Entries from February 2020 ↓

• Eugenics refuses to die – and now Andrew Sabisky has put it back in the headlines | Angela Saini | Opinion | The Guardian
• Ronan Farrow, Emily Bazelon, Colson Whitehead are book prize finalists – Los Angeles Times
• Kickstarter Employees Win Historic Union Election – VICE
  RT @jason_koebler: BREAKING: Kickstarter employees have become the first major tech company to unionize
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  RT @LetaHong: I am one of the many women Mike Bloomberg’s company tried to silence through nondisclosure agreements. My story for…
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  RT @modernistwitch: i’m sorry but how is this headline not "british museum loses its marbles over brexit"
• Authenticating Pipelines to GCP | Kubeflow
  Workload Identity
• Coronavirus Update (Live): 73,439 Cases and 1,875 Deaths from COVID-19 Wuhan China Virus Outbreak – Worldometer
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  RT @MarjorieIngall: I will support the nominee, whoever they are. But this is why Elizabeth Warren has my nerdy activist heart.…
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  RT @avierkant: My favorite f— off moment in the new Yale study is when they show that we could give all 1.5 million health insuran…

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• Adam Sharp on Twitter: "A whatchamacallit in different languages: 7. Thingamajig (English) 6. Chingadera (Spanish) 5. Himstergims (Danish) 4. Naninani (Japanese) 3. Zamazingo (Turkish) 2. Dingsbums (German) 1. Huppeldepup (Dutch)"
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  RT @Ad_Inifinitum: when you wake up but you’re too comfy to go to get up so you go back to sleep with your donkey
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  RT @hshaban: -Amazon’s 2018 carbon emissions totaled 44.4 million metric tons (similar to large power companies)

  -Amazon threat…

• Review: Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘The Glass Hotel’ – The Atlantic
• How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades – Washington Post
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  RT @captbaritone: Congratulations @StackOverflow on helping 2 million people exit Vim 📈
• Ottessa Moshfegh’s Painful, Funny Novel of a Young Woman’s Chemical Hibernation | The New Yorker
• Update Github Issue summarization codelab · Issue #871 · kubeflow/website
• GoogleCloudPlatform/mlops-on-gcp
• Ottessa Moshfegh’s Otherworldly Fiction | The New Yorker
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  RT @anamariecox: Yeah sucks to have your reproductive freedom taken away doesn’t it

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• Emily Mandel’s Kindle Notes & Highlights for Station Eleven
• Dorothy Parker Loses Her Day Job – The Millions
• French Icon Françoise Hardy on the Music of Her Life | Pitchfork
• Five myths about kleptocracy – The Washington Post

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• Jordan Casteel Won’t Let You Look Away
• ‘They know us better than we know ourselves’: how Amazon tracked my last two years of reading | Technology | The Guardian
• CCPA FAQ: A citizen’s guide to America’s first privacy law – The Washington Post
• Earthquake experts lay out latest outlook for Seattle’s ‘Really Big One’ – GeekWire
• Done With Silicon Valley – Perspectives
• A guide to making better images with your iPhone | NPR Training
• Tweet from Aja 🦕🦖🦕🦖+ ☄️ = 🐔 (@the_thagomizer)
  2020:
  Hey DevRel friends, speakers, bloggers, et.c Today I learned about
  https://t.co/vRtMLqQv56
  Tons of resources on crafting stories, handling audio, social media skills,
  and much more.
  Thanks @briandorsey for pointing me at this.
  (https://twitter.com/the_thagomizer/status/1227638956109352961?s=09)
• Supercharge your command line experience: GitHub CLI is now in beta – The GitHub Blog
• Turing-NLG: A 17-billion-parameter language model by Microsoft – Microsoft Research
• Tweet from Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward)
  The fastai paper (with @GuggerSylvain) is now available on arXiv and on our
  site! It’s been peer reviewed and will appear in the journal Information
  soon.
  The paper covers v2, which is a from-scratch rewrite that focuses on
  usability and hackability.
  1/n
  https://t.co/vJ0OjuG1tD
  (https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1227975138097819650?s)
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  RT @TensorFlow: Time to get hacking! @huggingface just released an NPM package for question answering using #DistilBERT directly in…
• Tweet from Ting Chen (@tingchenai)
  Introducing SimCLR: a Simple framework for Contrastive Learning of
  Representations. SimCLR advances previous SOTA in self-supervised and
  semi-supervised learning on ImageNet by 7-10% (see next).
  https://t.co/X5CXud0VwL
  Joint work with @skornblith @mo_norouzi @geoffreyhinton.
  https://t.co/9nJ6sod91a
  (https://twitter.com/tingchenai/status/1228337240708874241?s)
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  RT @geoffreyhinton: Unsupervised learning of representations is beginning to work quite well without requiring reconstruction.
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  RT @ClintSmithIII: Something I think about every Valentines Day is how Frederick Douglass, as was the case with many enslaved people,…

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• Why it’s still OK to take a cruise amid the coronavirus outbreak
• Activate This ‘Bracelet of Silence,’ and Alexa Can’t Eavesdrop – The New York Times
• Playing on Kansas City Radio: Russian Propaganda – The New York Times

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  RT @climatecouncil: Antarctica has registered a temperature of more than 20C for the first time on record. “We are seeing the warming t…
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  RT @MSNBC: "I don’t think he’s fit for the office because I think what he’s done is undertake a campaign to undermine the Dept…
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  RT @SykesCharlie: This won’t end well.

