#Failures

Mr MT Indefatigable mung bean munching eco-freak

mrEmTee

Thread:Today, The Times newspaper published an article by Matthew Parris in which he set out his case for ascribing a monetary value to human life. This thinking infects human history

Elliot Gold

EGoldLdn

Now this is something - all inquest findings are on the civil standard, including suicide and unlawful killing. Previously, unlawful killing had to be shown to the criminal standard. http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2020/46.html

Dan

DanCrossNYC

I just finished an initial foray back into plan9 kernel code. The Harvey fork has been modified so that the kernel now links at 0xffff_8000_0000_0000.https://github.com/Harvey-OS/harvey/pull/1043/commits/71f450f801d006924e707971f4d28b1760fc

Alex Chan

alexwlchan

A little thread about resiliency and efficiency. This might become a blog post; right now I’m thinking aloud.Imagine an airline, back when plane travel was safe.Running an airline is expensive,

Mr. Buyside

MrBuyside

1/ The Law of Diminishing intent states that:“The likelihood of doing something diminishes the further away you get from the initial moment of inspiration” 2/ As we have moved from

Nick Reeves 3.5% #FBPE #ProgressiveAlliance

nickreeves9876

1/ Despite the covid massacre and eleven years of economic failure the Tories still command over 40% in the polls. I believe this is because they command an almost entirely

Yoni Appelbaum

YAppelbaum

1. This is not the most consequential thing on the nation’s mind this evening. But President Trump’s election eve announcement of a 1776 Commission underlines one of the odder failures

Devon Price

drdevonprice

Three years ago, I was laid off from an underpaid adjunct job at a (frankly really really toxic) college because I gave my students flexibility & compassion that other profs

The Wild Sunflower 🌻

fungi_dube

The term designer is the type of vocation where individual creativity is the core ingredient. However designers struggle.With criticism. With rejection. With imposter syndrome. With ego. And then they start

Ahmad Rafay Alam

rafay_alam

This is so important because the climate crisis is brushed aside with comments like "Pakistan is a low GHG emitter", "were planting trees". These things may be true but distract

Sam Sawyer, SJ

SSawyerSJ

Some thoughts about "confusion" re: a Catholic president that led a USCCB working group: (1) The confusion isn't about content; everyone knows the church is pro-life/anti-abortion. The confusion is about

Dalos Ortiz

DalosOrtiz

We just got off the call between @polina_marinova and @jackbutcher during @visualizevalue office hours.These are 9 incredibly useful mental frameworks discussed during the conversation.// A Thread // Framework for

Jeremy Konyndyk

JeremyKonyndyk

These Woodward interviews. My God.Confirms worst suspicions, in Trump's own words, in the most damning possible way. It is hard to overstate how different things could look today if Trump

Zero HP Lovecraft

0x49fa98

When we watch TV or play video games, we form one-way friendships with the characters, called parasocial relationships. The same thing can happen on twitter, especially with the bigger accounts

Ian McAnerin

IanMcAnerin

If you want to find out where money is being wasted in a government (any government), look to procurement. The City of Calgary #yycc has some seriously broken procurement rules.

the palpitations | dr nishant joshi

ThePalpitations

thread/expired PPE: more lies, more negligence that continues to endanger frontline healthcare workers.1/ doctors have complained of expired masks since the start of the pandemic.new labels were stuck on expired

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