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I generally have little patience for denunciations of “cultural appropriation” — I tend to think that appropriation is at the very heart of all culture, and absolutely intrinsic to creativity — but yesterday’s tweetstorm by artist/writer/photographer Jon Tsuei gives a sense of the complications.

Tsuei was writing about the forthcoming adaptation of the classic manga Ghost in the Shell and explaining why he doesn’t like it. After explaining that Japan in that era was a disarmed country whose identity was largely invested in technological pre-eminence, he wrote:

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the first ever case of sexual transmission of the Zika virus between two gay men. The CDC say that the sexual transmission occurred in Dallas this January between two men who had unprotected sex. Statnews.com reports: While gay men who want to avoid Zika infection should take note, the lesson here applies to both men and women: Zika infection can be contracted through unprotected anal sex. Dr.

A joint paper released by universities from South Africa shows a perplexing alignment of the jets of many black holes… and it has scientists on edge. GeoBeats News reports: A grouping of distant, massive black holes thought to be operating independently of each other may actually share a common thread. A new paper led by the University of Cape Town and University of the Western Cape, both in South Africa, suggests their jets are all aligned in the same direction. These entities are located millions of light years apart in an area of space known as ELAIS-N1.

Some 'entertainers' among the mainstream media have proclaimed the recent dead-cat-bounce in The Baltic Dry Freight Index as representative of some renaissance in China and thus the world's trade.. and thus why one should "buy buy buy" stocks. However, three quick points of note suggest this is nothing but noise as the index flounders around record lows.

First, at 555, The Baltic Dry has just managed to rebound to its previous all-time historical lows from 1986... impressive eh?

Facebook is making headlines this morning for CEO Zuckerberg's anti-Trump stance. However, shareholders are focused on chatter from a conference call, confirming Deutsche comments last week, that Ad Spend is plunging worse than expected - CLSA and AdParlor saying that Facebook advertising spend is down a shocking 18% in Q1...

The stock is not reacting well...

Still keep talking about Trump - that will fix it...