Entries from September 2020 ↓

• The case for quarantining extremist ideas | The far right | The Guardian
  RT @BostonJoan: Journalists!

  Please please please do not try to interview the Proud Boys. They seek media attention and then use it to spread their toxic message.

  When reporting on tonight’s debate, call them white supremacists. But do not give them a mic.

• ExamSoft's remote bar exam sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns | VentureBeat
  RT @hypervisible: Black woman has to shine bright light in her face during entire 2 day exam so ExamSoft remote monitoring tech doesn’t flag her as a cheater. 🤬🤬🤬
• (500) https://nyer.cm/EkxueUw
  RT @NewYorker: What if, once New Yorkers had made it through the grief and despair of the spring, we’d refused to settle for less in every area of our lives? Imagine what this September might look like then, @mashagessen writes.
• (500) https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/seattle-to-require-minimum-wage-for-uber-and-lyft-drivers/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=owned_echobox_tw_m&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1601438792
  RT @seattletimes: The Seattle City Council has approved a new pay formula meant to ensure that Uber and Lyft drivers make the same $16.39 minimum wage as other workers in the city.
• Twitter
  RT @SamanthaJPower: This is so good. @HillaryClinton on why she’s so “polarizing”: “It’s not about me. It’s about the fight.”
• Twitter
  RT @Pinboard: When I was trailing @JDScholten around Iowa, at every gathering there were questions about ballot integrity and how to vote safely. As things get more heated, please remember that the easiest way to subvert a free, fair election is to undermine people’s faith in the process
• Massachusetts rejected nearly 18,000 primary ballots amid surge of mail-in voting – The Boston Globe
  RT @EllenBarryNYT: In Massachusetts, election officials rejected 18k mail-in ballots in Sept primaries, 2% of early votes, bc they arrived late, "failed delivery," or envelope didn’t have a signature. More than 3x ballots rejected in 2016 general, reports @MattPStout.
• Twitter
  RT @AshaRangappa_: In case you were wondering
• Twitter
  RT @JoeBiden: There’s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night.
• Twitter
  RT @TechMoBio: Hello everyone! I’m a first-year PhD student @Stanford and it feels great to be a part of #BlackInMicro! I’m interested in using biophysical and computational approaches to study bacterial pathogenesis and host- pathogen interactions

  #BiMRollCall @BlackInMicro

• Twitter
  RT @jentaub: True story. When I was three, our apartment had a telephone with the base attached to the wall in the kitchen. The receiver was connected to the base with a long curly cord that allowed you to bring the phone with you as you walked around the kitchen or into another room.

  1/

• Twitter
  RT @BillCorbett: much better thank you
• Where in the U.S. Are You Most Likely to Be Audited by the IRS? | ProPublica
  RT @the_etheropian: A mostly Black and poor county in Mississippi is the most heavily audited by the IRS.

  “The five counties with the highest audit rates are all predominantly African American, rural counties in the Deep South.”

• Which Hollywood Sex Symbols Actually Have Sex on Screen? A Study. – The Ringer
• It can happen here. It is – The.Ink
• Twitter
  RT @AudraEqualityMc: Got yelled at by my ballet teacher when I was 9 for having the wrong color tights for the recital. I had on brown tights cause she said to buy “skin-color” tights.
  When I said “But you said skin color” the teacher pointed to her own white skin & yelled “Skin color! SKIN COLOR!”
• Twitter
  RT @brightwell08: Ernst Haas ‘Lights of New York City’ 1972
  Kodachrome photograph
• When a Prison Abolitionist Is a Victim of Sexual Assault – The Atlantic
  Ayelet Waldman
• How to Thwart Facial Recognition and Other Surveillance | WIRED
• Save Our Democracy!
  Ways to help
• 13 security tips for journalists covering communities of hate online
• Twitter
  RT @JGreenblattADL: It’s astonishing that, when asked a simple question, will you condemn white supremacists, @POTUS responded – "The Proud Boys should stand back and stand by." Trying to determine if this was an answer or an admission. @POTUS owes America an apology or an explanation. Now.
• Twitter
  RT @CiaranWest: Anyone want to see a woman fire an arrow through a moving Polo Mint?

  The answer is "yes".

