James Bradbury
JAX team: github.com/google/jax. Previously MetaMind/@SFResearch, @Stanford Linguistics, @Caixin. Spends too much time reading about Things that are Happening.
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Prosecutors: Engineer deliberately ran train off tracks in attempt to smash the USNS Mercy
An engineer deliberately ran a train off the tracks at high speed in an attempt to damage the USNS Mercy hospital ship, prosecutors say.
New school curriculum raises eyebrows in Orban's Hungary | DW | 31.03.2020
Anti-Semitic authors will soon be compulsory reading in Hungarian schools, and history books will be rewritten to promote pride in the nation. Viktor Orban's controversial new school curriculum is drawing outrage.
N.Y.C. Virus Death Toll Nears 1,400 as a Key Date Looms: Live Updates
Mayor de Blasio has often said April 5 was a “demarcation line” in the coronavirus fight. Now it is just days away, and supplies are still badly needed.
A Ventilator Stockpile, With One Hitch: Thousands Do Not Work
While President Trump has assured states that thousands of ventilators remain at the ready, thousands more are in storage, unmaintained, broken or otherwise unusable.
New Data Has Shown A Historic Spike In Gun Sales After The Coronavirus Hit The US
The coronavirus outbreak has prompted an unprecedented surge in gun sales, exceeding a previous record set after the Sandy Hook mass shooting.
“The Campaign Panicked”: Inside Trump’s Decision to Back Off of His Easter Coronavirus Miracle
An impulsive promise (“His view was: I need to show people there’s a light at the end of the tunnel”) led to Fauci pushback. Poll numbers—and a friend in a coma—pushed Trump to reverse course.
That viral story on FDA approving 2-minute cornavirus test looks like a cruel April Fools hoax
A story that went viral about the FDA approving a two-minute test for coronavirus antibodies looks like a cruel hoax timed to coincide with April Fools Day.
TSA checkpoint travel numbers for 2020 and 2019
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Days After a Funeral in a Georgia Town, Coronavirus ‘Hit Like a Bomb’
A mourner came to Albany, Ga., to attend the funeral of a retired janitor. After a pause while the infections incubated, the virus swept through the community.
Coronavirus Crisis Awakens a Sleeping Giant: China’s Youth
How the ruling Communist Party manages the coming months will help shape how hundreds of millions of young people see its authoritarian political bargain for decades to come.
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Private Labs Are Fueling a New Coronavirus Testing Crisis
Backlogs at private laboratories have ballooned, making it difficult to treat suffering patients and contain the pandemic.
WeWork responds to coronavirus by telling cleaning staff to keep working
An internal document instructs contract employees they must use paid time off or sick leave if they are exposed to Covid-19
The evidence for everyone wearing masks, explained
There is some evidence that the public should wear masks. But let doctors and nurses get them first.
This Pandemic Is Not Your Vacation
You might not want to spend your quarantine in a city. But the rural places many Americans treat as playgrounds, and the workers who keep them running, will suffer for it.
Wartime Production Law Has Been Used Routinely, but Not With Coronavirus
The Defense Production Act has been invoked hundreds of thousands of times in the Trump years. But with the pandemic, the president sees it as a “break the glass” last resort.
Taxpayers Paid Millions to Design a Low-Cost Ventilator for a Pandemic. Instead, the Company Is Selling Versions of It Overseas.
As coronavirus sweeps the globe, there is not a single Trilogy Evo Universal ventilator — developed with government funds — in the U.S. stockpile. Meanwhile, Royal Philips N.V. has sold higher-priced versions to clients around the world.