#WIRED

Lance Salyers

lancesalyers

There are many issues in the criminal justice reform debate -- policing, bail, sentencing, politicization. None are worse for their utter lack of a justifying rationale than the systemic fleecing

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

A short thread about a dead salmon and implausible claims based on epidemic curves... 1/ A few years ago, some researchers famously put an Atlantic salmon in an fMRI machine

mark latonero

latonero

I remember 10 years ago, seeing images of US Naval Ship Comfort arriving in Port-au-Prince in response to a catastrophic earthquake. I hadn't thought of the day it would be

Better Than Bitcoin Podcast

BetterThnBTC

I can see the mainstream media spinning the #twitterhack into a "#bitcoin is bad" viewpoint. But let me ask you this: How much money (cash) is lost to traditional

Tiago Forte

fortelabs

1/ If Roam fails this is how it will happenNo product I know of has a longer history of failure than hypertext, as recounted in this article, so it doesn't

nxthompson

nxthompson

My daily coronavirus thread... Mass testing capacity will be necessary for us to emerge from lockdown. So, yes, we need tests that can be performed in airports, clinics, and perhaps

Carole Cadwalladr

carolecadwalla

Why does the Cummings story matter? And what does it obscure? The real story is the huge transfer of government assets to private companies that he is overseeing under cover

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The Snoo "smart bassinet" is a $1,300 gadget that allows you to control its rocking motions and send sounds to its speaker over the internet.You. Will. Never. Guess. What. Happened.

Mikey - paid shutdown now🔪

marquisele

So I just read this, which mentions wonderful people in our movement like @DaShaunLH, @danceswithfat, @iofthetigress, and Sandra Solovay, which is a step up from normal reporting on fat stigma,

Rachel Thomas

math_rachel

Consider this in conjunction with efforts to get people to join Facebook Groups: "If you’re diagnosed with a rare disease, you can join a group and connect with people with

Stacey

PGHStacey

A friend tapped me to bring some thoughts from the private account over to the public account, so here we are, a rare instance where my Yelling About Research Ethics

John Murray

avesse

Two somewhat contradictory things I hope SA can reconcile: 1. With govt asking us to install an app, fear of surveillance and invasion of privacy is legitimate and people are

Jacob Navok

JNavok

1/ One of the arguments often made in favor of cloud gaming is that it will expand the market to “hundreds of millions” or “billions” of gamers who would not

MediaFerret ((Parler: @MediaFerret))

Media__Ferret

On the topic of Biden appearing to be wired: I posted this from another's post, not expecting it to go viral. Instead, I thought it would be a good topic

Stefan Smith

TheStefanSmith

I watched this and I’m so angry—so many Black people are going to die because for centuries we’ve ignored the compounding effects of racism.https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/1247645264162193408 Racism allowed more pollution in Black

jefferson tesla (she/her)

mysunksol

really wish the Isabel Fall thing had been reported better bc it’s fucking up folk’s recollections of what went down. I kinda wanted to get mad at someone for invoking