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Despite claims that #influenza is a “winter disease” a survey of 119 countries finds that #flu spreads the same ways, with the same Ros and CFRs, everywhere in the world, from the Equator to the Poles. It’s about human behavior, not viral “seasonality.”
https://www.ijidonline.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1201-9712%2822%2900354-X

Having a hard time paying for gas? Price too high? Well, don’t blame #Biden — Here, #Trump brags that he is personally responsible for pushing up gas prices.
#inflation #gasprices https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1577995611663728642

#ITU #Plenipot Internet ad hoc, Res 102: a delegate notes that the CWG-Internet is the only Council Working Group not open to Sector Members. All other CWGs are open to both Member States and Sector Members.

“In a masterful work of investigative journalism…Bogdanich and Forsythe pierce through McKinsey’s “culture of secrecy”…to unearth conflicts of interest, corruption, hypocrisy and strategic blunders that read like a prosecutor’s indictment.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/09/29/scandals-hypocrisy-behind-mckinseys-sterling-reputation/

“[T]he way they’re dumping the stock has some observers questioning if the downward pressure is actually a death spiral from which Meta can’t recover. ‘I’m not sure there’s a core business that works anymore at Facebook.'” https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/30/facebook-scrambles-to-escape-death-spiral-as-users-flee-sales-drop.html

@mmitchell_ai UNESCO: “It should always be possible to attribute both ethical and legal responsibility for the research, design, development, deployment, and use of AI systems to a physical person or to an existing legal entity.”

cc: @Melissahei
https://medium.com/@nturkewitz_56674/an-open-letter-to-unesco-on-a-draft-text-of-a-recommendation-on-the-ethics-of-artificial-6e999ac672c7

On the two-edged sword of @Twitter, by @richardhorton1 @TheLancet
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01879-7/fulltext
Thanks for the mention with @chrischirp

Sure hope companies I rely on our heeding this truism. https://twitter.com/BloombergLive/status/1575460104765411329

Cybersecurity researchers have identified powerful hacking technology implanted on the phones of Jamal Khashoggi’s family, likely by agents of the United Arab Emirates, a close Saudi ally. https://interc.pt/3RoiiJ1