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April 30th, 2021 — Uncategorized
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April 29th, 2021 — Uncategorized
- (400) https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1387570363127767043/photo/1
RT @jonathanchait: Republicans are charging Biden with sneaking a radical agenda past the voters who didn’t want it. But all his proposals were in his campaign platform and are extremely popular.
- (400) https://twitter.com/julianzelizer/status/1387580156127154186/photo/1
RT @julianzelizer: From the archives
- Untitled (https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/health/health-department-announces-confidential-covid-19-testing-data-for-thousands-of-residents-was-compromised/article_0f081096-628d-58b1-97f2-4707d082618a.html)
RT @derekwillis: <sharp intake of breath>
- (400) https://twitter.com/derekwillis/status/1387455369526616064/photo/1
RT @derekwillis: <sharp intake of breath>
- Scientists detected racial bias in a product sold by Optum, but the problem likely extends to algorithms used by major health systems and insurers – The Washington Post
- Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe: ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’
- (400) https://twitter.com/SlenderSherbet/status/1387506156201988099/photo/1
RT @SlenderSherbet: Chat, le grand illusionniste.
📸: Reddit user artbartram
- (400) https://twitter.com/The_Lunar_Tick/status/1387449982073122820/photo/1
RT @The_Lunar_Tick: @kairyssdal His famous picture of everyone else in the universe.
- (400) https://twitter.com/MovingImageNYC/status/1387159266159730696/photo/1
RT @MovingImageNYC:
- (400) https://twitter.com/UPROXX/status/1387130686495248384
RT @MovingImageNYC:
- Biden’s Two-Part Economic Strategy Was Years in the Making
A demand-side agenda plus a supply-side agenda to push the poorest half up the ladder.
- Transform – Acceptiva
RT @franck_boulegue: Matt Zoller Seitz’s wife Nancy Dawson died a year ago. She cofounded Transform, a nonprofit that gives free clothes and makeovers to transgender youth seeking a new look to compliment their new identity. You can donate here: @mattzollerseitz
- 🚨 What really happened at Basecamp
How a list of "funny" customer names triggered an internal reckoning
- Funeral pyres burn. Gravediggers know no rest. India's COVID-19 crisis is a 'nightmare' — Los Angeles Times
Infections and deaths continue to climb at alarming rates as India’s second COVID-19 wave threatens to topple its healthcare system.
- Blake Bailey’s Life as a Man
- (400) https://twitter.com/bethreinhard/status/1387394975206367234
RT @bethreinhard: This is same group that Ted Cruz has been cozy w/ for yrs…
- (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/ted-cruz-maintains-ties-to-right-wing-group-despite-its-extremist-messaging/2021/04/23/64387376-8e58-11eb-aff6-4f720ca2d479_story.html
RT @bethreinhard: This is same group that Ted Cruz has been cozy w/ for yrs…
- Getaway
86. This time you tell yourself you’ll stay put like you were told to. Sit with the engine idling and bide your
- Biden to propose free preschool as part of American Families Plan – MarketWatch
RT @kylegriffin1: Biden will call for free preschool for all three- and four-year-old children, a $200 billion investment to be rolled out in his American Families Plan.
The admin said the investment would benefit 5 million children and save the average family $13,000.
- Supporting India during the current COVID crisis
RT @sundarpichai: Devastated to see the worsening Covid crisis in India. Google & Googlers are providing Rs 135 Crore in funding to @GiveIndia, @UNICEF for medical supplies, orgs supporting high-risk communities, and grants to help spread critical information.
- (400) https://twitter.com/moylato/status/1387139670962843658
RT @BrandyLJensen: i was immediately like “how does he get out of the car†and the answer is quite satisfying
- (400) https://twitter.com/Jake_Wolff/status/1326193156086505481
RT @RSmythFreelance: I do hope all other writers are still as haunted by this tweet as I am.
- On the Counterintuitive Appeal of the Literary Time Loop
- My Octopus Girlfriend
In the eyes of a dilettante like me, the entire world of octopodia—from Hokusai to William Burroughs—appears as one big sprawling tapestry of sexual titillation and deliquescence.
- Gurugram: No ambulance, families carry Covid-19 victims in autos, private vehicles for cremation – Coronavirus Outbreak News
RT @IndiaToday: Families are forced to carry #Covid19 victims in auto-rickshaws and private vehicles for cremation in the absence of ambulances in #Gurugram | #coronavirus | @TanushreePande
- (500) https://apne.ws/WkTfWPI
RT @AP: BREAKING: FBI announces federal civil rights investigation into fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., the Black man killed by North Carolina deputies. An independent autopsy shows that he was shot five times, including in the back of the head.
