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I wish it was robot probes going someplace cool. But nope—just launching two middle-aged dudes to study the effects of futility on the human body 400 kilometers above sea level.https://twitter.com/AstroBehnken/status/1265670462815776768
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I flew to the US yesterday after three months in Japan and got my first glimpse of how Americans are behaving in the pandemic. So, a short thread on social
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This is a fun one from Jacobin. (Hint: there are at least three socialists in this photo) Speaking seriously, the internal critique of socialism most often came from the left.
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Why does Italy have an air force?https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1254224987550031877 What is the situation, however remote, in which anybody would need to say "WE MUST SCRAMBLE THE ITALIAN AIR FORCE"? I am really
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The coronavirus story right now is confusing, full of dogs that didn't bark (places you'd expect to have huge infection rates, that don't). The only common factor is a high
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Joseph Heller would be proud. There are only 20 patients on the 1200 bed hospital ship Comfort in New York City because of strict Navy requirements for keeping the ship
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We're seeing a political failure by Democratic leaders to stand up and explain to Americans that after infections start to drop we will need to stay isolated for some time,
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The professional privacy crowd is being intentionally obtuse about the possible uses of location data in epidemiological tracking, as demonstrated in this white paper. Thread:https://twitter.com/granick/status/1247983480572534790 As the paper explain
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The strict lockdowns now in place will become untenable as soon as they stop being a cooperative community effort and turn into an antagonistic exercise of state authority. The UK
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Dear bathtub Twitter: this is my tub in Japan. It is very deep and you can fill it to the top. If it overflows, the floor drain catches it. Why
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