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Movies & TV Star Wars: The Acolyte The Acolyte Offers a Certain Point of View in “Choice” Here’s the rest of what happened on Brendok sixteen years ago… By Emmet Asher-Perrin | Published on July 10, 2024 Screenshot: Disney+ Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Disney+ Oh, so no frame device, we’re just jumping right into another flashback episode? Okay. Recap Screenshot: Disney+ We’re back on Brendok sixteen years ago to learn what else happened. The Jedi group were dispatched to research a possible vergence in the Force on Brendok; years before the planet had no life at all and now it’s abundant. Torbin hates this mission and wants to go back to Coruscant, though Sol insists that it’s a noble endeavor. On the next day of scouting, Sol comes across Osha and Mae and follows them back to their coven, watching them receive training. He returns to his camp and tells Indara that he’s worried for the girls’ safety, as he heard they’re preparing for their ceremony tonight. Indara agrees to check it out despite reservations, and everyone insists on accompanying her, though she wants to go in alone. Aniseya delves deep into Torbin’s mind when she controls him, learning of his desire to go home and promising that she can give that to him. Once the encounter has ended, Indara praises Sol for the suggestion of testing the girls, giving her time to ask the Council for guidance on the situation. Sol feels a connection to Osha and believes that she’s meant to be his Padawan, which Indara warns against, as Osha is too old. Sol worries that Mae has been marked with “dark magic” in their ceremony and that Osha doesn’t want the same. The next day, the girls are given their tests. Mae insists that her mark is to allow her and Osha to govern the coven, though Indara doesn’t understand how they could be true for two children. Sol knows Mae was told to fail and asks to try different tactics with Osha, which Indara agrees to. Osha passes, but the Council won’t allow them to take the twins from their people. Sol is very upset with the decision, and insists that he wants to do what’s best for Osha. The twins’ M-count indicates that they are more than just Force-sensitive twins: They are one being split in two, they are the vergence. Torbin believes getting that proof will allow them to leave Brendok, and hurries back to the coven against orders. Indara tells Sol to follow while she and Kelnacca bring the ship. After Mae and Osha fight, Koril takes Mae aside and tells her that if she doesn’t want Osha to leave, she must stop her. At the same time, Aniseya argues to the coven to allow Osha to make her own choice. They disagree, but Aniseya is determined that Osha should do what is right for her. Sol and Torbin decide to break in to the mining facility where the coven resides and get the girls out. Indara sends Kelnacca from the ship to stop a conflict from escalating. Sol confronts Aniseya and Koril, asking where the girls came from. Aniseya warns that the Jedi’s noble intentions will one day destroy them. Mae comes out to ask for help after starting the fire; Sol mistake her for Osha. Aniseya uses a Force magic to try and get them both to safety. Sol panics and cuts her down with his lightsaber, killing her as she tells him that she’d planned to let Osha leave with him. Koril tells Mae to run and begins to fight Sol. The fire grows and the witches take the opportunity to enter and control Kelnacca’s mind. Sol and Torbin fight the Wookiee until Indara shows up and breaks the connection in Kelnacca’s mind, causing the coven to collectively pass out. She tells Sol to get the twins. He finds them on opposite sides of the falling bridge, but she can’t save both of them: He chooses Osha as Mae falls. Back on the ship, Indara tells Sol he made a mistake and the two begin to fight before Torbin breaks in, wanting to know what they’ll tell the Council. Indara insists that they lie, saying that Mae started a fire and destroyed their home. Sol protests, but Indara tells him that if he throws himself at the mercy of the Council, Osha will have no one. As this is the result of choices he made, they all must lie so that Osha has a place. Osha wakes and asks what happened. Sol tells her that Mae started a fire. Commentary Screenshot: Disney+ This is… well, it’s a bit silly, isn’t it. And again, most of it comes down to the fact that we don’t know these characters well and haven’t been given enough information to understand their behavior. For instance—why is it so important to Torbin to get back to Coruscant? It sounds like a minor thing, but his upset over being asked to stay and monitor this world is so over-the-top that it effectively causes half the problems within the episode. He makes it sound like they’re living in exile or being punished. He’s literally panicked over the thought of having to stay there, which is hard to take seriously because that’s what Jedi do? They go where they’re told, and Padawans in particular are tied to their masters. So why would Torbin have agreed to become the Padawan to Indara, knowing her and the kind of missions she’s normally sent on? If this is a departure from the norm, we need to know that. If Aniseya’s possession is overly effecting him after the fact, we need to know that, too. As is, it just reads like Torbin is having a meltdown over being asked to camp in the woods. (Which I can sympathize with, but I’m not a Jedi.) The same confusion presents itself for Indara’s change of heart at the end of the episode. She’s the one quoting the rulebook at people and trying to stay in touch with the Jedi throughout. She’s the one who is warning Sol against the mistakes that he’s making. Yet her choice by the end of the episode