#News

THREAD: (1/9) Millions of people encountered a Deepfake for the first time during the Last Dance on ESPN when State Farm ran a commercial using similar tech. While harmless the
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I’ve been looking at officer fatalities data and started noticing some pretty big discrepancies between different sources of data.So I'm making a thread (pt.1):CW for death, mention of specific types
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I am a person who specializes in cloud native infrastructure, not a COBOL programmer, but if you're like "lol why don't banks and governments migrate to modern systems?!" I have
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@carlheneghan Why is nobody talking about the minimum of 99 days that the super spreading virus was in UK before lockdown? Mindful that during this time there was no lockdown,
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From last week here is @saferworld 's statement of solidarity to our Yemeni partners https://www.saferworld.org.uk/resources/news-and-analysis/post/882-message-of-solidarity-to-our-yemeni-partners Yemeni civil society are on the front l
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Hugely significant moment. @hrw join Palestinian, Israeli & other human rights orgs in stating that Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid & persecution over Palestinians. Report
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Dear friends, I see a lot of people tag me in all the news of atrocities inflicted on Dalits and many over smart people who know India only through news
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Brand new emails sent to @JudicialWatch between @NatSecLisa & Strzok (was lover a cover story?)A thread on what I find...https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-doj-strzok-page-emails-prod-21-00154/ First thoughts...Did they intentionally mi
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Weaver ants are obviously the most stylish ants! So much so that news articles keep using pictures of them for articles about other species of ant! Sorry for such a
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Thing with this and @Freedland 's nonsense this morning is that it throws into sharp relief the fact that reporters / journalists are to a large extent the gatekeepers of
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A word about the US supply chain.As an American who moved to Asia in the mid 90s I was clueless how different everything worked outside the US. In Singapore I
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FFS. 1/ Andrew Robb & @MindMedicineAU are pushing for psychadelic drugs to be approved for the psychological impact of #Covid_19.I’ve got no problems with decriminalising substance use, please do it
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Earlier today @AaronBastani posted a screengrab to dunk an a member of @LabourAgainstAS, oddly 5 hours earlier that same screengrab had been posted by @LauraMStuart9 someone previously arrested as a
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Dealing with the news that I have cancer has been difficult, not even sure I still 100% accept that I have it. A tiny part of me still thinks it's
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cr: queen of air and darkness i KNOW that having to come here to update this thread is gonna distract me from reading but i just need to talk about
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I talked to @Crosscut about Chief Best’s resignation and the perception of a “generational divide”. I don’t think it’s an age thing. Go to any protest & you’ll see folks
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