#Scale

Michael Veale

mikarv

Governments cannot be trusted w/ social network data from Bluetooth. So w/ colleagues from 7 unis, 5 countries, we've built & legally analysed a bluetooth COVID proximity tracing system that

History Under Your Feet

HistorifyToday

#TodayInHistory The 1965 India Pakistan War, begins when Indian forces cross the border, as a response to Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam. As part of my series on the War, today

evelyn douek

evelyndouek

In the end, the @OversightBoard was just like everyone else in the content moderation space (incl. me): long on criticism, short on concrete solutions.I really think we're being overly legalistic

Geoffrey Brent

GPB_Stats

A short thread about exponential curves, because suddenly they are extremely popular. 1/17 Simplified models of things like disease transmission often involve exponential curves: if you assume that each person

Jennifer Bonhomme

JenBonhomme

Has anyone else checked out this fascinating start up @italic. It’s luxury clothes, bags, homewares at cost, claiming “from the same manufacturing as..” and listing high end designer. They are

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

Public Health England have updated their analysis of Variants of Concern and Variants under Investigation. It is great that this expert analysis has been published.Some commentary. Firstly, the India variant

YesDayScotland

YesDayScotland

On behalf of Covenant core admin, delighted to confirm the intention now is to secure the accumulating personal data, in Secured Vault Storage.Until majority is defined.Thereafter handed over to @scotgov

Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger?

HasBezosDecided

Jeremy Corbyn was suspended from the Labour Party for saying that 34% of Labour members have not had an anti-Semitism complaint made against them.Tony Blair, noted right winger and prolific

Sangeet Paul Choudary

sanguit

The limits of applying the 'platform argument' to BigTech firms, particularly Facebook, Google, Twitter etc. A thread. The common narrative today - and also in a lot of my

Faisal Islam

faisalislam

Coming up on @BBCNewsnight - I’m presenting, we hear from @marcusrashford, an MP defending the Government, and also top trade adviser Dan Hannah on the big trade deal with Japan,

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90SBORDERSZ

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Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm

Shall we look at what this policy means in practice for a moment? (Thread)https://twitter.com/alanbeattie/status/1263737751633104896 There are reasons why China has become the manufacturing hub in the world: it is cheaper

Nuck

wookisakim

just did one work out of Sydney Cummings for 30 mins. Felt like fainting & vomiting and had to have a 3 times break in between for 2 minutes to

RRC Suds

SudsG4

A primer on the Nagorno-Karabakh (Armenia vs Azerbaijan) conflict, as it somehow is trending in India. The conflict has its roots, just like the Crimean conflict in the 1920's when

Paul Cornish

PaulGCornish

I saw some comic pros talking about the Pa Kent death scene in Man of Steel and I refrained from butting in with my take on it, cos I didn't

Chinmay Tumbe

ChinmayTumbe

Prompted by @CafeEconomics, a short thread on company towns in India like Tatanagar (Jamshedpur), Kirloskarwadi, Modinagar (all three pre-1947) and the ones that followed them. (1/n)https://twitter.com/CafeEconomics/status/13805327521313177