2019年2月6日 星期三

bro, Big Brother, Digital Pill, corporate bro




Cover Illustration by German artist, Kurt Hilscher (1904-1980), for the German translation of 1984, by George Orwell, depicting the all-seeing eye of the sinister Big Brother.




If you work in the financial district, chances are you've come across the "Midtown Uniform". One of 1843 magazine's most read articles from 2018

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The rise of the dressed-down corporate bro
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First Digital Pill Approved to Worries About Biomedical 'Big Brother'

By PAM BELLUCK

The medicine, an antipsychotic drug, has a sensor that will show doctors whether and when patients are taking it. Other medicines will follow, experts say.

NPR
The sensor is about the size of a grain of sand. It's activated when it comes into contact with stomach fluid. The sensor detects and records the date and time the pill is ingested.


Abilify MyCite is a tablet with an embedded sensor activated by fluid in the stomach. Although the drug's approval is a big step for digital medicine, there are concerns about privacy and cost.
NPR.ORG

"If this were a just world, 13 facts would be etched on Castro’s tombstone and highlighted in every obituary, as bullet points — a fitting metaphor for someone who used firing squads to murder thousands of his own people." Via Washington Post Opinions, Outlook, and PostEverything

Thirteen facts about Fidel Castro’s cruelty should be etched on his tombstone.
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Big Brother is a fictional character and symbol inGeorge Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is ostensibly the leader (most likely a symbolic figurehead) of Oceania, a totalitarian state wherein the ruling Party wields total power "for its own sake" over the inhabitants.

Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four) - Wikipedia





bro
/brəʊ/
noun
INFORMAL
  1. 1.
    short for brother.

    "his baby bro"
  2. 2.
    NORTH AMERICAN
    a male friend (often used as a form of address).

    "they'd never choose a girl over their bros"

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