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[United Airlines @united]

Farewell (again), to the #QueenOfTheSkies. After 50 years, @BoeingAirplanes is delivering the final 747 ever made.

Drop your favorite pics of her majesty below. #ThankYou747

[BNO News @BNOFeed]

3 years ago today: Crews in full PPE arrive at a seafood market in Wuhan amid reports of a virus outbreak

[Spencer Greenberg 🔍 @SpencrGreenberg]

There is a tremendous amount of confusion around what a p-value actually is.

Here’s my attempt to explain the concept of p-values concisely and clearly (including why they are useful and what often goes wrong with them).

[p-value mega thread] 🧵

[Pop Base @PopBase]

British police believe they have rediscovered the only known engraving of Jack The Ripper’s face, according to TMZ.

The infamous serial killer’s face was allegedly carved into a Scotland Yard detective’s cane.

[Mikael Thalen @MikaelThalen]

MySpace Tom, the only person who can bring society back into balance, has just entered the chat.

[NASA @NASA]

Splashdown.

After traveling 1.4 million miles through space, orbiting the Moon, and collecting data that will prepare us to send astronauts on future #Artemis missions, the @NASA_Orion spacecraft is home.

[City of Cape Coral @CapeCoral]

Emergency services Citywide are now suspended, and will resume normal operations after winds are below 45 mph. A prioritization list will be made for those who call 9-1-1 during this time and assistance will be provided as soon as it is safe. At this time, shelter in place.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Should King Charles's hissy fit over pens really be a surprise given his history?

[MS NOW @MSNOWNews]

Eight former secretaries of defense and five former chairs of the Joint Chiefs of Staff just put the country on red alert. https://t.co/fh4tra91nU

[Wallace Wang @wallacewang_com]

Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8. The last time so many people around the world mourned the loss of a beloved queen was the day Freddie Mercury passed away.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.

The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.

[Kumar🇺🇸 @datarade]

This could genuinely be a scene from the Office.

[NASA @NASA]

It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field.

Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: https://t.co/63zxpNDi4I

[El Duque @Galaxy2Galaxy5]

Wisdom of crowd. 🧠

Imagine Chicago as Poland, NATO member hosting US forces. Then Toronto as Belarus now armed with strategic nuclear weapons by Russia. Then New York is Russia a Nuclear Superpower amassing a force unseen in Europe since the Cold War.

Biden does what then ?

[Factal News @factal]

At least four people killed, hundreds injured in stadium collapse at bullfight in El Espinal, Colombia; president-elect warns against further shows

[Grant Hadlich @GrantHadlich]

Each week I pull ~51000 tweets on US State mentions and do sentiment analysis. Most positive state was #Vermont according to an ensemble model! In the replies are the individual models.
GitHub: https://t.co/FDNU1YNoQs
#NLP #Python #ML

[Grant Hadlich @GrantHadlich]

Here are the latest images from our #Sun on 2022-06-20! This video highlights the 171, 211, and 304 Angstrom wavelengths.
Credits: #NASA #ESA #SOHO #SDO #SWPC

[Pixar @Pixar]

Words by Bree Jenkins, Senior Leadership Development Associate at Pixar, for #Juneteenth.

[Peter Sohn @PEETSOWN]

Woah, I was cleaning my office the other day and found these old sketches I did for the incredibles. There was a moment where the supers get sued and they needed court room sketches. These were done 18 years ago!

[Brian McNoldy @BMcNoldy]

The past 5 years have been brutal in the US when it comes to hurricane landfalls. People focus on the wind speed (category), but that's only responsible for 15% of deaths. Rain was responsible for 65% of the deaths. THERE'S MORE TO THE STORY THAN THE CATEGORY! #AMS35HURR