{"id":11716,"date":"2023-04-30T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=11716"},"modified":"2023-04-30T03:51:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T09:51:56","slug":"4-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=11716","title":{"rendered":"4.30"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Interesting report by Apollo showing cellphone activity by city compared to pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco is lowest, at 31% of pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>Boston at 54% and New York at 74%.<\/p>\n<p>Only 4 cities saw an INCREASE.<\/p>\n<p>More proof that offices are empty, a real estate crisis. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yXZR6QWWNW\">pic.twitter.com\/yXZR6QWWNW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KobeissiLetter\/status\/1650478504633352193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs<\/p>\n<p>1. Brage oil field, located in the North Sea 120 km northwest of the city of Bergen <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JGyFaSZYEO\">pic.twitter.com\/JGyFaSZYEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Federico Italiano (@FedeItaliano76) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FedeItaliano76\/status\/1650871570137600000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.25rem; font-family: Roboto, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; width: 398px; white-space: normal; column-count: inherit; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: rgb(26, 26, 26); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">Munro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sae.org\/blog\/sandy-munro-live-sae-wcx\">predicts<\/a> that 2028 will be the end of the so-called ICE age as the era of the EV takes over, and as such, industry needs to be prepared to embrace new ideas, and be thinking about them yesterday.<\/p>\n<h2 itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\" class=\"article__dek\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.067rem; font-weight: 200; line-height: 1.2; color: hsla(var(--txt-color-hsl),0.85); margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: Retina,\" helvetica neue arial sans-serif font-style: normal font-variant-caps: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration:>Automakers are <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/business\/2023\/04\/cars-buttons-touchscreens-vw-porsche-nissan-hyundai.html\">starting<\/a> to admit that drivers hate touchscreens. Buttons are back!<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">? Palantir demo\u2019ed a battlefield assistant calling in drones and quarterbacking a battle in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESYudkowsky?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ESYudkowsky<\/a> is going to be pleased at how fast this is moving.<\/p>\n<p>? ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZuPIy5T1vE\">pic.twitter.com\/ZuPIy5T1vE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ate-a-Pi (@8teAPi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/8teAPi\/status\/1651135662886879232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><meta charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family\" guardian textegyp serif antialiased caret-color: rgb color: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration:>The news that LucasFilm&#8217;s<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><em>Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/indiana-jones-5-will-feature-a-de-aged-harrison-ford-for-the-first-25-minutes-103553183.html\">feature a de-aged Ford<\/a> came at the end of last year, but an interview with director James Mangold in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><em><u><a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/indiana-jones-5-deaging-harrison-ford-dial-of-destiny\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"3\" data-v9y=\"1\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(154, 88, 181); color: rgb(154, 88, 181); text-decoration: underline !important\">Total Film<\/a><\/u><\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>just revealed it will be for almost a fifth of the film&#8217;s running time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CMS fined a hospital in N.H. for not posting its prices publicly, which violates federal law. The hospital didn&#8217;t give a shit about the process \u2014 it ignored all of the federal gov&#8217;t voicemails. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cycyaAhoQ5\">https:\/\/t.co\/cycyaAhoQ5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U8Xm6A1Kug\">pic.twitter.com\/U8Xm6A1Kug<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Herman (@bobjherman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bobjherman\/status\/1651969765320138753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(40, 37, 32); color: rgb(40, 37, 32); font-family\" noto serif constantia bright lucidabright lucida vera georgia font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>British institutions exert <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(40, 37, 32); color: rgb(40, 37, 32); font-family\" noto serif constantia bright lucidabright lucida vera georgia font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palladiummag.com\/2023\/04\/27\/britain-is-dead\/\">impressive amounts of soft power for a tiny island nation<\/a><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(40, 37, 32); color: rgb(40, 37, 32); font-family\" noto serif constantia bright lucidabright lucida vera georgia font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>. One can think of the country as playing the role of an Italian city-state in the fourteenth century: it capitalizes on historic cultural prestige, educates the children of elites from its former empire, and serves as a playground for wealth and status games while not really producing anything of hard value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Starlink <a href=\"https:\/\/satellitemap.space\/\">map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(63, 62, 59); color: rgb(63, 62, 59); font-family: Palatino, serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">And because democracy operates on the principle of freedom of choice, such <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(63, 62, 59); color: rgb(63, 62, 59); font-family: Palatino, serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/narratively.com\/how-to-subvert-a-democracy-stage-2-condition-the-masses\/\">manipulation<\/a><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(63, 62, 59); color: rgb(63, 62, 59); font-family: Palatino, serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"> should be done subtly, Bernays added. If you want a man to buy a piano, for example, don\u2019t tell him to buy a piano. Rather, Bernays wrote, you should \u201cimplant the idea in the mind of the general public\u201d that having a music room is now fashionable. Then the idea of buying a piano \u201cwill come to him as if it is his own idea.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><meta charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family\" helvetica neue sans arial sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration:>But by then, Harris was on her way to becoming attorney general and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/armstrong-kamalas-affair-sleeping-her-way-top\">did not need the support of her<\/a> older married boyfriend.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family\" helvetica neue sans arial sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration:>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box\">\u201cHis career is over. I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years. I do not owe him a thing,\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/strong>Kamala shrewdly stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family\" helvetica neue sans arial sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration:>Still, Brown assisted her in her 2016 bid for the Senate and spoke favorably of her over the years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tobias Wolfram (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_twolfram?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@_twolfram<\/a>) has produced a tour de force on the intelligence stratification of occupations<\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s a lot in it, but here&#39;s a taste: the occupations with the highest and lowest mean levels of intelligence. Compare physical scientists (114) and packers (87). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tOWVt8s60x\">pic.twitter.com\/tOWVt8s60x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cr\u00e9mieux (@cremieuxrecueil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cremieuxrecueil\/status\/1652215081499860995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting report by Apollo showing cellphone activity by city compared to pre-pandemic levels. San Francisco is lowest, at 31% of pre-pandemic levels. Boston at 54% and New York at 74%. Only 4 cities saw an INCREASE. 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