Follow-up

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One can never ethically source a human spine… trick question.

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US federal judge Patricia Campbell-Smith has slapped a hold [PDF] on Amazon’s legal challenge to the $10bn Pentagon Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract to give the military time to “reconsider… aspects of the procurement” in the mega-contract.

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How afraid of unions is Amazon?

At least this much afraid.

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This thread

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I mean, the stupidity of defunding the WHO for the reason of COVID-19 is bad enough. What adds extra layers of self-ownage about it is, the WHO is the front line against worse pandemics than COVID-19.

Anybody who has read the symptom list (or worse, seen pictures of patients) of Marburg virus [shudder] knows it gets much, much worse than COVID-19.

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Assange should be furloughed from Belmarsh prison, says human rights org. Here’s a thought: He could stay with friends!

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Marburg=Ebola, but airborne, for any who don’t know. And if @DukeTrout’s shudder did not clue you in, do not Google images. Very bad, very nightmare, very no.

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Marburg was nasty.
Makes you think what could have happened if Reston had been discovered too late, or bungled.

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ICANN has kiboshed the proposed transfer of the .org domain registry to a private for-profit firm.

https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-board-withholds-consent-for-a-change-of-control-of-the-public-interest-registry-pir

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These guys have won my heart.
Brand new ‘stock car’ series starting now.

From the amazing track set up that just warms my tabletop geek heart to the commentary that just is spot on and the joy of just racing hot wheels.

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Microsoft claims AWS has used new JEDI mind trick with secret contract objection filing

Updated Amazon.com has filed a second, secret, appeal against the decision to award Microsoft the Pentagon’s $10bn Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract.

So says Microsoft corporate veep for comms Frank X Shaw, who has blogged that the appeal was filed on Tuesday directly with the US Department of Defense.

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But why, exactly?

ETA 2020-05-11:

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CEO of AI surveillance upstart Banjo walks the plank after white supremacist past sinks contracts

The CEO of surveillance AI upstart Banjo, Damien Patton, has quit the company he founded following revelations he was involved with the Ku Klux Klan in the 1990s and participated in the shooting of a synagogue.

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US piles yet more charges on Theranos CEO, COO. We could do with good blood testing now… and this wasn’t it

Federal prosecutors have filed a superseding indictment against the CEO and COO of now-defunct blood-testing company Theranos, piling on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, and forfeiture.

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