Justin Kiggins
Building things that matter. Product Management, Developer Relations, Data Science, Communities. he/him. Opinions my own.
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Brett Kavanaugh Signals He’s Open to Stealing the Election for Trump
Justice Kavanaugh cast doubt on the validity of mail ballots and endorsed a theory too extreme for the Bush v. Gore majority.
The Powder Keg Index And The Election From Hell
Two researchers claim that a single number they call the “political stress indicator” can warn when societies are at risk of erupting into violence. It’s spiking in the US, just like it did before the Civil War.
If Amy Coney Barrett was a Muslim
Are White Women Awake Yet?
Q&A: Historian Rick Perlstein on media ‘bothsidesism,’ and why 2020 definitely isn’t 1968
<p>In late August, Sam Dolnick, an assistant managing editor at the New York Times, tweeted a link to an episode of The Daily, his paper’s flagship podcast, about President Trump’s “law and order” messaging, the suburban vote, and the supposed...
Excess Deaths Overview
Recent posts on the CDC data have been getting a fair amount of traffic. This page is an overview of the things I’ve been doing with the data.
Summarizing excess mortality in the United States this year so far An overview of mortality in the US in...
Chile apuesta por el cambio y aprueba en plebiscito histórico dejar atrás la Constitución de Pinochet - BBC News Mundo
Con el 90% de los votos contados, la opción de redactar una nueva Constitución tiene un respaldo del 78%. La nueva Carta Magna será elaborada por un grupo paritario de hombres y mujeres elegidos por el pueblo.
Column One: She's pregnant, she has COVID-19, and she can't breathe
Very little is known about the impact of COVID-19 on women and the babies they carry.
It's been a thousand years since Colorado has burned like this
Colorado's three largest wildfires in history have been in the past three months. Wildfires on this scale are exceedingly rare without a boost from climate change.
San Francisco's go-slow approach toward reopening amid the pandemic is paying off
San Francisco shut down early in the pandemic and later limited reopening. Now the city is the first urban center in California where the risk of infection is rated as minimal.
r/dataisbeautiful - What if Sweden had FPTP? [OC]
27,868 votes and 1,715 comments so far on Reddit
Michigan police chiefs' leader: Open carry ban at polling places not based in law
The director of the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police says order by Secretary of State is unenforceable
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump threaten to sue Lincoln Project over Times Square ads
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are threatening to sue over a pair of giant, side-by-side, pro-Joe Biden campaign billboards in Times Square that blast their response to the coronavirus crisis. The …
Two schools quarantined in Phoenix and Casa Grande for COVID-19 cases
An entire school in the Madison School District has been required to quarantine after exposure to coronavirus, the district said Friday.
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Poll finds more Americans than ever think we should wear masks
A new National Geographic survey found that Americans of all demographics have changed their minds about mask-wearing.
Trump executive order strips protections for key federal workers, drawing backlash
Unions and Democrats were quick to criticize the move as a bid to inject politics into the public sector workforce.
Mice alternate between discrete strategies during perceptual decision-making
Classical models of perceptual decision-making assume that animals use a single, consistent strategy to integrate sensory evidence and form decisions during an experiment. Here we provide analyses showing that this common view is incorrect. We use a...
Inside the Refugee Camp on America’s Doorstep
A squalid tent camp on the border is the result of President Trump’s unprecedented limits on asylum. Some people have waited in filthy conditions for more than a year to obtain refuge in the United States.
We Don’t Sell Saddles Here
The memo below was sent to the team at Tiny Speck, the makers of Slack, on July 31st, 2013. It had been a little under seven months since…
Modeling COVID-19 scenarios for the United States
A modeling study using case and mortality data from the first 8 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States explores five potential future scenarios of social distancing mandates and mask use at the state level, with projections of the...