#Regulators

Alexander Gaffney

AlecGaffney

NYTimes reporting that the White House has blocked the release of the FDA's "EUA+" vaccine guidance on the standards for it to grant an emergency authorization for a vaccine. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/us/politics/coro

Andrew Jackson

AndrewLRJackson

Our Just Transition Commissioner writes of a ‘risk to peat harvesting’ in 2020 (pic 2). But the ‘uncertainty’ for peat companies is not the law’s fault. The companies don’t have

Secret Capital

SecretCapital_

Brief thoughts on Monster Beverage, one of the most successful stocks of all time, which has rewarded shareholders with a 61,738% return since going public in 1985, or 20.2% CAGR.$MNST

Kate Jennings

KeasdenKate

1/5: Thread: Just catching up on the absolutely damning & absolutely accurate assessment of the state of the UK's finest sites for nature -#SSSIs - and the regulators that are

Lachlan Markay

lachlan

New: GOP state parties helped funnel millions to the RNC last year in a tried-and-true, bipartisan method of circumventing donation limits. Some indicate, in comments to Axios and FEC filings,

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

Conor D'Arcy

conortdarcy

Quick lunchtime thread on our new report:The impact *all this* is going to have on our finances & mental health is clearly huge. To find the biggest concerns, we surveyed

Mark Scott

markscott82

.@facebook announced a bunch of efforts to combat electoral interference (mostly aimed at US). There’s lots to unpack here. Giddy up. So what is FB doing? Efforts focused on

Leah Douglas

leahjdouglas

Two months ago today, I began mapping Covid-19 in the food system. Since then, the number of cases has grown steadily to over 32,000. Sadly, there is little sign that

Timothy Huyer

tim4hire

So, a quick (for me!) explainer of responsible government in a Westminster parliamentary system. Grab your pillows and/or coffee, as per your needs and preferences...https://twitter.com/millwoodsgal/status/1260556128376598529 Most of the Crown’s powe

Peter Foster

pmdfoster

NEW: The inside story of the Ventilator Challenge - the muddled thinking, the wasted time the political egoism. It's a mad tale. Stay with me. Me with my superb @ft

FarrrrrrriaLima Bitcoin

FarialimaB

I'm reading Nick Szabo's famous essay "Money, blockchains, and social scalability" and will be live tweeting some excerpts. "Bitcoin offends the sensibilities of resource-conscious and performance-measure-maximizing engineers a

Sangeet Paul Choudary

sanguit

The limits of applying the 'platform argument' to BigTech firms, particularly Facebook, Google, Twitter etc. A thread. The common narrative today - and also in a lot of my

Seth Blackshaw

SethBlackshaw

Let’s take a look at the latest in a series of high-profile studies focused on retinal regeneration. This one describes small molecule-based reprogramming cocktail that can turn fibroblasts into rod

ailawblawg

ailawblawg

Morley et al. on The Ethics of AI in Health Care: A Mapping ReviewA thread http://ailawblawg.com/2021/05/10/morley-et-al-on-the-ethics-of-ai-in-health-care-a-mapping-review/ Jessica Morley (Oxford Internet Institute), Caio C.V. Machado (Un

Sucheta Dalal

suchetadalal

With huge thanks to #UshaLaxman & #SrinivasLaxman, sharing a threat on #Scam1992 through #RKLaxman 's eyes. Hopefully few will be educated on how everybody was covered. But be patient.. will