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Anyway, in completely unrelated news:

Netflix launches an eight-film partnership with Saudi’s Telfaz11 Studios

The world’s leading streaming service and Saudi Arabia’s Telfaz11 Studios have decided to join forces to create eight new films; the first project is slated for a late 2021 release.

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Excited to share that I've joined the team at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to work on AI ethics! Honored and humbled to support Dr. Lynne Parker, the National AI Initiative Office, and colleagues across OSTP

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Here's @nicsperling 's great article. The quote actually predates the BLM tweet by a bit, but it's referencing the same, ongoing, 2+ year effort to cozy up with the Saudis 👇

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Robinhood went from "CS + Social Good" to "CS + Social Bad" so fast... Almost like "social good" was a loose and arbitrary term to begin with 🙃

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Four Wednesdays in January

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Today was my last day as chief of staff of the tech division at @WHOSTP . These past 2.5 years have been so rewarding and fun — and I’m very grateful to have worked with such amazing colleagues. I’ll miss it a lot!

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Today, the U.S. government is establishing new rules for its own use of AI, and they’re a HUGE deal Buckle up folks — we’re going to unpack how they work and why they’re so good 🧵

How the U.S. Government is leading by example on artificial intelligence – Open Policy & Advocacy

Explaining how the U.S. government’s new AI rules work and the broad impact they will have on the AI ecosystem.

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In the @StanfordDaily today, @cbhasselmann and I write about why Stanford's leading voices on AI should defend @timnitGebru :

In solidarity with Dr. Timnit Gebru

Standing in solidarity with Dr. Gebru sends a clear, resounding signal of our values. Publicizing this position is how we tell students — particularly students underrepresented in tech — that we have...

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Excited to be joining @Mozilla as their Technical Lead for AI Governance! Come read about how we're making AI safer and better, and share your thoughts about what we should do next:

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@mozilla

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Yesterday we released “Accelerating Progress Toward Trustworthy AI,” a report highlighting the progress we’ve made towards advancing openness and accountability in #AI , and the work that still needs to be done. Read the full report & key takeaways here⤵️

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I cherry picked data in the same way as The Stanford Review, but I got a different result??? Confused

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I will now be referring to every NSF-funded paper as a "government-commissioned report"

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🚨Exclusive: a report commissioned by the U.S. government says advanced AI could pose an "extinction-level threat to the human species" and calls for urgent, sweeping new regulations

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Stanford is using plastic containers to serve every meal, which means undergrads will cumulatively throw away ~1,000,000 plastic objects over the next 10 weeks

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Goodreads has done a fabulous job of hiding that they're owned by Amazon

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the smile // the reason for the smile

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Looks like there was a MASSIVE data breach at Stanford Stanford has not confirmed that it was affected. But if that's the case, everything from SSNs to medical information might've been compromised for Stanford students, professors, staff, and even prospective students

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how it started how it went viral

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We talk too much about "human centered" tech and not enough about which humans are being centered

Caroline Chen

@CarolineYLChen

4 years

NEW: Stanford used an algorithm to decide who got the #COVID #vaccine first, and the result was only 7 of the first 5,000 slots went to residents... the same week they were asked to volunteer for ICU coverage in anticipation of a surge in COVID-19 cases.

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My optimistic read on the situation is that a lot more folks at @Stanford support @timnitGebru than are admitting publicly But I don’t believe that’s very helpful. We need to see *public* support & action from more folks at @Stanford ... and also more coverage from @StanfordDaily

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@phngnnh @timnitGebru Dr. Gebru, your alma mater got your back @Stanford @StanfordDaily

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No idea if the allegations in this piece are true, but dang this was quite the read

Persis Drell Should Resign as Stanford’s Provost

During my time at Stanford, I personally experienced retaliation and corruption by Stanford’s Provost, Persis Drell. Here is a brief…

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The words "space debris" appear just as many times as "bias" in the new senate AI report

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7. Lastly, love the shout out to space debris

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Thank you @TrumanApp for selecting me as a 2020 Truman Scholar! I can't express enough gratitude to everyone who's supported me throughout this process, and I'm excited to represent Minnesota in this amazing community of public servants!!

