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If you needed a reminder to wear a mask, thanks to the endless social and for profit irresponsibility normalized on a global scale, we now have a new wave of C19 causing people “razor blade throat.”

She crossed Nazi-occupied Europe on foot and smuggled Allied soldiers over the Pyrenees mountains. She outsmarted the Gestapo and was only 25 years old at the time. Her name was Andrée De Jongh. This is the story of a heroine who co-built a WW2 secret escape line: (🧵)

You've heard of "The Three Problem." - great book, and excellent Netflix series. If you want to be avoid catching Covid, you probably have "The Empty Room" situation in the back of your mind. How long after a room had people in it, can you safely demask? Thread. /1

I am not simplistically blaming politicians here. They are the only people with the power in our societies to implement the necessary change, and at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and just after, they promised to take that action. 1/🧵

Scientists: global warming of 2.5/3°C is * hard/impossible to survive * hard/impossible to prevent * likely by 2045-70 * just one compounding factor in extinction catastrophe meaning a total rethink of economic growth is mandatory to protect species and everyone Journalists:

Ava-Santina, "We need to be weary of bad faith actors normalising privatising the NHS" #BBCQT "I promise you there is not a politician out there that is not doing it for personal financial gain" "If it was your family being told that you've either got to pay a deductible of

Not boomer at all, I would say it's a fair assessment

I’m deeply skeptical of the AI hype because I’ve seen this all before. I’ve watched Silicon Valley chase the dream of easy money from data over and over again, and they always hit a wall. Story time.

PresMom3 Boredom is where greatness and legends are born

I know we live in the time of nothing matters, but I'm still a little gob struck that we have excess mortality charts that look like this & in the before times we would have moved heaven & earth to figure out & stop what is going on, but now because we know what is going on, we

I trust this will be a long drawn out confrontation, and thus be known as Elongate..

Bear showing why this place is still relevant to intelligent discourse on scoiety

Many of us have noticed that there is a huge disconnect between Covid public health messaging and what the science is actually telling us. A growing number of research papers show the harmful effects of the virus, yet this is not part of the public discourse. 1/10

You mean I’ve been anxious about all the millionaires leaving… and it turns out they never actually left? All that worry. For nothing. Almost like it was a confected outrage all along, isn’t it?

A key purpose of the 1824 Vagrancy Act was to punish magical practitioners; it originally criminalised 'every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose' 🔮

A big divide in attitudes towards AI, I think, is in whether you can easily write better than it and it all reads like stilted, inauthentic kitsch; or whether you’re amazed by it because it makes you seem more articulate than you’ve ever sounded in your life

People are asking about recording royalties: there are two payments, one for use of the recording, another for copyright in the song. If you’re played on the wireless the broadcaster pays, if you’re streamed the streamer pays (pitifully)… 1/3

In recent months, a growing number of robust scientific studies have confirmed that even mild SARS-CoV-2 infection is not biologically neutral in children. Two new studies reveal surprising depth of impact - metabolically and immunologically.🧵

No, millionaires are NOT fleeing Britain. The news story appeared more than 10,000 times last year, cooked up by a company that profits when we believe in the ‘exodus’. But in reality, the number was close to zero: 🧵

Ten misconceptions about WWIII