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1/An interesting thing happened tonight. I was scrolling through clubhouse and found WileyCEO, Godfather of Grime (kicked off Twitter in July for antisemitic tweets) speaking. So I tweeted this (and included a screen shot, later deleted as I found out TOS don't allow it ...
2/ ... and several folks also asked me to remove it which I promptly did afterwards).... Coming into the CH room, I fully intended to confront him about how hurtful his comments in July were. But as I listened to the folks in the room, I decided to go a different direction ....
3/ the conversation jumped around, covered many topics and there were between 8-14 people up on stage. But a recurring thread was discussion of racism, bigotry, comparison of it in the US vs UK vs elsewhere.
4/ when I got a chance to speak, I had 5 bullets written down: a) we should harness technology and capitalism to make reparations for what America did to Black people. I gave https://t.co/SlrW8zCd58 (a project a couple friends co-started) as an example) ...
5/ b) capitalism and product know-how and technology can be harnessed for social justice c) historically oppressed minorities need to stick together and lastly, d) "Wiley, how could you say such hurtful things about Jews as a people?" That's what I had ready to say, anyway.
2/ ... and several folks also asked me to remove it which I promptly did afterwards).... Coming into the CH room, I fully intended to confront him about how hurtful his comments in July were. But as I listened to the folks in the room, I decided to go a different direction ....
3/ the conversation jumped around, covered many topics and there were between 8-14 people up on stage. But a recurring thread was discussion of racism, bigotry, comparison of it in the US vs UK vs elsewhere.
4/ when I got a chance to speak, I had 5 bullets written down: a) we should harness technology and capitalism to make reparations for what America did to Black people. I gave https://t.co/SlrW8zCd58 (a project a couple friends co-started) as an example) ...
5/ b) capitalism and product know-how and technology can be harnessed for social justice c) historically oppressed minorities need to stick together and lastly, d) "Wiley, how could you say such hurtful things about Jews as a people?" That's what I had ready to say, anyway.
The "hope" that @krishgm mentions is forlorn, in this case.
A thread in which I prove (using ONLY published Pfizer trial data) that the UK CMOs and JCVI have not so much ignored the science, as left it bleeding at the roadside.
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From the moment, the decision was announced to delay 2nd vaccine doses, I've felt uneasy.
This is not my field of expertise, but I trained as a scientist (two chemistry degrees), worked professionally in IT, and understand the importance of testing.
My principal concern was about the Pfizer vaccine.
As vaccines go, it's "new tech", the first mRNA vaccine and the results are stunning.
Perhaps one should be cautious about deviating from a clinical trial procedure, at least until there is greater experience of mRNA vaccines?
I've been investigating this for over a week and haven't been able to sleep properly since I started.
At best, the 12 weeks strategy was based on one critical assumption, namely that the 2nd dose has NO effect on efficacy in the first 7 days after it is given.
And if it did?
My journey started with a friend pointing me towards an article in @bmj_latest which indicated that a single dose of @pfizer vaccine had an efficacy of
A thread in which I prove (using ONLY published Pfizer trial data) that the UK CMOs and JCVI have not so much ignored the science, as left it bleeding at the roadside.
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The trial data said that after a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine coverage was 52%. Six days after the second dose that rose to nearly 91%. The new policy to delay 2nd dose is based on the idea that the 91% was in fact due to the first dose. We must hope that is true.
— Krishnan Guru-Murthy (@krishgm) December 30, 2020
From the moment, the decision was announced to delay 2nd vaccine doses, I've felt uneasy.
This is not my field of expertise, but I trained as a scientist (two chemistry degrees), worked professionally in IT, and understand the importance of testing.
My principal concern was about the Pfizer vaccine.
As vaccines go, it's "new tech", the first mRNA vaccine and the results are stunning.
Perhaps one should be cautious about deviating from a clinical trial procedure, at least until there is greater experience of mRNA vaccines?
I've been investigating this for over a week and haven't been able to sleep properly since I started.
At best, the 12 weeks strategy was based on one critical assumption, namely that the 2nd dose has NO effect on efficacy in the first 7 days after it is given.
And if it did?
My journey started with a friend pointing me towards an article in @bmj_latest which indicated that a single dose of @pfizer vaccine had an efficacy of
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Amazon warehouse union gets tech solidarity; and more!
Archived at: https://t.co/KYnbqjE9Ws
#Pluralistic
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Amazon warehouse union gets tech solidarity: #DoItWithRealPower
https://t.co/cby43y3aaU
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#15yrsago Mysterious birthday ritual at Poe’s graveside disrupted by rubberneckers https://t.co/16m4DbuG1h
#15yrsago Nutjob offers $100 bounty to UCLA students who wiretap lefty profs https://t.co/47JtauT8Vy
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#5yrsago Transreal Cyberpunk! Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling’s book of annotated, seminal cyberpunk fiction https://t.co/MTANIei5nB
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#5yrsago The Democratic Party’s SOPA-loving, Snowden-hating, Hillary-partisan power-broker has her first-ever primary challenger https://t.co/olMdn1u9Ey
#5yrsago Griefer hacks baby monitor, terrifies toddler with spooky voices https://t.co/m5VspAuXXa
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Inside: Amazon warehouse union gets tech solidarity; and more!
Archived at: https://t.co/KYnbqjE9Ws
#Pluralistic
1/
Amazon warehouse union gets tech solidarity: #DoItWithRealPower
https://t.co/cby43y3aaU
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While many Amazon warehouse workers in Europe have unionized, its brutalized, underpaid, routinely maimed US workforce remains tragically unorganized, thanks to the US's weak labor laws that make forming a union far harder than at any time since the Gilded Age.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 19, 2021
1/ pic.twitter.com/b8ZnnC7y3T
#15yrsago Mysterious birthday ritual at Poe’s graveside disrupted by rubberneckers https://t.co/16m4DbuG1h
#15yrsago Nutjob offers $100 bounty to UCLA students who wiretap lefty profs https://t.co/47JtauT8Vy
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#5yrsago Transreal Cyberpunk! Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling’s book of annotated, seminal cyberpunk fiction https://t.co/MTANIei5nB
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#5yrsago The Democratic Party’s SOPA-loving, Snowden-hating, Hillary-partisan power-broker has her first-ever primary challenger https://t.co/olMdn1u9Ey
#5yrsago Griefer hacks baby monitor, terrifies toddler with spooky voices https://t.co/m5VspAuXXa
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