Is Reddit a better search engine than Google?

Ten Functions of Arts Management

Back in November, I posted about Twelve Functions of Arts Management as a first attempt at a list of key/core clusters of action in...

Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said this could be the worst flooding in more than a decade.

Queensland floods: ‘Rain bomb’, Major disaster in Brisbane, BOM forecast

Warning about mosquito-borne viruses in South Australia after one person dies and seven sent to hospital

Why Do Some Teams Inspire While Others Sap Energy?

Why might a person let her team down in one situation but give it her all in a different one? Sometimes, as in the first scenario, teamwork is demotivating. In fact, in German, ‘team’ is an acronym for Toll, ein anderer macht’s, meaning ‘Great, someone else does it.’ - Psyche

Nowhere is safe: Record number of patients contracted Covid in the hospital in JanuaryPolitico

ProPublica: TurboTax Maker Intuit Faces Tens Of Millions In Fees In A Groundbreaking Legal Battle Over Consumer Fraud

On Google Maps, tracking the invasion of Ukraine

Washington Post: “[Jeffrey Lewis – Lewis, a professor specializing in arms control and nonproliferation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, Calif.,] sleuthing helps demonstrate how technology — and specifically Google Maps — is making it so people even far away can see in real time what’s happening , all the way down to the street level. What billions of people around the world can see from the palm of their hands reflects that people on the ground, in the midst of troop movements, are also constantly connected to their devices. And in some cases those devices are becoming a tool for civilians…”

The CIA and the New Dialect of PowerAmerican Affairs

‘Index, A History of the’ Review: List-O-Mania WSJ

Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot​  The Drift

Jungholz: A ski town stuck in the wrong nation BBC

You Can Now Book a Ticket to Outer Space Afar

Bob Marley’s Exodus: An album that defined the 20th Century BBC

The Search Has Begun for an Antarctic Pioneer’s Lost Ship NYT

Storm Eunice, Packing High Winds, Hits Britain and Northern Europe The Weather Channel

Black Former Tesla Worker: Nickname for the Plant Was ‘The Slave Ship’ Capital & Main

 

NYC Landlords Almost Never Get Arrested for Illegal DIY Evictions The City

 

Democrats Are Ditching Class, and It’s Costing Them Working-Class Voters Jacobin

 

How big technology systems are slowing innovation MIT Technology Review

 

More than money: The cost of monopolies in America WBUR

 

Decriminalization Saves Lives: A Conversation with Travis Lupick LA Review of Books

 

Grocery delivery “dark stores” in Amsterdam have residents hopping mad Ars Technica

Fast Company: “A new story anticipating the decline and fall of Google Search comes out about every month, but a blog post Tuesday, called “Google Search is Dying” by the blogger DKB was different. The blog shot up to the top of Hacker News on Tuesday, and is already the 11th most upvoted post on Hacker News of all time, with more than 1,500 comments. The core argument is that many people have become so disappointed in—or distrustful of—good old Google search results that they now append the term “reddit” to the end of their queries. 

So instead of searching the world of information that Google and its web-crawler bots see, you get information and links from the world of things that have been discussed in Reddit land, which are a lot. “Why are people searching Reddit specifically?” the blog post reads. “The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying. The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust.”….[Note – please use DuckDuckGo, and include other sites you trust in your searches, be they Subreddits, Wikipedia, or other sites. 

And please review search results below the fold….don’t just look at the first 5 or 10…keep reviewing and refining narrowing your searches based on what you identify as relevant. Also, please use search engines within trusted databases and sites [ex.: USA.gov.] 

Russia Moves Troops into Donbass [Updated]

Even though it was clear that Russia would stage a military operation in Donbass, the speed of its action still caught many by surprise.

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying’s Regular Press Conference on February 24, 2022(transcript) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China

AFP: China has consistently refrained from condemning Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine. Now that President Putin has begun an invasion. Will China finally condemn Russia’s actions?

Hua Chunying: China is closely monitoring the latest developments. We call on all sides to exercise restraint and prevent the situation from getting out of control…..

Bloomberg: Can you say then China considers Russia’s action an invasion? Is it an invasion? Is it a violation of the UN Charter?

Hua Chunying: We have stated China’s principled position on the Ukraine issue. There is a complex historical background and context on this issue. The current situation is the result of the interplay of various factors.

We noted that today Russia announced its launch of a special military operation in eastern Ukraine. Russia’s defense ministry said that its armed forces will not conduct missile, air or artillery strikes on cities. China is closely monitoring the latest developments and calls on all sides to exercise restraint and prevent the situation from getting out of control.

I would like to stress once again China’s consistent position. We should pursue common, cooperative and sustainable security for all countries. The legitimate security concerns of all sides should be respected and resolved. We hope all sides will keep the door to peace open and continue to work for deescalation through dialogue, consultation and negotiation and prevent further escalation.

 

Chinese Experts Uncover Details of Equation Group’s Bvp47 Covert Hacking Tool The Hacker News

 

Fifty Years Of China The American Conservative

 

Words Versus Deeds in Biden’s Indo-Pacific StrategyWar on the Rocks