#Tech

Obviously this is Trump's fault. But the tech platforms are equally at fault. @Twitter @Facebook and the others allow false information to spread through their platforms all because they claim
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I’m quoted in this, which does about as good a job overviewing the topic as a New York Times profile can be expected to.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html Major oversights in it as I
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FANTASTIC NEWS—A potential vaccine for multiple sclerosis is now within sight on the horizon! And it’s an mRNA vaccine by BioNTech, maker of the Pfizer #COVID19 vaccine. Study in mice
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OK, so here are some things I learned (many the hard way) about the first week of Distance Learning. Feel free to add as you see fit: 1. Something is
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I got into O&G because I was experienced with land ownership. I wanted to learn how projects go from exploration on to production and eventually reclamation. The land is restored
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1. News: Erick ERICKSON CALLS FOR PRO-TRUMP PROTESTORS TO BE SHOT! Tweets, “SHOOT the protestors. Waive the rules, impeach. Waive the rules, convict, Waive the rules, deny the ability
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Thread: Dalits in US tech companies say caste discrimination from upper castes at work is rampant. I explore the manifestation of India’s centuries-old caste system in US MNCs, in the
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Let's tell the whole success story of @WhitWolfeHerd, because it was even harder than you think. Tinder VCs and cofounders stripped her of her cofounder title, despite her having come
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One thing I can't stop thinking about is how the pandemic could have been a chance to reimagine so much. Education, housing, tech. But instead powerful people crushed us to
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Today, in between all the election craziness, the DOJ seized more Iranian domains that were used to push disinfo to not just American, but global audiences: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-seizes-27-additional-domain-names-used
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1) A question I've been getting a lot: What are use cases where crypto is working outside of crypto? In other words, what are the “real world” use cases?To which
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COVID-19 is an attack on vulnerability: the elderly & frail; others with health weaknesses; ethnic minorities; precarious jobs; the low paid; the homeless; front line jobs; blue collar jobs; new
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(0/n): Serious Twitter thread time: I think the governing elites in both China and the US have a mental model of each other that is, in a few key political
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Ahead of RAZED & CONFUZED GOES DIGITAL tomorrow, we're handing over to our Production manager @tomwilsonsound to tell us about challenges of putting on a show in a digital venue!
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Hot take:It is literally impossible to create meaningful cyberpunk anymore, no matter who writes it or what their intentions, because the *real world* is very very very literally now a
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Whatever my personal feelings on the matter, it is clear the Left is no home for me. The Right isn't either, but I can no longer in good conscience consider
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