Public health: No or little evidence that NPIs worked to stop Covid-19 transmission
UK study finds that lock downs and non-pharmaceutical interventions to stop Covid - did not work. Duh.
Crypto: Essentially all NFTs are now worthless
NFTs were always a ridiculous idea. Now almost all NFTs are worthless.
AI: More examples of Bing Chat plagiarizing content
Caught Bing Chat bot doing it again - stealing content off a web site. When confronted with plagiarism, Chat shut me off and said we had to move to a…
Public Health: “Experts” think we should be wearing masks again
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. "Experts" say we should all wear masks again.
Education: College Board shares SAT scores and GPA with Facebook and TikTok
The College Board (SAT tests) was caught sending student SAT scores and GPA and web site search terms to Facebook and Tiktok.
Happy nation: Five dead and dozens injured as violence erupts across the nation | Daily Mail Online
I just came back from northern Europe. Every day the news had reports of shootings in the U.S. Such a happy nation we have here. Five people were killed and…
Business, Corruption: Why you should not click on online ads? – ‘The Ugly truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”’
The employee, who asked not to be named because they still work in the industry, also recalled the agency’s owner bragging about the ability of its digital advertising to find…
Science oops: “Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common”
Could be that 1 in 3 papers are hired works from “paper mills” that fabricate data and plagiarize from elsewhere: Journals are awash in a rising tide of scientific manuscripts…
Privacy : Meta/Facebook insists “All your data is belong to us”
The tech giant was handed the biggest-ever fine for privacy violations in the European Union after being previously warned not to transfer the data of Facebook users in Europe to…
Follow up: Trevor Jacob and his [faked] plane crash
The original stunt: Trevor Jacob and his plane crash – Coldstreams Skeptic As of May 2023, Trevor Jacob admits it was a faked stunt for a promotional opportunity. He also…