1. The Guardian decides to do a 'Who's YOUR person of the year" thingy where they'll print some reader submissions, eg "My person of the year is Britney cos she's free now" or whatever.
2. After a couple of days they stop accepting replies because they have enough for the article.
3. Twitter decides that this was a *competition* with a winner based on user votes, despite it never saying this. They further decided that JK Rowling must have been winning the competition and that the Guardian therefore scrapped it.
The Guardian prints its article. Included are Greta, Officer Goodman, Marcus Rashford, Chris Whitty and yup, JK Rowling. Among others.
This doesn't stop the 'cancelled poll' story spreading widely in the right-wing media based on literally nothing except some stuff people made up on Twitter.
I'm not blaming Jo for this one. Seems to be just be just normal internet bullshit.
This was the text on that Guardian page. I immediately read it as soliciting the written equivalent of vox pops. There's nothing here that says "poll" to me.
Some replies to this thread saying insisting it WAS a poll, or that I can't prove it wasn't a poll. Others claiming, also baselessly, that Rowling somehow orchestrated the row as self-promotion. Everyone is just very silly today.
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First, the obvious: it's a miracle that the Capitol invaders never came face to face with Members of Congress or VP Pence. Only a combination of coincidence, timing, quick thinking (especially by Officer Goodman) and luck prevented a hostage situation or worse.
If a staffer in the Senate Parliamentarian's office hadn't rescued the Electoral Vote envelopes from Senate chamber before it was taken, the invaders would probably have destroyed them, and the Joint Session might not have reconvened that night. today.com/news/woman-pic…
Israel is to ease its quarantine rules for Covid. Vaccinated or recovered people will have to take a PCR test immediately and isolate until a negative result. They're then asked to avoid "crowded places" for leisure and entertainment purposes for 10 days.
Until now, vaxxed people were exempt from exposure isolation... except for from Omicron. But with Omicron now likely the dominant variant, in reality thousands of vaxxed people were in 14 day quarantine (shortened to 7 days with a neg test on day 7).
I am sympathetic to shortening exposure quarantines or replacing them with rapid testing. But Israel's new policy doesn't make much sense. Day 1 is too early to expect a positive PCR from Omicron. And the 'crowded places' rule is unenforceable.
It starts with the Problem of Trump. "This guy looks like a narcissistic moron but he's a billionaire President so he must be a genius 4d chess player". Trump's
MAGA base thought of him as a cool, calm calculating man with a plan who never loses.
Yeah. I know.
Remember covfefe, a not-at-all mysterious typo that hardcore Trumpers said was a secret Arabic message or some other code?
The UKHSA's Omicron daily overviews are clearly confusing a lot of people. Even my mum said she'd heard people saying there were only 10-15k Omicron cases a day in the UK This isn't correct, though.
The UK doesn't do genetic sequencing EVERY positive test. They don't have the capacity. They do a lot, which is how they can report 16k confirmed Omicron cases in a day, but they didn't sequence the majority of positive tests.
Luckily, Omicron usually causes a particular result in PCR testing, "S-Gene Target Failure". Delta doesn't do this. So SGTF cases are a good way proxy to keep an eye on Omicron.
Just dug around this. JPost.press was registered 11 days ago and uses Zoho to handle its email traffic. If you go to the website, it redirects through to the REAL Jpost.com. But....
There is an A record IP for Jpost.press — 204.12.216.126 which is a dedicated IP in Kansas City, Missouri. That IP is associated with the name Luo Shiqi, a local academic, but that doesn't suggest her involvement in anything shady.
Put 204.12.216.126 in your browser and you'll be redirected but not to the Jerusalem Post this time. Nope, you'll get the Dubai-based Khaleej Times instead. So are they being targeted in the same way the JPost are?
Israel's committee of experts voted tonight to recommend a FOURTH dose of Pfizer's vaccine to over-60s, immunocompromised people and healthcare workers, from 4 months after the third dose.
I admit I'm not sure about a fourth vaccine dose so soon after the third. I assume the idea is to pump up antibody titres to get through Omicron.
The committee voted against a fourth-dose booster for the rest of the population at this point.