#Failure

Miles Suter

milessuter

"A credibility trap is a condition wherein the financial, political and informational functions of a society have been so compromised by corruption and fraud that the leadership cannot effectively reform

Derec Thompson

DerecThompson

THREAD: I know Margaret Ferrier. I put in some incredibly hard graft to help get her elected. I worked as her senior parliamentary aide for 2 years.I've been waiting for

Joyce Park

troutgirl

Hey tweeps, I decided to do a long thread about heart failure because there are SOOOO many misconceptions about it. If you read to the end I'll have a couple

Mig Vapor

MigVapor

The reports out of China told us this months ago. We have been telling people this as well. Once it is time for a ventilator, it is probably too late.https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/health/coronavirus-ventilator-patients-die/index.html

Dr. Anne Jefferson 🌧🏡

highlyanne

I've gotten questions about whether private dams are more likely to fail than publicly owned ones. Being a scientist, I wanted some numbers. This is what I found. 56.4% of

Jenny Bhatt

jennybhatt

As horrific as things are in India, I hope people are also seeing the countless good souls working hard online and offline to help those in need. Easy to read

Mark Harris

MarkHarrisNYC

Point by point, Trump's failures, as a leader and a human being, brought us to where we are now--in mourning, with so much more grief ahead. This is worth every

Theodore Blackman ~rovnys-ricfer

rovnys

> The defining characteristic of distributed systems is failure.The Urbit network is a distributed system whose points of failure are individuals. I think this is good (thread).https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1248670310867451910 Since I'

AAELEVATED

aaelevated

Bad habits I had to work on before I could level up in life: //THREAD// 1. BEING LATE“If you’re on time you’re late.”My soccer coach instilled this in me. Dont

CougFan82

CougFan82

There’s a popular tweet going around stating the CDC now reports 6% of COVID deaths are actually from COVID, and the rest could be blamed on other comorbid or preexisting

dobby had it coming

robertjbennett

I suspect we live in a world of surging anxiety, with some of it fueled by legitimate, serious causes - inequality, climate change - and some of it created by

Mugwump

anonmugwump

Another excellent piece of journalism, and another detailed investigation that pushes against the idea the govt were “following the science” in The Times. A few particularly explosive things: 1. We

spooky grave cauldrons

whatever_sauce

Today I tweeted at someone and I was wrong. Factually inaccurate. My gut reaction was to delete the tweet, but instead I thought it better to apologize and the exchange

The Trading Sheep

TheTradingSheep

I just love it when folk stalk your timeline and make a total arse of themselvesMy Stalker invested a whole day & night in me yesterday & got nothing in

Ed Yong

edyong209

The central idea behind this piece on why the US failed so badly to control the pandemic is that it fell under the combined weight of a multitude of weaknesses,

KUpa Kid

KuKhahilNBA

Much has been made about how to attack this drop coverage the Bucks, some think it's an effort thing by Dre lol.So here, Luke does what @Joe_Truck suggests instead of