Skævt. The library's fiction category ’Skævt’. I wonder if that's a universal library category. Or just a Danish library thing. Or just an Aarhus library thing.
’Skævt.’ I am struggling to find the English translation that feels right. ’Idiosyncratic.’ With shades of ’off-beat’ and ’peculiar’. And ’quirky’, if the word ’quirky’ hadn’t been diluted by overuse and misuse, used to describe any old rom-com in which the heroine has her hair cut in an asymmetric bob.
They’re demolishing homes and expelling Shiites, openly likening it to Gaza.
Do better.
"Kids may be more likely to get the new ‘Cicada’ variant of Covid-19, scientists say. Here’s what to know about BA.3.2"
"An analysis of data from New York City, from variant sleuth Ryan Hisner, shows that kids are about 5 times more likely to be infected by BA.3.2 compared with other variants"
Source: https://archive.md/HWOHt
“A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.”
Maven, the program Google was forced to pull out of and Palantir took over, was the system that identified the girls’ school as a target.
The CDC has paused testing for rabies and pox viruses.
It's vital we keep a close eye on them as rabies is virtually 100% fatal without vaccination, and smallpox killed hundreds of millions (we really don't want a similar virus returning).
Losing track of these viruses is a recipe for catastrophe.
Trump fired Pam Bondi right as she was about to testify to congress. Don’t fall for the narrative that she got fired because she fell out of favor with Trump.
The Epstein cover up is still ongoing.
‘No to war’: Austria blocks US warplanes from its airspace
Vice-chancellor Andi Babler said his country wants “nothing to do with Trump’s policy of chaos and his war.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/austria-blocks-us-warplane-overflights-citing-neutrality/