2021-02-15

Beware the ides of February

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UK hospital replaces term 'breast milk' with 'human milk' to be more inclusive
Red Dead Redemption Being Used To Teach American History at the University of Tennessee | GameNation World

what Professor Tore Olsson is doing in his new history class at the University of Tennessee titled "HIUS 383: Red Dead America." The class will use both Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2 points to explore the 1899-1911 period of American history. The classes will take place in August 2021 and they will most likely be the most popular class on campus :)
(archive.is link) Tom Peters: McKinsey’s work on opioid sales represents a new low | Financial Times

So how do we fix this? By focusing on the “moral responsibility of enterprise”. Most of us work for a business, whether it has six or 16,000 employees. Business is not part of “the community” — business is the community. The pandemic and our increased awareness of racial inequality have only increased the need for business to understand that.
CS for Racial Literacy: Teaching Race Through Cultural Algorithms
This guy thought Tessica Brown's Gorilla Glue story was a hoax, so he created a "Gorilla Glue challenge" and ended up in the ER after gluing a Solo cup to his face | Not the Bee
LAPD opens investigation into cops who posted racist George Floyd "Valentine" card
‘The last straw’: the US families ending love affair with grocery chain after Capitol riot | US news | The Guardian

Texas Deploys National Guard As 'Grid Chaos' Leaves Millions Freezing In Darkness | ZeroHedge
(4p) 40% of Austin Energy homes without power amid failed 'rotating blackouts'
The Latest: More utilities start rolling blackouts
Polar Vortex 'Paralyzes' Texas Refineries, Forced To Shut Down Amid "Severe Cold Weather" | ZeroHedge
Nearly half of Texas wind turbines are frozen
(8a) Millions Of Texans Freeze As 'Grid Chaos' Sparks Massive Rolling Blackouts
@12a CST, TX power grid is reporting "reserve" power below the "rolling blackouts" threshold. cf ERCOT Emergency Procedures and HN comment
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+ Yesterday and today the prices for electricity have been ~$9/KWh /
$9,000/MWh; for comparison we pay about $0.10/Kwh and "rule of
thumb" budget benchmarks are generally in the $0.25/KWh region.
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- Natural Gas prices this week are also fun, "If you're not used to their bizarre units of volume the key takaway is this: Quantities of gas that usually sell for ~ $3 were selling for over $300 on Friday/Saturday. "