "2020-10-26T21:02:53+00:00", "content_html": "You make a plan.
Once upon a time I made a change that broke the publishing system here, and rather than fixing it I figured I'd take the time to clean house and fix some more structural issues.
\n\nLife intervened.
\n\nThe fix is in progress, the old posts are in the feed now, and eventually they'll start to show up on the home page.
\n" }, { "id": "nasas-big-moon-news", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/10/26/nasas-big-moon-news.html", "title": "NASA's Big Moon News: There's Water All Over the Place", "date_published": "2020-10-26T19:42:42+00:00", "content_html": "Gizmodo: "Incredibly, this water was detected in areas exposed to direct sunlight."
\n" }, { "id": "all-the-time", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/10/21/all-the-time.html", "title": "Everything Is Broken", "date_published": "2020-10-21T22:47:53+00:00", "content_html": "Quinn Norton: "This is probably how your grandmother ended up working for Russian criminals, and why your competitors anticipate all your product plans. But if you refuse to open attachments you aren’t going to be able to keep an office job in the modern world."
\n" }, { "id": "what-if-trump-wins-again", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/10/12/what-if-trump-wins-again.html", "title": "What if Donald Trump wins again?", "date_published": "2020-10-12T02:59:21+00:00", "content_html": "David Frum: "The two countries are just playing different games. When the United States accumulates weapons to win the game China is not playing, it does not prevent China from winning the game China is playing."
\n" }, { "id": "living-through-collapse", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/09/26/living-through-collapse.html", "title": "Living Through Collapse", "date_published": "2020-09-26T22:19:35+00:00", "content_html": "Indi Samarajiva: "Don’t stop caring. This doesn’t seem to do anything, but don’t stop."
\n" }, { "id": "coronavirus-american-failure", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/08/04/coronavirus-american-failure.html", "title": "How the Pandemic Defeated America", "date_published": "2020-08-04T16:25:39+00:00", "content_html": "Ed Yong: "The U.S. cannot prepare for these inevitable crises if it returns to normal, as many of its people ache to do. Normal led to this."
\n" }, { "id": "by-the-standards-of-their-time-they-were-monsters", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/08/04/by-the-standards-of-their-time-they-were-monsters.html", "title": "They Were Monsters In Their Own Time", "date_published": "2020-08-04T16:22:57+00:00", "content_html": "Indi Samarajiva: "Instead we simply say, by the standard of the monsters, they were not monstrous. By the standard of the thieves, the stuff was theirs."
\n" }, { "id": "american-passports-are-worthless-now", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/07/12/american-passports-are-worthless-now.html", "title": "American Passports Are Worthless Now", "date_published": "2020-07-12T15:41:47+00:00", "content_html": "Indi Samarajiva: "COVID-19 could have been managed in January, or February, or even now, but not a full year later, in January 2021. Given than you need a functioning government to manage this pandemic, that’s the soonest Americans can get one."
\n" }, { "id": "sweden-economy-coronavirus", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/07/08/sweden-economy-coronavirus.html", "title": "Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale", "date_published": "2020-07-08T10:47:43+00:00", "content_html": "The New York Times: "It is simplistic to portray government actions such as quarantines as the cause of economic damage. The real culprit is the virus itself."
\n" }, { "id": "the-coronavirus-pandemic-doesnt-care-that-were-all-bored-with-it", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/07/05/the-coronavirus-pandemic-doesnt-care-that-were-all-bored-with-it.html", "title": "The Coronavirus Pandemic Doesn’t Care That We’re All Bored With It", "date_published": "2020-07-05T01:18:42+00:00", "content_html": "Jeffrey Young: "The only tools we have at our disposal are the same ones everybody is fed up with. Staying at home. Hand-washing. Social distancing. Face covering. If we abandon those, it’s going to get worse."