• Twitter
  RT @gelliottmorris: Huge spike in Google searches for moving to Canada tonight
• Twitter
  RT @PGourevitch: the most essential review of Pete Wells’s storied run as restaurant critic is this reckoning with NYC’s reopening of indoor dining:
• New Zealand firms switch to using nation's Māori name, Aotearoa | World news | The Guardian
• Beautiful paperback novels with Ulysses – Matt Gemmell
• New York Dining Is Moving Indoors. How Nervous Should You Be? – The New York Times

Digest powered by RSS Digest

• scanned.motion.gj.release.pdf – Google Drive
  RT @notcapnamerica: BREAKING: A member of the Breonna Taylor grand jury just filed a remarkable motion asking a judge to release the entire proceedings of the grand jury. The motion strongly suggests that AG Cameron’s public comments contradict what was presented to the jury.
• Twitter
  RT @petestrzok: Disappointed to see the undisclosed addition of handwritten dates in copies of my notes DOJ turned over to Flynn’s defense team, including a misleading perception helpful to the defense.

  Hoping they told the Court, because it was a surprise to me.

• Twitter
  RT @SLevelt: absolutely incurable mansplainer
• The 2020 Election Isn’t About Idealism. It’s About Survival | Vanity Fair
• Dominic Cummings' data law shake-up a danger to trade, says EU | Politics | The Guardian
• SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in development | Nature

  1) SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines – I promised a Tweetorial and here we go. This is going to be long and nerdy. But I’ll make sure it is easy to understand. If you want more details, please just read this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2798-3

  https://twitter.com/florian_krammer/status/1310372301314101250

• Post Office Failed to Update 1.8 Million Addresses Ahead of Mail-in Voting | Time
  RT @markmobility: God dammit. For three weeks in August, @USPS stopped fully updating a national change of address system that most states use to keep their voter rolls current.

  "at least 1.8 million new changes of address had not been registered in the database."

• Covid-19 tests that give results in minutes to be rolled out across world | World news | The Guardian
• Twitter
  RT @shannonrwatts: Why hasn’t every single major newspaper in the country called on the President to resign?
• San Francisco's Department of HR, embroiled in scandal, must be investigated — from top to bottom – Mission Local
  RT @justkelly_ok: Holy hell. So…an HR manager forged emails, signatures, and docs to convince people who’d filed racial discrimination claims that they’d get fat settlements, which got them to drop lawsuits. Then deleted stuff to cover her tracks.
• Twitter
  RT @colincampbell: Photos from yesterday.

  St. Helena, Calif.

  (AP/Noah Berger)

• Twitter
  RT @CharlesFinch: "forced hysterectomies in ICE custody"
• Twitter
  RT @ziyatong: Earthlings.
• Judge says Ga precincts must have paper voter records on Election Day
  RT @kylegriffin1: A federal judge has required paper backups of voter registration and absentee voting information at every Georgia polling place, a safeguard to allow voters to continue casting ballots if computers fail on Election Day.
• Twitter
  RT @barry: My mail-in ballot also has someone else’s return envelope. This is gonna be a real huge problem, huh.
• Twitter
  RT @barry: My mail-in ballot also has someone else’s return envelope. This is gonna be a real huge problem, huh.
• Panicked Woman Scrambles To Write Down ‘$750’ Before 24-Hour News Cycle Wipes Memory Clean
  RT @TheOnion: Panicked Woman Scrambles To Write Down ‘$750’ Before 24-Hour News Cycle Wipes Memory Clean
• Twitter
  RT @TheOnion: Panicked Woman Scrambles To Write Down ‘$750’ Before 24-Hour News Cycle Wipes Memory Clean
• Daily COVID-19 outbreak summary – King County
• Twitter
  RT @JStein_WaPo: The poorest half of this country has basically no meaningful share of the national wealth.

  Striking chart today from the Federal Reserve.

• (500) https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article246062390.html
  RT @nwarikoo: Police report: “While speaking with Candace Parscale I noticed several large sized contusions on both of her arms, her cheek and forehead,” wrote officer. “When I asked how she received the bruising, Candace Parscale stated Brad Parscale hits her.”