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April 28th, 2021 — Uncategorized
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April 27th, 2021 — Uncategorized
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April 26th, 2021 — Uncategorized
- (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/24/indias-coronavirus-surge-could-collapse-its-health-system-us-can-help/
RT @MaxCRoser: Testing, treatment, and vaccines.
Ashish Jha (@ashishkjha here) on how the US can support India right now.
- Google Cloud Blog – News, Features and Announcements
RT @bshaffer: Announcing PHP for Google Cloud Functions!
We tried our very best to bring #PHP to Cloud Functions in an intuitive and idiomatic way. We really hope you like it!
- Smartphones are the Smarter Way to Fight Homelessness – Invisible People
RT @invisiblepeople: Having a smartphone is a lifeline for homeless people – it allows them to apply for jobs, access assistance and opens up an entire network of resources. This article is the first in a series outlining the necessity of keeping people connected:
- How Yahoo Became an Internet Villain – The Atlantic
RT @pomeranian99: A short history of Yahoo, one of the most weirdly idiotic tech firms ever — which will go down in history mostly for how it constantly deletes *massive* amounts of Internet history:
- Kathie Coblentz, 73, Dies; Not Your Ordinary Librarian
A Yankees fan, marathon runner, cinephile, editor, and, yes, a cataloger, she was the New York Public Library’s third-longest serving employee.
- Smartphones are the Smarter Way to Fight Homelessness
New data proves smartphones are a necessity, not a luxury, for people experiencing homelessness and can better help them to acquire housing.
- Developing custom sklearn pipelines | Towards Data Science
In this blog, I will go through the basics of Scikit-learn Pipelines. I will write custom Transformer functions that will take care of Data Cleaning, Feature Engineering, and Model Training.
- (400) https://twitter.com/fakehistoryhunt/status/1385991829095649286/photo/1
RT @fakehistoryhunt: About time somebody said this, we were all thinking it.
- Untitled (https://github.com/kubernetes/release/pull/2016)
RT @lorenc_dan: The distroless images are now signed AND verified by Kubernetes during container builds:
Thanks for the hard work on this @comedordexis @dekkagaijin @stephenaugustus!
What should @projectsigstore sign next???
- Apple’s Ransomware Mess Is the Future of Online Extortion
This week, hackers stole confidential schematics from a third-party supplier and demanded $50 million not to release them.
- Signal's Founder Hacked a Notorious Phone-Cracking Device
Plus: App Store scams, an anti-surveillance bill, and more of the week’s top security news.
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/climate/methane-leaks-united-nations.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytclimate)
RT @nytclimate: A major United Nations report is set to declare that slashing emissions of methane, the main component of natural gas, is far more vital than previously thought.
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April 25th, 2021 — Uncategorized
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April 24th, 2021 — Uncategorized
- (500) https://nyer.cm/JPhnpLM
RT @NewYorker: “This is one of the most distressing things about being alive today: we are witnessing geologic time collapse on a human scale,†@lacymjohnson writes, of attending a funeral for a dead glacier at the top of the world.
- These BIPOC-Owned Washington Farms Deliver CSA Boxes to Seattle
- Vietnam banned travel to fight Covid-19, defying experts. It worked. – Vox
RT @dylanlscott: The Pandemic Playbook, Part 3: Vietnam
All the experts said in spring 2020 that border restrictions wouldn’t stop Covid-19.
Vietnam didn’t listen. They sealed their borders anyway — and it worked.
An extremely important reckoning, from @juliaoftoronto:
- (400) https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1385552517489205249
RT @DKThomp: Malaria vaccine!!!
I’m gonna try to learn more about this, but a 77% effective malaria vaccine is automatically in the running for Best News of the Year.
Malaria kills 400k ppl annually, mostly children. Perhaps no other infectious disease consistently destroys more life.
- Perspective | You have the right to film police. Here’s how to do it effectively — and safely.
Smartphone video was critical in convicting Derek Chauvin of murdering George Floyd. 5 practical and technical lessons for using your camera to bear witness.
- Federal agencies lift pause on use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine, saying benefits outweigh risks — The Washington Post
If the United States lifts the pause on the vaccine’s use with a warning added to the label, the position would be similar to one taken by Europe’s drug regulator.
- (400) https://twitter.com/KimRuxton/status/1385563116067504129/photo/1
RT @KimRuxton: This day last year Dr. Birx sat and squirmed. She should have stood up and gone to the podium to warn people not to inject bleach. She didn’t.
