#Weekly Bosses Codex

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Genshin Impact | Weekly Bosses Codex: The Game Before the Gate

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Genshin Impact Weekly Bosses Codex: La Signora

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MIR4 update is rolling out on PC, Android, and iOS players. According to the official MIR4 patch notes, the latest update introduces several new events, including Osher's Skill Log Events and the Yellow Dragon Wayfarer Event, along with improvements to the Blue Dragon Coffer. Previously, a major update added World Boss 'Black Flame Arch Demon Nerkan' to the game. Unfortunately, players are still experiencing several issues with the game. Today's MIR4 patch will address a few of these errors. Read more details below. MIR4 Patch Notes - May 28, 2024 The update introduces new events: Osher's Skill Log Events aim to boost the growth of Dragonians with four different activities. The Yellow Dragon Wayfarer Event allows players above level 20 to collect 'Yellow Dragon Wayfarer Seals' to create helpful items for their progression. Blue Dragon Coffer improvements include: Addition of two types of Blue Dragon Coffer selection boxes. Changes in components of some Blue Dragon Coffers. Detailed patch note details include: Information about the events and how to participate. Crafting materials required for the new Blue Dragon Coffers. Changes in components of Legendary and Epic Blue Dragon Coffers. Bug Fixes [Craft] Changed the probability for Great Success when crafting Dragon Artifacts. [Mission] Adjusted the difficulty for the [World 5] Demon's Ruin > ‘[Weekly] Eliminate Monster’ mission. [Portal] Adjusted the basic attack range of ‘Celestial Reaver’ in Fissured Secret Peak 11F. [Codex] Fixed the issue where Codex items could not be registered after Wayfarer Travel. Fixed various in-game typos. Download the free MIR4 update for PC (Steam).

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I really need to stop pulling on unplanned characters. Chiori is really pretty. There were people saying that her color scheme was ugly but I dig the autumn-ness of it. The designer angle, the dolls... But I was still thinking that I was going to pass on her.

Okay, 50 pulls.

115 pulls later, I have:

✂️Chiori✂️

Diluc's C2 con

Gorou cons x 5 (C6ed)

Favonius Lance

Favonius Codex

Favonius Warbow

Lion's Roar

No mora, talent books or weekly boss mats ready. I had two of the regular boss mats left from overshooting the mark on another character but I thought I was skipping so I didn't prepare anything else 😅

At least I still have enough primos for Arlecchino and low enough pity to try and chase the four stars in between.

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MacGyver 5x01

After the long wait MacGyver has returned with a kickass premiere. And because the wait was too long, my review will be long too! So you are warned.

The episode was great. Loved the John Wick references, the storyline was solid, pacing was good, action scenes were brilliant and the fight choreographies are getting better and better each season so this episode also did not that dissapoint on that front. And bcoz i missed all the characters so freaking much, having them back felt so good.

Vincent is probably one of my favorite guest stars ever on this show. Loved the humor he brought to the scenes and i think he had great chemistry with both Russ and Mac. I wasn’t even sorry that he double crossed them coz he did it so smoothly! LOL

In another life Mac and Vincent could have been best buddies!

Girls Team & Boys Team

One of the things i loved about this episode was the “tension” between the characters. I was glad to see that the whole Codex mess wasn’t glossed over.

It was nice to see Mac-Russ and Riley-Desi trying to save the day while dealing with their “trust issues”.

I really loved the paralel storytelling between Boys Team and Girls Team.

Last time it was MacRiley vs RussDesi… And now Matty mixes the teams so that they could regain some of the trust that was lost between them. I love you BOSS LADY!

Now this episode might have been “perfect” if it could have handled the Riley-Desi resolution better. I enjoyed how Mac-Russ made things work in the end. Russ already apologized Mac in 4x13 but in this episode we saw that his trust issues and paranoia were still going on. And Mac was having a hard time working with a guy that tried to “kill” him. DUH!

It was so good to see Mac saying everything that is needed to be said and in the end Russ finally realized the wrong in his behaviour and let Mac know that he has his trust from now on.

Riley&Desi

But IMO things didn’t end in a satisfying way for the Girls Team. The writers trying to “soften” Desi’s behaviour in 4x12 by throwing some of the guilt on Riley, left a bad taste in my mouth.

Desi says she could have joined Riley if she would have let her in on her plan.

And this is 100% NOT TRUE.