Digest powered by RSS Digest

• Twitter
  RT @HalSparks: An industrial shredder.
• Twitter
  RT @jonmladd: Trump is not a man of mystery. Things are what they seem. It looked like he wasn’t that wealthy, and he’s not. It looked like he hid his taxes because they were incredibly damaging, and they are. Who might be backing his debt? Well, who does Trump act like has leverage over him?
• Twitter
  RT @GossiTheDog: Reports coming through on Twitter that Universal Health Services Inc have been hit with ransomware.
• Twitter
  RT @mrbromwich: Trump knew something we didn’t when he started balking at the peaceful transfer of power. If he loses the election, he faces federal and state prosecution for bank fraud, tax fraud, wire fraud, and mail fraud, as does his entire family. No OLC memo will spare him.
• Twitter
  RT @EffinBirds: Gang, just putting it out there that Effin’ Birds — a social media cartoon that is nothing but birds and swear words — paid $24,000 in taxes last year
• Twitter
  RT @PhilRosenthal:
• Twitter
  RT @umairh: Bingo
• Twitter
  RT @HeerJeet: That was a thread in this story that seemed worth pursuing but got dropped. I wonder if we’ll hear about it again.
• Anne Applebaum Interviews Peter Strzok – The Atlantic
• New York Times' Trump Tax Returns Investigation: 18 Revelations – The New York Times
• Egyptian tomb in Saqqara necropolis found to contain 27 ancient sarcophagi – CNN Style
• Lali » La suggestion, jour 10

  La lectrice de Julie Unruh adore regarder. Elle n’est pas la seule. Notre ami Armando est en tous points pareil. D’ailleurs, il est sûrement en train d’exminer quelque chose ou quelqu’un…

  Mais d’où lui vient cette passion qu’il a de regarder ici et là pour raconter ce qu’il voit, à sa manière? Est-elle récente ou en a-t-il toujours été ainsi? Et s’il nous en parlait?

• The Vow's Greatest Strength Is Its Pacing
• Loclock
  world time
• COVID-19 Is Transmitted Through Aerosols. We Need to Adapt | Time

Digest powered by RSS Digest

• Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial. – The New York Times
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/24/how-fix-public-health-weaknesses-before-next-pandemic-hits/
  RT @HarvardChanSPH: "The #COVID19 experience shows that large holes remain in U.S. public health infrastructure, especially the mechanisms to generate, collect, analyze and compare data." – @mlipsitch and @yhgrad in @PostOpinions
• New Body-Cam Footage Raises Questions About Breonna Taylor Death Investigation
• Twitter
  RT @nycsouthpaw: We built a machine to replicate the experience of Weimar Germany in every country in the world and we’re very proud of that
• Magawa the Mine-Sniffing Rat Receives Award for Bravery in Cambodia – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @AliceRHamilton: when you’re so pro life you gotta kill some bitches
• #166 Country of Liars – Reply All | Podcast on Spotify

  Who is Q-Anon? PJ tells the surprising origin story of the Q scam, and the man who now seems to be in control of it.

• Barefoot Contessa | Cheddar Corn Chowder | Recipes
• Amish brothers who had sex with sister avoid rape rap, jail – New York Daily News
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/coldwar/shatter021099b.htm
  RT @AtomicAnalyst: Just past midnight 37 years ago, thanks to “a funny feeling in my gut,” 44 year-old Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov’s calm calculation that a satellite warning of the launch of five US Minuteman ICBMs was a false alarm likely averted a catastrophic nuclear war.
• Twitter
  RT @AtomicAnalyst: Just past midnight 37 years ago, thanks to “a funny feeling in my gut,” 44 year-old Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov’s calm calculation that a satellite warning of the launch of five US Minuteman ICBMs was a false alarm likely averted a catastrophic nuclear war.
• The creators of Slings & Arrows talk about creating one of TV’s greatest shows
• The Slings & Arrows creators discuss their writing process and the show’s future

Digest powered by RSS Digest

• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/world/asia/trump-united-states.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes)
  RT @nytimes: The diminution of the U.S. global image began before the pandemic. Now, though, its reputation seems to be in free-fall.

  “The most powerful country in the world," one person said, "all of a sudden looks vulnerable."

  Read more.

