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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Nov 2021

      The pandemic was a stress test we flunked. Our future depends on learning its lessons. Powerful groups may—again—try to impede needed reforms. I hope they realize that even a first-class ticket on the Titanic is still a ticket on the Titanic. New piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/opinion/covid-winter-risk.html …pic.twitter.com/ObERS3ULUi

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Nov 2021

      The problems we face go far beyond funding cuts and and an anti-science attitude—though those things are *very* real. I had thousands and thousands of words on examples of things we just.. couldn't figure out and execute, even when we tried, even when we should have been able to.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Nov 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted james henny

      Yes, could not fit into this. Yes, I'm working on something longer, like a book. (Eeek!) We still have the winter to get through. I don't think the depth of the failure is widely appreciated yet—and the root causes stretch over many decades, not just now.https://twitter.com/Jamesthesnake/status/1461433367640088583 …

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      james henny @Jamesthesnake
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      You should publish those! those would be useful!
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Nov 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted costrike

      I picked that analogy knowing very well that privilege insulates, exactly like that, but many first class passengers on the Titanic did die. And they were still on a ship sinking in icy waters.https://twitter.com/costrike/status/1461438482274918403 …

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      They know that first class passengers get the first shot at lifeboats. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1461429959591968768 …
      1:01 PM - 18 Nov 2021
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        1. Arnob 'spooky action at a distance' Alam  🌐‏ @arnoblalam 18 Nov 2021
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          In fact, I believe first class men died at higher rates than other groups?

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        1. Jim Frank‏ @jimfrank 18 Nov 2021
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          They never believe it will be them. Keep in mind, the likelihood is greater that a first class passenger thinks it will never happen to them. Just look around at the people who are wrecking government, they really think the mobs won't take them to the guillotine. No, not them.

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        1. costrike‏ @costrike 18 Nov 2021
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          They know their odds are better than ours and they're used to buying their way out of stuff.

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        1. brienc ( ⚡️):}‏ @brienyc 18 Nov 2021
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          It’s more like they know they have helicopters to take them wherever they want to go when the ship hits the iceberg

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        1. Luca Albani‏ @lukealb 18 Nov 2021
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          39% – the percentage of First Class passengers who perished. 58% – the percentage of Second Class passengers who perished. 76% – the percentage of Third Class passengers who perished.https://titanicfacts.net/titanic-victims/ …

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        1. Mulling Mueller‏ @MullingMueller 18 Nov 2021
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          Unless you have a billion dollars, you're not gonna isolate yourself from covid forever. eventually going to need healthcare, maids, gardeners, conferences, parties, childcare...the list goes on.

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        1. Mulling Mueller‏ @MullingMueller 18 Nov 2021
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          not to mention some poor immune compromised folk in Africa could lead to virus mutations that would kill millions who are even vaccinated.

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        1. Frederic Guarino  💉  💉 🌎 ♻️‏ @fredericg 18 Nov 2021
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          Humans are supremely incapable of proper risk management, #COVID19 showed us what we feared. Yet I remain optimistic @zeynep b/c we are also supremely capable at collaboration !

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        1. Karuna Satov‏ @karsatov 18 Nov 2021
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          Some of the privileged were unaware how big and significant the structural issues were. We didn’t all know there were “not enough lifeboats”. Having opened our eyes, we must keep them open.

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