Our paper on World Health Organization (WHO) excess mortality associated with Covid-19 now on nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… Please read it and the associated coverage, we aimed to make it as sound and widely understandable as possible. some important highlights: #poptwitter #epitwitter #econtwitter

Ryan Jason Goldman Ian Brown It’s because large scale rewrites mostly spiral out of control, are much more complicated than people think they will be at the beginning, take wild amounts of time, produce (by themselves) no forward product momentum and more often than not are unnecessary.

Good devs are curious: they explore context before they get to work. None of that happened, under the assumption that “I’m so smart, I can figure everything out on my own, quickly.” You see this a lot with junior devs or folks who haven't had to maintain large systems over time

@lexmakesthings reminded me that Google published LaMDA last year that’s more conversational based, sort of like ChatGPT. But they’re concerned about factuality, bias, racism, abuse etc and aren’t releasing the model OpenAI’s style is yolo-ethics blog.google/technology/ai/…

Whether the topic is: - Climate change - GMOs - Nuclear power - Vaccines - Homeopathy - Astronomy - Evolution - or Covid-19... ...People who disagree most with the scientific consensus know less about the topic, but they think they know more. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The politics of hopelessness, or neoliberalism or libertarianism, whatever you want to call it, is entirely about taking control of that 5% space, so that social conformity will then do the rest for it. Telling everybody they’ll be free if they get infected, because then…/16

…not only can you avoid doing any public health work at all, but people will actually celebrate that absence as freedom. Millions die, and people do nothing, because conformity has been used to weaponise helplessness. 17/17

The idea that the truth does not need a marketing department is one of the dumbest and worst ideas ever. The truth is usually relatively unappealing compared to our alternative confabulations and needs an entire PR team to get a word in.

I'm very frustrated that global leaders are still not giving the climate emergency the action and investment it requires. Words are not enough. Without #ClimateAction, climate catastrophe is coming for all of us.

Viele sind enttäuscht dass Maskenpflicht in Zügen fällt. Unsere Experten und die Länder aber haben sie nicht mehr unterstützt. COVID bleibt gefährlich. Viele Episoden machen wahrscheinlich chronisch krank. Daher werde ich selbst im Zug freiwillig Maske tragen und rate es jedem.

Switzerland should share the secret of how to keep people from dying of COVID with its neighbouring countries... Or is it the neighbouring countries that should teach Switzerland about ethics, public health, and data?

Maybe the Western tradition where linguistic agility is culturally mapped as credibility and proximity to truth isn't best idea when audiences no longer share the same rhetorical training as those that historically attempted to convey fallacious, bad-faith arguments in small

@RottenInDenmark Public debate is such a specific skill. You can be really good at winning debates and still be wrong all the time, and vice versa. It's entertainment

Judas Priest are a good example of why debating the willfully ignorant is a fool's errand. It's expensive and exhausting to have to disabuse people of patent bullshit they are attached to. You have to educate people who do not wish to learn and do not trust you.

Indulging the "DEBATE ME!" shitheels does nothing to further the truth. It is exhausting because its purpose is to exhaust you and no credible person should do it.

🇩🇪 Während ich davor warne, dass der Kinderschutz nur als Türöffner für verdachtslose #Chatkontrolle genutzt wird, fordert Europol tatsächlich bereits ihre Ausweitung auf "andere Kriminalitätsbereiche". derstandard.at/story/30000001… #Chatkontrolle gegen Filesharing, oder Beleidigung?

Vergesst Smartspider und Parteien. Wählt einfach nicht, wie wenn ihr in vier Jahren Multimillionäre würdet, sondern wie wenn ihr schwer krank und arbeitslos würdet. Im ersten Fall geht es euch sowieso gut, im zweiten seid ihr froh nicht auch noch falsch gewählt zu haben.

Even if you think Wikipedia is garbage or unreliable or horrendously biased or spreading misinformation, you should still be extremely concerned about the US Attorney’s threat letter.