• Login • Instagram
  RT @sophiescott: Can’t stop looking at this picture of baboons from a paper on friendships in male baboons. Male baboons with more female friends fare better 🤔
• Twitter
  RT @UrbanFoxxxx: Surreal photos of the beach that briefly existed west of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, in the early 80s. The site, created out of landfill material from the excavations to build the WTC, would later become Battery Park City
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/nyregion/battery-park-city-beach.html)
  RT @UrbanFoxxxx: Surreal photos of the beach that briefly existed west of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, in the early 80s. The site, created out of landfill material from the excavations to build the WTC, would later become Battery Park City
• Twitter
  RT @DemarcationDSGN: It’s the same in Denmark.

  Flew in yesterday. Huge, free Covid test centre at the airport, with announcements on the plane advertising free testing *even if you don’t have symptoms*

  Tons of capacity, no queue. The whole thing took 3 mins. No QR codes. Results in 48 hours

• 10 things you need to know to stop a coup | Waging Nonviolence
• Crowd Of Giant Crabs Decides To Crash Family's Picnic – The Dodo
• Twitter
  RT @ClaraJeffery: Man. While "Minnesota nice" actually means passive aggressive, still as a person who live there for 7 years, it is somewhat shocking that disapproval has turned this racist and toxic. (Outstate Minnesota means not in Twin Cities area)
• Twitter
  RT @paulkrugman: Moody’s Analytics — not a partisan organization — says that the economy will be much stronger if Biden wins than if Trump hangs on. What’s interesting, and a bit bittersweet for those of us who remember the last crisis, is why they say this 1/
• Untitled (https://www.moodysanalytics.com/-/media/article/2020/the-macroeconomic-consequences-trump-vs-biden.pdf)
  RT @paulkrugman: Moody’s Analytics — not a partisan organization — says that the economy will be much stronger if Biden wins than if Trump hangs on. What’s interesting, and a bit bittersweet for those of us who remember the last crisis, is why they say this 1/
• Twitter
  RT @miniondeathcult: Good lord what a dork
• Untitled (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-54281111?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_custom4=C00C8BE0-FE77-11EA-AA91-8ACB4744363C&at_custom3=%40BBCNews&at_medium=custom7&at_camp
  RT @BBCNews: I was told "very loudly to get out of the courtroom"

  Black barrister Alexandra Wilson says court staff mistook her for a defendant three times in one day

• Twitter
  RT @BBCNews: I was told "very loudly to get out of the courtroom"

  Black barrister Alexandra Wilson says court staff mistook her for a defendant three times in one day

• Trump cuts aid for pro-democracy groups in Belarus, Hong Kong and Iran | Trump administration | The Guardian
  RT @guardiannews: Trump cuts aid for pro-democracy groups in Belarus, Hong Kong and Iran
• How the Wellness World Embraced QAnon
  RT @harikunzru: It probably shouldn’t surprise people that ‘wellness’ is a vector for Fascist conspiracy thinking to enter the mainstream. In a previous incarnation (as the Völkisch movement) it was a major source of early twentieth century proto-Fascist ideology
• Twitter
  RT @harikunzru: It probably shouldn’t surprise people that ‘wellness’ is a vector for Fascist conspiracy thinking to enter the mainstream. In a previous incarnation (as the Völkisch movement) it was a major source of early twentieth century proto-Fascist ideology
• Twitter
  RT @juliareinstein: stop framing stories about how this country is broken and failing its citizens as heartwarming content challenge
• Are You Aging Correctly?
• Magawa the Mine-Sniffing Rat Receives Award for Bravery in Cambodia – The New York Times

  Magawa, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, was recognized with a prestigious honor for his work detecting mines and explosives in Cambodia.

