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How memes got weaponized: A short history

Memes are propaganda. Without authorship attribution or further context there is no accountability for passing on half truths or outright disinformation. MIT Technology Review has an interesting discussion about memes as misinformation. Think about whose interests you’re serving when you reshare a meme. The quicker you are to reshare without evaluating something the more likely …

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Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Could Temporarily Block Americans Who Might Be Infected From Returning to the U.S.

“it would be an escalation of his government’s longstanding attempts to seal the border against what he considers to be threats, using the existence of the coronavirus pandemic as a justification for taking actions that would have been seen as draconian in other contexts.”Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Could Temporarily Block Americans Who Might Be Infected …

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Total Specific Solutions enters the maritime vertical with the acquisition of Quality Positioning Services B.V.

Just met folks from TSS and already quite excited for the change. I think it will be good for QPS and for our customers. “Total Specific Solutions (‘TSS’) B.V. has acquired Quality Positioning B.V. (‘QPS’), the global niche leader in maritime geomatics software and services from Saab AB, the Swedish defense-, aerospace- and maritime conglomerate. …

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Closest ever pictures taken of the Sun

They discovered very small flares, unseen before now. They have dubbed them “camp fires.” “The smallest ones are a couple of our pixels. A pixel corresponds to 400km – that’s the spatial resolution. So they’re about the size of some European countries,”Closest ever pictures taken of the Sun The European Solar Orbiter probe captures images …

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Soap bubbles succeed in fruit tree pollination

I just had to laugh. “They’ve been searching for alternative approaches to pollination, because of the decline in the number of bees worldwide.” “When fired from a bubble gun, the delicate soapy spheres achieved a success rate of 95%.” “The researchers are now testing drones that fire bubbles for pollination.” https://bbc.in/3fLDVAKSoap bubbles succeed in fruit …

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