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December 31st, 2020 — Uncategorized
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/health/vaccine-distribution-delays.html)
RT @nytimes: The campaign to vaccinate America against the coronavirus is only in its third week, and already far behind schedule.
“Ultimately,” the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health said, “the buck seems to stop with no one.”
- (400) https://twitter.com/snopes/status/1344644123286974469/photo/1
RT @snopes: ✅ Yes, a photograph shows Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler with a former KKK member.
- Was Sen. Kelly Loeffler Pictured With Former KKK Member?
RT @snopes: ✅ Yes, a photograph shows Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler with a former KKK member.
- (400) https://twitter.com/amygdala/status/1344685254137815042/photo/1
LA buckles under COVID-19 surge as bodies pile up and hospitals resort to desperate measures
‘No one would believe this is in the United States’
- LA buckles under COVID-19 surge as bodies pile up and hospitals resort to despe
LA buckles under COVID-19 surge as bodies pile up and hospitals resort to desperate measures
‘No one would believe this is in the United States’
- Timnit Gebru’s Exit From Google Exposes a Crisis in AI | WIRED
- (400) https://twitter.com/FOS/status/1344480552024383488/photo/1
RT @FOS: .@BeckyHammon is the acting head coach of the San Antonio Spurs following the ejection of Gregg Popovich in the second quarter.
Making her the first female head coach in NBA history.
- (400) https://twitter.com/silentmoviegifs/status/1289929697262960640/photo/1
RT @silentmoviegifs: Between 1918 and 1920 a deadly influenza pandemic was killing millions of people, but you wouldn’t know it from watching movies from that time period. This scene from Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) is a rare exception. Note how the mask-wearing crowd scatters when Mary Pickford sneezes
- (400) https://twitter.com/isaacstanbecker/status/1344454761601503233/photo/1
RT @isaacstanbecker: Not good. Clinic outside Milwaukee initially thought vaccine vials were removed from refrigeration, spoiling more than 500 doses, as the result of an accident. Now they’re saying the damage was intentional.
- (400) https://twitter.com/bestedwardsfash/status/1344292859869065217/photo/1
RT @bestedwardsfash: good morning everyone, idk how many of you are aware but yesterday history was made in my country Argentina. after decades of struggles and fighting for our rights, ABORTION IS NOW LEGAL. I’m literally in tears and I’ve never been happier😭✊🏻💚 SE HIZO LEY
- America’s Vaccine Rollout Is Already a Disaster
America’s Vaccine Rollout Is Already a Disaster
- (400) https://twitter.com/amygdala/status/1344486250493825024/photo/1
America’s Vaccine Rollout Is Already a Disaster
- (400) https://twitter.com/edyong209/status/1344303424192577538/photo/1
RT @edyong209: A running theme of my work this year has been the devastating consequences of underfunding and neglecting public health. Which turns out to be a problem when you want to, y’know, vaccinate a country.
- (400) https://twitter.com/Reza_Zadeh/status/1344009123004747778/video/1
RT @levie: We’ve collectively learned nothing from sci-fi movies. This is definitely the moment we’re supposed to turn back.
- Untitled (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-30/california-hits-new-one-day-covid-19-death-record-442)
RT @latimes: California broke the single-day record for COVID-19 deaths yet again Tuesday, logging 442 fatalities.
That’s equivalent to someone dying of the disease every 3 minutes
At this rate, cumulative COVID-19 deaths will likely exceed 25,000 in the state today
- Untitled (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/louisville-police-move-fire-detective-who-obtained-breonna-taylor-warrant-n1252509?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_blk)
RT @NBCBLK: The officer who obtained the no-knock warrant and the officer who fired the fatal bullet in the raid of the home of #BreonnaTaylor received notice the police department intends to fire them.
- (400) https://twitter.com/reuters/status/1344228032341569537
RT @tmprowell: This is not news, @Reuters. Headline provokes unfounded panic. The #COVID19 #vaccines avail in US under EUA need 2 doses 3 wks (Pfizer/BioNTech) or 4 wks apart (Moderna). They do not prevent 100% of cases, & you’ll def see cases after just 1 dose. Pls continue to #MaskUp.
