#Systems

Faheem Younus, MD

FaheemYounus

1/ When will COVID end? **Thread**No one knows. But:Remain extremely cautious till April 2021. Why? Read on... 2/ How it may end in 2021?- actual infections + cross immunity higher

Charity Majors

mipsytipsy

People overestimate how much of the speed at which they ship software is a function of their own abilities, and radically underestimate how much is set by the systems they

Kate Pearce

secvalve

RNZ this morning has people complaining that “the IT sector hasn’t been approached about contact tracing”. You know, because when you need critical government systems up and supporting millions of

Joe Mayes

Joe_Mayes

Scoop: U.K. officials are urgently working to avoid a border crisis with the EU, according to a leaked memo 1/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-03/u-k-races-to-fix-critical-gaps-exposed-in-brexit-border-plan Michael Gove has b

Foggy Anabasis

foggyanabasis

The problem with these mid-brow "we've always been at war with East Asia" takes is that some people have memory. After the 1920s, when the health establishment noticed that mask

Justice For Muslims Collective

dcmuslimjustice

Thread 1/13On #WorldHealthDay we wanted to share this op-ed by our Co-Directors @DarakshanRaja & @Dr_Maha_Hilal who compare the US' response to the #COVID19 pandemic with its response to terrorism.

David Adkin

david_adkin

3 reasons why #nocode exploded. A thread. 1. Supply and Demand.2. The No-Code Community.3. We reached an inflection point in what’s possible. Reason 1: 50.7% of the population is now

Dr. Shannon Steiner

xeimevta

I’m so extremely tired of the “weird-looking medieval animals in art” trope that I dedicated two entire classes to dissecting how these representations actually convey useful scientific or moral information

Mata Haggis-Burridge

MataHaggis

It's #BiVisibilityDay. I'M BI/PAN!I've been out in my workplaces, friend groups, and communities for over 20 years. Acceptance of bi folk has improved a bit, but not enough. We often

Baji

Fiza14313

Ehm. “ All lives matter is blind to social injustice, It was created as a back clash to Black Lives Matter’s, the slogan fails to understand black violence, inequality and

Yassine Elmandjra

yassineARK

1/ Bitcoin calls into question the very basis of economic organization. No other breakthrough in history will contribute more dramatically to the evolution of monetary systems.*Just published* w/ @coinmetricsBitcoin: A

Mayor Lori Lightfoot

chicagosmayor

65 years ago today, Emmett Till—a 14-year-old Chicagoan—was kidnapped, tortured, and brutally murdered by two white men while visiting family in Mississippi. His body was dumped in a local river,

Taylor Pearson

TaylorPearsonMe

Why do things often seem “stuck” until they change suddenly and dramatically? An industry that has seen no innovation is suddenly upended. (E.g. Cabs-->Uber)A peaceful movement fights for years, and

Eric M. Black

eb4prez

This thing is REALLY hurting the R&B/gospel OGs. Most of them make the majority of their bread (if not all of it) from touring. Many are older with compromised immune

Carrie A. Goldberg

cagoldberglaw

I'm inconsolable about the threat to the USPS. Since my mom was diagnosed with ALS two years ago, I started writing a letter to her every day. It's become one

💧simon holmes à court 🕯

simonahac

check out the reduction in minimum demand in south australia…from @AEMO_Media's QED Q3 report lowest Q3 electricity prices since 2014: spot prices are down a bit of a complex