is to lie to the Jedi Council and force an issue she was against from the start—making Osha Sol’s Padawan after being denied by their superiors because she’s too old to be trained. And she claims the reason is because this is too traumatizing for Osha, given everything that’s happened. I appreciate that someone finally stepped up and considered the kid’s welfare above everything else, but where is this coming from and why did it have to involve lying to her? It reeks of bad plot mechanics: Sol can’t be the person to make this decision because his guilt is part of the problem throughout the show, obviously Torbin doesn’t have any power here, and Kelnacca is a Wookiee, therefore unable to be understood without translation. (This bothers me frequently in Star Wars because it renders any sufficiently alien entity as a non-character—Kelnacca is effectively set dressing here.) Indara is the most in charge here, so it has to be her. So it is, even though it doesn’t jive remotely with what we’ve been shown of the character thus far. A good portion of this could have been solved by seeding more flashbacks throughout the plot and spending some extra time with these characters. It’s frustrating because we’ve been waiting for this reveal for weeks, and some of the what we’re shown does the work here—Sol choosing to save Osha over Mae when they’re both on that bridge is devastating—but so much of it is providing context with no weight attached to anchor it. I can appreciate that we see Koril directing Mae to keep her sister with them in terms of lifting a lot of the blame from Mae, who is a child throughout all of this and shouldn’t be blamed for what happened, but that’s also a gaping hole in the story that needs addressing; the differences between how Koril and Aniseya are choosing to parent deserves far more screentime. And then there’s Sol’s fear over how the girls are being treated, which is important parallel to real-world difficulties in childcare that gets no time to marinate at all. This is thorny stuff, so close to the issues we have in our own foster systems and Child Protective Services that it shouldn’t simply be thrown into the story without attention. Sol’s inability to understand the culture on Brendok causes this entire problem, as does his desire to have a pupil. That’s not a small difference of perspective—it’s a major distortion that destroys Mae and Osha’s lives. We get a few glimmers of thoughtfulness here and there: It seems as though Indara has more working knowledge than any of her compatriots, which is why she’s the one who seems to have some background on the Nightsisters. That lack of experience and knowledge would seem to be a key here; Sol attacks Aniseya for using a power that is known among the Nightsisters, something that seems strange for a Jedi to panic over. But again, without telling us anything, we can’t really get the full breadth of the tragedy here. Also, isn’t the rest of the coven… alive? They just went unconscious, it looks like? Why did they leave them there and make it sound like they’re all dead? (Did they leave them there to perish in the fire, because that’s uhhh… a really big deal.) Did Indara not know they were mostly alive and that’s why she insists on taking Osha with them and lying to everyone? Also, wouldn’t Osha have sensed that they were largely alive, being an entire coven connected through the Force? And if they’re all still alive, wouldn’t Mae know that? If having their connection severed to Kelnacca suddenly killed the whole group, that’s a thing that needs addressing stat. It’s especially frustrating to realize that most of these issues are instantly ameliorated with time. If the story had planted constant flashback throughout, it could have been suggested that Osha was sneaking away from her family to visit Sol, learning about the Jedi, and forming this deep bond he insists he has with her. It would have made more sense of the coven’s protectiveness, Torbin’s disillusion, Mae’s anger, and the fallout that ensues. What’s more, the story is set up to allow for that passage of time: The Council denies their petition to train Osha and asks them to continue their work on Brendok. They could have just hung around and allowed this to grow in a way that feels organic with the tiniest of tweaks. Spanners and Sabers Screenshot: Disney+ So that little fire really did destroy the entire facility? I guess we’re supposed to believe that the site’s age contributed to it, but so much of the place is stone that even with a substantial electrical fire, it still seems ridiculous. I’m really upset that we don’t get more of Sol and Indara’s relationship, because what we seem to have here is a dynamic in which the Obi-Wan-esque character has more seniority and than the Qui-Gon-esque one. And that’s so good and deserves far more attention than it’s been paid here. Yes, a vergence in the Force is the same thing that created Anakin Skywalker (with a little nudging from Palpatine). Basically, if you can find a spot where the Force is that strong, it’s possible to manipulate that power to do wild things—up to and including creating life. Interestingly, we’ve only ever heard of Sith and non-associated Force-users creating anything with these nexus areas of power… which makes one wonder why the Jedi sent a group to research it in the first place. Looking forward to the number of conventions that will now feature Jedi cosplayers hanging around with metal-detectors, looking for “Force vergences.” They didn’t even bother to trick them out—they’re just metal-detectors you’d use to scout a beach. Thank you for that. Next week, we finish the season. See you there.[end-mark] The post <i>The Acolyte</i> Offers a Certain Point of View in “Choice” appeared first on Reactor.