Lets remember 4x12 very quickly…

Mac’s gone rogue. Russ tells the team Mac is now an enemy of the state. Desi sides with Russ. Matty and Bozer are neutral. Riley tries to reason with everyone on the team.

“Guys, is this really neccessary?”

“Mac does everything for a reason.”

“Mac doesn’t have an evil bone in his body.”

While Riley tries to make Desi & the team change their minds about Mac, what does Desi do?: 

That’s not my interpretation guys, that’s canon. That is what happened in 4x12.

So we all know that Riley letting Desi in on her plan could only end with Desi stopping her. Desi’s mind was set, she didn’t trust Mac and she wanted nothing but to stop him. Let’s not change history!

Besides, why did Desi need Riley’s plan, couldn’t she come up with her own to save Mac if that’s what she really wanted to do?

So as you see, Riley apologizing to Desi was total BS. Desi was the only one who needed to say sorry and unfortunately the best she could do was to say “she regretted her choices”…  I think once again writers missed the opportunity for some character development for Desi. Desi needs to OWN her mistakes alone without other characters’ HELP.

The triangle

Because i’m an obssesed fan who likes to delve more deeply into the characters, i rewatched this episode and here’s the conclusion i’ve come:

Desi is angry and resentful. But not just angry at Riley but herself too. She says she regrets not being there for Mac and Riley. She knows she should have trusted Mac and messed up!

But i also sensed some jealously there. By the end of 4x13 Desi’s anger towards Mac seemed to dissapear. So why was Desi angry at Riley in 5x01?

Because as Mac’s girlfriend she should have been the one by his side when it really mattered.

Because as Mac’s partner, she should have been the one risking it all to protect him.

But it was Riley who did all that.

That’s why she’s projecting all her anger on Riley. Because she is jealous. And i think Riley noticed that too. Our queen is very perceptive especially when it comes to reading people’s emotions.

Throughout the episode she tried to make things work with Desi. But Desi blocked all her attempts. And when Desi opened up, Riley realized that there is a much deeper wound under all that anger. That’s probably why she apologized. It was Riley’s way of making things work. Riley was the bigger person here. She wanted peace, she needed a solution. So she said sorry

Back to Desi’s “jealousy”… When she asked Riley why she followed Mac, she was totally fishing for another answer.

Desi is not stupid she already knows the obvious answer. Riley followed Mac bcoz she trusted him. But that’s not what she was searching for. She asked the question to read Riley’s expressions and body language. And Riley felt that too… But bcoz our queen is a true queen she delivered the best line of the episode:

“Because i trust Mac. Question is why didn’t you?”

This line is heavy people! Riley counterattacks Desi. She is basically saying “Instead of interrogating me about my feelings how about you question yours?”

This episode might have resolved the Codex tension, but the triangle is still a reality. Both girls have feelings for Mac, so there’ll be more tension/awkwardness between them. Better get ready!

Timejump

10 months and a pandemic since Codex, huh?

We all know that the writers added that line and the information about Phoenix being shut down to fit the new episodes to a pandemic world. But for die-hard fans like us, it’s not working. The characters are acting like Codex happened yesterday, Riley recently moved to a new place which she was looking for in 4x11…

So i’m gonna ignore the 10 month time jump coz i know that the additional episodes weren’t designed that way.

Honourable mention

1 to 10, how hot was the opening scene? *cough 11 cough*

It was literally and figuratively HOT.

I really wanted and expected Mac’s towel to drop at some point. Obviously dissapointed when it didn’t! LMAO 

Untill next week

To end my weekly MacGyver ramblings; i can say that i’m ok with the team resolving the tension. The episodes we are watching now were actually written as a continuation of season 4. Probably back in the day the writers didn’t want to keep the dark-tense episodes going forever so they needed to put an end to that and move to lighter and more fun dynamic.

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any tips for somebody trying out warframe for the first time since they were like uuuuhh. 17?

I’m gonna assume this means you haven’t checked out the game in a few years, which puts you in a boat similar to the one I was in when I redownloaded it in 2016, which is totally cool! The game has changed so much it may as well be a different game, and continues to do so every year. In some ways the new player experience is streamlined, but overall it’s still really overwhelming to get into.

First off, if you’re redownloading on the same platform with the same account you had previously, anything you did previously will still be there. For example, when I first played I started with Mag. When I tried the game again years later, I picked Volt for the tutorial quest that was added in the meantime, but once I got into the game proper, I still had Mag. And I’ve heard of accounts of people thinking they’d lose their Prime frames or platinum after reinstalling, only to still fin them there. So that’s a cool thing I’m sure still applies.