Truman Scholarship

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Society: Public service is so important!!! Also society: We'll pay you more to build a toy app for a summer than to be a congressional staffer for a year

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Your Assignment 1 Has Been Graded

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Very grateful and excited for this opportunity! Thank you to the @haascenter , and the peers and mentors who have supported me along the way

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@haascenter

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Nik Marda, ’21, MS ’21; Jackie O'Neil, ’21; and Chloe Stoddard, ’21, have been selected as John Gardner Public Service Fellows! They will work full-time in a government agency or nonprofit of their choice, mentored by senior leaders. #CardinalCareers

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These aren't speakers I expected to see in a series about human rights

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Sounds like someone didn’t read the Haas Center’s Principles of Ethical and Effective Service

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Josh Hawley isn't fit for public service.

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Haven't taken the prerequisite classes — do you think they'll let me self study?

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I thought the USPS loved voting by male??? Confused

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Today I learned that a parade is a lower covid risk than serving hot coffee to-go in the dining halls

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A really fantastic job opportunity at OMB just opened up today — this person would be central to the White House's oversight of federal agencies' use of AI:

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I am excited to announce that I have been othered again

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Wish me luck 🙏

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Engineering schools should forgive loans for public interest technologists, just like law & medical schools. There are entire departments (e.g. HUD) that don't have a single technologist under 30, and this would help change that. Read the proposal:

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Thank you, Senator Klobuchar! It was an honor to intern for you - I'm so grateful for all I learned from you and your amazing team.

Amy Klobuchar

@amyklobuchar

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Congrats to two of my former interns, Nik Marda and Kristen Busch, for becoming Truman Scholars! This honor is a testament to both of your commitments to public service -- and I look forward to continuing to see the two of you do great things!

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Contrary to what this Stanford CS intern panel would have you believe, you can use your CS skills at places that aren't tech companies If you're interested in working in the public sector, I'm happy to help you find opportunities — my DMs are open!

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The Stanford Tech History Project released its final report on Monday about how tech at Stanford has changed over the past decade I had the honor of co-directing this large & incredible team over the past 9 months with @juliaingram_ Here's a thread with some of my thoughts

Stanford Tech History Project

@TechHistProject

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Our final report has been released! Read about how Stanford's tech ecosystem has changed over the past decade 👇

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Today I learned that if Puerto Rico was a state, it would have as many representatives in the house as Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and both Dakotas combined

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This @StanfordDaily op-ed has the audacity to suggest we shouldn't focus on RACE when we try to confront RACISM Instead, the author, who is a white man, argues without qualification that we should unite around founding principles written by white men for white men

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Interns discovering the 11:59pm of the real world

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shout out to my -1 followers #TwitterDown

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Do you think MTL signed the campus compact

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Colleges that invest in fossil fuels vs. colleges that invest in gamestop

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At JMHS, not being Black was your hall pass. At JMHS, students dressed up in Klan robes and blackface for Halloween. At JMHS, the reforms in this petition are needed. Members of the @RPS535 community, please sign:

Petition for Anti-Racist Education Reform in Rochester Public Schools

* Please sign and share this petition to any Rochester community members, RPS students, staff, parents and alumni. Sign here. This petition will be sent to all RPS school board members, the superin...

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Nik Marda

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A startup exposed sensitive data on Stanford's queer population. Their recklessness is appalling but also emblematic of Silicon Valley's problem with social impact tech. You can't "fail fast, fail often" when you work with marginalized communities.

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big win for open data

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A lot of you have been telling us you miss our famous chocolate chip cookie. So for the first time ever, we’re revealing the recipe so you can make it yourself at home.

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Can we all unmute ourselves when we laugh? Not tryna be all sappy about it but I miss hearing people laugh

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Well... that headline didn't end the way I expected

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Wait... how do you get that acronym from those words

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There's a lot more noteworthy stuff in this letter... but I'm struck by this distinction between how AFOG and HAI talk about the "political" nature of their work:

Ali Alkhatib

@_alialkhatib

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this is noteworthy for a few reasons. google has been a close supporter of AFOG for years (as they say in their letter), providing intellectual and material resources. AFOG's partnership elevated my perception of google's commitment to credible, transparent, critical scholarship.

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Startup idea: a clothing store for college students called “It’s a Good Fit at This Time” where you can show a rejection letter from this week and get 20% off

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The Stanford Daily

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BREAKING: Ernie’s Liquor on El Camino Real in Palo Alto has had its liquor license suspended.

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domain names were the original NFTs

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Person: Please respond to this email ASAP Me: *Responds to email immediately* Person: Thank you for your message. I'm currently away from my email 8/6/20 to 8/11/20 and will respond to you when I return on 8/12/2020.

