Josh Hampson 🚀

International relations, philosophy, whiskey, and outer space. Retweets = ennui. views are my own, unless they were yours first

[Josh Hampson 🚀 @HampsonJoshua]

Some days, you write a little sci fi for a new DC publishing house https://t.co/yN6MBYrXzQ

[Josh Hampson 🚀 @HampsonJoshua]

Thank you to all who gave the most, and thank you to the families that are still giving because of their and their loved ones’ sacrifice.

[Aubrey Strobel @aubreystrobel]

Microsoft will literally invent a new form of matter instead of fixing Teams

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Donna Tartt on reading fiction

[Our World in Data @OurWorldInData]

Cases of guinea worm disease have fallen dramatically in recent decades. According to the WHO, over 890,000 cases were recorded worldwide in 1989. As you can see on the chart — which we just updated with the latest data — only 14 human cases were reported in 2023.

Guinea worm disease is caused by the parasitic guinea worm, which mainly spreads through stagnant water sources like ponds. The worm’s larvae enter the human body when a person drinks contaminated water, after which they penetrate the digestive tract to mature and reproduce within the body.

Around a year after the initial infection, the adult female breaks through the skin's surface, creating a painful blister through which it gradually emerges over several weeks. When it comes into contact with water, it releases new larvae and continues its life cycle.

The disease was previously endemic in over 20 countries in South Asia and Africa. An international eradication campaign has substantially decreased the number of cases by improving access to clean drinking water and actively monitoring and containing cases in endemic regions.

(This Data Insight was written by Tuna Acisu.)

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

"AI isn't intelligent, it just regurgitates bullshit that it read somewhere" bro have you met human beings

[Josh Hampson 🚀 @HampsonJoshua]

@dieworkwear I wonder if the Spanish king ever wakes up and thinks “what if I just wore off the rack today, does it really matter?” And then goes “no, I’m needed. I’m an example.”

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@DGlaucomflecken @dieworkwear We are closing the collar gap

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Nature is fighting back

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Pandas just being pandas while a zookeeper desperately tries to rake leaves is the best video on the internet

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What are you doing to close the Panda gap?

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America needs to use its science and tech to close the Panda gap

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — China plans to send San Diego Zoo more pandas this year, reigniting its panda diplomacy.

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@JosephMajkut Yeah man! Would love to!

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@qrsupport Messaged but have not gotten a reply

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Hey @qrsupport can I get help with a lost bag?

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@qrsupport Messages

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@AmericanAir Thanks!

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Not encouraged that neither @AmericanAir or @qatarairways have any updates on my lost bag 24 hours after they lost it.

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@AmericanAir Messaged

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@Director_lucia Messaged