  "Sanders’ reversal on health records — just last fall he had pledged that he would “certainl…

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  RT @latimes: Breaking: Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey announced the dismissal of 66,000 marijuana convictions in L.A. County, a move t…
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  RT @Eugene_Scott: “We like women when they’re in office but find them unlikable when they’re running for a higher office. Studies hav…
• Snake Oil Salesmen Were on to Something – Scientific American
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  RT @Pinboard: Less scary framing: January 2020 was probably the coolest January of the next 50 years. It’s all in how you look at…
• Unprecedented Facebook URLs Dataset now Available for Academic Research through Social Science One | SOCIAL SCIENCE ONE
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  RT @kennwhite: Tough blow for some real lions of journalism. Worth reminding that Miami Herald’s team did the groundbreaking inves…

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• Can Farming Make Space for Nature? | The New Yorker
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  RT @DavidLWindt: As the West Antarctic Ice Sheet nears a tipping point, "only a small increase in temperature could trigger abrupt i…
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  RT @AnandWrites: This is appalling and disqualifying.

  In resurfaced footage being reported tonight by the @AP, @MikeBloomberg descr…

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  RT @nycsouthpaw: Here the subheadline suggests in metaphor that the president’s proposed persecution of Alexander Vindman for testif…
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  RT @nycsouthpaw: The New York Times embraced and promoted a lie with this story, giving comfort to an administration that is right n…
• TensorFlow: Data and Deployment | Coursera
• Automated system can rewrite outdated sentences in Wikipedia articles | MIT News
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  RT @billmckibben: Enormous locust swarms, linked to climate change "which is creating the perfect breeding conditions," now cover gre…
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  RT @jasonhickel: During the last mass extinction event 66 million years ago, ocean pH dropped by 0.25, which was enough to wipe out…

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  RT @JZisSuperFly: Current meltwater ponding along the grounding line of the Larsen C Ice Shelf near Cabinet Inlet observed from the B…
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  RT @Rainmaker1973: These are jimbacrinus bostocki crinoid fossils found in Gascoyne Junction, Western Australia from the early Permian…
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  RT @GretaThunberg: New record of measured daily average concentration CO2 in the atmosphere:416.08 ppm. In February(!!)

  The saddest t…

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  RT @RepValDemings: Today Senate Republicans blocked THREE election security bills.

  Two would require that illegal foreign election in…

• Understanding pandemics: Key questions as the coronavirus spreads
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  RT @MMineiro_CNS: Chuck Schumer has sent a formal request to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz for an investigation into the dep…
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  RT @nycsouthpaw: I think, in any congressional hearings that result from this, that has to be a key question now. Mueller and his pe…
• That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It – Rolling Stone
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  RT @kylegriffin1: Senate Republicans blocked an effort by Democrats to unanimously pass three election security-related bills. Sen. M…
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  RT @Lisavipes: Friends, I think I have found the most beautiful kingfisher: the Crested Kingfisher. It’s like the Black Tie Event…
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  RT @chrissteinplays: Klingons will pay for it
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  RT @martin_gorner: It’s happening on right now: TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) have been made available in Kag…
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  RT @DrMattMcCarthy: Here’s what isn’t being said about #coronavirus: for 15 years the United States ran a research program called PREDI…
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  RT @Laurie_Garrett: The front end of Pine Island Glacier, western #Antarctica is breaking off, at great speed.
  Meanwhile, the real thr…

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• My Wedding Gown’s Last Dance – Modern Loss
• Is America a democracy? If so, why does it deny millions the vote? | US news | The Guardian
• Author Alissa Nutting’s Grub Street Diet
  RT @knguyen: I’m not sure why we trust the Pulitzers as an institution when Alissa Nutting’s grubstreet diet did not win one
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  RT @zanopticon: I wrote about Adrienne Miller’s memoir In the Land of Men, being 22, David Foster Wallace, and one way to approach…
• This Is How You Live on Swiss Time
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  RT @eileen_gunn: "Whoever wins the Democratic nomination is going to have to be prepared for a campaign the viciousness of which is…
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  RT @AmyKinLA: Natalie Portman embroidered her Dior cape with all of the female directors who weren’t nominated for #Oscars. Check…
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  RT @hunnihawk: thinking abt paul newman and the noscar joanne woodward made for him after she won her oscar

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  RT @ilya_poet: There are the stories we tell ourselves, she says.
  There are stories we tell others.
  Then there’s the sum
  of our ho…
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  RT @MrJonCryer: Maybe this is what they meant by the “stain of impeachment”
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  RT @leahcarroll: Did the sun write this tweet?
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  RT @KamalaHarris: Don’t let this go unnoticed: at least 138 Salvadorans came to America seeking a better and safer life—only to be de…
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  RT @rabihalameddine: Philippe Halsman – Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham, 1947
• How Margot Robbie Went From Pinup To Hit Producer
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  RT @mattzollerseitz: 210. This is still not as bad as when my son was diagnosed with asthma 12 years ago when I didn’t have any insuranc…
• Open primaries in the United States – Wikipedia
• Architecture for MLOps using TFX, Kubeflow Pipelines, and Cloud Build
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  RT @evacide: This is your regular reminder that algorithms reflect the biases of the people who make them.
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  RT @JuanSaaa: ICE agent shoots NYC man in the face while serving deportation order.

  Officials say the victim was not the man ICE…

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  Antarctica logs hottest temperature on record with a reading of 18.3C (65F)
• Antarctica logs hottest temperature on record with a reading of 18.3C | World news | The Guardian
  Antarctica logs hottest temperature on record with a reading of 18.3C (65F)

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