#Ethical

Take a look at the woman who died yesterday. She looks normal. Just a patriot. That’s code language for extremist. There’s little on her bio that demonstrated her extremism.https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/1347205837798965251 The
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Thread – Did the ChiComs Hack the Election?1. Patrick Byrne (founder of overstock-dot-com) has been in the news lately (at least in independent media!), having been present in the White
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Frankly, I find this commentary frustrating and consider it counterproductive for several reasons, even though (and perhaps especially because) I don’t disagree entirely with many of the basic points raised
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LONG THREAD. Received questions in my DM about Pfizer vaccine and will attempt to explain based on available info. Early readout of the Phase III clinical trial of Pfizer’s mRNA
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Why use @Instacart when cheaper & ethical alternatives @dumplingUS exist? They are union busters, up charge for every item, hostile toward their employees, no support phone number, fired me after
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1) So mega-church @dreamcitychurch claims they didn’t know Trump would be visiting their facility. Let’s take a peek at this claim, shall we?https://ktar.com/story/3312204/phoenix-church-didnt-know-trump-was-coming-when-agreeing-to-rent
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For hundreds of years, Europeans ground up Egyptian mummies to use them as paint . . . and swallow them as medicine. How were they able to do this, and
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Will just leave this here.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/26/data-dump-that-reveals-astonishing-breadth-beijings-interference-operations/?outputType=amp @tariqtahir - the reason I posted this is it clearly demonstrates damag
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It's good to see pro-vaccine campaigns to address ethnic minority hesitancy about the vaccine. (Nb: good reasons to please avoid "myth-busters" as a framing of pro-vaccine advocacy) Goal: pro-vaccine social
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Today, @thedailybeast published "The Justice Department Finally—Finally!—Takes on Google and the Danger of Monopolies," my op-ed on tech antitrust and its connection to the digital rights movement.https://www.thedailybeast.com
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so they're still doing copaganda, but like...more thoughtful copaganda?I love b99 but honestly I don't think there's any good way to do a police procedural right nowhttps://tvline.com/2020/06/23/brooklyn-nine-nine-spoilers-seaso
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Covid Epi Weekly: First Sighting of Vaccine-Induced ImmunityImagine: You’ve been on a dangerous sea voyage. One of 200 people >65 have died. Safe land is sighted in the distance. Everyone
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What should we do about medical misinformation?It goes without saying that everyone who calls themselves an expert on “misinformation” is NOT a topical expert in scientific communication, nor does applying
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America needs an education on cults. We just experienced the ramifications of a true "online cult". Until the age of twelve I grew up in a cult called Christian House.
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Is it mentioned anywhere in sex ed that imagination is a normal part of sexuality for most people and it is not necessarily connected to reality for many? Because the
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Read the thread and consider software risk and system safety from this perspective. When designing for safety, ask "for whom?"https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1340796465967476737 While drafting my legacy scientific code b
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