In the case of Biden v. Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia Univ., Justice Clarence Thomas has made the argument that tech corporations like Amazon are operating as "common [.]
There’s a still flash at the end of the dog video where the dog is curled up in his papa’s lap that gets me every time I see it, and that is more than I’d like to admit.
The OC numbers continue to drop sharply – only 166 new cases today; huge change in a couple of weeks. Hospitalizations even lower, although ICU is flat at 235. My housemate took a client to get her second Moderna shot at Disneyland yesterday, and it was packed with twice as many tents as at the first shot. It was well staffed and organized and they were finished in 30 minutes including the mandatory 15 minute wait after the shot.
Numbers going down in the OC almost faster than they went up. Only 369 new cases yesterday and positivity rate dropped from 9.7% to 7.8%. Hospitalizations down to below the top of the original y axis that was increased over and over. ICU beds available 15.3%. Very happy it looks like not many Super Bowl spreader events happened.
As usual where there are old people, there are grifters:
BE AWARE: The OC Health Care Agency, County of Orange has partnered with Composite Apps, developer of the Othena application, for the sole purpose of facilitating safe and timely distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to Orange County residents. Be HYPERAWARE of fake apps and scammers who may create malicious health-related applications. The Othena app will NEVER ask you for your social security number, credit card information, bank information, or any payment of any sort in any way, nor will there ever be any phone calls directly to you. Be also aware of the spelling of OTHENA, both as an app and the webs
By Liza Monroy |
Fantastical novellas and collections of short fiction can offer readers a brief respite from reality.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Tor.com, July), the slender first volume in Hugo Award–winner Becky Chambers’s Monk & Robot series, is dedicated to “anybody who could use a break.” Set in a future in which, freed from work obligations, intelligent robots disappeared from cities into the wilderness, the story follows Sibling Dex, a tea monk (job description: “
listen to people, give tea”), who stumbles upon Mosscap, a robot, traversing wild terrain. As much a philosophical journey as a speculative one, the book fits squarely into the burgeoning hopepunk subgenre.