This test run of writing while on holidays was an epic FAIL!!

Keywords: thoughts on writing , travel , computer issues , greece , holiday , travel , working holiday

Okay, maybe it wasn’t epic, but I sure didn’t achieve the desired outcome of writing and traveling.

https://angiecounios.com/2021/06/04/traveling-and-writing-the-first-time

Google is falling behind at best or are being intentionally subverted from within at worst

Keywords: noq report

Google presents itself as an unbiased observer and disinterested reporter of information through algorithms. That clearly wasn’t the case in the weeks and months leading up to the election. Can anyone, whether conservative or progressive, trust that their search results are going to deliver what’s best as it pertains to the search itself or should we treat them as a propagator of an agenda? Even those on the left who like their agenda should take issue with being manipulated. Do leftists need to be protected by Daddy Google or can they make their own decisions based on unbiased facts?

https://clarion.causeaction.com/2021/02/25/seriously-stop-using-google

Mistaken identities in the (partially British) news

“Jerusalem”, Britain, mistaken identity, News, Viking warriors, woman warriors

Notes from the U.K.

A video showing what seemed to be–if looked at the right way–a Chinese version of the Loch Ness monster paddling around near the Three Gorges Dam turned out to be a twenty-meter-long industrial airbag. Or in some articles, a long piece of tubing, which may or may not be another way of saying the same thing.

What was the right was way to look at it? Mind-altering substances (a category that includes alcohol) have been shown to be effective.

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Irrelevant and out-of-season photo: a begonia

In California, a robocop was mistaken for a robocop. It was rolling through a park, demonstrating that it could do everything the police force had said it would do: patrol large open spaces and use its microphone to deter crime. So when a fight broke out, a witness ran up to it and pushed the emergency alert button. 

What did it do? It…

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