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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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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Jun 2016

    Presidents can launch nuclear weapons. Oh, we were six minutes from annihilation in 1979. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-nuclear-weapons-missiles-nukes-button-launch-foreign-policy-213955 …pic.twitter.com/ZxyjtmvEoS

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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Jun 2016
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        People worry about Trump but let me repeat. The world was SIX minutes from annihilation because of technical glitchpic.twitter.com/f4dUn9NUR0

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      3. Dr. Anna Jobin‏ @annajobin 15 Jun 2016
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        Must be the incident referred to here (though with a different angle): https://instagram.com/p/r7dyTbK-O9/ 

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      1. le Chep‏ @c_chep 15 Jun 2016
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        This article should be required reading, worldwide.

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      1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Jun 2016

        You think he'd have the sense not to destroy the world if it was going to be destroyed anyway? Who knows. Crazy set up.

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      1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Jun 2016

        Woken up in the middle of the night, with six minutes to decide whether to end the world. Seems nuts to me, Trump or not.

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      1. Porfidio Herradura‏ @Weberbleu 15 Jun 2016
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        @moorehn Yes... He almost f@&$d it up. But @morningmika got a talking head job. So it all worked out.

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      1. Don A. Kelly‏ @DonKelly68 15 Jun 2016
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        @brubaker I could have slept better never having this knowledge in my head.

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      1. Ian Gertler‏ @iangertler 16 Jun 2016
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        Wow ... incredibly scary.

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