Funky Weird Blog Spot: May 2022

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz receives sharp backlash for comments in wake of Uvalde school shooting | The Hill: "solutions that “try to restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens. That doesn’t work, it’s not effective, it doesn’t prevent crime.” Cruz continued to say that targeting felons and fugitives and those with mental illness is a more effective strategy in preventing crime."

Malware Can Be Loaded Even Onto Phones That Are Turned Off, Researchers Show
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5q4vj/malware-can-be-loaded-even-onto-phones-that-are-turned-off-researchers-show

(4) Are people with ADHD considered neurodivergent? What makes someone neurodivergent? : AutisticPride: "the rise of the "neurodiversity paradigm" is thus seen as a challenge to both the concept of mental disorder and medicalized accounts of cognitive disability."

DC sues Mark Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica data breach - ABC News
https://apple.news/ADPXB0zRCQrGDhJPKqNOuuQ

1 new message: "In some cases, bankruptcy may lead to refusal of citizenship on the ground of lack of ‘good character’, but not if:

the person was discharged at least ten years ago
the person was declared bankrupt abroad

The effect of debts on immigration and nationality applications | by John Donkersley | Adviser online | Medium: “where the person was made bankrupt or their company went into liquidation through little or no fault of their own, the application will not normally be refused. For example, they may have simply been a victim of the poor business decisions of others or their business has been severely affected by an economic downturn.”

Leaked emails expose UK Home Secretary Priti Patel's connection to MI6-style 'research and influence operation' -Verify? https://thegrayzone.com/2022/05/18/leaked-emails-uk-home-secretary-priti-patels-mi6-operation/

Nurturing Clever Cities | The Intersection Between Urban Agriculture and Technology: "It investigates the benefits and drawbacks of technology in food production and distribution, the impacts of different forms of Smart City technologies and design, and where urban agriculture and forms of technology have been successfully woven together."

Cauliflower Fried Rice | GiryaGirl.com
https://giryagirl.com/cauliflower-fried-rice/

Big Tech's Services Are Not Worth the Surveillance: "Algorithmic content targeting is the foundation of omnipresent information businesses like Google and Facebook, and it affects you every moment you’re online. It can make you less informed, less unique, less thoughtful and less interesting, so subtly you don’t even notice."

World-first%2Air%20Port%20Ltd: "Urban-Air Port® – backed by the UK Government and supported by Supernal – will operate Air-One® in the heart of Coventry[i] for at least one month. Air-One® will provide a blueprint for more than 200 vertiports planned worldwide by Urban-Air Port® over the next five years to meet growing demand."

AI AI captain:

https://thenextweb.com/news/why-does-big-tech-think-human-level-ai-will-emerge-from-binary-systems

And...

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-deepmind-artificial-general-intelligence-b2080740.html?amp

nytimes (@The New York Times) Tweeted: In Opinion
"Surveillance made possible by minimally-regulated digital technologies could help law enforcement track down women who might seek abortions and medical providers who perform them," writes Zeynep Tufekci. https://t.co/8lX8gUVIW1 https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1527403741581918215?s=27&t=zD2RHG2pXZ6eT5aNWk4OSg

NHS says 35 medical conditions will no longer get prescription from doctors - Liverpool Echo
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/health/nhs-says-35-medical-conditions-23998573

Windrush victim told to send selfies to DWP or lose universal credit | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/windrush-universal-credit-benefits-glenda-caesar-dwp-uk-b2081807.html

NHS wants to take back my grant for paramedic training: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/may/18/nhs-wants-to-take-back-my-grant-for-paramedic-training

And also the GP intern 3-year thing.

China air crash that killed 132 may have been deliberate, says US report. Also see "Germanwings crash in 2015. On that occasion, the Airbus A320 passenger plane was crashed deliberately by the pilot as it crossed the French Alps, killing 150 people."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/17/china-air-crash-that-killed-132-may-have-been-deliberate-says-us-report

Basic Income Images (@BasicIncomeIMG) tweeted at 3:16 pm on Mon, May 09, 2022:
The conflation of work ethic with intrinsic value as a human being is one of the great tragedies of the western world. They are two different things. #BasicIncome https://t.co/XunwRUzOM3
(https://twitter.com/BasicIncomeIMG/status/1523668290928840704?t=xmvbTjSkNv3Ow3KY7gqEvg&s=03)

Midlands Fraud Forum (@MFF_Forum) tweeted at 10:33 pm on Sun, May 15, 2022:
Convicted #Coventry #fraudster turned his life around after going to prison seven times
#lawandjustice #sentencing https://t.co/x2gj98BDVH
(https://twitter.com/MFF_Forum/status/1525952589795311620?t=vAJiU356JOSI2MU8BkG1YQ&s=03)

The Environment and Green Issues in Coventry's City of Culture 2021
https://coventry.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/the-environment-and-green-issues-in-coventrys-city-of-cul-4

The moment domesticated horses changed the course of human history is now revealed - CNN: "A dominant genetic horse population appeared on the Western Eurasian Pontic-Caspian steppe of North Caucasus, east of the Dnieper River within the Don and Volga basins. ... between 4,600-4,200 years ago, herders located in the Don-Volga region found a way to increase the local horse reproductive pool. This horse population then spread out and replaced the wild horse groups roaming across Eurasia within centuries."

Mum campaigns against 'extortionate' visa fees after 34 year long immigration battle with Home Office - Birmingham Live
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/mum-campaigns-against-extortionate-visa-23862534

Good stuff: The Material Impact of Cyberspace

Martin Pedersen, Nina Isabella Moeller

The%20Material%20Impact%20of%20Cyberspace%20%u2014%20Coventry%20University

Vita%20%u2014%20G%FCnther%20Anders%20Gesellschaft: ‘On the Bomb and the Roots of our Blindness toward the Apocalypse’

How to access the hidden TV shows and movies on streaming service | The Independent

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/netflix-secret-codes-hidden-tv-series-movies-b2074043.html

Name Change Laws in the U.S. - BabyNames.com

Changing your first name. As with your surname, there is nothing in the law stopping you from changing your first name at any time, so long as you don't have any fraudulent (or other criminal) intent. You can assume any name or combination of names you please in addition to, or substitution for, your existing name.
https://babynames.com/names/name-change-laws.php

Change of first name in law | Deed Poll Office
https://deedpolloffice.com/change-name/law/first-name

The Impact of Music on Children's Brains | by Tania Miller | Age of Awareness | Medium
https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-impact-of-music-on-childrens-brains-23a8dc7c03ae

Abnormal topological organization of the white matter network in Mandarin speakers with congenital amusia | Scientific Reports
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep26505

Coventry residents urged to be part of 'Hand In Hand' project to welcome Ukrainians settling in the city - The Coventry Observer
https://coventryobserver.co.uk/news/coventry-residents-urged-to-be-part-of-hand-in-hand-project-to-welcome-ukrainians-settling-in-the-city/

Dr%20Fang%20Liu%20%u2013%20School%20of%20Psychology%20and%20Clinical%20Language%20Sciences: "Speech prosody in tone versus non-tonal languages, pitch processing in typical and atypical populations (amusia, autism),"

Frontiers | Revising the diagnosis of congenital amusia with the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia | Human Neuroscience
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00161/full

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