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Mendi Tackett

mentack

Please stop saying Dan Patrick and right-wing extremists are pro-life. They are not. Period. They only care abt controlling women’s reproductive choices. Being pro-life means caring abt actual life, not

Sir Samuel Vimes

RealSamVimes

Watching news and all this "I'm just so shocked someone would bring a knife into Thorpe Park" conversation demonstrate the problems around public understanding use of force. No copper is

Maximilion

_maximilion

You optimize Facebook ads by fixing key metrics on your store, not by trying to improve IRRELEVANT numbers in BMAnd you need to do that BEFORE scaling hard each time,

James MacAulay

jamesmacaulay

@ubi_works when I first saw you pop up on Twitter I was excited to see a new group advocating for UBI in Canada. Then I saw your actual proposal, which

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

I've been a freelancer - a contractor - for most of my life, but I've also been a salaried employee and an hourly employee and there is a significant difference

FunkLip is Well-T

funkomi

Morning! Slightly off my usual threads but decided to do a PROPERTY thread because I see lots of us are making this leap atm. This isn’t for the ones who

Peter Geoghegan

PeterKGeoghegan

This morning: Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome Trust, says UK could end up with worst coronavirus death rate in Europe.Also this morning: Coronavirus as culture wars artefact.Sections of British

Armine Yalnizyan

ArmineYalnizyan

Same on timely labour market information.Yet we know from census stats (and some epidemiological data in public health) that low-income is associated with shorter life expectancy and greater risk of

Ben Burgis

BenBurgis

"Oh, I see you're complaining about Nero fiddling while Rome burns again. Pretty ironic that you found time to complain about this *as Rome burns*."--Very Smart People in 59 AD,

STRAY KIDS 5TH WIN (let's not lose our pace)

han_G0ne

Streaming Thread for #FiloSTRAYmingProject#FiloStaysKnockingAtBackDoor50MTime (kst) - Viewshttps://twitter.com/allurechan/status/1309804560660279297 22:12 - 48,837,033#FiloSTRAYmingProject#FiloStaysKnockingAtBackDoor50M@Stray_Kids 22:35 - 4

Donal Kane

EvilDoctorK

Yesterday's UK how were my projections & what does the data used for decisions look like?Including CTA and removing silly places we ended up with 14 on the 'practical'

Morris Monye💙

Morris_Monye

1. National Census: The gymnastics of Nigerian Politicians - Nigeria's problem since 19601962 census has serious problems of rigging.According to results, the Northern region had about 31 million people -

M.E.Valentijn

ME_Valentijn

The Maximale Controle plan of @MinPres, OMT, and @RIVM will fail for 4 reasons:1) If it succeeds, 137K die.2) Natural herd immunity probably won't happen.3) Precise timing & scaling required

Zohran Kwame Mamdani

ZohranKMamdani

As of today, India has reported over 20 million coronavirus infections and over 220k deaths.Independent analysis show death tolls 8x as high.This is not a natural disaster, it’s one whose

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update July 25: Right now in this crisis, good or bad is less important than early or late.If saving lives is important to your mayor & governor, they need

Rachel Thomas

math_rachel

I'm going to start a thread of companies & execs not understanding that algorithms can still be biased on variables that are not inputs.Machine learning is great at finding latent