#Global

In honor of the impending (already started in some states) USA ballot count, a short thread on all the times nation states have rapidly and accurately counted large amounts of
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So, it appears a lot of people simply want to forget the sequence of events on COVID/Coronavirus.Its highly inconvenient to admit who really prevented the world from reacting properly to
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"Google is most likely renting [Deepmind] its TPUs [computational infrastructure] at a discount"Energy devouring AI-infrastructure hidden in another Alphabet business unit. And while they argue it's all green energy, there
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I've got a new paper about using the computer to find drugs that might stop coronavirus entering cells in the lab. I should stress that that's very, *very* far removed
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#COVID19 transmission risks and infection rates in public transport - what do we know? Collecting information, developments and appreciating (scientific) feedback. @c_drosten @mugecevik @rki_de @CDCgov @UITPnews @VDV_Verband @NACTO @APTA_T
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If you want a single, vivid, and frankly disgusting example to hold in mind to remember how much our lives have improved over the last ~150 years…Consider *shit*.Literally, excrement. How
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MWAHAHAHHAAAAAAAA DOOM APPROACHES. FTI Consulting is an expert witness that will be *lethally effective* in convicting Trump for state bank fraud charges. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-tax-returns-new-york-investiga
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Thank you Minister @Bill_Morneau for your service to Canada as Minister of Finance. Your rational and compassionate leadership the last few years, but especially amidst the #COVID19 pandemic, has created
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There’s a magic trick that’s going to get played on us every day during the 2020 election cycle. It’s a fairly simple trick, once you see it.I’d like to talk
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just a reminder that learning japanese to consume their cultural products like video games more is totally fine and not a sign of disrespect or whatevergatekeeping how people use and
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Full disclosure for this thread: I don't vote. I follow the old ethical tenet that journalists & judges shouldn't vote.Exactly two years ago, I was excited to see @ImranKhanPTI win
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1. "At C(ycle)t(hreshold) = 35, the value we used to report a positive result for PCR,
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Hoy he leído por aquí que actualmente la poesía solo la leen los poetas y me he puesto triste porque es un poco cierto, así que voy a hacer un
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With the U.S. bracing for a post-Christmas surge in Covid cases and the U.K. battling with harsh lockdown restrictions, life in the West feels far from normal.Meanwhile, to put it
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There's an outbreak of COVID in Prince William County Jail. Attempts to stop the spread don't seem to be working, and conditions are becoming more and more inhumane. If you
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Things that you probably didn’t know were created/established by Black People: A THREAD 3 BLACK GAY MEN CREATED HOUSE MUSIC Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles, and Ron Hardy all pioneered the
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