kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Interesting case of Russia's spread of #covid. Everything started in China in December, annual traffic from China to Russia is 2 million people, which continued for 1-2 months until Russia closed borders in end of January.

Yet, most of confirmed cases is concentrated in Moscow (11k) and official number of cases in towns like Krasnoyarsk, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk (closest to China) is nominal which seems unlikely.

I'm just wondering if what we see in Russia now is not a *second* wave...

https://www.life.com/history/w-eugene-smiths-landmark-photo-essay-country-doctor/

“The dove that goes BOOM” (1951)
🇫🇷 poster published by Paix et Liberté organisation in response to KGB-infiltrated "peace movements".

Soviets were reaching the heights of dialectics when explaining to enchanted fellow travelers that while Western rockets are evil and imperialistic, the Soviet ones are "peace-loving" (Rus. миролюбивые) 😂

“Any way you cut it, this is going to be bad,” a senior medical adviser at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Dr. Carter Mecher, wrote on the night of Jan. 28, in an email to a group of public health experts scattered around the government and universities. “The projected size of the outbreak already seems hard to believe.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html

As we discussed with many people here on what are actual "success criteria" of a political and economic system, I tend to agree that GDP on its own is largely distorted because it does not reflect inequality.

Here's an interesting publication that shows a very strong correlation between GNI per capita and mortality due to infectious diseases. In short: wealthier countries better protect people from infectious diseases.

https://academic.oup.com/heapol/article/33/suppl_1/i14/2996762

“Born to Deliver“ by Evgeny Zubkov

SWPR: "World Socialist Web Site by the International Committee of the 4th Fourth International" the most *liberal* news out there.

Fking great...

It's not even US "liberal" because they're Swiss.

What next? "Postmodernist" Nature.com?

https://swprs.org/media-navigator/

Classics 😂🤦‍♂️

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-020-0534-9

1960 advertising

Russian self-isolation art 😂 👍

Fox News innovation in the area of visual data presentation: the Y axis goes 30,60,90,100... Dr David Rober Grimes successfully matched it against an 8th-order polynomial on Twitter 😂 but I don't think they actually were so sophisticated, most likely they simply told their Photoshop person "just make it flat"

"Health care insurers expected to raise premiums by as much as 40% to recoup coronavirus losses"

Apparently, Adam Smith's fundamental works never made it to America!

https://www.salon.com/2020/04/05/health-care-insurers-expected-to-raise-premiums-by-as-much-as-40-to-recoup-coronavirus-losses/

Screenshot from: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm#chap36

Experts uncovered hidden behavior in thousands of #Android Apps

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/101094/malware/android-apps-hidden-backdoors.html

"Amorphous Titanium Annoy" 😂

Nice #science

This is a funny story - when Bellingcat was outing Russian troops in Ukraine, critics were accusing them of defending "nazis".

Then Belling started outing actual nazis from Ukraine and Russia, on both sides of the frontline, and it's being accused of spreading "nazi hysteria" and libel.

An interesting complaint to a media watchdog (dismissed) that documents the latter.

Also a beautiful example of tribal thinking: maybe they're nazis, but they are *our* nazis 🤦‍♂️

https://www.impress.press/page/complaint-adjudications/complaint-adjudication-271-2020.html

This certainly will go to crypto snake oil chronicles 🤦‍♂️