#Systems

WHO said: "5G is a national priority.""Stay out of the way of technological development.""Unlike some countries we do not believe that we should spend the next couple of years studying
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I love UX/tps but they are after all secondary for crypto. "PayPal 2.0" used to be understood as a gibe. Now you hear "PayPal has higher tps!" UX is key
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Friday night I stayed up all night and personally went to downtown Portland to observe the unrest that took place, and Portland, I’m tired. The Black community is tired. (Thread)
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It seems like in wealthy Western countries with bad outbreaks of COVID-19, total excess mortality is about 1.5x higher than confirmed COVID-19 deaths. Quick thread on how I think about
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RE: "CICO doesn't apply, the human body is not a closed system"Thread.It's startling that whenever you point to the first law of thermodynamics to someone who denies "calories in calories
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In my latest story, I explore how water infrastructure in California's Central Valley remains tainted by the legacy of Jim Crow. This story is about water, but it's also about
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The @EU_Commission's final proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Act is here. Some examples:AI systems are prohibited if they violate human rights, do general social scoring for authorities, use live remote
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White passing and non-Black Latin@s, lend me your ears (erm... eyes)! We are a part of the racial injustice problem. A thread: 1/15 If you are not standing up right
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I know this is less popular, but as a collector of mental illnesses I'm getting kind of bored with the whole "mental illnesses don't make you mean/are not an excuse"
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Sharing for my SW student/ new to SW followers. Early in my SW career, I didn’t understand the appeal of private practice. I have identified as a “macro” practitioner. I
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I am ourtaged and worried because every time I pick my sister from ER of her hospital (no uber careem available and she doesn’t know how to drive), she is
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Friday I tweeted about how it is time to honestly assess what virtual education looks like during the pandemic and how little instruction is occurring. Let me start by saying, if
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One of my problems with defining transmisogyny as the intersection of misogyny and transphobia is that, even if we are to define it just as combinations of more “fundamental” oppressions
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as someone who has had corona in the past, its going to be ok if you have a strong immune system and take medicine as prescribed. not all of the
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For the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech movement, the IBM punch card (used by UC students to register for classes) was a key symbol of institutional conformity they were fighting. They
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I’m struggling with where speculation about the president’s gait / coordination crosses the line into ableism.He is clearly declining and we have a right to object when we’re told not
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