RT @cstross@twitter.activitypub.actor
Ah, Gates is going Manhattan Project management on the vaccine problem.
(During the Manhattan Project, every time they hit a bottleneck with two or more alternate paths, they attacked all paths in parallel. Very expensive but fastest possible way of solving production problems.) https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1246457825720553472
Every couple of years, climate scientists cautiously specify a range including scenarios 1 and 2. The GOP says, "That's crazy scaremongering!" Then when the data come in it turns out we're in scenario 3.
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RT @xkcdComic
Scenario 4 https://xkcd.com/2289/ https://m.xkcd.com/2289/
https://twitter.com/xkcdComic/status/1246492945567453184
Who should that person be? Given their admissions in opposing vote-by-mail, the GOP believes it should not be "the choice of the people", but "our guy, by any means necessary".
The Republican philosophy is an odd mix of libertarianism ("no laws!") and authoritarianism ("obedience to the President at al costs!"). They seem to believe authority resides in one person, not the shared agreement of the Constitution.
Trump is a nonstop pathological liar, but Biden loses points for deceptive editing.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/491071-biden-campaign-blasts-twitter-for-refusing-to-sanction-retaliatory-hoax
via @googlenews@twitter.com
RT @DeanBlizzard@twitter.activitypub.actor
Who’s your favorite professor? #onlineclasses #comedy #funny #teachers #professors
RT @mountain_ghosts
they put a millisecond clock with a 32-bit register, in a plane, and it overflows https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycle_51_days_stale_data/
RT @Rainmaker1973
The Jesus Christ lizard walks on water: an extraordinary way to escape predators http://buff.ly/2kbJUTM
RT @lewisandclark@twitter.activitypub.actor
Ending the week with some good news! Yesterday Lewis & Clark facilities services workers delivered a donation of 5000 N95 masks and 2500 pairs of gloves to @OHSUNews@twitter.com: https://at.lclark.edu/39IiNYm
RT @ddale8@twitter.activitypub.actor
After Jared Kushner’s comment about how the Strategic National Stockpile is not supposed to be for states, lots of people pointed to the fact that its own website says it is.
The language on the website has now been changed.
My screenshot from last night vs. one from today:
RT @bennytheshap@twitter.activitypub.actor
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