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Qassim Soleimani

We Should Be Very Wary About the Growing Military Response to the Coronavirus Crisis

The reliance on the military for emergency response is a testament to the failures of the liberal welfare state. When we begin to feel the worst effects of the climate crisis, are we just going to hand the country over to unelected military brass? On March 18, New York City…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Qassim Soleimani

We Should Be Very Wary About the Growing Military Response to the Coronavirus Crisis

The reliance on the military for emergency response is a testament to the failures of the U.S. welfare state. When we begin to feel the worst effects of the climate crisis, are we just going to hand the country over to unelected military brass? On March 18, New York City…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Julian Assange

Jailed Harvey Weinstein tests positive for coronavirus, NYT confirms

• Sex criminal and former film producer, who is serving 23 years, now isolated from other prisoners and shows no symptoms After a Reuters item on a rumor this weekend, on Monday the New York Times confirmed: Harvey Weinstein has contracted coronavirus. Weinstein is being held in isolation at the…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Drones

Inside The Small Virginia Town Where Drone Deliveries Have Begun For Real

Futurist Thomas Frey has predicted that drones will become the most disruptive technology in human history. On this gray January day in a quiet residential neighborhood in Christiansburg, Va., one happens to be disrupting the work of two landscapers.The workers silence their weed eaters, looking to the sky in wonder…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Climate Change

IBM takes on coronavirus with 2020 Call for Code challenge

The David Clarke Foundation and IBM announced the 2020 Call for Code challenge back in late February – seemingly a decade ago – with a central focus: fighting climate change. Now the challenge is expanding to set its sights on the coronavirus. Call for Code is a five-year challenge (now…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

VR

Half-Life: Alyx VR performance: How to get the best settings and the smoothest experience

Half-Life: Alyx has finally arrived, marking Valve’s big return to their most famous game series as well as their first foray into the realms of VR. You can read more about wot Graham thinks of the game itself in his Half-Life: Alyx review, but here I thought I’d focus on…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Liam Gallagher

This Week on Consequence of Sound Radio

The Strangers (Rogue Pictures), Pearl Jam (photo by Chris Hill), and Miles Davis (photo via artist's website)Social distancing may be keeping live concerts at bay for the next few weeks, but we’ve got plenty of great music and content on Consequence of Sound Radio on TuneIn. This week, we’ll celebrate…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Competition Meets Crisis: China’s Perverse Opportunity and a Strategic Response

The coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, first emerged in China. Beijing’s late, inadequate, and skewed information disclosures accelerated the virus’s global spread. China’s manipulation of information continues to hamper response efforts. Now, as the world wrestles with the pandemic—and its human, economic, and social costs—Beijing sees an opportunity and is…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Julian Assange

UK calls in army in COVID-19 fight, NHS staff feel like ‘cannon fodder’ over lack of coronavirus protection

Some NHS medical staff in the UK feel like 'cannon fodder' over the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) against coronavirus, and on Monday the government said the military would help ship millions of items including masks to healthcare workers who have complained of shortages. Frontline staff in UK hospitals…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Plastic Pollution

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Instagram Makes It Clear That Much of the Public Still Hates Them: ‘You Are Irrelevant’

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have had a difficult relationship with the public ever since they started dating back in 2016. Meghan, who is American, was never well-received by much of Britain, and it led to a lot of negative press and plenty of bullying. For various reasons, the two…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

We Should Be Very Wary About the Growing Military Response to the Coronavirus Crisis

We Should Be Very Wary About the Growing Military Response to the Coronavirus Crisis

Jailed Harvey Weinstein tests positive for coronavirus, NYT confirms

Inside The Small Virginia Town Where Drone Deliveries Have Begun For Real

IBM takes on coronavirus with 2020 Call for Code challenge

Half-Life: Alyx VR performance: How to get the best settings and the smoothest experience

This Week on Consequence of Sound Radio

UK calls in army in COVID-19 fight, NHS staff feel like ‘cannon fodder’ over lack of coronavirus protection

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Instagram Makes It Clear That Much of the Public Still Hates Them: ‘You Are Irrelevant’

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