https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613106/a-second-737-max-crash-raises-questions-about-airplane-automation/

«The remarkable safety record of commercial airliners is an achievement of bureaucracy rather than technology. Airplanes are not safe because they are made of strong materials, nor because the computers that help fly them are so sophisticated. They are safe because of an elaborate international system of regulation that, with scores of checklists and reams of systematized procedures, makes “Safety first” not a slogan but a reality.

That system is now showing signs of strain.»

https://www.newsweek.com/david-robert-grimes-fighting-anti-vax-online-harassment-campaigns-1356709

So… We need more dead babies because that’s the only thing that will change people’s minds? Is a six-year-old with tetanus and an $800,000 bill enough?

«But what really changed things was a brilliant and articulate young lady called Laura Brennan, who had been diagnosed with incurable cervical cancer. She came to HSE and offered to share her story, so that other women wouldn’t have to go through what she had endured. So, the campaign that we launched to counter this put her at the forefront. We hit lows of 51.2 percent HPV coverage but now we’re back up to the high 70s, whereas Japan is still in the doldrums and so is Denmark. People connect to the emotive first. What we needed to do was remind them what this vaccine was for, what it was actually doing.»

https://twitter.com/rkahne/status/1104498547309887489?s=17

Robert Kahne (@rkahne) Tweeted:

One last thing: I’ve said it reflexively many times, but the reality of “trust women and their doctors” doesn’t truly sink in until you are looking at the malformed brain of the child you conceived via fertility treatments and hear “now we need to talk about some legal questions”

https://twitter.com/Msummerslowe/status/1104400644562210816?s=17

Miranda Summers Lowe🌺 (@Msummerslowe) Tweeted:

I just fell down the rabbit hole of off-brand military toy sets, and “bored in the barracks GI Joe” is my absolute favorite. https://t.co/SJ9ShTMPaR

https://twitter.com/JohnFPfaff/status/1103869002135199744?s=17

John Pfaff (@JohnFPfaff) Tweeted:

Everyone is getting this wrong tonight. At least everyone who wants to end mass incarceration.

The framing here needs to be: the sentence Manafort received shows JUST HOW OVERLY HIGH are the sentences we impose on poor and minority defendants.

Normalize the LOW, not the HIGH. https://t.co/DIcGGDHLEr

https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big-tech-9ad9e0da324c

I think Elizabeth Warren is pretty good, actually. The only thing she’s lacking is foreign policy experience, but I know someone who would be great in that role, if she’ll take the position.

https://religionnews.com/2019/02/26/bishop-will-willimon-on-why-no-plan-can-unite-united-methodists/

«We spent time yesterday [at #gc2019] openly discussing, “Now, how much do we have to pay to have to leave? Is a third of a property assessment OK?” It was just weird hearing us talk that way. That’s not the way we’ve talked previously. If you talk that way, it means the debate is almost moot.»

Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) Tweeted:
In an age of instantaneous tweets, pay heed to the power of a 15,000-word piece of writing to get another major writer to rethink five years on. https://t.co/kQJcr9DuX9 https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1104010994823630848?s=17