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Murtaza Akbari

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👋 It's my birthday today. I'm not a birthday person, but this year I'm doing a fundraiser for @internetfreedom 🎉. I'll be matching donations made to IFF today so you can double your impact: internetfreedom.in/double-your-im… (Please RT)

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Double your Impact: Help Nemo fundraise for IFF! - Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF)

Internet Freedom Foundation defends online freedom, privacy and innovation in India


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📢 We are running our first fully remote #clojurebridge on Mar 12-13, 2021. Clojurebridge is a fun, friendly, free, and beginner-friendly Clojure workshop for women and non-binary folks. Sign up for the event here: meetup.com/meetup-group-J… RT appreciated! :)


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Happy 2020! 🥳 Our resolve this year is to help improve diversity in the tech community. As a first step, we are sponsoring 10 tickets to @in_clojure, Pune in Feb. Women & non-binary folks, reach out to us if you want to attend India’s annual #clojure conf. #diversitymatters


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We are announcing the second edition of ClojureBridge Bangalore. Come folks for a day of Clojure and fun! RSVP here – meetup.com/meetup-group-J…


The ceremonial ballad of the election season. youtube.com/watch?v=LQUXuQ…


TIL the figurative genome microscope is not powerful enough to observe the difference in variants between lineal descendants. gist.github.com/andy-thomason/…


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Mind-blowing: Richard Feynman explains how trees come mainly from the air, not the ground, and how the light and heat of a log fire is actually light and heat from the sun. brainpickings.org/2012/09/27/ric… "It's stored sun that's coming out when you burn a log."


Creating an FB throwaway account with the persona of a termite for the same reason I was given by @rentomojo (a furniture rental service) to justify their requirement of access to my FB friend list, page likes etc -- "for security purposes". #WoodYouNot


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Gradually curating lists of people who tweet interesting things about some of humanity's great challenges and opportunities. How to make humanity an interplanetary species: How to respond to climate change:


Demanding new benchmarks for science fiction.

Falcon Heavy side cores have landed at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2.

SpaceX's tweet image. Falcon Heavy side cores have landed at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2.


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Dis is da place I'm pickin up my udda bagage.

Cmdr_Hadfield's tweet image. Dis is da place I'm pickin up my udda bagage.

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This is it! Through the gap between #Saturn and its rings. Instruments are on, but we're out of contact with Earth. Here we goooooo!


If you see a person on the Indian coastline look like they're dabbing, please know that they're just wiping sweat.


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Successful deployment of SES-10 to geostationary transfer orbit confirmed.

SpaceX's tweet image. Successful deployment of SES-10 to geostationary transfer orbit confirmed.

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Falcon 9 first stage has landed on Of Course I Still Love You — world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket.


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My book Forces of Nature is out tomorrow amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Forces… and Live Shows partly based on it in May briancoxlive.co.uk

ProfBrianCox's tweet image. My book Forces of Nature is out tomorrow amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Forces… and Live Shows partly based on it in May briancoxlive.co.uk

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A good question: What can AI do for healthcare today? An even better question: What can AI do for healthcare in 5 years?


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Falcon 9 first stage has landed at LZ-1


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