THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole.

Why?

Because an algorithm said so. 1/

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment.

Humor me?

An overly long presentation where I repeatedly quote Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and authors of the Great Barrington Declaration.

Please share to make sure he’s not censored or silenced.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ptT...

So many frustrating and wrong assumptions in this but do you know where arty kids discover, share, and learn about art and music? On social media.

'It’s not the time to panic,” he says. “But this should serve as a warning: this virus has the capacity to switch very quickly into a form that can cause severe disease.”'
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

1. Twenty-some years ago, as the embers of the intelligent design movement were dying out, a loose band of thinkers known as the New Atheists made a name for themselves by confusing materialist methodology with materialist metaphysics and going on the offensive against all of organized religion.