{"id":8824,"date":"2021-03-21T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8824"},"modified":"2021-03-21T18:52:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T00:52:29","slug":"3-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8824","title":{"rendered":"3.21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were all told contact tracing is a proven strategy for containing pandemics. Now, @JulieZauzmer reports that DC&#8217;s contact tracing program may have been <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GaIpS4IFcZ\">exacerbating<\/a> it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/03\/13\/976785274\/gun-sales-rise-in-past-year-especially-among-women-and-african-americans\">Gun Sales Rise<\/a> In Past Year, Especially Among Women And African Americans<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superwuster.medium.com\/liberals-and-conservatives-are-both-totally-wrong-about-section-230-11faacc4b117\">Liberals and Conservatives Are Both Totally Wrong<\/a> about Platform Immunity<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hakaimagazine.com\/features\/tunas-last-stand\/\">Tuna&#8217;s<\/a> Last Stand<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/03\/08\/josh-rogin-chaos-under-heaven-wuhan-lab-book-excerpt-474322\">2018, Diplomats Warned<\/a> of Risky Coronavirus Experiments in a Wuhan Lab. No One Listened.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s human nature to spot patterns in data. But we should be careful about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/mar\/15\/evidence-oxford-vaccine-blood-clots-data-causal-links\">finding causal links where none<\/a> may exist<\/p>\n<p>The executive says the indictment highlights the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/sky-global-ceo-indicted-over-encrypted-chat-drug-trafficking-claims-erosion-of-right-to-privacy\/\">vilification<\/a>\u201d of anyone \u201cwho takes a stance against unwarranted surveillance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2021\/03\/fbi-should-stop-attacking-encryption-and-tell-congress-about-all-encrypted-phones\">FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption<\/a> and Tell Congress About All the Encrypted Phones It\u2019s Already Hacking Into<\/p>\n<p>Daily Telegraph <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/mar\/15\/daily-telegraph-plans-link-journalists-pay-article-popularity\">plans to link journalists&#8217; pay<\/a> with article popularity<\/p>\n<p>What <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/03\/14\/what-south-dakota-can-teach-america\/\">South Dakota<\/a> Can Teach America<\/p>\n<p>Under Closson&#8217;s leadership, the paper garnered national attention for a 2019 editorial <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nyt-hires-editor-of-student-paper-who-hid-in-office-from-free-beacon-reporter\/\">apologizing<\/a> to student activists who criticized its efforts to report the news.<\/p>\n<p>These are <a href=\"https:\/\/applieddivinitystudies.com\/asymmetric\/index.html\">powerful tools<\/a>, and we ought to be cautious in their application.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/en\/kemjatszmakat-hozott-budapestre-orban-kinai-nyitasa\/\">instruction to change the program came on the telephone from the Chinese regime\u2019s international radio arm<\/a>, China Radio International (CRI), not more than 48 hours before the Chinese prime minister\u2019s arrival. Later, they sent over a prepared footage about China\u2019s history and the greatness of Sino-Hungarian relations, which Klasszik Radio had to broadcast at the appropriate time.<\/p>\n<p>How <a href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/how-do-big-media-outlets-so-often\">Do Big Media Outlets So Often &#8220;Independently Confirm&#8221;<\/a> Each Other&#8217;s Falsehoods?<\/p>\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s long-awaited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/mar\/17\/facebook-content-supreme-court-network\">content &#8216;supreme court&#8217; <\/a>has arrived. It&#8217;s a clever sham<\/p>\n<p>They <a href=\"https:\/\/thehypothesis.substack.com\/p\/heres-why-substacks-scam-worked-so\">paid a secret group<\/a> of writers to make newsletter authorship seem lucrative<\/p>\n<p>The latter point, of course, is exactly what has happened. The EU halt has <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2021\/03\/the-eu-vaccine-bungling.html\">increased vaccine hesitancy<\/a> rather than alleviating it.<\/p>\n<p>D.C. Circuit Judge Silberman just released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cadc.uscourts.gov\/internet\/opinions.nsf\/C5F7840A6FFFCF648525869D004ECAC5\/$file\/19-7132-1890626.pdf\">truly wild dissent calling<\/a> on the Supreme Court to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, claiming NYT and WaPo are &#8220;virtually Democratic Party broadsheets,&#8221; and accusing &#8220;big tech&#8221; of censoring conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/18\/style\/loretta-staples-ui-design.html\">Pioneer of Digital Design<\/a> Looks Back on a Defining Era<\/p>\n<p>In other words, <a href=\"http:\/\/createsend.com\/t\/d-D9B56C1D9404C7022540EF23F30FEDED\">everything that marketing communication people are doing<\/a> should be analyzed through a hard-nosed assessment of real world consumer behavior, not the rosy lens of traditional brand and marketing thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were all told contact tracing is a proven strategy for containing pandemics. Now, @JulieZauzmer reports that DC&#8217;s contact tracing program may have been exacerbating it. 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