If you’re starting fresh, in regards to starter frames, I recommend Excalibur or Volt depending on whether or not you’ll be playing with others or solo. I say this because Mag and Excalibur can be acquired very early on (with Mag being one of the first three frames you can farm for once you have access to the solar map; she’s my favorite of the three, and the only reason I recommend not to choose her to start is because she’s incredibly simple to acquire regardless); for Volt, however, you’ll need to join a clan to have access to their dojo and their labs, which have blueprints for various things, including Volt. If you don’t want to commit to a clan but want the blueprints, many clans are open to inviting people with no commitment or requirements, so you can grab your blueprints and leave. I saw this a lot frequently with the tweaks made to Nezha, who can only be acquired via a clan dojo (also my favorite frame, highly recommend, Nezha’s the reason I’m into warframe). Lots of newer players asked to join clans just to get him, and clans were very receptive to this!

But uh, in short; if you don’t wanna talk to people, choose Volt. Otherwise, maybe go for Excal since the boss fight to acquire him can take longer/is more annoying than Mag’s, who is easy peasy. Although, you can start your own clan and build your own dojo/labs, but it’ll take a long while to get things set up so you can have access to those blueprints.

Speaking of blueprints, I feel they’re set up in a confusing way that can seem unfair. I don’t believe Warframe is a game that promotes microtransactions and works hard to make it optional, but the menu layout isn’t always clear on this. By this I mean, if you’re looking for new frames or weapons in the market, and it says you have to buy with platinum, the real world currency–you really don’t. There will be a button prompt that will either give you the price of the blueprint in credits, so you can gather material and craft the frame/weapon, or it will tell you where the blueprint is, which generally means it’s in a dojo lab, a quest, or you farm for it somewhere.

If you don’t know what to do, follow the Solar Map. It basically tells you where to go and what unlocks, be it planets, quests, or new game functions and such. If you’re interested in the open world areas, the REALLY COOL THING is that they’re available from the start! Plains of Eidolon is on Earth and deliberately has a new player friendly tutorial and a good half or more of the features. The upcoming Fortuna addition will be on Venus, which is also a planet that doesn’t take long to get to.

You’re going to get some starter platinum that you can’t trade, and I highly recommend you keep it for extra warframe and weapon slots. I find it ridiculous that they cost platinum, but at least it’s a very low amount that’s easy enough to trade for. You can earn platinum in-game via acquiring relics and opening them in void fissure missions. This is something I don’t think is explained unless you look for it in the in-game Codex; but the Warframe wiki will probably be your best source of info for just about everything. To be honest, the only things in the game that absolutely require platinum that can’t be farmed are cosmetics* and slots. Everything else can either be farmed, or just requires patience (building items in your foundry takes real time for example; it costs platinum to speed it up, but you don’t really need to spend it).

(*also exception to the cosmetics rule are alt helmets; tennogen, that is user made ones, and deluxe skins+helmets will always cost platinum, but the official ones can be acquired via alerts.)

If you happen to have an Amazon Prime and/or Twitch account, use them! Linking your Prime account to twitch gives you access to Twitch prime, and therefore various bundles Digital Extremes have been releasing which include free Prime frames and weapons. You can earn stuff even if you just have a Twitch account, as DE has been experimenting with Twitch drops, and if you tune into their weekly streams, you can win platinum and other prizes. I won platinum in my first few months of playing! The devs are also wonderful and in near constant communication with the playerbase and are, like, constantly just giving things away, it’s amazing.

Uhh lastly, I wanna say overall the community is good, but I suppose that would depend on where you interact. The region chat in game is full of trolls, and from what I’ve seen on reddit or the official forums, it’s mostly full of either whining or ~veterans~ talking about the meta which consists of a bunch of shit that’s really not relevant to newer or uninterested players. The fandom here on tumblr is full of a lot of creatives (myself included! though I haven’t done anything for Warframe yet) which is super cool, but if you care at all about the lore or story, you’ll want to blacklist spoilers and stuff liberally if you browse the tag, since PC gets updates before consoles, and in general the big story reveals are a few years old now. Personally if I need to look up something, I just go to the wiki.

