Venezuela 🇻🇪: several housing projects in La Guaira collapsed at the foundation due to the earthquake.
The Chavista government had been warned for years that the cheap flats it was building were not safe in case of an earthquake.
@CBSThisMorning this information now— could it be their way to put pressure on the government? To reiterate: These powerful corporate interests were so revered and given so much airtime. No tough questions were asked, even rhetorically, during this whole news segment. I am disappointed.
@CBSThisMorning from Sky chef, or paying the salaries of airport parking garage companies. So are “10 million support jobs” really at stake? I wish you would have looked into that. Fourth, no question was asked why the two airlines banded together and are sharing
@CBSThisMorning I watched this today and was disheartened to see no critical lens applied to the information. It sounded like it came straight from a press release of these companies. First, this piece got so much air time when 32,000 layoffs are a drop in a bucket of unemployment.
100 videos of police brutality from the George Floyd protests. Yes, 100. Imagine the number of incidents off camera. It happens at all these places (including San Jose), it can happen in @SunnyvaleDPS and @MountainViewPD. Police are humans, and humans can be brutal. Reform. Now.
To simplify following the criminal justice news of the last 36 hours, I posted a set of 10 links to police brutality videos on Facebook
Can't do that here, obvs
So I'm putting them into a thread
— and there we have it, King Trump the First’s campaign made their own news App (It’s #13 in iOS App Store) With rallies halted and tweets fact-checked, Trump campaign turns to smartphone app https://t.co/av1alnXlwL
All four officers involved in the death of George Floyd were “complicit," including the three who haven't been arrested, says Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, responding to a question asked by @sarasidnerCNN on behalf of Floyd’s brother. https://t.co/JiE3Mx8xF2
Remember: many (most?) predictions from the past about the future are wrong because they ignore technological advances that we did not foresee when we made the prediction, but which ultimately rendered the prediction inaccurate.
People worry about AI becoming better than humans and taking over the world. But what if we’re ignoring the possibility that we will find ways to improve humans “naturally” such that AI never catches up to humans.