RT @WisConSF3: WisCon 44: WisCONline is coming May 21–25! Register now via @GrowTix:

More importantly right now, does a higher level of vitamin D enable you to fight off infections such as influenza and COVID? Of course, as I stated at the beginning, in the middle of the COVID maelstrom, people are claiming everything about everything.

This note examines the published data protection impact assessment (DPIA) released by NHSX in relation to their contact tracing/proximity tracing app. It highlights a range of significant issues which leave the app falling short of data protection legislation. It does this in order so that these issues can be remedied before the next DPIA is published.

RT @IsaacScher__: NEW: Half of all Brooklynites are white, but 97.5% of the borough's social distancing arrests were of people of color.

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The goal: Let everyone play with many different TypeScript features and get an overview of TypeScript capabilities and principles.

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Joan Wong On March 27, as the U.S. topped 100,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, Donald Trump stood at the lectern of the White House press-briefing room and was asked what he’d say about the pandemic to a child.

RT @mrbromwich: I have been in and around DOJ since 1983. I have never seen a case dropped after someone has pled guilty and the underlying facts demonstrate beyond any shadow of a doubt he is guilty. This is simply a pardon by another name. A black day in DOJ history.

Behind every Trump attack is self-revelation. Every counterpunch is a self-punch. @gtconway3d: “Because he fears being revealed as a fake or deranged, he’ll call others fake or deranged. Because he fears losing, he’ll call them losers instead.”

It's here! The source code for the COVID-19 BETA Apps. ✅Android: ✅iOS: ✅Documentation:

The critic Raymond Williams once wrote that every historical period has its own “structure of feeling.” How everything seemed in the nineteen-sixties, the way…

via Health News - The New York Times https://nyti.ms/2WLL65m

The complaint that Washington is out of step with Main Street has been circulating for roughly as long as each metonym has been in use. But it’s seldom, if ever, been more true than at this moment in the coronavirus pandemic.

I absolutely *love* these Amazon Writing Style Tips (found via Google & ) Have any other companies offered a glimpse into their in-house style?

Wow! Noise is a secret killer of performance. A 10db noise increase (from a dishwasher to a vacuum) drops productivity by 5% - but most people don't notice since it impacts cognition, not effort. Also, note that noise is greater in poorer neighborhoods...

When surveyed, people who received universal basic income instead of regular unemployment benefits reported better financial well-being, mental health and cognitive functioning, as well as higher levels of confidence in the future.

Finland’s two-year test of universal basic income has concluded that it doesn't seem to disincentivise working, and benefits recipients’ mental and financial wellbeing

VS Code, an application that is written in JS and runs in a browser, now runs in a browser

If this lede doesn't get you, I don't know what will. @davidmcswane's latest:

Democrat and former presidential candidate Mayor Bill de Blasio "said the police had used enforcement authority properly," @nytimes reports:

NYC subway conductor returning to work after recovering from COVID: “The conditions created by the pandemic drive home that essential workers keep social order from sinking into chaos. Yet we‘re treated with the utmost disrespect, like we’re expendable.”

"I left work and I felt so deflated," one doctor said about an effort to counter misinformation he saw on Facebook. "I let it get to me."Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

So @jimtankersley talked to Kevin Hassett about the whole "cubic model" mess, and long story short, I'm pretty sure Hassett owes @NateSilver538 $538.

All your questions about the pandemic, answered. Sort of. Mr. Eggers is a novelist and journalist. via Pocket

Six weeks ago, Ahmaud Arbery went out and never came home. Gregory and Travis McMichael, who saw Arbery running through their neighborhood just outside of Brunswick, Georgia, and who told authorities they thought he was a burglary suspect, armed themselves, pursued Arbery, and then shot him dead.

Clear, calming writing about how to interpret recent reports

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The 1977 Zork source code is on GitHub, courtesy the MIT Libraries Department of Distinctive Collections! It’s written in MDL for the PDP-10.

You’re in luck if you love Miss Phryne Fisher, TV’s elegant lady detective.

Rivalling One Direction-ers in devotion, Australian fans of the musical maestro André Rieu are set to again be wowed at the cinema screenings of his 2016 Maastricht concert.