That’s all I can think of! I apologize for the text dump, but as much as I love Warframe, many of the game features aren’t well-explained in the game and it’s hard not to over-explain. Thank you very much for asking me about this fantastic game and please feel free to ask me anything else! Or if anyone else has any starter advice to add on, that’s cool too! I LOVE WARFRAME A LOT AND I’M VERY EXCITED YOU’RE GIVING IT ANOTHER TRY BECAUSE IT’S A GREAT GAME!!!

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1- About Tony being the Villians' Favorite: CW happened and they get access to footage of the Siberia fight and they realize that cap could have killed Tony and they're like "how dare you???? Who do you think you are???" and at this point it's not even about who is going to kill Iron Man anymore, it's because Tony is the only one able the keep up with them, he gives them a good challenge, he has the best sarcastic answers for all the villian monologue, they don't even want to harm people anymore

2- they want to fight Tony to see who has the best weapons, who is smarter (it’s always Tony) so the rogues come back and they realize something: the bad guys barely attack Tony, they go out of their way to avoid attacking Tony and antagonize team cap and when confronted with this they say “well someone has to defend Mr Stark since all his supposed friends wouldn’t hesitate on turning their backs on him for some spoiled hydra agent who doesn’t know how to control their anger but sure knows how

3- how to control their anger but sure knows how to fuck up people’s mind” (and they keep getting her name wrong, they call her wilma, wendy, marta omg i love this headcanon where no one gets her name right)

Why thank you for this brilliant headcanon, darling! (I love that mixing up Wanda’s name post too, wasn’t there one where Thor always got it wrong and played stupid? It’s brilliant)

I just really like that the villains enjoy fighting Iron Man because he’s as much of a drama queen as they are–he knows how to put on, and more importantly how to appreciate, a good show, you know? Fighting Iron Man is like playing a really challenging game of chess, where they take each other’s weapons and minions out without hesitation, but even when the king loses, he’s never actually taken off the board (yup that metaphor sucks, I apologise to every chess player out there). 

And well, of course it’s also about pride. Everything is about pride. The villains who most frequently engage with Iron Man in combat obviously keep a score. They keep an eye on who gets the most hits in, who deals the most damage, who does a strategical retreat and so on. They also keep track on which Avenger is the most likely to interrupt their fun, so they know whom to take out in the beginning of a fight.

Only then one of them gets their hands on footage of a certain Siberian bunker and this shit suddenly gets serious. Iron Man could’ve been taken out (worth 150 points) by someone who isn’t even recognises as an official player and THAT CAN NOT STAND. 

(It’s got nothing to do with the fact that maybe Tony Stark isn’t all that bad, you know, for a superhero. Nope. It’s all about the game and wanting those 150 points to themselves. Their professional pride is on the line here, okay. It’s not because of feelings. Feelings aren’t a part of the villain manual.)

So, they adapt. They’re villains, they’re used to it. Admittedly usually because the hero pulls some impossible stunt at the last second because they stubbornly refuse to die, but that’s neither here nor there.

First, they assign someone to keep track on Stark. It’s not a protective duty. It’s just…an insurance. To make sure no outside influence becomes a serious threat to their fun. Besides after all this time they’ve invested into fighting Iron Man, should he ever actually lose, they all agree they have earned this honour. Not some lucky upstart or fucking turncoat.

Second, certain forces need to be taken out. Officially it’s destroying the competition–a perfectly acceptable, villainous goal–, unofficially some people take their hatred for Iron Man a little too far. And when you already have to watch out for the supposed heroes, you can’t afford some crazy nutcase to pop up every time you turn your back on Stark.

Then the Rogue Avengers come back. The villains have dragged it out for as long as possible, an obscene amount of bribes have gone into ensuring the Congress isn’t too forgiving too quickly, but Stark is determined to get the Rogues pardoned for whatever reason, and that’s not a battle they can win in the long run.

And that’s a problem. The Rogues have access to Stark in ways they have not. Thankfully at least Stark doesn’t stay at the Avengers’ compound anymore. That gives them a small reprieve.

(They don’t worry. Villains do not worry. It’s not in their genetic code, nor their moral codex for that matter.)

There’s a very serious discussion about grazing the stupid compound into the ground, but in the end they decide not to do it. For one, the risk of the Rogues being granted access to the Stark Tower is just too great. For another, it’s convenient to have a return address they could graze into the ground, should the Rogues ever cross a certain line.

