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Twitter’s Algos/AI

Twitter has banned discussions of committing the ultimate harm to oneself, so the usual words for the act in the English language trigger a spanking, that is, a temporary ban.

As it turns out, ancient legal language hasn’t yet been added to Twitter’s algorithms, hence a discussion of felo de se is perfectly acceptable.

As American lawyers say, res ipsa loquitur (the thing speaks for itself).

Ivermectin Joins Hydroxy

Ivermectin joins Hydroxychloroquine as a once highly-touted drug for the treatment of the Sickness now found to be ineffective.

While there has been much news on the vaccination front, there has been little news about possible treatments for the disease. The shortage of ventilators crisis is no longer an issue, though it is not exactly clear why.

Have treatments gotten that better over the past year? At the beginning, patients seemed to be dropping like flies, inspiring much fear. Have we become now simply blasé about the deaths? Has the virus become attenuated and less deadly?

No one knows.

Cost Cutting Can Kill

Colby Chandler, Kodak’s former CEO from 1983-1990 was proud of his cost cutting. He once took a machete to a wood pallet to make the point to his managers. Instead of pouring money into R & D, his cuts created the shareholder value which killed the company.

Caveat from ODNI Assessment

Here’s a caveat to a recent US ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) assessment:

“Judgements are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact.”

In other words, “our conclusions are not based on facts.”

Publish the “judgement” in the newspaper and you get fake news.

Spanked by Twitter

My account was suspended by Twitter for suggesting that, in view of the evidence of the Astra Zeneca vaccine causing blood clots, taking that vaccine did not seem to be an effective way of committing suicide.

Twitter views this as “encouraging suicide.” Its AI algorithms don’t understand sarcasm.

LLavero

A young woman takes over her father’s drug business.

By the time she points a gun at you, it’s too late.

Everyone betrays everyone else.

Loyalty is a lie.

Honor is a delusion.

Trust is for sale.

President Biden's New Grandchild

Hunter Biden is guaranteed to provide political comic relief for the next four years. Hunter persuaded a young woman from Arkansas who was working at a gentleman’s club in Washington D.C. to have a fling. The baby’s grandfather now lives at the White House. It isn’t clear whether President Biden has asked to spend any time with his new grandchild.

Meanwhile, Hunter’s wife is to (or has) give(n) birth to President Biden’s latest grandchild, whose father is also: Hunter Biden.

Hunter’s babymomma went home to Arkansas to have the child. Hunter denied that the Arkansas child was his and was slapped with a paternity suit: DNA don’t lie. The judge chastised Hunter for failing to appear for a deposition.

It is not surprising that Hunter evaded the Arkansas deposition. The evasion had little to do with the Sickness but a lot to do with his $80/k month no-show job as a board member for a Ukrainian oil company, a position that Hunter won strictly based on merit.

Thankfully for President Biden, the investigation was halted after the parties settled. President Biden’s own role in his son’s sweetheart deal would have distracted from the important work he is undertaking to fight the virus.

There are now three (four?) recognized dangerous Covid-19 variants:

• B.1.1.7 (United Kingdom)
• P1 Brazil
• B.1.351 (South Africa)
• 501.v.2 (South Africa)

It is not clear whether the reports about the new, 30% more contagious South Africa refers to B.351 or (B?)501, or both of them. The nomenclature will settle down eventually.

4578 active cases of Covid-19 in Bahrain. The last time there were these many cases was early October, 2020.

Every day there is a change in the rules, in the procedures; B.1.1.7 will no more be contained than Covid-19 has; unless the previously ill have immunity, it will spread across the globe. It is starting to look like it will be two years of Covid; another lost year.

2021 Scorecard

2021 Scorecard:

• Storming of the US Capitol
• Trump Impeachment
• B737 Crash in Indonesia
• Outbreak of UK, So.African and Brazilian Virus Variants
• Myanmar Coup

No locusts yet. The Lord of the East Wind Demons must be sleeping.