• Twitter
  RT @KevinMKruse: Just a reminder — the Supreme Court isn’t supposed to certify election results and we should do everything we can to dispel the misconception that this election can and will only be legitimized by them.
• Twitter
  RT @xuhulk: a machine learning algorithm that wipes your hard drive when it detects that you’ve started reinventing phrenology

Digest powered by RSS Digest

• Covid Doctors Find a Turning Point in Life-Threatening Cases – Bloomberg
• Twitter
  RT @volewriter: This makes me very sad. Probably the majority of men have no idea how women’s lives are circumscribed by fear of male violence.
• Biden Endorsed By Nearly 500 National Security Experts : NPR
  RT @michikokakutani: Nearly 500 national security experts – both civilians and former senior uniformed officers — have endorsed Joe Biden for president, saying the "current president" is not up to "the enormous responsibilities of his office."
• (500) https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/outside-agency-to-conduct-criminal-investigation-after-seattle-police-officer-rolled-bike-over-protesters-head/
  RT @pgcornwell: Update: The Seattle police officer who wheeled his bike over a protester’s head while the protester was on the ground has been placed on administrative leave.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/sunday-review/when-spies-hack-journalism.html)
  RT @ScottShaneNYT: Boy, is this true. I wrestled with this two years ago without finding an easy solution. But smart to be ready to 1) discuss before rushing to publish and 2) if publishing, explain everything possible about the apparent source and motives.
• Twitter
  RT @ScottShaneNYT: Boy, is this true. I wrestled with this two years ago without finding an easy solution. But smart to be ready to 1) discuss before rushing to publish and 2) if publishing, explain everything possible about the apparent source and motives.
• Twitter
  RT @anildash: There is no reforming this.
• Twitter
  RT @mattiekahn: I just want to say that @BillieJeanKing is the first person I’ve ever interviewed who—midway through our conversation—asked me if I had negotiated for my salary and whether I felt I was being paid fairly for my work
• Twitter
  RT @garv7yar: As if anyone LIKES going to the dentist, especially now, here’s the entrance to my dentists office.
• The Democratic Party Needs Thugs
• Twitter
  RT @eriqgardner: Bill Murray receives a legal demand from the Doobie Brothers. And it’s everything you’d want it to be…
• Trump Declines To Promise Peaceful Transfer Of Power : NPR
  RT @nprpolitics: President Trump declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the 2020 election, saying "Get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful — there won’t be a transfer, frankly, there’ll be a continuation."
• Facebook leaks show Mark Zuckerberg defending his decisions to angry employees
  RT @jayrosen_nyu: The employees are liberal. The user base is right wing. The management thinks it can be neutral. The metrics remain strong. This description of Facebook in the summer and fall of 2020 is of a company ready to profit from civic ruin. By @CaseyNewton
• What happens to the clothes, shoes and linens I give? Learn more from King County's EcoConsumer website – King County
• Twitter
  RT @JoeMillerJr: In case you were wondering how much excess capacity Germany has… this pop-up at Nuremberg station offers FREE tests for passers-by.

  Took me 5 mins as I waited for my train. Place was pretty much empty.

• Twitter
  RT @TensorFlow: ☝ We have a recommendation for that

  Introducing TensorFlow Recommenders, an open-source package that makes building, evaluating, and serving recommender models easy. Find recommendations for movies, restaurants, and much more!

  Get started →

• Hot Take

  And look, since we’re on the topic, climate newsletters that bring something to your attention that you wouldn’t have found elsewhere are also very vital. I’m a paid subscriber to @RealHotTake and it’s worth every little dollar: https://realhottake.substack.com/

• 2020 NLP Survey Report – Gradient Flow
• One Simple Chart: primary applications of AI in Financial Services – Gradient Flow
• Twitter
  RT @CPhillipsPoet: “Wave of sorrow,/Do not drown me now…” #BlackLivesMatter #BreonnaTaylor #DefundThePolice
• Twitter
  RT @MIT_CSAIL: The world’s largest AI organization just launched a new $1m award aimed at elevating AI to the level of a Nobel.

  The first winner: MIT professor Regina Barzilay, who uses machine learning to diagnose cancer and develop antibiotics.

