Category: Twitter

A medical drone delivery service is shipping blood as-needed to hospitals across Rwanda, which has the tech & telecom infrastructure for autonomous drones, but rugged terrain and poor roads that slow down delivery by land.

A medical drone delivery service is shipping blood as-needed to hospitals across Rwanda, which has the tech & telecom infrastructure for autonomous drones, but rugged terrain and poor roads that slow down delivery by land.

In the Air With Zipline’s Medical Delivery Drones


Scenario: Building inspector looks for pests & structural problems. Finds whole family of raccoons but can’t prove they’re living IN the house. Lots of structural defects that don’t QUITE violate code individually, but present danger. Real estate dev claims full exoneration.

Scenario: Building inspector looks for pests & structural problems. Finds whole family of raccoons but can’t prove they’re living IN the house. Lots of structural defects that don’t QUITE violate code individually, but present danger.

Real estate dev claims full exoneration.

(Yes, it’s a metaphor.)

I suppose it’s consistent. The GOP has been claiming for years that if you make life worse for people who are already poor, they’ll stop being poor, so obviously if you make life worse for people with disabilities, they’ll stop being disabled, right? 😠

I suppose it’s consistent. The GOP has been claiming for years that if you make life worse for people who are already poor, they’ll stop being poor, so obviously if you make life worse for people with disabilities, they’ll stop being disabled, right? 😠

NASA cancelling a 2-woman spacewalk because they don’t have enough space suits in the right size is a perfect example…

NASA cancelling a 2-woman spacewalk because they don’t have enough space suits in the right size is a perfect example of the problems with building the world to the spec of “Reference Man” as described in this week’s Cracked Podcast.

(I still find it weird that Cracked mixes insightful social commentary in with the humor, but there we are.)

If I understand the BuzzFeed article correctly, engagement metrics are still visible when you click or tap on a tweet to interact with it. So you can still gauge its popularity or awfulness ratio, you just have to be motivated by the tweet to look for them. Title page vs. cover.

If I understand the BuzzFeed article correctly, engagement metrics are still visible when you click or tap on a tweet to interact with it. So you can still gauge its popularity or awfulness ratio, you just have to be motivated by the tweet to look for them. Title page vs. cover.

I think many people dismiss Russian propaganda because they think of old Soviet posters etc. But what’s there now is different. They play up to our preconceptions, exaggerating outrage we already feel and dividing us further.

I think many people dismiss Russian propaganda because they think of old Soviet posters etc. But what’s there now is different. They play up to our preconceptions, exaggerating outrage we already feel and dividing us further.

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-uk-fake-accounts/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/russian-trolls-can-be-surprisingly-subtle-and-often-fun-to-read/2019/03/08/677f8ec2-413c-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html

alenxa: Valuing low character count may lead to higher visceral response

RT @alenxa:

So I found this list of intellectual vs emotional words and the emotional ones are all shorter. Suggests that valuing low character count may lead to higher visceral response to that communication. Meaning, Twitter is designed so that we get worked up over it. Studies? Plz?

@alenxa Ooh, that’s an angle I hadn’t thought of before!

I’ve seen a lot of discussion of anger driving more engagement (which ad-supported services love) and someone suggested that it’s hard for most people to convey emotion in writing without exaggerating.

Now adding this factor…

I wonder if there’s a way to isolate other factors that have driven up the general anger level and compare the 140-character era to the 280-character era.

It does seem like the general level has been getting worse, but if that change decelerated things, it could support it.

Field Museum: Too. Much. Coffee! 😆 ☕☕☕☕☕

@sohkamyung@mstdn.io wrote:

Bwhahaha! More ‘coffee emotions’ in the twitter thread. 🙂

“Field Museum @FieldMuseum
Too. Much. Coffee. 😳”

“These watercolors were painted by Chinese artists during the mid-19th century and sold to Western customers in port cities of Hong Kong, Macao, and Canton. They’re imaginary birds but with some real #MondayMood feelings.”

#Humour #FieldMuseum #Coffee


@FieldMuseum

These are great!

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Vaccinate. Your. Kids.

“After smallpox was eradicated in 1980, measles became the leading killer of children globally”

Measles outbreak hits children in Portland due to low vaccination rate.

Vaccinate. Your. Kids.

Vaccinating your kids won’t make them autistic. That’s been tested over and over again, and there’s no link.

It will protect them, their classmates & their friends from potentially deadly diseases.

And honestly…even if there was a tiny chance that vaccines caused autism (again, all the research shows that they don’t)… Wouldn’t you rather your child be autistic than dead?

On the anniversary of the Northridge earthquake, looking at this and his recent threat to withhold FEMA wildfire recovery funds…

On the anniversary of the Northridge earthquake, looking at this and his recent threat to withhold FEMA wildfire recovery funds from California make me really hope the next big quake to hit CA waits until after he’s out of office.

TBH I’ve been concerned about that since he was elected. But since then he’s shown that his willingness to use federal funds for disaster relief/recovery actually does line up suspiciously with whether your state/territory voted for him or not. (Compare FL & TX.)

I didn’t want to be right about this.