News Spider-Noir Brendan Gleeson Joins Nicolas Cage in Spider-Noir Series This casting points to a certain level of gravitas for the series. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on July 10, 2024 Credit: Warner Bros. Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Warner Bros. The live-action series based on Nicolas Cage’s rendition of Spider-Man Noir is moving forward with another actor joining the callsheet. Today, Variety reported that Banshees of Inisherin and Paddington 2 actor Brendan Gleeson (pictured above in the latter as Knuckles McGinty) has joined the Amazon MGM production, which now goes by the title, Spider-Noir. We don’t have details on what character Gleeson will be playing, other than he will be starring opposite Cage. The series’ plot, when it was announced that Cage joined the production, is described as “the story of an aging and down on his luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.” Gleeson’s credits are substantial, and it’s easy to imagine how his gruff, often dark portrayals will translate to a moody period piece centered on a disillusioned Spider-Man who thinks he may no longer care that he can make a difference in his city. Spider-Noir is led by The Punisher alum Steve Lightfoot and 22 Jump Street alum Oren Uziel, with the first two episodes directed by Harry Bradbeer (Fleabag). We don’t know when Spider-Noir will premiere, but the show will stream on MGM+ in the United States and on Prime Video elsewhere. [end-mark] The post Brendan Gleeson Joins Nicolas Cage in <i>Spider-Noir</i> Series appeared first on Reactor.

Books book review Magic Motorcycles, Dinosaurs, a Love Triangle and More in Road To Ruin by Hana Lee A review of Hana Lee’s new fantasy novel. By Martin Cahill | Published on July 10, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share What do you get when you take magic motorcycles, dinosaurs, apocalyptic storms, vicious raiders, and a love triangle between a prince, a princess, and a courier who loves them both? You get the ferocious and fabulous debut novel, Road To Ruin by Hana Lee, a science-fantasy of epic proportions and intimate detail; a book where the distance between love and duty can be miles of dangerous, dusty wasteland, where monsters lurk in the eaves of caves and storms appear with the suddenness of thought. In this world, cities of humans are separated by such dangers, cloistered and closed against the horrors. Couriers like Jin-Lu and her trusty magebike connect these cities to one another, bringing news, items, letters, and more between peoples and governments, getting paid as she risks her life contending with a world that’s trying to kill her. One of those with magic in their blood, Jin-lu can use her ability to empower machinery to charge her bike and keep her safe, as long as she has enough magic inside of her.  For the last three years, she’s been making a living, sending money back to her mother, keeping her head down, and has become the personal messenger between two very powerful people: Prince Kadren and Princess Yi-Nereen. She has been delivering their love letters to each other, as well as writing them, and while she’s been helping the magic-less Prince and the incredibly powerful Princess fall in love, she’s made a mistake: She’s fallen in love with both of them, too. That’s the tip of the iceberg as a forced marriage for Yi-Nereen is planned, causing the Princess to beg Jin for help: Get her out of there and get her to Kadren across the wasteland. The story starts at a frenetic pace and only gets wilder from there, and Hana Lee takes us on a helluva ride.  