#Infrastructures

Why is reinventing the wheel so frowned upon? Given the chaos going on right now, certain things most definitely need reinvention and society is still opposed to those kinds of

Le ministère du numérique : le coup de génie de Félix Tshisekedi. Pourvu qu’il n’en soit pas comme avec ses maquettes mirifiques J’ai été surpris que même de « brillants»

Mateusz Fafinski

Why shouldn't we decide every year where the rail tracks should go based on passenger demand? And dismantle/build trains and stations every year?Because rail travel, just like universities, depends on

This is why we say “eat the rich.” Man loves charity and literally has money to bankroll the WHO, yet he won’t. This tweet is the equivalent of clapping for

daily reminder that it is not biologically normal to receive this much information at once, and the inability to parse and process it all has contributed to a mass hysteria

ataparnachandra

Important links on the background to the NDHM. After AADHAAR, CMS, NATGRID, this looks like the next big salvo from surveillance capitalism.https://twitter.com/grumpeoldman/status/1299368152237654016 This is so dangerous in so many ways.

Tomás S. Criado

The mess we’re in has accentuated two recurring concerns, perhaps with newer nuances: (1) the importance of tinkering and opening up care infrastructures and equipment; (2) the relevance of experimenting

Really not looking forward to the pieces on COVID-19 for the next decade that will ignore Global South responses and when they don’t, will probs collapse everything into how democracies

pray and send healing vibes for my family in Panama; my aunt, who works in surgery, and all those in the op room, are waiting on covid test results. my

“Let China Sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world,” (Napoleon Bonaparte).The return of China & India- professor Kishore Mahbubani You only get the negative about China from

Internet of Trust

1 $BTC is used as store of value by many, including institutions with purchasing power running into billions. These institutions have no short term plans of selling bitcoin and believe

Spooky🧛‍♂️Stephen🔺Molldrem🌹

StephenMolldrem

I have some thoughts about this article and the underlying story. Short thread with morning coffee incoming. // Kushner’s team seeks national coronavirus surveillance system https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/kushner-coronavirus-surveillance-17

Aimi Hamraie they/them

This semester, I taught a graduate course on Mutual Aid, Solidarity, and Activism. We focused on theory (with a lot of emphasis on disability justice and transformative justice) and students

Benjamin Bayart

Obadidon... La 5G, c'est le prochain argument de vente pour remplacer son terminal vite-vite-vite... Et le monsieur, là, il propose d'orienter la politique publique en fonction des gens qui achètent

I'm not really metrics-motivated but I always wonder how some accounts manage say 1k likes for a tweet in the same domain/topic/approach/tone/context than other tweets that get 3 likes, particularly

Anambra 1st son💭

Abuja was built with money gotten from Oil in Niger Delta Lagos was built with oil gotten from Oil in Niger Delta.Other 26 states are being built and sustained with