#Machines

César A. Hidalgo

cesifoti

A tsunami is approaching a town of 10,000 people. How would you judge a politician or algorithm that:a) Tries to save everyone, but fails.b) Tries to save everyone, and succeeds.c)

Alok Pandey

alok_pandey

Thread . I went to villages near Lucknow today to check on how #Lockdown21 is affecting the rabi harvest. Ram prasad, 55 , is worried his cucumber crop that cost

Heebie Jeevesies 💀

jeeveswilliams

Ever noticed how many marketing campaigns are based around vending machines?A thread • Secret Life of Pets: ‘bark for treats’ machine• YSL: cosmetics vending machines in gas stations en route

Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢

jennycohn1

“Votes from predominantly black precincts have mysteriously vanished from touchscreen voting machines in both TN & Georgia in recent elections. GA replaced the touchscreen system it had been using since

Aarsh Gujjar | Lets fight corona | Help deserving

Aarsh_Khan_DXB

Why Pakistan has purchased obsolete T55 Russian tanks from Serbia? These tanks have been used by Russian forces in World War, This tank was upgraded by Serbia, Serbia has put

Sy Smith

Syberspace

So... a friend of mine voted TODAY Oct 13 2020 in Texas. Anybody notice anything interesting about her ballot receipt? Hey @VoteTexas and @TXsecofstate... we need some answers as to

Donna Blackmond

DonnaBlackmond

My favorite paragraph from an @DeanAstumian paper:The literature is rife with misleading models involvingtwo asymmetric energy surfaces with transitions betweenthem. Following observation that the systems are ‘‘far-fromequilibrium’’

Jay Caruso

JayCaruso

Here's a short thread about one of the "ZOMG!" issues getting raised about USPS. "They're removing sorting machines from post offices!"Yes, they are. In order to improve efficiency. One thing

DocNeto

docneto

Reviewing some more COVID-19 related data and I'm more convinced that ventilators will not be the choke point to solve for in Nigeria. This is because of how poorly our

Living with Machines

LivingwMachines

We are happy to share our latest @arxiv preprint on atypical animacy, in particular the scenario in which typically inanimate objects (--> machines) are represented as living entities in nineteenth-century

Cleavon MD

Cleavon_MD

Just as active alcoholics with terminal liver disease are REFUSED liver transplants... People who don't follow preventative public health measures against COVID19 should be the LAST to get hospital beds.

Hal Marshall

HalMarshall2309

“There is a scene in The Grifters where a pair of con artists try to persuade their mark that they have developed a computerized system to beat the stock market.

Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢

jennycohn1

So this very misinformed individual just got a gig on @CNN advising about election security for the 2020 election. (What she told NPR here was false.) 1/ And David Becker—the

Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢

jennycohn1

Absentee ballot fraud via “harvesting” is easier to catch than electronic election fraud bc: It does not involve proprietary software. It can impact a large swath of a county or

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

BREAKING NEWS (NBC): The 671 High-Speed Mail-Sorting Machines Trump Mega-Donor Louis DeJoy Has Removed From USPS Facilities Without Explanation Under 90 Days Before a Mail-in Election Sort 564 Million Pieces

Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢

jennycohn1

I hope that Biden/Harris are declared victorious based on the electronic vote tally in November. But if they aren’t and if the result deviates significantly from reputable & well conducted