- (400) https://twitter.com/MumblingNerd/status/1343976818752294915/photo/1
RT @MumblingNerd: I suspect the downstairs neighbours may have a new light fitting…
- (400) https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1344142682084487168
RT @DrJasonJohnson: A man is reported to be making BOMBS in his home, gets a polite police drop-in, no incident. In contrast #BreonnaTaylor and #AttianaJefferson can literally be in their HOMES doing NOTHING and police barge in and kill them on bad information. This is why we say #BlackLivesMatter
- Fuck off, 2020 | Epiphany 2.0
- Untitled (https://www.q13fox.com/news/uw-medicine-conducting-phase-three-trial-of-novavax-covid-19-vaccine)
RT @uwmnewsroom: Clinical trial of @Novavax #COVID19 vaccine now enrolling volunteers @UWMedicine under leadership of Anna Wald & Scott McClelland @uwdgh @UWDeptMedicine @uwepidemiology, reports @Q13FOX @BrianFloresTV
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December 30th, 2020 — Uncategorized
- (400) https://twitter.com/VoyaWolfProject/status/1343928342551138305/video/1
RT @VoyaWolfProject: This video was literally a year in the making! The video shows all of the wildlife that crossed this beaver dam over the course of a year! Beaver dams can be wildlife highways in boreal environments like the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem! (1/3)
- (400) https://twitter.com/Jamie_Woodward_/status/1343960159626928129
RT @dsquareddigest: All this archaeology is fascinating, but I get the feeling that if I were to ask the question "how are we managing to exhume all these things from the permafrost right now" I might not like the answer
- (400) https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1344135320925843456/video/1
RT @CNN: "Four in 10 people that we have been seeing are new to the charitable food system… The number one thing that we hear is, because of job loss and cuts to working hours, that people are needing food now for the very first time."
– @hannahrandall, @MANNAFoodBank CEO
- New worm turns Windows, Linux servers into Monero miners
- Untitled (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55471282?at_campaign=64&at_custom3=%40BBCWorld&at_medium=custom7&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom4=0D98DE36-49B4-11EB-B85D-CCDD923C408C&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D)
RT @BBCWorld: Spain to keep list of those who refuse Covid vaccine, which will be shared with other EU nations
- Untitled (https://www.dailyposter.com/p/10-stats-about-the-2000-checks)
RT @dailyposter: KEY STAT: @JeffBezos and @ElonMusk gained more wealth during the pandemic than Congress just authorized for all additional unemployment benefits for millions of Americans struggling to survive
- Untitled (https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/29/nashville-explosion-woman-warned-mnpd-warner-building-bomb-2019/4082253001/)
RT @ByMikeBaker: Authorities said Nashville bomber Anthony Warner was "not on our radar."
But records now show that Warner’s girlfriend told police in 2019 he "was building bombs in the RV trailer."
Officers went to the house, then left because the RV was behind a fence.
- The Trümperdämmerung Is a Fitting End to 2020 | The New Yorker
- WHO warns Covid-19 pandemic is 'not necessarily the big one' | World news | The Guardian
RT @larrybrilliant: WHO warns Covid-19 pandemic is ‘not necessarily the big one’. More reasons to invest in pandemic preparedness to prevent the next one even as we fight with all our hearts and resources to stop this one.
- (400) https://twitter.com/Jamie_Woodward_/status/1343960159626928129/photo/1
RT @Jamie_Woodward_: BREAKING: Another extinct ice age beast exhumed from the permafrost. Exceptionally well-preserved carcass of a juvenile woolly rhinoceros discovered in Yakutia. Its internal organs and stomach contents await investigation. Photos by Valery Plotnikov.
- A well-preserved woolly rhino with its last meal still intact found in the extreme north of Yakutia
RT @Jamie_Woodward_: BREAKING: Another extinct ice age beast exhumed from the permafrost. Exceptionally well-preserved carcass of a juvenile woolly rhinoceros discovered in Yakutia. Its internal organs and stomach contents await investigation. Photos by Valery Plotnikov.
- $2,000 Stimulus Checks Won't Hurt the Economy – Bloomberg
Stimulus payments of $2,000 will be a big boost to those that need it, and won’t do any harm to the economy. Most of all, it’s politically savvy.
- (400) https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1344090595183243265
RT @resisterhood: Do any of us have alarms left that weren’t already going off
- Chinese Factories Want to Make Climate-Friendly Air Conditioners. A US Company Is Blocking Them – Inside Climate News
- Untitled (https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2020/12/29/louisiana-congressman-elect-luke-letlow-dies-covid/4082977001/)
RT @ByronTau: 41-year old Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, a Louisiana Republican, has died of COVID-19.
