THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”

― Henry David Thoreau

BIRTHDAYS:

1709 Francesco Araja, Italian composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples. Cephalus and Prokris, Act 2, part 6

1860 Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer. Depuis le Jour de la Opera Louise

1903 George Orwell, English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic.

1956 Anthony Bourdain, American-French celebrity chef, author, and TV personality.

MISCELLANY:

ALAN TURING, PLEASE CALL YOUR OFFICE. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the Best Performing AI Model

FAIR ENOUGH – FOR COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL THAT IS. Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

A FEW THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND BEFORE THE NEXT LOCKDOWN BEGINS:

SOMETIMES IT REALLY IS WHAT YOU THINK IT IS. A Special Message To Patients: STOP Your Ideological BS (5:59)

IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

RELATED. Nuremberg Code.