Wednesday, January 04, 2023

Wednesday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.

- Jessica Wildfire discusses how the U.S. and Canada are following the UK's healthcare collapse due to a combination of public health negligence and destruction of existing health care institutions. And CBC News reports on how Quebec's already-overburdened emergency rooms are again preparing to face an influx of new illness after the holidays. 

- Meanwhile, Patty Winsa reports that corporate health operators in Ontario are taking the opportunity to shift toward pay-for-play for virtual care. And Janet Conrad and Devon Mitchell recognize the steps British Columbia is taking to push back against paywalled health care. 

- Angella MacEwen charts how workers have been systematically falling behind GDP growth. And Zak Vescera discusses the potential for 2023 to be the year of the union as workers recognize the need to fight back. 

- Robert Saunders points out that even after her speedy departure, Liz Truss's ascent to power reflects the core of the UK Cons and their right-wing media ecosystem rather than a deviation from it. And Murray Brewster reports on a Eurasia Group report documenting how Canada is seeing the spillover effects of the U.S.' march toward disinformation and violence. 

- Finally, Umair Haque writes that the overall impact of the Internet so far has been to destroy our ability to function as a civilization. And Paula Simons discusses her decision to leave Twitter and other social media behind. 

2 comments:

  1. Phillip Huggan8:44 p.m.

    The internet has been good for servers and machine learning, I'd guess on those over half the good of it hasn't even been receive back yet. A sensored space station and ship it leads to eventually. You can't easily sensor Earth but ice moons yes. All the data for DNA in space and prototyping technologies is on the internet. When it comes to culture and politics, I wanted IQ 140 stuff last century and now 160 IQ stuff now. And it isn't really there en masse or in most places locally. But I can choose lots of stuff on the internet. There is a Japanese Nectaris level maker. There are NHL tourneys but goaltending isn't a figure collider, just a block or two.
    Little things like that not being there keep me away from being part of an internet community. If I was just making an impossible box, I might find a Manhattan community. But I need to learn the things it can make. It is easier to use the internet than Faxes and microfilm.
    LAMPPS doesn't model double water molecules reacting on a surface. Here, I can learn more from the internet as it is hard to find scattered researchers in person. Warmth might be there with holography. That is likely networking improvements in part, thus the internet economy.
    Making UHV cheaper will result in new products. Oxide layers can be avoided pressing together wafers and assembling stuff with superior modulii to 3D printing. IDK if a cold chain keeps oxides off the device all through it's lifetime, if that is achievable. Those products would be small at first. I imagine they sell or are commoditized on the internet, not on a Chicago, Philly or Wpg pit. Sensors that can tell if our bodies need upregulated immune systems are different. Maybe classified.
    I jut watched a 70's BBC Joy Division video threaten me if I made a girl in space much more than the Muppets' 12 days of Christmas milder threats. This conversation is a threat in 600 years. The Muppets referenced a twice collided planet around another Moon. Whatever wiped out culture will end but from two independant sources I've been made aware the engineering of the future is out there. We should have enough wealth to pay for some Marlowe and Spenser plays and maybe AI is safe enough to fill out some new plot dynamics. Britomart might have new adventures, but it may take software controlling solid-state hardware to build enough tax base. Eventually linear motors in UHV chambers can be magnetic. It leads to the hyperloop through ice moons. Musk put that one online. Patent filings are as hard to read as is navigating Stats Canada databases for ordinary folk. I'm not even allowed to win $1000 without losing student loans and such...and immigrants around me act mean and wait for a dead AI to take over their actions. I even made one on a space blog who was supposed to say my nano will destroy the world. So the internet lets me escape, but only because there isn't a 160 IQ community except the RIMM getaways.

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  2. Phillip Huggan10:55 p.m.

    I can combine transparent sapphire with I-of-things and self-sensor equipment for good gains. At 1st transparent window through sapphire parts just like UHV piping through a chamber. The windows may be commodities. Commodities for industry have damage histories that aren't being tracked at present. I'm not worried about people programmed to be mean. They won't be in space ripping off my bus-fare or guards following me around for now off shift even. I'm surprised we are weak in this regard and USA is strong: our cdn leaders are allied with the dead AIs in part. You'll kill them in space and they are only being mean to me. We might eventually get 10x as many people without market forces. In the nearer term it is a blessing to note WMDs make people broke. The music is chilling, I'm glad to have it on the internet more than the Big Bang episode on TV, which doesn't criticize money.

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