Buy the Book Road to Ruin Hana Lee Buy Book Road to Ruin Hana Lee Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget Billed as a fantasy Mad Max, I can say with confidence that the marketing team was absolutely on target: Lee infuses big, bold strokes of action and mayhem, violence and hierarchy as everyone struggles to claw their way to a place of power at the end of a climate-ravaged world. But she also hones in on the finest detail not just of place, but of people. Those little touches here and there speak volumes, especially in a world where showing tender care and kind regard can be a death sentence. George Miller would be tickled at the level of talent and care taken to build out this world and this story, as Lee dials in and out of focus with her attention to plot and character, spectacle and brutality, beauty and horror in equal amounts. From moment one, when a pteranodon slams into Jin-Lu while traveling, Lee makes it very clear: Living in this world is hard, whether you’re inside a city shielded from the storms or not. It is clear that Lee knows this world and loves it, balancing moments of awe for the reader with moments of HELL NO.  But don’t think this is just some action and explosions wrapped up in magic and plot; Lee is a thoughtful writer and finds nuance and complication, both for characters and the world itself, as each conflict and collide. What happens in a world where those without magic are second-class citizens? What would someone without power do in order to even get a crumb of it, to gain the ability to determine their life? What happens when knowledge that was lost for a reason is found again? What do you bring back to the world, what do you keep hidden? Lee doesn’t provide easy answers; characters with moral centers are tested, sometimes failing, and those believed to be without them have hidden depths revealed. Jin-Lu, the heart of the novel, provides ample examples of someone truly lost in the middle of it all trying her goddamn best to navigate pretty much across-the-board bad outcomes.  Because hey, no novel works if the characters can’t measure up, and I can say that Lee delivers and more. And while we spend time with and come to care for Yi-Nereen and Kadren, our two letter-writers across the wasteland, Jin-Lu is our primary protagonist and boy, is she tested. Raised by a father who couriered too, he taught Jin-Lu about the enormous freedom and joy to be found in the waste, in living for oneself away from the governments that crack down on the displaced, the magicless, and those who cannot give value to a society that prizes power. And Jin-Lu, who experienced time and again the brutality of those cities as well as the pain inflicted on her and her mother, who were forced to move time and again, has had almost no definition of home to begin with. Watching our magebike riding heroine as she is drawn into the orbit of not one, but two people she has come to love, and into the shadow of a former lover, Lee puts Jin-Lu through the wringer. But the best part of her narrative journey is watching Jin, time after time, find that under it all she truly does want to see the world safe, even if she never got to experience that safety. Chef kiss emoji, times three.  Road To Ruin has a lot to love about it, so I hope you take the journey to discover them all like I did. I haven’t even touched on the ancient civilization plot, or the bastard husband-to-be of Yi-Nereen, or Prince Kadren’s cinnamon roll of a personality, or the secret that lies at the heart of all of magedom, ah! If I wrote this much and there’s still so much to discover? You can only do that by reading the book—sorry, I don’t make the rules, you have to! And if you need anything else to convince you, this had one of the most shocking endings I’ve read in years! Lee has absolutely set herself up for a tantalizing and frenetic sequel someday, and I hope you join me on the Road To Ruin, take the ride, and find out for yourself.  Wear a helmet. Beware pteranodons. [end-mark] Road to Ruin is published by Saga Press.Read an excerpt. The post Magic Motorcycles, Dinosaurs, a Love Triangle and More in <i>Road To Ruin</i> by Hana Lee appeared first on Reactor.

