#Databases

Eric Rauchway

rauchway

Readers of this feed may know that I believe Roosevelt campaigned on the New Deal in 1932—contrary to a widespread impression he did not. George Selgin of Cato says "Rauchway

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 252Lots going on – I’ll try to go a bit beyond the headlines. Let’s start with a brief Public Service Announcement, then the Covid situation

Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇺🇸

Conaw

100 Opinions on this -- prompted by @vgr Will have to break for a call any minute, but will do best to free associate in meantime.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1206034891390902272 1. Johnny Von Neumann

Anna Harvey

annalilharvey

Recently there's been lots of interest in alternatives to law enforcement. Many have also expressed concern about recent increases in violent crime.So: what non-law enforcement policies/programs have been shown specifically

The Seeker

TheSeeker268

It’s been more than 2 years since the world learned of the novel coronavirus outbreak, but the most important questions about its origin are still unanswered. So here is a

Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡

uk_domain_names

Let's be brutally honest: I doubt *anyone* realised the full extent of everything EU membership offered us.Here are 77 examples of what we lost, and what we might stand to

Science & Policy Ex

DSP_SPE

The @DSP_SPE team has gathered some (French too) Canadian #COVID19 resources. If you’re interested in volunteering, donating, visualizing data or fact checking - the link, follow this thread for

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

The WHO just updated its page on how COVID-19 transmits. Those few sentences on aerosols represent one of the most crucial scientific advances of the pandemic. My NYT piece on

The Seeker

TheSeeker268

A thread on the origins of COVID-19, and a possible bio-containment failure at one of the Wuhan labs. I feel there are facts not enough people know about, so I

Carmela Troncoso

carmelatroncoso

We hear that the Digital Green Certificate (DGC) is good news as it will enable "safe free movement". Safe free movement is great news, the technical proposal not so much

Juvoni Beckford

juvoni

𐃏 @RoamResearch in-directly teaches how to think like a Scientist & Philosopher by directly framing writing as Knowledge Cartography Mapmaking via Writing to think & discover the paths to knowledge.

Maxi Contieri

mcsee1

I’m creating a thread on #softwaredesing. One tip per day.Until no advices are left or I reach thread limit. Whatever happens in the first time. Tip 01: Do not subclassify

Shai Schechter

shaisc

A friend needed an easy way to accept online payments. The existing tools weren't suitable & her hosting didn't support custom code, so I threw a dozen lines of code

sahra

sahrasulaiman

Getting a late start on the Garcetti press conference but here we go.https://twitter.com/MayorOfLA/status/1267170209925722113 Words are being said: "Our conscience demands that we translate our pain into passionate calls for justice.

Paras Chopra

paraschopra

Crypto is the future of our society.(a thread on my podcast with @balajis) 1/ Balaji is a deep thinker on crypto and its implications. Formerly the CTO of Coinbase

Seq

CryptoSeq

1/CBDCs are going to completely overhaul the global financial system. The biggest change since Bretton Woods.Interoperability and Standards are going to be key@quant_network have laid the foundations for Overledger to