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Internal Emails Show Twitter Struggled To Interpret Its Own Verification Rules While Hunting Trolls
Internal Emails Show Twitter Struggled To Interpret Its Own Verification Rules While Hunting Trolls
Emails suggest that verification was never quite what Twitter said it was and that the company was aware it served as a tacit endorsement long before it admitted so publicly.
We’re witnessing the wholesale looting of America
We’re witnessing the wholesale looting of America
Politicians are making decisions to enrich their donors — and at times themselves personally — with a reckless disregard for any kind of objective policy analysis or consideration of public opinion.
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/19/16786006/looting-of-america/
Productivity is dangerous
Productivity is dangerous
I often see shit like, “Ten Habits I Have QUIT to Get More Done,” and I think, “Maybe quit writing posts like this.” If you’re waking up at 4 a.m. to write 1,000 words about how you write 1,000 words every day, what are you actually getting done? Just stay in bed.
Seeing Through Big Tobacco’s Smokescreen – Project Syndicate – Medium
Seeing Through Big Tobacco’s Smokescreen – Project Syndicate – Medium
Legal setbacks in the US have forced the tobacco industry to concede that its products are harmful, and that for decades cigarette producers deliberately misled the public about the health effects of smoking. But these “corrective statements” do not mean that the war with the industry is over.
medium.com/project-syndicate/seeing-through-big-tobaccos-smokescreen-2c14bc5be373/
The US Will Fund Research to Make Pathogens Deadlier Again
The US Will Fund Research to Make Pathogens Deadlier Again
The NIH lifted a 3-year funding moratorium on “gain-of-function” research meant to make deadly viruses stronger and more transmissible.