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More than 40 years ago, designers drew and edited thousands of characters by hand to make it possible to type and print in Chinese. https://t.co/0XlG72Tx2B — PolitiTweet.org

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The pandemic took the concept of universal basic income out of Silicon Valley’s hands—and turned it into something far more radical. https://t.co/W2maPfJ7zk — PolitiTweet.org

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“It’s a bit of a joke, really," says a vaccine tourist from Nairobi, Kenya. "Is it really better to fly loads of people to New York to do this than to just fly some vaccines from New York to places where vaccines are needed?” https://t.co/TmTzWsCmio — PolitiTweet.org

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[SPONSORED] “People are going to be rewarded for taking chances and will probably be forgiven if it’s imperfect.” Mike Robinson, head of retail operations, The Eighth Notch, on retailers realizing that now is the time to be bold. https://t.co/Kpk7w5zipC (With @Oracle) https://t.co/Mht3GssFgO — PolitiTweet.org

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Why was Google's firing of Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell such a pivotal moment for artificial intelligence? Our reporter spent three months tracing the field's past, present, and future to explain why it matters. https://t.co/IvASF2dj6s — PolitiTweet.org

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Another big direct-air-capture plant is moving ahead, but what will it take to reach $100 per ton carbon removal? And why is that the crucial barrier? We explain. https://t.co/vpB2eMtppi — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CatalyticRxn: This is a really masterful piece of journalism from Antonio Regalado...probably the best thing on the "lab-leak theory" a… — PolitiTweet.org

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The costliness of data collection and strengthening data privacy regulations have given rise to a whole new industry. Need a hundred thousand faces, or a hundred thousand patients to train your AI? These companies will make it for you. https://t.co/xYE7Upx18Q — PolitiTweet.org

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Last September, when scientists announced the possible discovery of phosphine gas in the atmosphere of Venus—a potential biosignature of life—some wondered whether microbial life might be living in the planet’s clouds. They may want to temper expectations. https://t.co/KEyFB4gpAd — PolitiTweet.org

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The record-breaking heatwave baking the Northwest US offers the latest example of how ill-prepared we are to deal with the deadly challenges of climate change. https://t.co/IzV1zwApiz — PolitiTweet.org

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We have a bounty of vaccines and more on the way, but drugs that treat the disease are vital too if we want to keep people alive and bring the pandemic under control. https://t.co/NspJHYibvf — PolitiTweet.org

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The "China Initiative," a US effort to root out spies, has had a chilling effect on Chinese-American scientists. https://t.co/0XXQqE4Y0b — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jtemple: Our grids were built for the climate of the past: https://t.co/s6o5ih0P8N — PolitiTweet.org

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UPDATE: There's now a third reason to get excited about Venus. In addition to these two NASA spacecrafts, the European Space Agency announced earlier this month that it, too, was launching its own mission to Earth's evil twin by the end of the decade. https://t.co/85FcwR77bT — PolitiTweet.org

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READ @antonioregalado’s absolutely compelling profile of @Ayjchan and how she advanced the lab-leak theory. Regalado's reporting and writing was repurposed for Twitter by @Benji_Rosen. https://t.co/1Bcg7w8Yo0 — PolitiTweet.org

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(2/2) She’s plainly suggesting there is a cover-up—and, therefore, a plot to conceal the truth. https://t.co/1Bcg7w8Yo0 — PolitiTweet.org

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(1/2) Chan tends to point out things that Chinese researchers didn’t do or say, important facts they did not quickly reveal, the infected market animal they never found, or a database that’s no longer online. — PolitiTweet.org

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After reading Chan’s posts, @antonioregalado noticed that many of her claims don’t even relate to direct evidence at all; more often, they revolve around its absence. — PolitiTweet.org

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Chan has no particular view about how exactly an accident might have happened—whether a student got sick in a bat cave, say, or secret research to infect mice with a novel virus went awry. — PolitiTweet.org

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The obvious problem with the lab-leak theory, though, is that there is no concrete evidence for it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Like other journalists interested in the lab-leak idea, @antonioregalado has followed Chan since last May. https://t.co/wh6CNq8FTO — PolitiTweet.org

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In May, President Biden ordered his intelligence agencies to carry out a new investigation into the origin of the virus. It’s due before the end of the summer. https://t.co/WCTYHLwXt1 — PolitiTweet.org

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The reversal in thinking has been so sharp that media organizations are updating old articles having branded the lab-leak idea a conspiracy theory. — PolitiTweet.org

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Chan wasn’t afraid to pit her brain against the best virologists in the world and her persistence helped change some researchers’ minds. — PolitiTweet.org

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But there wasn’t any real evidence, and it didn’t pay to “take on the big guys,” as one accomplished virologist told me. — PolitiTweet.org

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Many scientists quietly believed that a lab leak was possible—if only because the world center of research on bat viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, happens to be eight miles from where the outbreak’s early cases were seen. — PolitiTweet.org

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Her view is now widely held. That’s due partly to her Twitter account. Throughout 2020, Chan relentlessly stoked scientific argument and doubts, sometimes adding a unicorn GIF to highlight research she found implausible. https://t.co/rJi7DxNGtS — PolitiTweet.org

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(2/2) For instance, a normal virus collected from bats in the wild, if brought to Wuhan, could have somehow slipped out. “I was like, ‘They are very mistaken,’” says Chan. “They haven’t thought of all these other plausible ways for a lab leak to occur.” — PolitiTweet.org