- (400) https://twitter.com/amygdala/status/1385680884171411459/photo/1
Climate crisis has shifted the Earth’s axis, study shows
- Climate crisis has shifted the Earth’s axis, study shows
Climate crisis has shifted the Earth’s axis, study shows
- (400) https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1385245609188216834/photo/1
RT @Weather_West: Latest Drought Monitor update now depicts most of California experiencing severe to extreme drought–with entire state being at least "abnormally dry." Key watershed regions in Norcal remain hardest-hit. Continued worsening/expansion likely through coming months. #CAwx #CAwater
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April 23rd, 2021 — Uncategorized
- (400) https://twitter.com/whalefern/status/1383837329840689152/photo/1
RT @whalefern: the crucial 4th ice cream bowl was lost at some point, forever altering the vibe
- (400) https://twitter.com/leahlitman/status/1385232452969500676
RT @Taniel: Wow. I wrote about exactly this last month: the new SCOTUS may weaken or overturn the decisions from last decades against juvenile life without parole…
… which makes a blueprint of pursuing claims on this (& other stuff) in state courts so important:
- Landmark Rulings Show ‘Untapped Potential’ of State Courts To Advance Civil Rights – The Appeal
RT @Taniel: Wow. I wrote about exactly this last month: the new SCOTUS may weaken or overturn the decisions from last decades against juvenile life without parole…
… which makes a blueprint of pursuing claims on this (& other stuff) in state courts so important:
- Opinion | How to confront systemic racism? Heed the call of Martin Luther King.
Though George Floyd has received some measure of justice, we must still challenge what King called “the system, the way of life and the philosophy†that led to Floyd’s death.
- NASA’s bold bet on Starship for the Moon may change spaceflight forever
"It is transformational to degrees no one today can understand."
- The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe
Plagues, revolutions, massive wars, collapsed states—these are what reliably reduce economic disparities.
- Italian Police Accuse Man of Getting Paid for 15 Years While Skipping Work
A hospital worker in Italy’s south was allegedly paid for 15 years without working a single day. Investigators blame the inefficiency of checks at all levels.
- Thanks To Climate Change & COVID, Disaster Capitalism Is Thriving
- An unvaccinated worker set off an outbreak at a U.S. nursing home where most residents were immunized.
New infections of inoculated residents are occurring, signaling the need to maintain safety measures, C.D.C. studies show.
- (400) https://twitter.com/jack/status/1384903902907314176
RT @Pinboard: This is like when I drank all your beer and told you I was incentivizing home brewing
- (400) https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1385241031038410753/photo/1
RT @mjs_DC: And this portion of Sotomayor’s dissent, aimed squarely at Kavanaugh—and using his own past words against him—is one of the most savage passages she has ever written. It is also a very ominous warning.
- Untitled (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-1259_8njq.pdf)
RT @mjs_DC: And this portion of Sotomayor’s dissent, aimed squarely at Kavanaugh—and using his own past words against him—is one of the most savage passages she has ever written. It is also a very ominous warning.
- (400) https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1385227409734131717
RT @ECMcLaughlin: Read this whole thread all the way to the end.
- COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with a SARS-CoV-2 R.1 Lineage Variant in a Skilled Nursing Facility After Vaccination Program — Kentucky, March 2021 | MMWR
RT @jbloom_lab: Very interesting / important study of a #SARSCoV2 outbreak in a nursing facility at which some workers and residents were vaccinated. Provides rough estimates of how well vaccine protects against overall and symptomatic infection by E484K variant: (1/n)
- (400) https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1385168126761897986/photo/1
RT @ValaAfshar: "Something to think about:
The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let’s scale that to 46 years. We have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began 1 minute ago.
In that time, we have destroyed 50% of the world’s forests. This is not sustainable." #EarthDay
- CaÌ°tÌ° Stevens – Tea For The TÌ°iÌ°lÌ°lÌ°erman Full (Video +Audio tracks)
01.- Cat Stevens – Where Do The Children Play 00:0002.- Cat Stevens – Hard Headed Woman 03:2303.- Cat Stevens – Wild World 07:1504.- Cat Stevens – Sad Lisa 1…
- Why do we work so hard?
Our jobs have become prisons from which we don’t want to escape | 1843 magazine
- I Want a Wife
I Want a Wife
- An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth: Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing
The hunger for these offsets is blinding us to the mounting pile of evidence that they haven’t — and won’t — deliver the climate benefit they promise.
