Friday Squid Blogging: Amazingly Realistic Squid Drawings

The squid drawings of Yuuki Tokuda are simply incredible.

I tried to figure out how to buy one of them, but everything is in Japanese.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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Posted on April 10, 2020 at 4:04 PM • 155 Comments

Don't Post Much • April 11, 2020 11:58 AM

@Clive
Re: Power and Control
You touched all of my biases. Modern Western civilization is all about the power. I believe this holds true whether it is in the political arena or at the higher levels of corporations. I believe this so much that I constructed a take-off of the famous energy formula (E=MC2). Here is the power formula: P=Mt2. Where P is power over people, M is money, and t is time. You’ll notice that there is no I for intelligence.
Re: Vacine
I remember the days when the Polio virus was the killer to be feared. Poliomyelitis took quite a long while to be conquered. If conquered means less than a hundred wild cases per year, mostly in third world countries. The first effective vaccine was developed around 1935, but it used a live virus which killed a few children and thus was shunned. It took until about 1952 for a safe and effective vaccine to be produced. So…we may have quite a wait for an effective vaccine.
@MarkH
“With that caveat in mind, Sharkey found that in places where the average person:
• has less education,”
I’ve noticed many groups of teens and young adults hanging in groups, sharing touches and in head-to-head conversations. I suppose that this falls within the ‘less education’ field.

Don't Post Much • April 11, 2020 12:19 PM

@SpaceLifeForm
Congrats to Professor Gilbert. I truly hope she is correct. However:

In order for the vaccine to be distributed in the autumn, Professor Gilbert says the Government will need to start production before it is proven to work.
She told the paper: “We don’t want to get to later this year and discover we have a highly effective vaccine and we haven’t got any vaccine to use.”

From my admittedly jaded perspective I have to say: It Ain’t Gonna Happen That Way. There is way too much gov’t money to be thrown around and an important election coming up. Recent memories of denial and foot-dragging (which led to the N.Y. and Mardi Gras disasters) lead me to believe that the U.S. Government will not be sponsoring the tests or the production of an unproven vaccine.