So, I am redoing my annual BSL-3 facility training, and this is how we have to dress to work with #SARSCoV2 in the Lab. I am investigating the same strain that is circulating everywhere, Omicron variants KP.2 and KP.3. What do you think? 🙇 #biohazardous #BSL3 #Covid

New cover of Der Spiegel Madam President? How Kamala Harris wants to win against Trump

Like millions of Americans, Tim Walz, the Democratic nominee for vice president, has ancestors in Germany. His great-great grandfather Sebastian Waltz emigrated to the US in 1867 from the small town of Kuppenheim in southwest Germany, per BNN newspaper. bnn.de/mittelbaden/ra…

US: SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater nearing winter wave levels National levels are currently "very high" and are still increasing. CDC cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID1…

Walz: "Do you think JD Vance knows one damn thing about Nebraska? You think he's ever had a runza? That guy would call it a Hot Pocket. You know it. Every one of you in here know it. A damn Hot Pocket."

Stuart Stevens The word "runza" is related to the German word "ranzen," a satchel. It's basically a meat pierogi brought to Nebraska by Volga Germans in the late 19th century.

Monsieur Klein ou Rocco, le Guépard ou le Samouraï, Alain Delon a incarné des rôles légendaires, et fait rêver le monde. Prêtant son visage inoubliable pour bouleverser nos vies. Mélancolique, populaire, secret, il était plus qu’une star : un monument français.

But it’s just a cold, right? 🤷🏽‍♂️

PMC COVID-19 Forecasting Model, August 19, 2024 We're at 1.3 million infections/day in the U.S. This is the highest known transmission during back-to-school season all-time. An estimated 1 in 24 people in the West region are actively infectious.

German discount grocer Lidl built their own cloud infrastructure because of German data laws, and now has a ~$2B revenue business selling it to others (a la AWS) They spent $700M acquiring an Israeli cyber security company (XM cyber)

U.S. reports more than 1,000 new COVID deaths for the second week in a row

I hope that the arrest of Pavel Durov does not lead to him or Telegram being held up as some hero of privacy. Telegram has consistently acted to collect huge amounts of unnecessary private data on their servers, and their only measure to protect it was “trust us.”

If you haven't yet read Ted Chiang's essay on generative AI and art, get on it. For my money, it's one of the best things written on AI, period—it gets to the heart of what's so dismaying about AI in a single haunting sentence: "It reduces the amount of intention in the world."

If we spent as much time talking about Germany's cult of debt reduction, and overall lack of ambition, as we do about migration, this graph might change. Embarrassing how little Germany's political class has invested in this country, and the failure is everywhere to be seen.

Brooklyn Bridge, New York City Why do I live in NYC? This is why ❤️