Brett Bowman

Bringing Machine Learning and Software Engineering into Biology.
For Data is not Knowledge, and Knowledge is not Wisdom.

[Brett Bowman @BioInfoBrett]

@Brozime Love the build videos - can't wait to see them refreshed.

One request - could you mention your fashion set-up for each? Some of them I wonder what syandana/ephemera/palette you're using, and would love to be able to copy

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

[Jake M. Grumbach @JakeMGrumbach]

OK, coauthors finally let me post the working paper

Why doesn't police reform work? Because police depts can't credibly commit to their end of the bargain (doing more/better/riskier work in exchange for more $)

It's an institutional problem, not staffing problem

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[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortages of rare earths; invite retaliatory tariffs; cut R&D; raise borrowing costs by blowing out the budget; and to cover it all in a thick cloud of uncertainty.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Profiting off the office - by itself- is so corrupt.

But the buyers could be CEOs, Russian oligarchs, Saudi princes. We have no idea. It’s all secret. That makes it the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the White House. And we all pretend like this is just normal!?

[Lawrence H. Summers @LHSummers]

I am profoundly saddened and alarmed by @Columbia University and @PaulWeissLLP law firm's capitulation to the increasingly dictatorial Trump administration.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Okay, John Yoo is worried. That's...something.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Astonishing, enraging, sickening story by Philip Holsinger documenting what he saw at the processing of the people our country sent the San Salvadoran prison hellscape.

https://t.co/LjkARVg9th

[David French @DavidAFrench]

My friend @DavidLat just published an email Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp sent to the firm. This excerpt is the most chilling. This is how constitutional republics die -- when rivals see a violation of fundamental rights not as an injustice, but as a business opportunity:

[ProPublica @propublica]

A senior IRS HR staffer said in a sworn affidavit that her office “did not review or consider” any probationary employees’ job performance or conduct.

Nor did the Treasury Department.

“I know this because this fact was discussed openly in meetings.”
https://t.co/HAkE09GO4o

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

Love the FT, but not sure China can pivot to manufacturing at this stage ...

"Xi’s government is pivoting towards more investment in cutting-edge technology and manufacturing, in part to steel itself for a more hostile geopolitical environment."

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[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

congratulations to all the outraged leftists who successfully protected the right of anasthesiologists to keep medical costs high and prevent the Medicare cost model from expanding

and congrats to the anasthesiologist society PR for securing a reversal by tapping populist rage

[Michael Linden @MichaelSLinden]

This is what we're all up against. Incontrovertible facts are just no match for this fiction.

In real life, George W. Bush enacted massive tax cuts, skewed to the wealthy, which to this day are costing us trillions and are a core reason why debt is rising.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Yup

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

If we’re being real, Trump’s incoherence is a corporate Rorschach.

For some, yes, blabbering nonsense is a turnoff. For others, it’s a signal that he’s an empty vessel for corporate-tech policy. A willingly blank canvas. That’s exciting if you want White House influence.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

This would crush much of the U.S. tech industry.

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

An important message from my old friend and colleague who ran the BLS a few years ago. The way to cut the deficit is not by starving the agencies that measure the economy or the budget. The deficit savings aren't even a rounding error, but good policymaking gets hamstrung.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

To your credit, you have it partly right. The critique of Trump is that, yes, he *is* bad. Yes, he *is* evil.

That doesn’t mean, however, that everyone who supports him is all bad, or that everyone who opposes him is purely good.

That’s because Trump embodies the worst in *all* of us. For we are all human.

Trump revels in and glorifies our worst human traits: self-absorption, greed, mendacity, vindictiveness, ignorance, and so much else. He embodies all that we should aspire, and teach our children, not to be.

Worse yet, he gives permission for others to be their worst selves. And that is the ultimate danger he poses.

He’s a threat to truth, honor, reason, and decency. And that’s mostly without regard to policy—remember, Trump’s party is the party without a policy platform—although it does have implications for policy. But those are secondary.

First and foremost, Trump and Trumpism pose a moral test, not a political test.

I hope and pray and believe that our nation will pass and survive it.

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

One chart on why congestion pricing is so important—45% of all American transit commuters live in the New York metro area, and 33% live in NYC proper.

Like it or not, the MTA's transit policy is America's transit policy

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

It should be a massive story that the GOP nominee keeps repeatedly referring to an apparent secret deal he’s made with Putin.