Next, the villains create a time table. Whereas the media used to joke about the ‘weekly villain attacks’ back in the day, there are now carefully scheduled weekly attacks for real. It helps them to vent some of their frustration, at the right target no less. It also has the added benefit of keeping the Rogues busy.

Of course Iron Man joins in on the fun more often than not, but he isn’t the main target like he used to be, isn’t singled out. If anything it’s the Rogues that are being singled out, and they always bear the brunt of the fight.

(They do not go easy on Iron Man. They do not. They have simply shifted the focus of their game. Damage dealt to the Rogues is now worth way more points than before, and since every villain wants to take the lead, it’s only rational they concentrate on the most worth-while targets. That’s all there is to it.)

The first time one of them makes Wanda Maximoff scream in rage is an accident. To their great shame it’s not even a real villain who accomplishes it, it’s a fairly new minion who interrupts the shouting match between his boss and the witch with an annoyed, “Oh, shut up, Wen–Vick–Wally, whoever the fuck you are, I’m trying to concentrate here!”

It becomes a running gag then, to never call the witch by her name, and the longer they keep the joke alive, the more frustrated the witch becomes.

(The minion gets a well-earned raise.)

Eventually the Rogues catch on. Eventually they begin to ask questions. Giving them more ridiculous answers every time becomes another running gag. Inevitably though Rogers eventually runs into Cross Bones who has a tendency of taking his fights with Captain America too personal.

“Well someone has to defend Mr Stark since all his supposed friends wouldn’t hesitate on turning their backs on him for some spoiled hydra agent who doesn’t know how to control their anger but sure knows how to fuck up people’s mind!” he snaps. Then uses the frozen state of the stunned Captain to his advantage to break the man’s nose with a very satisfying crack. Because, hello, villain.

(He then promptly dives to the side to push a crying kid out of the way a crumbling building. Not because he cares about who gets hurt of course. Villains don’t care about this stuff. But everyone knows Tony Stark cares about it.)

He gets twenty-five points for breaking Roger’s nose. He also gets a “I don’t know why, but if a guy like Cross Bones decides to save a kids’ life I’m not gonna sit around complaining about it.” and a thumbs up from Tony Stark in that night’s talk show. 

(He does not care more about the thumbs up than about the points. His fellow villains are not jealous.)

There are a lot of villains-saving-civilians-and-innocent-bystanders incidents after that.

(Not that anyone cares what Tony Stark thinks. The saving people thing simply earns them bonus points. Bonus points are important.)

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Welcome to our weekly roundup of cherished news bits! This week’s batch:

☠ Are uptown rats really fancier than downtown rats? Or do they just eat better garbage?

☠ A rainbow appeared continuously in the sky above Taipei for nine hours. ☠ This haunting photographic tarot deck got a nod from the Boss!

☠ The Codex Quetzalecatzin, a rare colored Mesoamerican manuscript, has been digitized.

☠ A giant sphinx head discovered beneath the sands of California blows dust off one of the greatest stories of extravagance in Hollywood history.

☠ Jim Nabors, TV's lovably naive Gomer Pyle, dies at 87.

☠ Author Ursula Vernon makes an unexpected acceptance speech for an unexpected honor.

☠ From the better-late-than-never department: a filmic update on modern flax production in New Zealand from 1947.

☠ Stranger Things has just been renewed for a third season!

☠  We finish our bits with a haunting animation by Brandon Rhoads:

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Weekly Horoscope March 11-17

Weekly Horoscope March 11-17

Weekly horoscopes for all SUN signs, if you know your Moon and Rising/Ascendant Sign read up on that one too.

ARIES

Mars in Taurus may have you slowing down to smell the roses rather uncharacteristically these days. The 11th feels romantic, sensuous, indulgent and empowering. The 14th is a great day for career advancement, impressing your boss, Dad or anyone in authority. The 16th is good for…

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17 July 2020

The links effect*

Busy week, will spare you the blurb.

A few things quickly:

Fancy being the new head of the analytical unit at 10 Downing Street (or rather 10ds)? Not sure how much has changed since January, really. Some great analysis from Lewis hopefully appearing here soon.

If you enjoyed the Hamilton links last week, well... you'd be a muppet not to enjoy this.

This week marked a year since IfG and Full Fact convened a number of civil society organisations in writing a letter to DCMS about the National Data Strategy. Hopefully we'll see the Strategy itself before too long.

