Iceland announces “The IcelandVerse”
It’s like a world where everything is surprisingly real 🙂 Saw this last night and had me laughing out loud, rolling with laughter. I already follow several Iceland YT channels,…
No inflation to see here: Consumer prices rise the most in over 30 years
Annual CPI: 6.2% Source: Consumer prices see largest year-over-year spike since November 1990 Some private economists are estimating “real inflation” at 9% to 16%, far higher than the government’s CPI…
Future cars will not start if you have been drinking alcohol
Source: Infrastructure bill mandates new technology to prevent drunk driving — here’s how it would work – MarketWatch I do not drink any alcohol so this is sort of a…
Apple to restrict major iPhone 13 repairs to Apple services only
Stripping iPhone 13 models down, what iFixit discovered is that Apple has added a small chip (“about the size of a Tic-Tac”) into the bottom of their 13 screens. The…
Teleworking trends
Stated another way, about 70% of workers need to go into offices. Only about a third of all workers have jobs that allow teleworking. Source: Oregonians’ march back to the…
Follow up from February 2021: “And there you go: Pandemic should end by mid-year”
This forecast did not age well: And there you go: Pandemic should end by mid-year | Coldstreams Business and Tech
Follow up: “The epidemiologists Strike Back: Revenge of the Models Episode III”
In February, as cases were falling rapidly, the disease modelers projected a large rise in daily new cases starting as soon as May (but with a multi-month window), and caused…
Follow up: “We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April” – 2021
This did not age well: We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April – WSJ | Coldstreams Business and Tech
Microsoft Ignite conference does parody of “Woke-ism”, or something
Speakers at the Microsoft Ignite technical conference introduced themselves by specifying their gender, ethnicity, appearance and personal pronouns, seemingly in line with the meme of “woke-ism” (other definitions here and…
Another super spreader prediction that failed: School re-openings this fall
A few months back experts said opening schools would be a super spreader event. For the most part, like all super spreader predictions, this forecast was also wrong: New research…