\n" }, { "id": "the-way-we-live-now", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/07/03/the-way-we-live-now.html", "title": "The way we live now", "date_published": "2020-07-03T20:27:19+00:00", "content_html": "Economist: "Covid-19 is easier to talk about than aids, but harder to avoid. Wearing a mask is chiefly about protecting others; the young, fit and asymptomatic are being asked to follow tedious rules to shield the old and infirm."
\n" }, { "id": "inside-trumps-coronavirus-meltdown", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/05/17/inside-trumps-coronavirus-meltdown.html", "title": "Inside Trump’s coronavirus meltdown", "date_published": "2020-05-17T17:49:26+00:00", "content_html": "Financial Times: "American leadership in any disaster, whether a tsunami or an Ebola outbreak, has been a truism for decades. The US is renowned for helping others in an emergency. [...] History will mark Covid-19 as the first time that ceased to be true. US airlifts have been missing in action. America cannot even supply itself."
\n" }, { "id": "coronavirus-scientific-realities-vs-economic-fallacies", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/05/11/coronavirus-scientific-realities-vs-economic-fallacies.html", "title": "Coronavirus: Scientific Realities Vs. Economic Fallacies", "date_published": "2020-05-11T07:42:25+00:00", "content_html": "Georgi Marinov: "The most appropriate name for COVID-19 would be 'SARS-2' because it is a SARS virus with the same mechanism of action. [...] Official names were given in early February 2020, and while the virus got its proper name 'SARS-CoV-2', the disease was not named 'SARS-2' but 'COVID-19'. This did not play a minor role."
\n" }, { "id": "the-shape-of-the-machine", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/05/11/the-shape-of-the-machine.html", "title": "The Shape Of The Machine", "date_published": "2020-05-11T06:08:50+00:00", "content_html": "Mike Hoye: "It’s not on the same level as Facebook, obviously, where they’ve managed to compartment their org structure so carefully that complicity in war crimes and other atrocities leaves facebookers feeling like they’re the ones being portrayed unfairly, but it’s still an accomplishment."
\n" }, { "id": "prepare-for-the-ultimate-gaslighting", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/04/11/prepare-for-the-ultimate-gaslighting.html", "title": "Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting", "date_published": "2020-04-11T23:30:42+00:00", "content_html": "Julio Vincent Gambuto: "What the crisis has given us is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see ourselves and our country in the plainest of views. At no other time, ever in our lives, have we gotten the opportunity to see what would happen if the world simply stopped. Here it is. We’re in it."
\n" }, { "id": "the-worm-is-back", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/04/07/the-worm-is-back.html", "title": "The Worm Is Back!", "date_published": "2020-04-07T08:45:00+00:00", "content_html": "NASA:
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The Register: "A previous software bug forced airlines to power down their 787s every 248 days [...] Airbus suffers from similar issues with its A350 [...] Persistent or unfiltered stale data is a known 787 problem. In 2014 a Japan Airlines 787 caught fire because [...] Investigators realised the black boxes had been recording false information [...] More seriously, another 787 stale data problem in years gone by saw superseded backup flight plans persisting in standby navigation computers, and activating occasionally."
\n" }, { "id": "generation-x-earns-respect-conronavirus-pandemic-stay-home", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/04/01/generation-x-earns-respect-conronavirus-pandemic-stay-home.html", "title": "It Took a Global Pandemic, But Generation X is Finally Getting Love", "date_published": "2020-04-01T06:15:07+00:00", "content_html": "Paper City: "We’ll be just fine. We used to eat entire boxes of sugary cereal just to get to the prize at the bottom."
\n" }, { "id": "garry-kasparov-has-made-peace-with-ai", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2020/02/24/garry-kasparov-has-made-peace-with-ai.html", "title": "Defeated Chess Champ Garry Kasparov Has Made Peace With AI", "date_published": "2020-02-24T06:55:07+00:00", "content_html": "Wired: "Technology is the main reason why so many of us are still alive to complain about technology."
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