In the spring, Rick Rose drew the wrath of strangers after he practically shouted on Facebook that he wasn’t buying a face mask. Two months later, he contracted COVID-19 — and, he posted, he was struggling to breathe. Days later, on July 4, he was dead. That post, among the Continue Reading
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Pistol-packing GOP House hopeful channels Trump in Colorado People lauren boebert Colorado GOP AP- Tempemail
It was a Donald Trump rally, in miniature. About 200 people, many waving flags and some with open-carry sidearms tucked into holsters or the back of their jeans, joined a “Freedom Cruise” caravan earlier this month that wound through the streets of Pueblo West, a Democratic stronghold in southern Colorado Continue Reading
‘Rich people leave, artists and queerdos return’: is San Francisco’s tech exodus real or a fantasy? | San Francisco
Through free massages, decompression capsules, and limitless nitro cold brew, San Francisco’s tech companies spent the last decade making their offices considerably comfier than the average cubicle farm. Beyond making the workday pleasant, they attracted workforces whose six-figure salaries altered the city’s demographics, spurring widespread displacement and years of head-scratching Continue Reading
Social media not removing people smugglers’ pages, MPs told | Law- Tempemail
Facebook, YouTube and other social media organisations have refused to shut down many pages understood to be used by networks for people smuggling, despite requests from Home Office staff and police trying to crack down on human trafficking rings, MPs heard today. At the start of an investigation into the Continue Reading
Are Love Island stars really the best people to advise us on test and trace? | UK news- Tempemail
Name: Chris Hughes. Age: 27. Appearance: Trustworthy, sensible, reliable – this is the man advising you on the government’s test-and-trace scheme after all. Oh, I thought you meant a different Chris Hughes – the terrible rapper from Love Island 2017 who shaved his best mate’s initials into his pubic hair. Continue Reading
Confusing Covidsafe app message led people to believe they had coronavirus, documents show | Health
Poor wording in an early version of the Covidsafe contact-tracing app led people to incorrectly believe they had contracted coronavirus and they turned up “alarmed” to GP clinics for testing, documents obtained by Guardian Australia reveal. The federal government’s Covidsafe app is used to locate unknown close contacts of confirmed Continue Reading
Carl Bergstrom: ‘People are using data to bullshit’ | Science- Tempemail
Carl Bergstrom is a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Washington in Seattle. More than a decade ago he conducted research on the role of government in pandemic planning, and has been a trenchant critic of the current response. He is the co-author with his colleague Jevin D Continue Reading
Who will choose the next US president – the American people, or Mark Zuckerberg? | Jonathan Freedland | Opinion- Tempemail
This week, in a hearing on Capitol Hill, you could gaze upon the men with the power to determine November’s presidential election and the future of American democracy – but the men in question were not politicians. Rather they were the four tech titans who appeared by Zoom before a Continue Reading
Mastercard Enables 3 Million Young People in Uganda to Access Work Opportunities | Tempemail
The Mastercard Foundation has launched its Young Africa Works strategy in Uganda which has set a goal to enable more than 3 million young people in the country to access dignified and fulfilling work opportunities by 2030. Under Young Africa Works, the Foundation has committed $200 million to ensure young Continue Reading
Practice Manager Pentalog Vietnam: “We Built a Great Company Where Many People Dream to Work”- Tempemail
This career story shows how “la Francophonie” opens the door to many exciting professional experiences for those who are willing to learn and to work hard. Meet Hoang, Practice Manager at Pentalog Vietnam. He studied and lived in Marseille for 6 years until he finally decided to return to his Continue Reading