- (400) https://twitter.com/ASLuhn/status/1343766927710162945
RT @ben_golub: Conveniently you don’t have to ask whether the temperature is in C or F
- Vegan meatless meat is going mainstream. Beyond Burger and Impossible Foods have big competition. – Vox
- Small Number of Covid Patients Develop Severe Psychotic Symptoms – The New York Times
- (400) https://twitter.com/janeyellene/status/1343867086137864192/photo/1
RT @janeyellene: Ice floes clog the Thames near Tower Bridge during the bitterly cold spell which ran between December 1894 and March 1895.
#socialhistory
- (400) https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1343920976854196225/video/1
RT @DrLeanaWen: Here’s the math: If the goal is to reach 80% of Americans vaccinated with a 2-dose #covid19 vaccine, it will take 10 years at our current pace. We are at 1 million vaccinations a week. To get to herd immunity by June 2021, we need to be at 3.5 million vaccinations a day.
- The Photographer Who Set Out to Watch Herself Age | The New Yorker
- (400) https://twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/1344044909200695298
RT @kwuchu: A personal anecdote, my homeboy and I interviewed at Coinbase around the same time and were both extended offers (both declined). When it came to salary, they offered him $10k more than me and we couldn’t figure out why. He’s a white dude, btw. And we have the same amount of exp.
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December 29th, 2020 — Uncategorized
- (400) https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1343657990960898048
RT @m_older: 1st come-1st served is the worst way to do this, especially when it involves people physically arriving and waiting, because it means the most vulnerable people, who need it the most, cannot get it. Appalling, given all the other possible approaches.
- (400) https://twitter.com/Peters_Glen/status/1343833633967235076/photo/1
RT @Peters_Glen: The window to keep below 1.5°C is extremely narrow:
* In 10 years, emissions need to go down as much as they rose in the last 50 years
* In 30 years, emissions need to be net-zero, the same time has passed since climate negotiations started
* After 2050, emissions go negative
- 39 Core Values—and How to Live by Them | Psychology Today
- Magazine: Essay – Authoritarianism – HOPE not hate
- (400) https://twitter.com/Thx4SharingJerk/status/1341805146607558656/photo/1
RT @Thx4SharingJerk: Think you had a bad tweet once? You have no idea
- (400) https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1343681264788901893/photo/1
RT @ryanlcooper: by the way, this Barney Graham guy, who designed one of the covid vaccines *in a single weekend,* works for NIH and thus got no IP rights or revenues whatsoever from it. he’s fine with that
- (500) https://nyer.cm/zmAlS6y
RT @hels: Reading this wrenching, sweeping, narrative audit of how America’s covid response failed itself (and the world) — by the master, Lawrence Wright, in @NewYorker — filled me with so much rage and sorrow that I kept having to take breaks and walk away
- (400) https://twitter.com/maplecocaine/status/1343652789231214594/photo/1
RT @maplecocaine: 2021 sneak preview
- The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed | MIT Technology Review
- Customizable Dice Dagger Dice storage/tray for D&D Dice | Etsy
- How Austin's Lawrence Wright predicted this pandemic in his latest work of fiction
- (400) https://twitter.com/triketora/status/1343563466221748224/photo/1
RT @triketora: everyone should know katalin karikó’s name. she is the woman behind the mrna research backing the two frontrunner covid19 vaccines, which she doggedly pursued despite being treated absolutely miserably and disgracefully by upenn
- (400) https://twitter.com/nontanne/status/1342332499679182848/photo/1
RT @nontanne: my favorite poem is the beaufort wind scale i guess
- (400) https://twitter.com/xeni/status/1343267942188761095
RT @xeni: The replies. I didn’t expect the flood of “can confirm” and “yep me too,” and wow.
- Men's Compression Socks – Bombas
- Saudi rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul sentenced to almost six years in jail | Saudi Arabia | The Guardian
RT @AgnesCallamard: 3 more months of imprisonment for #Saudi rights activist #LoujainAlHatsloul. By the time she is freed, she would have spent almost 6 years in jail for demanding to drive her car. This is what we will all remember.
- (400) https://twitter.com/amygdala/status/1343613693595185159/photo/1
- Gender Differences in Negotiation and Policy for Improvement | NBER
- (400) https://twitter.com/new_narrative/status/1343552702480060417
RT @nycsouthpaw: Because white perpetrators of terroristic acts are afforded the privilege of a searching examination of their motives before their intentional conduct is given a name.
