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Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

What do we know about the new #SARSCoV2 variants? How worried should we be? What does it mean?I promised to summarize the main points from my reporting over the last

Mike Hill

michaeldoron

THREADIn 1914 there was a deeply rooted and thriving community of German migrants in Britain; by 1918 it was almost utterly destroyed. (1) In 1911, 53,324 German migrants lived in

Robert Fruchtman

_fruchtose

I'm listening to the Telegraph Hill Dwellers ask the California State Historical Resources Commission to landmark an old sausage factory.https://socketsite.com/archives/2018/11/plans-to-save-the-facade-of-iconic-north-beach-sausage-fact

Yael Niv

yael_niv

On teaching without grades.A long-ish (20-tweet) . Here goes.So, you know how you write lots of comments on an essay/exam, and the student looks at the grade and never reads

(future)memesMD

memesMD

Ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary pals of #MedTwitter — here’s a on the absolute disaster that has gone down with @AAMC_MCAT this year.Please read, please help, please advocate for future

kyle 🏳️‍🌈

kyleve

Thought I’d expand on this a little bit more: Up until mid 2019, Square had essentially one generalist interview process: A tech screen or two, 3 pair programming interviews, then

Bill Foster

billfoster21

Opendoor: The Rise of The iBuyer-- In September 2020, Opendoor went public by merging with a SPAC launched by Chamath Palihapitiya. The deal closed in December and Opendoor now trades

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

In my book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" I point out that the claims for Big Tech powers of behavior modification powers emanate from the companies' own self-serving boasts pitched

D.P.

daniellepurifoy

Excited to share this new work I did with @louise_seamster, which was published last week! ( )https://twitter.com/societyandspace/status/1327267542663122956 This article has a long origin story which you can read more about

Corey Quinn

QuinnyPig

Yesterday in my public speaking AMA, someone asked for a walkthrough of my video / audio setup gear. Well okay. Before I do, please understand that I have two podcasts

Frederik Bach Mortensen

MortensenBach

THREAD #ELOP "THE BIG PICTURE"Keeping concrete structures safe, sustainable and financially viable. The world’s first rolling, ultrasonic scanning solution for concrete inspection Elop is a green-tech company that has developed

David Toube

ToubeDavid

The psephologist Nate Silver crunches the figures. Biden's lead is roughly 6 million votes. There will be instances of voter suppression and fraud as well as errors and unfairness.There's no

Tilly Berendt

TillyBerendt

Right, chaps. Solo Christmas is a thing now, and it might feel pretty bleak, but it doesn’t have to. I’ve been muddling through Christmas away from my family for over

CivilDrivel

DrivelCivil

https://digital.nls.uk/encyclopaedia-britannica/archive/144133900The 1771 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is an odd book. For example, it shows Muscovite Tartaria as the biggest, most populace nation on Earth. Bet you never learned t

John Bye

_johnbye

This week's Test & Trace report covers the week to December 16th, when cases in London and the South East were surging and falls in the North and Midlands levelling

Ajay Kulkarni

acoustik

Today we’re announcing that we’re going all-in on cloud, making all of our enterprise features available for free, updating our software license to provide greater rights to our users, and

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