#Implications

Bradd Libby

bradd_libby

A couple years ago a fascinating thought experiment considered a decline in the use of gasoline cars due to the sudden rise of robo-taxishttp://rethinkx.com/transportation Though the taxis have not happened yet,

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

If COVID cases/hospitalisations/deaths are rising - as they are in many European countries - there are only two ways the trend will reverse.... 1/ A. Enough change in control measures

Michael Roberts

mikejrob

1/ I've been thinking about the impact of COVID on climate change. Reduction in pollution during shutdowns is probably immaterial. Here's a thread about medium-to-longer-run. I think the big factors

Strikepod Systems

Strikepod

The implications of DARPA's AlphaDogfight for air warfare are obvious. But what is perhaps not so obvious, yet equally significant, are the implications for undersea warfare.[A thread.] Last month, DARPA

Michael Stepniak

Det_ideafactory

This is an in-depth interview with Governor Whitmer that is absolutely worth reading.https://twitter.com/MichiganAdvance/status/1318883785090400258 One of the more interesting parts is when Susan Demas and the Governor discuss possible reas

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lachwriter

The SANTA FAE Issue 1 #Kickstarter has officially launched! Please go check it out & spread the word! Anything you can give means the world to me & helps bring

Dipak Gyawali

dipak_gyawali

Just saw minutes of 14thInvestment Clearance ComMeet of GoI's Ministry of JalShakti of 22Oct2020. Shocked to see Item4: KosiMechi Link Project of Rs 4900crores to divert Kosi to Mechi for

Zack Gold

ZLGold

This week, @CNA_org released 2 reports on social media bots: automated programs that operate on social media platforms and interact with humans. Sometimes these bots self-identify as bots (@mothgenerator is

Ross Tucker

Scienceofsport

If we allowed biological sex to become one of the elements sport rewards, it would mean rewarding ONLY people with functioning androgen physiology. The champions in EVERY SINGLE event would

Aarathi Krishnan

akrishnan23

I've been struggling with how easily the vocabulary of 'decolonisation' has become du jour without the rigour and hard work that is needed to fully understand this. The words of

Andrew Neil

afneil

THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT THREAD: US intelligence agencies have told the White House that Chinese government itself does not know the extent of the coronavirus and has no better

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

How should we reimagine the legal and moral implications of a world with coronavirus? We all talk about what happens when its over but it's far from certain it will

Derek Thompson

DKThomp

Two CDC studies—from a restaurant, and a call center—suggest transmission from talking, laughing, breathing around other ppl in a closed space for hours is much more important for transmission than

never touch me, stranger. i shalt stay a virg.

astyze

Welcome to 'Implications Isn't Vaguery' where I throw some basic-as-fuck observations about writing because what else is there to be done in quarantine?/this gon be a thread/my finger with the

big phd energy

loltistic

This white woman said to me that the late recording artist Prince is “her boy.” I said “please no, you don’t understand the implications of that phrase.” She said “no

ciarapernicus

ciara__anne

on the Rachel Riley / Laura Murray controversy: this will not have lasting implications for the discourse. this is a perfectly ordinary application of the existing rules of defamation, and