Data is singular. Data are not plural. Proof. (In terms of accessibility and meaning, at least.)

Have a good weekend

Gavin

*yes, I have used that one before, thank you for asking

Today's links:

Tips, tech, etc

Holding on to working less (Meg Douglas Howie)

The future of offices will be decided by bosses, not workers* (New Statesman)

MIDDLE MANAGERS AND OFFICES ARE GOOD FOR YOU (Higher Education Strategy Associates)

Graphic content

Viral content

Is Your State Doing Enough Coronavirus Testing?* (New York Times, via Alice)

Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries (The Economist)

Florida's coronavirus outbreak is getting worse (Axios)

It's not the flu (Helen Branswell, via Marcus)

California squanders early lead in fight against coronavirus* (FT)

Why are we not wearing masks in the UK?* (FT)

How Coronavirus Cases Have Risen Since States Reopened* (New York Times - and in print)

Did the government meet its Covid-19 test targets? (Full Fact)

In Africa, a lack of data raises fears of ‘silent epidemic’ (Reuters)

Which parts of Africa will be hit hardest by covid-19?* (The Economist)

Where The Latest COVID-19 Models Think We're Headed — And Why They Disagree (FiveThirtyEight)

Emerging COVID-19 success story: South Korea learned the lessons of MERS (Our World in Data)

Emerging COVID-19 success story: Vietnam’s commitment to containment (Our World in Data)

Britons are still staying home because they don't trust the government over Covid-19* (New Statesman)

Coronavirus (COVID-19) positive cases by Middle Super Output Area (MSOA) in England (Public Health England)

It's the economy, covid

UK housebuyers look to swap cities for suburbs* (FT)

How quickly will the economy recover and how much ‘scarring’ will there be in the medium term? (OBR)

Coronavirus analysis (OBR)

OBR scenarios suggest that Rishi Sunak’s ‘Plan for Jobs’ may not be enough (Tom for IfG)

UK economic recovery tracker: what the latest data on activity are signalling* (FT)

Payroll jobs worked by people under 20 continue to show the fastest recovery since a mid-April low (Australian Bureau of Statistics, via Bill Wells)

#BlackLivesMatter

The race gap (Reuters)

Protests Continue Daily in Louisville. Here’s a Look at 45 Days of Marches.* (New York Times)

Black British history: the row over the school curriculum in England (The Guardian)

How racist is Britain?* (Prospect)

Nature and the environment

The world’s wealth is looking increasingly unnatural* (The Economist)

Locusts: A close-up look at the swarms devouring the world's crops (BBC News)

Climate change: what Antarctica’s ‘doomsday glacier’ means for the planet* (FT)

US politics

In a Term Full of Major Cases, the Supreme Court Tacked to the Center* (New York Times)

Roberts Is The New Swing Justice. That Doesn’t Mean He’s Becoming More Liberal. (FiveThirtyEight)

Why Trump — Not Biden — Might Have An Enthusiasm Problem (FiveThirtyEight)

UK government and politics

Changes of allegiance (me for IfG)

The civil service in York (me for IfG)

Permanent secretaries (me for IfG)

Competent, likeable, decisive: Keir Starmer beating Boris Johnson on all counts (The Guardian)

Sunak is most popular Chancellor in 15 years (YouGov)

Everything else

A Brazen Online Attack Targets V.I.P. Twitter Users in a Bitcoin Scam* (New York Times)

These Are the Worst Corporate Hacks of All Time* (Bloomberg - old but relevant)

‘Wow’: Tesla’s share price rise stuns Musk and his fans* (FT)

Creating choropleth maps in Google Data Studio (ONS Data Science Campus)

Europe’s stabilising power (Reuters)

Mapping changes in news-related employment and businesses in the UK (Nesta)

The mobilizing power of the BTS ARMY (Reuters)

Meta data

Viral content: contact details

8 million people, 14 alerts: why some covid-19 apps are staying silent (MIT Technology Review)

Using apps for contact tracing in response to COVID-19: the controversies (LSE Business Review)

Coronavirus: Contact tracers in England 'locked out of accounts' (Sky News)

ODI’s Covid-19 research identifies symptom tracking as a key area for attention (ODI)

Rapid review: NHS Test and Trace statistics (England) (Office for Statistics Regulation)

Viral content: everything else

Why no-one can ever recover from COVID-19 in England – a statistical anomaly (CEBM, University of Oxford)

