#Tech

Lighthouse Labs

lighthouse_labs

Amplifying and celebrating Black innovators in tech, and their contributions.A thread.#Juneteenth Kimberly Bryant (@6Gems)Founded Black Girls Code (@BlackGirlsCode), an organization devoted to teaching young Black girls how to code,

File411

File411

I don’t think this article is paywalledIMPORTANT read@Apple & @Google released software to track COVID-19“allows health authorities to build apps that use Bluetooth technology to notify users who come in

Alessio Rovere

alessio_r_

Today, I was working on the @WALISDatabase data from @KarlaRubioSand, who is working on the coasts of Brasil (stay tuned!). I needed a reference on modern reef environments, and I

Wisdom Theory

wisdom_theory

.@naval is one of the greatest multidisciplinary thinkers of our time.He thinks naturally from mental models.Thread Scale:"Society will pay you for creating what it wants and delivering it at scale"Don't

Miles Beckett

mbeckett

The trillion dollar question. Why are COVID cases increasing while deaths are decreasing? The answer is simple. It's called Simpson's paradox and it's the result of incorrectly pooling data and

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).Inside: Experian doxes the world (again); and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/30/dox-the-world/#Pluralistic1/ Experian doxes the world (again): And the breach is still ongoing

blue

wujiholic

dog owner!wangxianlwj has a german shepherd and wwx has a gigantic black labrador that would chew absolutely f/cking anything in sight. lwj’s family is rich af because they own an

Vidya Shah

VidyaShah6

1/ There have been significant changes to ed during this pandemic. Many of these changes have exacerbated existing educational inequities & some of these "changes" will become dangerous educational *reforms*

Kevin Goldsmith

KevinGoldsmith

I gave a talk earlier this year where I went through all the reasons why partially distributed teams are very difficult (https://www.kevingoldsmith.com/talks/distributed-teams.html). This thread brings a lot of good context

☀️Arthos the Christmas Gnome🌙

francis_yockey

You have to go to estate sales of very old people if you want to find the Lindy stuff. A much smaller percent of new production items are Lindy. WWII

mimamsa

mimamsic

lets go into the north node and south node, the facts about how they present and different ways they're interpreted In every interp and experience, the north node is what

August Takala

AugustTakala

Going to share the A sections from the NY Times & Washington Post between now and the election to compare what they’re talking about to the actual news of the

Sridhar Vembu

svembu

1/ From extensive experience, I have come to oppose credentials driven education and it's counterpart, metrics driven management. I have opposed them on the ground that humans are not widgets.

David Wolfe Bender

dbenderpt

Good morning! Today is Wednesday, August 12, 2020. There's been A LOT of news in the past 24 hours, so let's get started and look at the big headlines in

💧Mike Funnell

FunnellMike

On the CORONAsafe app:The government asks us to trust them regarding this app.Yet the government has never given us any reason to trust them in matters such as this, and

Kalpit Veerwal

kalpitveerwal

A complete guide on what a (so-called) "tier 3 college" student should do to succeed in career.I get a lot of messages asking for this, so I will compile this