  #ML #AI

Digest powered by RSS Digest

• [2003.03384] AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch
  Machine learning research has advanced in multiple aspects, including model structures and learning methods. The effort to automate such research, known as AutoML, has also made significant progress. However, this progress has largely focused on the architecture of neural networks, where it has relied on sophisticated expert-designed layers as building blocks—or similarly restrictive search spaces. Our goal is to show that AutoML can go further: it is possible today to automatically discover complete machine learning algorithms just using basic mathematical operations as building blocks. We demonstrate this by introducing a novel framework that significantly reduces human bias through a generic search space. Despite the vastness of this space, evolutionary search can still discover two-layer neural networks trained by backpropagation. These simple neural networks can then be surpassed by evolving directly on tasks of interest, e.g. CIFAR-10 variants, where modern techniques emerge in the top algorithms, such as bilinear interactions, normalized gradients, and weight averaging. Moreover, evolution adapts algorithms to different task types: e.g., dropout-like techniques appear when little data is available. We believe these preliminary successes in discovering machine learning algorithms from scratch indicate a promising new direction for the field.
• Twitter
  RT @froomkin: OK, SIX alarms: “President Donald Trump predicted that the U.S. Supreme Court will decide the outcome of the November election and argued the Senate should confirm his nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to break any tie.”
• Introducing TensorFlow Recommenders — The TensorFlow Blog
• Regina Barzilay wins $1M Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Squirrel AI award | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Untitled (https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN26F02S)
  RT @josephmenn: One of the biggest suppliers of software to U.S. counties has been hacked, raising the possibility of increased disruption ahead of the election.
• These exotic destinations want remote workers
• Twitter
  RT @SenaitTV: According to attorneys of #BreonnaTaylor’s family — Daniel Cameron did NOT explain to Breonna’s mother the charges for wanton endangerment were NOT for Breonna’s death. One of the attorneys had to explain it to Breonna’s mom in the parking garage… @WHAS11
• Report: Trump Campaign Actively Discussing Radical Measures To Bypass Election Results
  Report: Trump Campaign Actively Discussing Radical Measures To Bypass Election Results
• Twitter
  RT @AshaRangappa_: THREAD. It is important to take note and be prepared for the unprecedented actions Trump says he intends to take after the election. But it is also important not to allow his *wishful* reality to *become the reality. To do that, consider Trump’s psychological POV right now:
• Twitter
  RT @aravosis: Armed Trump supporters, in paramilitary gear, threaten people in cars.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/article/supreme-court-obamacare-case.html?smid=tw-share)
  RT @Gwenda: I honestly can’t even think about this, especially if Dems don’t win the presidency and the senate — it would completely upend our lives: "If the Supreme Court Ends Obamacare, Here’s What It Would Mean"
• Louisville | The Bail Project
  RT @amnestyusa: Peaceful protest is a human right.

  If you have the ability, please consider a donation to the Louisville @bailproject >>>

• Twitter
  RT @amnestyusa: Peaceful protest is a human right.

  If you have the ability, please consider a donation to the Louisville @bailproject >>>

• Twitter
  RT @realchrisrufo: The point on federal contractors is a major escalation: if a private company wants to work with the US government, they can no longer teach critical race theory anywhere in their offices. This could potentially disrupt CRT programs in half of the Fortune 500.
• Twitter
  RT @juliaioffe: "We wanna get rid of the ballots, and we’ll have a very peaceful transfer. There won’t be a transfer, frankly. There’ll be a continuation."

  A month and a half from the election, this is what the President of the United States is saying from the White House.

• Twitter
  RT @KevinMKruse: Oooh, look at Mr. Fancy here who feels like he’s even loosely connected to this damn bridge in some way.
• Twitter
  RT @KBAndersen: Tell us, Republicans, especially each and every Republican member of Congress, what you think of this. It wasn’t a tweet, so you can’t use that as a way to pretend the president didn’t really say it.
• Google Maps adds an overlay of COVID-19 case trends – The Verge