- (400) https://twitter.com/stulevitan/status/1340321554094297089
RT @harikunzru: I was once asked this at US immigration, because I told the officer I had a fellowship at the library and he ‘didn’t think I looked the type.’
- Top 10 Most Read Pieces of 2020 – The Public Domain Review
- (400) https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1343546451083878403
- (400) https://twitter.com/amygdala/status/1343579848657137669/photo/1
- (400) https://twitter.com/akivaw/status/1343316731574497280/photo/1
RT @akivaw: Bad news
- Virtual Therapy Like AbleTo Is Cheaper for a Reason – The Atlantic
- Heist with Michael Caine | Podcasts on Audible | Audible.com
- (400) https://twitter.com/nsbpinc/status/1343542601312587784
RT @IBJIYONGI: Carruthers was not a big name to the public but: he invented the UV spectrograph, one of which flies on Hubble, and he’s the one who figured out that the interstellar medium had molecular hydrogen. He was also a lovely, quiet presence at NSBP meetings. He will be missed.
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December 28th, 2020 — Uncategorized
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December 27th, 2020 — Uncategorized
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December 26th, 2020 — Uncategorized
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December 25th, 2020 — Uncategorized
- (400) https://twitter.com/HoustonChron/status/1342106690951540736
RT @NLIHC: Allowing tens of millions of people to be evicted in the dead of winter in the middle of a resurgence of #COVID19 cases & deaths is unconscionable, & would have lasting harmful impacts to children, families, communities & our country’s ability to contain the virus. @dianeyentel
- (400) https://twitter.com/PavelASamsonov/status/1341881125053071368/photo/1
RT @PavelASamsonov: Randall Rudd’s instructions for drawing a single drop of water.
- (400) https://twitter.com/tweetsoutloud/status/1342186701951619073/photo/1
RT @tweetsoutloud: If you were wondering where @MarsCuriosity is spending the holidays, it’s absolutely beautiful here, like tropical waves frozen in time.
- (400) https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1341718950141292545
RT @JimMFelton: Then we should capture him and harvest his blood
- (400) https://twitter.com/bitsofjupiter/status/1342136889801900035/photo/1
RT @bitsofjupiter: A bit of #Jupiter
- (400) https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1341746171220537344
RT @skry: This is why you should turn your phone off before crossing borders or when encountering police.
- (400) https://twitter.com/rebtanhs/status/1342158908132044800/photo/1
RT @rebtanhs: Blow after blow in this graf from a @rachsieg @byHeatherLong story on the millions of Americans bracing for a nightmare Christmas as the stimulus package hangs in limbo.
- (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/24/trump-congress-stimulus-unemployment-reaction/
RT @rebtanhs: Blow after blow in this graf from a @rachsieg @byHeatherLong story on the millions of Americans bracing for a nightmare Christmas as the stimulus package hangs in limbo.
- Untitled (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-distribut/millions-of-u-s-vaccine-doses-sit-on-ice-putting-2020-goal-in-doubt-idUSKBN28X2J6)
RT @Reuters: 💉 Millions of COVID-19 vaccines are sitting unused in U.S. hospitals and elsewhere a week into the massive inoculation campaign, putting the government’s target for 20 million vaccinations this month in doubt
- (400) https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1342102856040656896/photo/1
RT @Reuters: 💉 Millions of COVID-19 vaccines are sitting unused in U.S. hospitals and elsewhere a week into the massive inoculation campaign, putting the government’s target for 20 million vaccinations this month in doubt
- The FBI is Secretly Breaking Into Encrypted Devices. We’re Suing.
- Untitled (https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-spent-36-years-prison-stealing-50-bakery/story?id=65264675)
RT @Sifill_LDF: I can’t think of the right words.
- (400) https://twitter.com/GovInslee/status/1341903362950746112/photo/1
RT @GovInslee: I will be extending Washington state’s eviction moratorium through March 31, 2021.
We are still finalizing the details, but I know people need certainty that an extension is coming.
Additional information will be announced in the next week.
