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Amanda Marcotte

AmandaMarcotte

For me, one of the most convincing arguments for defunding to the police is that the police are actually pretty bad at preventing crime. Nowhere is this more obvious than

Kara Platoni

KaraPlatoni

Friends! Team @WIRED @WIREDScience have been working super hard to bring you clear, accurate, trustworthy reporting about #COVID2019--for free! (There's no paywall for coronavirus public health stories.) If you're looking

Isabel Hardman

IsabelHardman

MPs have NOT awarded themselves an extra £10k each to have a jolly during this pandemic. They've been given additional budget for equipment like computers so they and their staff

Alt WASO NPS

AltWASONPS

Some of the tax laws can be complex, so let me provide you with a simple example of how tax avoidance and tax evasion works.(Thread)https://twitter.com/AltWASONPS/status/1047275249572691968 First I'm not going to

Nova

FederalistNo78

“In 2005, Pasternak’s company was one of two to land a $3 million contract from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, to do preliminary design work on

Jim Killock

jimkillock

WIn for @OpenRightsGroup: Government admits to ORG that England's test and trace programme 'breaks GDPR data law'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53466471 What happened here: ORG was already concerned because the App had a

Albert Trigg

alberttrigg

Chatham House "Future Scape" London 2025-35"Care pounds" or social credits We are injected all the time with whatever Big Pharma dream up and implant into us, including Ai nanotechnology wired

Paul

LifeExplorer_

Flip the Script shares the methods for closing multi-million-dollar deals without hard sales tactics. It's based on Inception. Let's explore the key ideas. - Status Tip-Off- Flash Roll- Pre-Wired Ideas-

Kenzie Ringo 🕸

kenzieringo

Saw something on ig that said “there are no two words more harmful in the English dictionary than “good job”” and their argument was it promotes average work, and not

Felicity Reynolds

FlickReynolds

#Serco - a thread. Since finding out that Serco not only runs detention centres & prisons, but also call centres for Australian Govt services, such as Centrelink, NDIS and the

Drew Holden

DrewHolden360

New Thread.So I saw this stat - that 60% of Dems blame Trump MORE than China for coronavirus - & thought, how is that possible? When @axios’s @BethanyAllenEbr debunked this?

Girl de Maupassant

somiscellany

I think deep down, men don’t really give af about the celebration of Father’s Day. Men aren’t really wired to derive pleasure from platitudes, or a empty, platitudinous celebration like

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Medtech giant Medtronic is quite a piece of work. The company started as a Minneapolis repair shop before growing to be one of the world's largest, most profitable - and

Colin, scholar in residence since Mar 17/20

colinmadland

any guesses? Turns out @zoom_us has a crappy face-detection algorithm that erases black faces...and determines that a nice pale globe in the background must be a better face than

Chris Said

Chris_Said

We've recently seen journalists and experts make recommendations based on the weird “no evidence” construction, only to later find out they were wrong.It feels like the same type of reasoning

evelyn douek

evelyndouek

I have literally no idea what Facebook's new policy is on QAnon or what it will apply to in future, and so I would like you to please read this