The pandemic has made UK government rethink its relationship with data (Oliver Dowden for Computer Weekly)

Sewage monitoring is the UK’s next defence against covid-19 (BMJ)

Bottleneck for U.S. Coronavirus Response: The Fax Machine* (The Upshot, via Graham)

Search results are helping tackle COVID-19 – now we should use them to develop policies* (Apolitical)

New risk prediction model could help improve guidance for people shielding from COVID-19 (NIHR)

Explainer: Social distancing wearables for the workplace (CDEI)

Exclusive: Covid Test Data Held Back From Publication Over Community Cohesion Concerns (Huffington Post)

Communicating statistics, risk and uncertainty in the age of Covid - Prof. David Spiegelhalter (University of Edinburgh)

Vast sums spent, no one knows why: COVID reveals why UK transparency law must change (openDemocracy)

When secret coronavirus contracts are awarded without competition, it's deadly serious (The Guardian)

COVID-19 Response Report (Good Things Foundation)

AI

Don’t ask if artificial intelligence is good or fair, ask how it shifts power (Nature)

Face and Emotion Recognition Technologies How can regulation protect citizens and their privacy? (APPG AI/Big Innovation Centre)

EUROPEAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POLICY: MAPPING THE INSTITUTIONAL LANDSCAPE (Data Justice Lab)

Prepare for Artificial Intelligence to Produce Less Wizardry* (Wired)

DeepMind researchers propose rebuilding the AI industry on a base of anticolonialism (VentureBeat)

UK

Statistics for the public good (UK Statistics Authority)

Police and CPS scrap digital data extraction forms for rape cases (The Guardian)

Fast economic data is like fast food — tempting but bad for you* (FT)

How to view faster economic indicators and new data sources? (Jonathan Athow, ONS)

EXCL: Whitehall departments reported 500 personal data breaches to ICO in FY20 (Public Technology)

Open Government Playbook (DCMS)

Devon will use Strava to prioritise popular cycling roads for repairs (road.cc)

Data gaps holding back DIT's export strategy despite 'good start', NAO says (Civil Service World)

Problems with MP voting data (Alex Blandford/Peter Wells)

Social Missions and innovation (Rachel Coldicutt)

A different future for telecoms in the UK (NCSC)

Everything else

EU-US Privacy Shield for data struck down by court (BBC News)

5 Questions on Data and Feminicide with Silvana Fumega (Data Feminism)

Summer of Open Data: Accelerating Data Collaboration (Open Data Policy Lab)

What are the best words to use when talking about data? (Understanding Patient Data)

Scientists put forward plan to create universal species list (The Guardian)

The Rights and Responsibilities of Internet Platforms (The American Interest)

Check your privacy privilege. (Heather Burns)

Anti-Corruption Data Collective

The Data Delusion: Protecting Individual Data Isn't Enough When The Harm is Collective (Stanford Cyber Policy Centre)

Reimagining the Company Directory (Slack)

Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media* (The New Yorker)

UN E-Government Survey 2020 (UN)

Data and the Task of the Humanities (The Hedgehog Review)

A Plan to Make Police Data Open Source Started on Reddit (Wired, via The Week in Data)

Opportunities

JOB: Head of No10 Analytical Unit (Cabinet Office)

JOB: Policy Director (Data & Society)

JOB: Senior Research Portfolio Manager (ADR UK)

FELLOWSHIP: Join us as an ODI research fellow (ODI)

EVENT: Virtual Gikii programme

And finally...

Sport and leisure

With three rounds of fixtures to go, there still isn't a single Championship club mathematically guaranteed to be in the division next season (Ben Mayhew)

Pop music is getting faster (and happier) (BBC News)

The physical traits that define men & women in literature (The Pudding)

It's your move (ODI Summit 2020)

Charts

Lighthouses in England and Wales in 1911 (Duncan Geere)

The Kyoto Aquarium has a flowchart illustrating the complicated romantic relationships and breakups between their penguins. (Oliver Jia)

We've come a long way (Alex Selby-Boothroyd)

Plural vs singular (Jon Mellon)

COVID Risk Chart (xkcd)

Florence on the move - Looking at the Nightingale chart from different perspectives (@VizzuHQ)

Everything else

Big, er... (Abeba Birhane)

Consumers Prefer Round Numbers Even When the Specific Number Is Better News (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Typefaces of Protest: A Short Survey (Tom Sutcliffe, via Tim)

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