People aren’t divided into “most likely to be tricked” and “least likely to be tricked”.
When you generate “photos” of Big Ben burning and throw it on Twitter, you will grab the attention of many more Londoners than you could with a random image of a burning house or whatever, many of which would at least take the time to verify. Just look at the Balenciaga Pope images.
By grabbing the attention of those you are essentially stepping into the realms of “historical alternations”.
This is the heart of the political struggle. Most commenters mention the privacy part, which is valid, but the real meat is the war of nations over data. RESTRICT act or whatever it’s called to ban TikTok because all the congressional members’ grandkids are hooked on it and could care less about their grandparents. Data tracking is already taking place. Your personal data is out there already. When you search for butt cream and then go browse Facebook, they know what you searched for. It’s not that they are reading your browser history, instead they are reading your web logs from some 3rd party tracker server.
I am assuming the article is contrasting the long periods of nomadic lifestyle that ruled over Arabia with the more stationary society suggested by the existence of those mustatils.
As for the heads of the cattle, I can easily imagine the mustatils to be some sort of combination farm-market where you would kill the cattle, burry the head, and give the rest to the consumer who would take it far away to their dwelling or on their journey if they happen to be nomadic; leading to random distribution of the rest of the carcass pieces.
Build too much, and you end up with depleted resources, non-environmental solutions, and outdated artefacts.
Recycling is surely an option, but it should be the fallback, not the default.
While the current crisis could’ve been handled better, it is not at all badly handled. Nature is much stronger than us, and the fact that we are not totally screwed after over four months since the outbreak is impressive.
Over building hospitals for the next pandemic sounds inefficient to me.
As I've gotten older I've realised that sometimes us trying to "build our way out of things" is often just "digging the hole deeper". Technology doesn't have all the answers unfortunately; I used to think so but as I've seen more I realise I was wrong. Someone's progress is someone else's nightmare quite often; especially in a system where capital (and therefore technological control) is concentrated in the hands of the few rich.
Anything you built has inputs, outputs and waste (this is the bad stuff that makes our lives worse and is subject to the problem of the commons) - it isn't an efficient process. Often benefit accrues to the person with money, and the waste goes to everyone else. Sure there are some nice solutions out there but on the whole we probably need less building than done today; and what we do build being much more targeted to society's benefit.
As an example I look at China and think - they build a lot of stuff but I wouldn't want to live there personally with the smog, pollution, bad environment, etc. I live in a nice part of the world but can see "progress" coming close to my door. Maybe I'm just getting cynical.
Right, this is why I'm bullish on additive manufacturing (or 3d printing). It's incredibly flexible and you can retool your manufacturing to produce masks or whatever you need in record time. This technology is maturing rapidly and it's something I feel will thrive in the coming decades as on-shoring becomes more common.
Math Academy looks very enticing!