REAL CLEAR POLITICS—The White House would not say Monday why a neurologist with expertise in Parkinson’s disease, Dr. Kevin Cannard, visited the executive campus eight different times or who specifically the doctor was there to visit. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insinuated Cannard had traveled there to treat members of the military, telling reporters that “multiple neurologists” have traveled to the campus to treat the “thousands of military personnel,” many of whom “get care from the White House medical unit.” Citing privacy concerns, Jean-Pierre declined, more than once, to say if the doctor’s visits to the White House were connected in any way to the treatment of President Joe Biden, telling reporters she could not share information about any specialist “broadly from a dermatologist to a neurologist.” Late Monday evening, the White House finally offered an explanation in the form of a letter penned by Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the president’s physician. He confirmed that Cannard visited campus and wrote that the Parkinson’s specialist “was the neurological specialist that examined President Biden for each of his annual physicals.” The neurologist, O’Connor continued, provided care to a number of other patients beyond just the president. “Prior to the pandemic, and following its end, [Cannard] has held regular Neurology clinics at the White House Medical Clinic in support of the thousands of active-duty members assigned in support of White House operations,” Biden’s physician wrote.  The visits only came to light because of publicly available visitor logs released by the White House. No such records exist, however, for the president’s private residence in Wilmington, Delaware, where Biden retreats nearly every weekend. He often arrives on a Friday and departs the following Monday. He has spent almost nine months of his presidency there, according to one recent analysis. His administration does not keep a record of visitors there. The residence remains effectively a black hole. But the White House did say flatly that the president has not received medical care in Wilmington, far from the prying eyes of the press or the public. “He has not seen specialists in Delaware,” White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates told Real Clear Politics, adding only that “like past Presidents, he travels with a White House Medical Unit doctor.” Increased scrutiny of the age and mental acuity of the president followed his disastrous June 27 debate in Atlanta, a halting performance that left members of his own party publicly questioning not just whether he can win the coming election, but if he is physically up to the rigors of the presidency. “I think it’s a legitimate question to say, ‘Is this an episode, or is this a condition?’ And so, when people ask that question, it’s completely legitimate,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., 84, said of Biden, 81. Those questions now haunt the White House. Complicating things is the president himself, who told Democratic governors on Friday that he had a medical exam after the debate, an admission that came less than 24 hours after his spokeswoman sidestepped questions about whether the president had been examined by a doctor. On Monday, Jean-Pierre said only that Biden had “a check-in” with a doctor. The White House maintains that the president had a cold and was jet-lagged the night of the debate. The president, for his part, told ABC News that he was “exhausted” and simply had “a bad night.” Regardless of the explanation for his performance, the health of the president has subsequently reignited a debate over transparency. The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., demanded that Secret Service begin keeping a record of who visits him behind closed doors. “President Biden said he’d have the most transparent administration in history,” Comer told RCP in a statement. “As President Biden’s mental state continues to decline, now is the time for him to put his money where his mouth is and be transparent with the American people.” “He should immediately direct the Secret Service to keep visitor logs for his Wilmington residence so Americans know who he is meeting with when he travels there,” he continued. The White House previously tangled with Comer after classified documents were discovered at the Biden family home. Visitor logs for the Wilmington residence don’t exist, said a spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office, because it is a private residence. “Like every president across decades of modern history, his personal residence is personal,” spokesman Ian Sams told The New York Times. “But upon taking office, President Biden restored the norm and tradition of keeping White House visitors’ logs, including publishing them regularly, after the previous administration ended them.” Former President Donald Trump ended that practice during his four years in office. He also did not disclose visitor logs for any of his private residences, such as Mar-a-Largo, an omission that triggered a lawsuit from the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “It seems like we have the same problem here with Biden,” Richard Painter, the former ethics czar for the George W. Bush administration and CREW vice chair, told RCP. He added that the current president is not unique, noting that both Trump and Bush before him did not disclose visitors of their private residences. The names of anyone meeting the president on official business, or even making a personal visit, Painter said, should be disclosed: “He is the president, after all.” The U.S. Secret Service has said previously that while they do not maintain visitor logs of private residences, they do screen visitors who meet with the president. Originally published by Real Clear Politics The post No ‘Specialist’ Has Examined Biden at Residence in Delaware, White House Says appeared first on The Daily Signal.

