Justin Kiggins
Building things that matter. Product Management, Developer Relations, Data Science, Communities. he/him. Opinions my own.
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Jared Kushner bragged in April that Trump was taking the country 'back from the doctors'
President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner boasted in mid-April about how the President had cut out the doctors and scientists advising him on the unfolding coronavirus pandemic, comments that came as more than 40,000...
BBC finds Facebook failed to remove child porn. Facebook reports BBC to authorities
The BBC's investigation found 80 per cent of child sexual abuse content it reported was not removed by the social network
LAPD gets approval to begin recording, storing aerial footage of protests
Activists and privacy advocates denounced the move as unconstitutional surveillance, while the LAPD said it would expand its “operational readiness.”
Quiz: Can You Tell a ‘Trump’ Fridge From a ‘Biden’ Fridge?
What the contents of our refrigerators say about our politics — and our assumptions.
Suspect charged for shooting black bear in Del Rio
A Del Rio resident has been charged with “taking a protected state threatened nongame animal” after fatally shooting a black bear in the area on Oct. 16.
Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings
To study the dynamics of neural processing across timescales, we require the ability to follow the spiking of thousands of individually separable neurons over weeks and months, during unrestrained behavior. To address this need, we introduce the...
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 …