It’s not the only problem with the proposed Center.
To put it succinctly: it’s not what a community organizer from the south side of Chicago would envision.
There are arguments on both sides, of course, but a majority of locals are NOT happy with the decisions being made. It’s more about power and prestige than actually helping the area economically.
Yes, it is a threat, in the sense that we often want to see the original documents, physically. And the fact that it will be administered by a private entity instead of NARA, who have to abide by certain regulations that a private entity will not have to. So, yes, I think they are right to be concerned about all this.
“There’s only a very small percentage of those criminals out there that want to fight us and want to attack us, but a lot of them, like these individuals, they know they made bad mistakes, bad choices, but they want to do the right thing in life,” Nocco said.
It’s nice to see that sentiment coming from a police officer.
As a formerly incarcerated person once said to me “even crooks got kids”.
Spoilered for mild gruesomeness; how/why late-stage syphilis causes dementia:
I just watched this documentary on Youtube recently and found it really interesting.
That poor girl though.
penny dreadfuls for a new generation.
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Narrator: Mercury was believed to help expel syphilus from the body. But the hideous side effects were well known as illustrated in this Victorian cartoon.
The Martrydom of Mercury was published in 1709–128 years before Queen Victoria.
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Same issue here in Aus. China’s refusing to take our recyclables, and the local councils responsible for collecting it are complaining about the huge stockpiles building up… and mostly sending it to landfill, as far as I can tell. 
Not that it’s needed, MIT is working on a psychopathic AI.
Why?
I think to show input bias on AI algorithms using social media.
That’s what Norman would say, but he would be thinking something quite different.
Great. Someone should introduce it to Parry, Eliza’s paranoid chatbot cousin.
For all their death-dealing, zombies are kind of fragile, evidenced by the fact that a human can kill dozens or hundreds and remain standing. This makes zombies an early-warning signal species for environmental issues.
Right? Like the first big storm should just take them all out.
I watched this book-tour interview with Pete Buttigieg because I didn’t know anything about him and he’s declared himself a Presidential contender. It turned out to be an interesting and thoughtful conversation, and his high intelligence showed. Oxford scholar, naval officer, mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
Anyway, what really caught my attention was his body language right at the start of the interview. His posture was betraying a large internal stress, upright through his torso, hunched from the sternum up, then upright from the top of the neck. Right as I noticed it, the interviewer (Frank Bruni) made an abrupt and obvious shift of posture himself so he reclined in his chair a little, after which Mayor Pete also adjusted and leaned back. I suppose the interviewer sent a signal, and Buttigieg got the message? I’ve never seen that before, if that’s what it was. That’s what I thought was interesting.
Also, it’s not often your hear a politician talk about the drawbacks of using SSN as primary key.