- Untitled (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-research-focus-idUSKBN28X1CB)
RT @JLDastin: .@Google this year tightened control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in 3 cases told authors to refrain from casting its tech in a negative light, docs & interviews show. Story w/ @peard33
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/health/coronavirus-uk-variant.html)
RT @carlzimmer: In case you missed our story last night on the threat posed by the new UK variant, Ben Carey & I have updated it this morning with quotes from lead study author @_nickdavies . Take home message: the faster we all get vaccinated, the better
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December 24th, 2020 — Uncategorized
- Studies find having COVID-19 may protect against reinfection
- Catherine O'Hara on Moira's Accent in 'Schitt's Creek,' 'Home Alone' – Rolling Stone
- Trump, E. Jean Carroll Suit: Will Trump Have to Testify Under Oath? – Bloomberg
- (400) https://twitter.com/communistbops/status/1341853776873984000/video/1
RT @communistbops: take on me – a-ha
- On Being Krista Tippett | Glamour
- Michiko Kakutani's Gift Guide Book Recommendations – Goodreads News & Interviews
- Nora Ephron’s New York in 'When Harry Met Sally…' (1989)
- (400) https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1339375111661621250/photo/1
RT @EoinHiggins_:
- David Runciman · Magic Beans, Baby · LRB 7 January 2021
- (400) https://twitter.com/sturdyAlex/status/1341433933746081795/photo/1
RT @sturdyAlex: Photo of Circle Line, 5pm rush hour, 22 December 2020, by my OH.
- We need to talk about the anti-racism genre | gal-dem – gal-dem
- (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/stark-devastating-pleas-show-child-poverty-and-covid-colliding-to-create-an-unimaginable-time-for-countrys-youngest/2020/12/22/031f88f0-4474-11eb-b0e4-0f182923a025_story.html
RT @lizzieohreally: Read this. If you can provide any help, even just a little, please do.
- Amplification-free detection of SARS-CoV-2 with CRISPR-Cas13a and mobile phone microscopy – ScienceDirect
These new simple COVID tests based on CRISPR from @igisci and @zhangf labs are going to be almost as important as vaccines. Another miracle of CRISPR
- Emerald Fennell’s Dark, Jaded, Funny, Furious Fables of Female Revenge – The New York Times
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December 23rd, 2020 — Uncategorized
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December 22nd, 2020 — Uncategorized
- Converting binary to decimal integer output – Stack Overflow
- Four Seasons Total Landscaping: The Full(est Possible) Story
- (400) https://twitter.com/realabril/status/1341135835450597376
RT @EricaJoy: a white woman at google saying she is “intimidated” by a Black person is a tell at this point. the moment a white lady tells someone she’s intimidated by you, start looking for your next role because your countdown timer has begun.
- Rosendo and Rogelio Mendoza, Twins and Texas Welders, Die at 56 – The New York Times
- (400) https://twitter.com/gettinviggy/status/1339748146595938306
RT @natashaldaly: On Thursday, at least 240,000 young chickens, owned by Cal-Maine, were killed in a barn fire.
The CFO told @nytimes that the deaths of these birds “was not expected to disrupt production.”
According to @AWIOnline, 1.6 mill animals have died in barn fires in the U.S. this year.
- Opinion | A Stimulus Deal That's Too Little, Too Late – The New York Times
- (400) https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1340855779302248450
RT @AOC: GOP: “We can’t do $1200 checks. That’s irresponsible. Think of the deficit.”
Also GOP: “As part of a COVID deal we are allocating $1.4 billion to build a xenophobic campaign stunt wall that falls down in the wind even though we promised voters other countries would pay for it.”
- (400) https://twitter.com/marciacastrorj/status/1340996481130647552/photo/1
RT @marciacastrorj: 102 years later…
- (400) https://twitter.com/djrothkopf/status/1341037514640023563
same…
- (400) https://twitter.com/rmchase/status/1341037887916281856/photo/1
RT @rmchase: amazing photo @tombrennerphoto
- (400) https://twitter.com/Annalisa_Quinn/status/1341030817254891521/photo/1
RT @Annalisa_Quinn: Enjoying the German title of Bob Woodward’s “Rage”
- (400) https://twitter.com/lwinling/status/1341015450956775424
RT @BeijingPalmer: a very moving thread
- (400) https://twitter.com/KizzyPhD/status/1340983039581687808
RT @BogochIsaac: A very helpful perspective on the UK SARS-CoV-2 variant from virologist Dr. @KizzyPhD, a world leader in #COVID19 vaccine research.
Take home point – the mutations in this variant are unlikely to impact the effectiveness of current vaccines.
- (400) https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1340998961516208131/photo/1
RT @GeoffRBennett: NEWS: @GovernorVA Ralph Northam announced that Virginia’s statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee was removed from the United States Capitol overnight. It will be replaced with a a statue of civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns. (Photo: Jack Mayer, Office of Governor Northam)
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