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Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) The Authoritarian DispositionGood question. Combining this thread (Rule of Law v. Cult of Leadership) with scholarship from political psychology brings us to the conclusion that about 1/3 of the

Berna Devezer

zerdeve

Reading Godfrey-Smith’s (2006) The Strategy of model-based science. Similar to Weisberg (whose ‘Who is a modeler?’ I tweeted about yesterday), GS treats models and model-building as characteristic of one particular

Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF)

internetfreedom

On May 11 @GOI_MeitY published the Aarogya Setu data access and sharing protocol, signed by @SecretaryMEITY. IFF has done a clause by clause analysis of the Protocol and found many

Andy Davies

adavies4

THREADI was given rare access this week to 2 critical care departments in South Wales – how they’re preparing for #Covid_19 ‘worst case scenarios’What @c4marcus @daibaker & I found, of

Jennifer Rankin

JenniferMerode

There are 126 days until the UK leaves the EU economic system for good. The conventional wisdom is that a deal (another oven-ready triumph?) will be agreed at the last

*puts on flower crown, falls into a faerie circle*

Klezmerstyle

fun fact: as a child I assumed lb stood for "little babies," and that a little baby weighed exactly one lb so apparently it actually comes from the Latin phrase

Puru Saxena

saxena_puru

1) Portfolio summary - Sep-end$ADYEY $AYX $BABA $CRWD $DAO $DDOG $DKNG $DOCU $ETSY $FEAC $FROG $FSLY $MELI $OKTA $ROKU $SE $SHOP $SNOW $SQ $TWLO $U $VRM $ZM Return since 1

Ari Paul ⛓️

AriDavidPaul

A very complicated topic being debated even by the most senior economists and seasoned investors: what does the world look like as we combine deflationary "dollarization" with massive money printing.

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

It’s become cliche to refer to the MAGA movement as a cult. But in the 1980s, a major funder of the further right segment of the GOP coalition was the

HusaynQasim

QasimHusayn

[THREAD] Exposing the lies, and ignorance of the Wahhabi sect about Ali and Muawiyyah civil war, hatred, and cursing tradition. We will take our example In this thread of the

Sebastian Seung

SebastianSeung

"We use TraceTogether to supplement contact tracing — not replace it." Great essay by @jasonbay, a pioneer of bluetooth smartphone app for contact tracing before Apple/Google h/t @kevinpurcell 1/https://blog.gds-gov.tech/automated-contact-t

Stéphane Helleringer

helleringer143

We have a new pre-print out @socarxiv on the pressing need to conduct frequent mobile phone surveys to monitor excess deaths due to the #COVID19 pandemic in low income and

Poor But Privileged

luvthispayne

If you are voting in Georgia, there are some confusing amendments on the ballot. I had to research them in depth to figure out what the hell it means. Here

el gato malo

boriquagato

PROFESSOR GATO, back yet again (working from home) with the latest cut at the question of "does lockdown and social distancing create better COV outcomes?"the answer from this latest data

Natalie Buske Thomas

buske_natalie

Truth incites anger.FACT: citizens lost their jobs/businesses because the needs of the collective took priority over needs of individuals, even in areas with few cases. That's communism (collective>individual)."Comply or we'll

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

long-term thinking makes people unhappy because it almost necessarily means they’re thinking about big problemsthe only future thing you can be fairly sure about is that the big problems of