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April 22nd, 2021 — Uncategorized
- (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/21/chauvin-verdict-opens-up-world-possibilities-will-we-squander-them/
RT @Sulliview: The Chauvin verdict opens up a world of possibilities. Will we squander them? Smart analysis from â¦@ThePlumLineGSâ©
- (400) https://twitter.com/birgitomo/status/1385224017376948227
RT @ClaraJeffery: Ontario.
- FBI Says Chauvin Matches Profile Of Blue-Uniformed Killer Behind Hundreds More Unsolved Murders
RT @TheOnion: FBI Says Chauvin Matches Profile Of Blue-Uniformed Killer Behind Hundreds More Unsolved Murders
- (400) https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1384922413247389700/photo/1
RT @TheOnion: FBI Says Chauvin Matches Profile Of Blue-Uniformed Killer Behind Hundreds More Unsolved Murders
- Untitled (https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2021/video/general-video/technology)
RT @stephr_wong: My Data Center Security video is a nominee for @TheWebbyAwards, celebrating the best of the internet!
I need your help to win the People’s Voice AwardðŸ™What better way to celebrate the internet than to vote for its backbone?😆
Can I count on your vote?👉
- (400) https://twitter.com/stephr_wong/status/1385025987264450563/video/1
RT @stephr_wong: My Data Center Security video is a nominee for @TheWebbyAwards, celebrating the best of the internet!
I need your help to win the People’s Voice AwardðŸ™What better way to celebrate the internet than to vote for its backbone?😆
Can I count on your vote?👉
- The Infrastructural Power Beneath the Internet as We Know It – The Reboot
Control over underlying tech infrastructure determines who benefits from it, raising the prospect of alternative ownership and profit models.
- The Cold War Over Hacking McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines
Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.
- Coronavirus vaccines followed speedy but safe path to Kansans' arms
Basically they’re a "wanted" poster for the immune system. Here’s why the process that verifies effective and safe vaccines can be trusted.
- (400) https://twitter.com/FrankPasquale/status/1384993198418825221/photo/1
RT @FrankPasquale: The important work of @mmitchell_ai & @timnitGebru on ethical AI included vital inquiries into the safety of self-driving cars for all (including minorities & the disabled). It’s chilling to see the internal power struggles to deflect it.
- Bloomberg – Are you a robot?
RT @FrankPasquale: The important work of @mmitchell_ai & @timnitGebru on ethical AI included vital inquiries into the safety of self-driving cars for all (including minorities & the disabled). It’s chilling to see the internal power struggles to deflect it.
- Bloomberg – Are you a robot?
RT @NicoAGrant: Google’s Ethical AI team publicly imploded after the ouster of its lead scientists, @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai. But for years, the Research division was rife with conflict stemming from how Google handles allegations of harassment, racism and sexism.
- Open Source on Mars: Community powers NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter · The ReadME Project
- Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app's perspective
Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. They exist within the grey – where enterprise branding joins together with the larcenous to be called “digital intelligence.†Their customer list has included authoritarian regimes in Belarus, Russi…
{ whispering} …what this means is that Apple and Google could install Cellebrite-specific “malware†in their operating systems that would target only undesirable intrusions into iOS/iPadOS and Android… https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/
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- ‘It is much worse this time’: India’s devastating second wave | Financial Times
RT @jburnmurdoch: NEW: a deep-dive into the situation in India, where a devastating second wave is overwhelming hospitals and crematoriums, eclipsing global records as it goes
250,000 new cases every day, and test positivity is soaring suggesting many are still missed
- (400) https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1384782949879517185/photo/1
RT @jburnmurdoch: NEW: a deep-dive into the situation in India, where a devastating second wave is overwhelming hospitals and crematoriums, eclipsing global records as it goes
250,000 new cases every day, and test positivity is soaring suggesting many are still missed
- (400) https://twitter.com/lreiley/status/1384597321091096580
RT @byHeatherLong: This is a huge deal.
All K-12 student lunches will be free through spring 2022
I’ve written for years about "school lunch debt" that so many students rack up. Now no student will be turned away — or be shamed — for being unable to pay for lunch.
- (400) https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1384622849562873856
RT @Sulliview: Exhibit A in the fact that ‘police said’ does not equal the truth, and should not be reported as such.
- Analysis of the human connectome data supports the notion of a “Common Model of Cognition†for human and human-like intelligence across domains
The Common Model of Cognition (CMC) is a recently proposed, consensus architecture intended to capture decades of progress in cognitive science on mod…
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April 21st, 2021 — Uncategorized
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