Digest powered by RSS Digest

• Twitter
  RT @alienelf: "Instead, the media has largely ignored the policy successes out of Africa. In doing so, Western media is reinforcing colonial narratives of Black inferiority and the inability of Black nations to govern themselves at all, much less govern better than resource-rich White nations"
• 380 whales dead in worst mass stranding in Australia's history | Environment | The Guardian
  RT @guardianeco: More than 450 whales now stranded in Tasmania after rescuers discover pod of 200 dead
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/22/covid-funds-pentagon/?outputType=amp
  RT @Public_Citizen: BREAKING: The Pentagon funneled nearly $1,000,000,000 of taxpayer money meant for masks and medical equipment to defense contractors building jet engines and body armor.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/climate/climate-change-future.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur)
  RT @NYTScience: The most sobering message: the world still hasn’t seen the worst of it. Gone is the climate of yesteryear, and there’s no going back.
• Untitled (https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/517587-gop-will-ask-supreme-court-to-limit-mail-voting-in-pennsylvania-in?rnd=1600797517)
  RT @johnkruzel: SCOOP: Republicans plan to ask the Supreme Court to review a major state court ruling that extended the due date for mail ballots in Pennsylvania, teeing up SCOTUS’ first post-RBG test
• Johnson & Johnson Begins Phase 3 Trial of Covid-19 Vaccine – The New York Times
• Opinion | Africa has defied the covid-19 nightmare scenarios. We shouldn’t be surprised. – The Washington Post
• Blacklight – The Markup

  A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector

• Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial. – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @JaneMayerNYer: “A hearing IF NEEDS Be”? Wut? Are they going to try to skip the hearings?
• Twitter
  RT @limlouisa: Hong Kong police are introducing media accreditation in a huge step backwards for press freedom in HK. This allows police to decide who is a journalist, drastically raising the risks for freelancers. h/t @IlariaMariaSala
• Untitled (https://www.axios.com/debate-topics-trump-biden-bebbf74c-168d-4184-a88f-b00e52af6cde.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=twitter)
  RT @JaneMayerNYer: Are we going to sit through another presidential election in which debate moderators fail to ask about climate change? Commission releases topics for first presidential debate
• Restaurateurs struggle as recovery stalls and coronavirus surges – The Washington Post
• Abandoned Hotels & Resorts | Abandoned America
• Trick of the Trade: Isopropyl Alcohol Vapor Inhalation for Nausea and Vomiting
• We Live in a Potemkin Autocracy Now – The Atlantic

  The White House memo declaring New York City, Portland, and Seattle “anarchist jurisdictions” isn’t federalism; it’s half-baked feudalism.

• Twitter
  RT @Pinboard: A recurring theme of the Trump administration is people failing to stand up for what was right while in their influential jobs, and then writing "coulda, shoulda" books about their experience in order to cash in

Digest powered by RSS Digest

• Twitter
  RT @nycsouthpaw: A wild document. Felony collective punishment for anyone who attends a protest where property is damaged, while vehicular murder or manslaughter is effectively legalized. Plus if your city council acts to reduce the police budget, the state defunds everything.
• Twitter
  RT @MollyJongFast: Me too, little buddy. Me too.
• Twitter
  RT @pamelacolloff: The. First. Woman.

  Let that sink in.

• RedState COVID Troll Streiff is Actually Bill Crews, and He Actually Works for Dr. Anthony Fauci
  RT @lachlan: New: the pseudonymous managing editor of RedState has been trashing Fauci, Redfield, and the govt’s COVID response generally

  Turns out, his day job is a press officer at the National institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—the agency that Fauci leads

• The most popular talks of all time | TED Talks
• Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi: There Is No Other review – a folk landmark | Folk music | The Guardian
• Mueller prosecutor says special counsel ‘could have done more’ to hold Trump accountable

  A former prosecutor on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team writes in a new book that the group failed to fully investigate President Trump’s financial ties and should have stated explicitly that they believed he obstructed justice, claiming that their efforts were limited by the ever-present threat of Trump disbanding their office and by their own reluctance to be aggressive

Digest powered by RSS Digest

• Black doctors' group creates panel to vet Covid-19 vaccines – STAT
  RT @EricaJoy: with the racism historically baked into medicine, this was bound to happen sooner or later.
• Ryan Holiday's 33 Favorite Pieces of Advice for Life  | Forge
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/technology/turing-scientists-endorse-biden.html?smid=tw-share)
  RT @crampell: 24 winners of the Turing Award, sometimes called the Nobel Prize of computing, endorse Biden. They cite Trump’s anti-immigrant policies that are keeping out students, scientists, inventors.
  First time Turing Award laureates have endorsed a candidate
• "Welsh Dragon (Y Ddraig Goch)" Mask by dragonsofwales | Redbubble
• Escaping NXIVM | CBC News
• Inside a Secretive Group Where Women Are Branded – The New York Times
  nxivm

Digest powered by RSS Digest