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Joel Golby
joelgolby
there must be some effect on our minds for the generation who went from 56kps dial-up to broadband to being able to pull 5G out of the air like magic.
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James Ball
jamesrbuk
It is a very, very bad doc if you want to understand Brexit/Trump or what’s really going on with social media, microtargeting, etc.It basically relies on taking slide decks from
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Communist Party of Canada
compartycanada
SAIMR, a South African apartheid intelligence agency which operated with the support of the CIA and British intelligence, deliberately spread the HIV virus in the Southern African region to wipe
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Martin Enserink
martinenserink
If you want to understand what the heck happened in Sweden the past 7 months, this story by @GretchenVogel1 is a must-read.https://bit.ly/2I5Bihw Some key take-aways in @GretchenVogel1's terrific longread: 1)
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SpaceAustralia.com
SpaceAusDotCom
Catch the exciting FRB news overnight? "We've used FRBs to weigh all the matter in the Universe, & we found the half that was missing!"Australian-led research team uses @CSIRO_ATNF ASKAP
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Antonello Guerrera
antoguerrera
Nelle ultime settimane ho viaggiato in 9 città della Scozia, parlato con decine di persone e politici, visitato i luoghi di battaglie anti-inglesi.Il risultato, alla vigilia di cruciali elezioni, è
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Alexander Norman
alexandernorman
Over the weekend I wrote a #longread on the what I believe some of the new normal post COVID may look like. A few people suggested that I tweet
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Oliver
the_real_osg
Would like to see a longread on Watford Wednesdays, as a forerunner to the culture of distance running festivals.I only did about 5 over a number of years, but there
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Leigh Phillips
Leigh_Phillips
I have a #LongRead piece (8,600 words, oof) out breaking down why Canada and Europe, despite their vaunted public healthcare systems, have failed miserably at a rapid vaccine rollout, yet
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Mother Jones
MotherJones
1/ @LelandNally called every name in Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book. Here’s what happened. (CW: Sexual assault.) 2/ First, some background: Epstein’s little black book is a compilation of all
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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖
kixes
3/ I wrote this piece with journalists in #Taiwan and #HongKong before #Singapore was put on a partial lockdown, which our government insists on calling a "circuit breaker". In it,
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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖
kixes
THREAD 1/ Today I've seen/heard more than one American take that #Singapore's spike in #COVID19 cases is due to easing social distancing measures too quickly.I'd like to do a thread
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
You've probably heard Zuboff's excellent coinage "Surveillance Capitalism" and perhaps you've read the paper it was introduced in, or the book that it led to. Today, I've published a response
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Ajay Major, MD, MBA
majorajay
I was feeling overwhelmed by all the laypress articles about #moralinjury and #burnout in frontline health care workers during #Covid_19 so I decided to do a deep dive into the
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performingbordersLIVE
perfbordersLIVE
happy tuesday! this is our last day in residence here on the PB twitter, so i thought it'd be good to spend our evening chewing on summink BIG N CHUNKY,,,
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
It's been 13 years since @NaomiAKlein's Shock Doctrine described the neoliberal playbook: crises are seized as a moment to smuggle in policies that could not pass public muster under normal
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