Beeing Thoughtful

 

Will my LAYENS SWARM TRAP KIT / STARTER HIVE, 7-FRAME work?

Will I even need the hive?

You want Fry's with that? Too bad!

By way of Slashdot, news that Fry's Electronics is shutting down.

American Life Expectancy Dropped By A Full Year In 1st Half Of 2020

 

I mean, you know it had to be having an impact but moving life expectancy down a whole year? Wow.

Roller Skating!

 Well, this was fun!

Communications Silos - It Isn't Just Liberal and Conservative

 
This is interesting analysis. Basically a word heat map of the tickers of MSNBC, Fox, and CNN with axes for the frequency.

I expected Fox to be different, but CNN and MSNBC? That's quite a spread.

I wonder if anyone is researching gathering information for all channels for all communication-- written, spoken, non-verbal-- to come up with automatic fact checking or political spectrum identification or emotional leaning or ? Taking this to the absurd, can you tell if the editor or camera operator are having a bad day based on the product? 

It isn't hard to imagine building intermediate software then edit requested info from multiple sources in to derivative product as requested by the consumer. The days of, "Hey Siri, I want to listen to the political news for today, make sure it thoughtfully shares multiple perspectives and that there are some optimistic stories included." don't seem that far off. 

Could this would help make people aware when they are living in a single perspective echo chamber?

Chess Puzzlers!

OK, I'm addicted to LiChess puzzles. Maybe if I keep doing a few every day I'll stop being terrible at a game I like!

Peek in to Google Tracking

 

https://adssettings.google.com/ is an interesting peek inside how google picks adds for a given google account. I can tell sometimes my kiddos are searching where I'm logged in!