With the revelation over the past two weeks that President Joe Biden is mentally and physically diminished, Democrats have traveled through all five stages of grief; first, they experienced denial; then anger; then bargaining; next, depression; finally, acceptance. But what they’re accepting is not Biden’s mental decline. What they’re accepting is the fundamental reality that they bet on the wrong horse. And what comes next is likely to be even worse. At first, Democrats engaged in full-scale denial that anything was wrong with Biden. The White House maintained that he was hale and healthy; Democrats in Congress tried to maintain the brave front that his debate failure had been a one-off. This is a stance now relegated to Biden’s immediate family: First lady Jill Biden insists that Joe is just fine; Hunter says that Joe hasn’t lost a step. But the rest of the party quickly moved on to stage two: anger. Democrats in Congress and members of the legacy media were—and are—enraged at the Biden campaign. They knew, of course, that Joe Biden is addled. But they had faith that the Biden campaign wouldn’t put that reality on full display. They believed that the Biden campaign, even with its ailing frontman, would somehow cobble together a winning campaign against former President Donald Trump. When their hopes were stripped away all at once, they responded with pure, unbridled fury. Congressmen called for Biden to step down; The New York Times editorial board fantasized about his ouster. But as Biden continued to hold on—as he continued to stonewall all the attempts by his erstwhile allies to dump him overboard—Democrats entered Phase 3: bargaining. Now they began to fantasize about an open convention. A shortened primary process. A Kamala Harris invocation of the 25th Amendment. Anything—anything!—to get rid of Biden. Perhaps it would tear the party apart and finally sink the Democrats’ 2024 hopes … but surely the Biden campaign couldn’t continue to maintain the charade. And yet Biden continued, stolidly, to deny any problems at all. He said that only elites within the Democratic Party wanted him gone. He explained that he had won the most votes in the primaries, and that he would not leave absent an act of God. He stated that he would be fully satisfied if he ran to the end of the race and lost, so long as he had done his “goodest.” And so, Democrats descended into depression. Looking at the national and state polls, congressional Democrats began to mutter behind closed doors about the prospect of losing both the House and the Senate. Donors began shifting their money away from the presidential race and toward down-ballot races. Now Democrats seem finally to have shifted into acceptance. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., who had earlier said that Biden should drop out of the race, now reversed himself. When asked whether he had done so for pragmatic reasons, he answered surlily, “Well, yeah. He said he’s gonna remain in, he’s our candidate, and we’re all going to support him.” Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., who had floated the idea of a shortened primary season, announced that Democrats would be “riding with Biden.” Democrats know, of course, that Biden is in terrible shape in this presidential cycle. As Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News reported, “Very very few think he can win and that he is the right candidate for this moment post debate.” But it’s too little too late. No force on earth or in heaven can move Biden. Unless he is hit by lightning—or suffers an actual physical collapse—he’ll be the man on the ballot in November. Good luck to the Democrats. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The 5 Stages of Biden Grief appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and My Life My Say charity co-hosted the Future of Britain Conference 2024 and heard Blair organization’s director of health policy, Charlotte Refsum, and other panelists speak in favor of more commercialization and surveillance of health data. This was one of several controversial issues covered during the event, along two main lines – more surveillance of various types, and combating “disinformation.” Blair Institute’s choice of organizing partner is telling, as well, since My Life My Say, which focuses on getting young people out to vote, lists the UK Cabinet Office and US embassy in London, as well as the mayor of London, as its past partners or backers. Related: Biden administration launches task force to share census and health data with private companies Regarding health data, Refsum urged the creation of digital health records for all citizens, as well as a private commercial entity dubbed, “national data trust” – that would be tasked with commercializing access to sensitive health data in the country, and generate revenue in that way. Blair himself was less straightforward, as a politician does, but appears to be pushing for digital health records and national data trust. But he appeared somewhat evasive when Refsum asked him about a digital health record and a national data trust, speaking about the benefits of technology in general, in terms of health. Wellcome, another charitable foundation with ties to the UK government – the Department of Health and Social Care – would like to see the National Health Service (NHS) “integrate all the data” it has to achieve a “learning population health system.” This is according to Wellcome’s Dr. John-Arne Rottingen who is also a fan of “faster intelligence” and reaching this goal by feeding massive amounts of data into the schemes. Rottingen, who is Norwegian, spoke about what he considers a positive example of Scandinavian countries that have already linked access to health data “across the full population.” In contrast to his learning population health system, is the current state of affairs where this information is “locked in different parts of the system,” noted Rottingen. He urged researchers in the UK to enter public-private partnerships in order to come up with “insights” that are supposed to provide the driving force for a future “sustainable healthcare system.” If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Tony Blair Institute Hosts Controversial Panel on Health Data Commercialization appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Pelosi on Biden: I Support His Ability to Decide, And ... That's About It