#Happened

Em

DrEm_79

Some people have been asking about why I’ve been away from here for a while. I wasn’t sure if I was going to speak about why, but I’ve realised some

Jake Tapper

jaketapper

Two Sandy Hook parents — Mark Barden, father of Daniel Barden, and Nicole Hockley, mother of Dylan Hockley — today gave a statement about conspiracy theorist Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene,

Eric

IAmTheActualET

Tired of seeing the same flawed #COVID19 Kansas mask study being shared as proof of "masks working", so I used similar methods + the same dataset and tracked what happened

Adam Wagner

AdamWagner1

This news is really worrying for a number of reasons:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54977290Police suspend fixed £10k fines for big gatherings (thread) Since July, police have had power to issue Covid 'mega fines' of

Nils Gilman

nils_gilman

My own view is that gradualism followed by a final exclamation point is a very likely extinction scenario, both for dinosaurs — and for humans. Indulge me in long thread

Lisa (devoted to God)

lisaishyp1

Much love and prayers for all impacted by this traumatic event of Biblical Proportions. Nehemiah 1:8-11 (KJV) Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying,

Radley Balko

radleybalko

Fun thread about Federalist co-founder Sean Davis: A while back, I happened upon an old Politico article about Trump retweeting a white supremacist. It included an embedded tweet from Davis

John Bye

_johnbye

This week's Test & Trace report covers the first week of January, when the number of people testing positive was rising rapidly.There are still delays in getting test results, and

Nuke Goldstein 🌐

NukeGold

I've been through a few cycles of tech disruptions, but I always go back to a story from the 80's that happened to my dad. Time for a thread

Dr. Daniela Witten

daniela_witten

When I teach cross validation in my Intro to Statistical Learning course, I literally spend a class on “potential pitfalls of CV” and this is the main error I talk

໓avid eŞpinoŞa-ruŞŞell

russdpale

1/ I feel compelled to speak on some of the pieces gifted to me this evening by the very kind @pixellitist, who produces some great art that I have noticed

Andy Cusack

AmCusack

Prob not why anyone follows me on here anyway, but 2019 was the last 80/35 that I helped book (They DID have a 2020 lineup mostly done, which I wasn't

Tim Harford

TimHarford

I try to draw some broader lessons from the algoshambles here: https://www.ft.com/content/f32b3124-6b77-4b33-9de1-7dbc6599724b1/ First, as Daniel Kahneman reminded us, we often substitute easy questions for hard ones and don't realise w

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

FOLKS—Do **NOT** gather indoors for the holidays . Just too darn risky. You shouldn’t gather at all to be safest, but if you must gather, please do it only *outside*

Will Caskey

WillCaskey

The Chicago mayoral election in 1959 and the failed bond election immediately priorIt was hugely significant, and marked a radical shift in how Richard J Daley (and correspondingly the city)

William Reynolds

war_student

A great little thread, though the Korean War did see some tensions rise between the Japanese and UK Governments. One such incident involved some Matelots from HMS Belfast. 1/https://twitter.com/LOS_Fisher/status/1276073062220337153 By

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