The end of passwords?
Interesting ideas: Instead of a password, devices could look for your phone over Bluetooth. Source: Apple, Google, and Microsoft want to kill the password with “Passkey” standard | Ars Technica
Young take on excess debts with “buy now, pay later”
Don’t worry – in a few years, President Ocasio-Cortez will cancel these debts too! ‘Buy now, pay later’ sends TikTok generation spiraling into debt Heh – wasn’t kidding – Biden…
Oppressive: “CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders”
Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for many non-COVID-19 purposes too. …. “The…
Follow up: Utah’s case numbers to quadruple, says model
August 5, 2021 Projection -> Cases to quadruple by October in Utah Vaccination and masks are key to keeping children safe from COVID-19 as they return to school, Utah state…
Follow up: Nebraska Garth Books Concert in August 2021
This was forecast to be a superspreader event. Like all superspreader forecasts, this one was wrong. I marked a red line on the chart indicating when the concert occurred. There…
Follow up: We won’t have enough pediatric hospital beds for Covid patients
Projection from December 2021: Actual Result There were a few states that had high numbers of pediatric patients (many or most of which were, as later reported, incidental cases of…
Follow up: Unlikely to see variants that spread faster than Delta
October 2021: Graven said he’s also preparing for the possibility of another variant. “There will be a day where some variant will probably you know be something that kind of…
Follow up “The [2021] fire season is going to be worse than last year”
“This fire season is going to be worse than last year,” the vice president said. Source: Harris drops by her local fire station on 4th of July – Axios Actual…
Follow up: 1 million deaths in India by August 2021 – Coldstreams Business and Tech
As noted in my previous follow up on this failed projection, as of Nov 2021, there had been 459,000 total deaths in India. By May 1, 2022, there have been…
Green power in California not as green as it looked: State imports much electricity from other states
Note – that’s 2013-2017. The mix may have changed in 2018-2022. But it seems likely this is a real issue (see other chart in the linked report). And, Gov. Newsom…