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Leland Stanford failed to consider that there would be an AI ethics scandal at his university on a monthly basis

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oh no there's someone named Nick Mirda at Stanford who also does civic tech stuff

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I had the honor of supporting @Transition46 for the last two months, and I'm so excited to see the awesome things that our public servants will accomplish over the next four years 🇺🇸

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When my dad immigrated to Mankato in 1992, he found affordable college education and a president who didn't hold deadly rallies If that's what "restoring America's greatness" means, sign me up. But I know you're just trying to keep folks like my dad away from the American Dream

Jim Hagedorn

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Excited to welcome President @realDonaldTrump back to Minneaota! During Monday’s Mankato rally we will hear the President’s message of restoring & maintaining America’s greatness by Keeping America Safe, creating economic opportunity and defending our Constitutional rights! #MN01

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Great to see Mehran Sahami on this letter in support of @timnitGebru

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Reading this new report out from the White House today about increasing AI talent across the federal government — over 150 hires have already been made in the past 6 months, and over 500 more are planned in the next 18 months:

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how it started how it’s going

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Reading this new report from the FTC and it looks like a fantastic resource for other regulators trying to increase their AI/tech capacity:

FTC Staff Report on Agency's Technology Expertise

www.ftc.gov

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As MLK Jr said, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but hackathons make it bend toward justice faster"

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what could this possibly mean

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Applications are now open for the next class of Mozilla Senior Fellows! It's a really cool opportunity — you can get funded for 1-2 years to pursue your own project to make AI safer:

Call for Proposals

Funding and resources for a more human-centered internet.

foundation.mozilla.org

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I just heard that hedge fund Bridgewater shortened their summer internship from 10 weeks to 2 weeks, made it mainly an educational experience, and is still paying interns over $30,000. Culture might eat strategy for breakfast, but recruiting pipelines eat culture for dessert.

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@_alialkhatib Are you thinking of this?

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Brian Schatz retweeting Ben Shapiro wasn't on my 2020 bingo card But yes, both BS's are correct

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Me reading the university's plan for in-person fall

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Biden only has to flip Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Brazil to win the global electoral college! The blue regions in this map have ~38% of the world's people. A good reminder for when county-level voting results look very red — land doesn't vote, people do

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Okay, finally got around to making my electoral map prediction. #2020Election #VOTE

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Are you my social security number neighbor? Comment your social security number and let’s find out!

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*confusion intensifies*

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Each colored region has the same number of people. The US has the most unrepresentative upper house among peer democracies & the most ways for a small number of people to veto policies This isn't just dumb — it correlates w/ higher levels of inequality:

Steve Chiotakis 🫐

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I added some numbers:

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Coincidence? I think not

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Extreme sports

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Maybe they prefer white-in candidates

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Hey Siri, define leadership

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In the last 10 weeks, we: - almost went to war with Iran - held an impeachment trial - basically chose the Dem nominee - faced a global pandemic So yeah, that was a wild internship with Senator @amyklobuchar

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I said "good morning" to Mitt Romney once and he replied with "good afternoon" It was 1pm

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quote tweet this with a mundane experience you’ve shared with someone who is more famous than you (but you obviously have enough chill to leave it out of your twitter bio)

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Thank you @nrmarda for swooping in to ratio this tweet!

Stanford College Republicans

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Thank you @Jim_Jordan for swooping in to request that roll call vote!

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Someone should build a website with a list of all the websites for students who lost their summer internships

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Interns are the backbone of democracy

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Math for social bad

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Turns out if you bring together a bunch of awesome experts on open source and AI, they'll end up saying a bunch of awesome stuff about open source and AI:

Technical Readout - Columbia Convening on Openness and AI

Analyzing and documenting internet health and trustworthy AI to help shape a human-centered internet.

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Hey @Stanford how do I intern for the Faculty Senate? I have experience interning for the second most dysfunctional Senate in the U.S.

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Last CS pset ever: ✅

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Every task management system eventually gets replaced by one really long Google Doc

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I don't know if linkedin profiles should be in first or third person and at this point Nik is too afraid to ask

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CS for social good

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Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar appreciation post

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U.S. Senate Faculty Senate 🤝 Doing what conservatives want despite having power to not do that

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The Senators who voted to convict collectively represent 68% of the U.S. population

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I was a part of the last fellowship cohort and I can’t recommend the program strongly enough - it’s an awesome opportunity to have a real impact and make amazing friends! I’m happy to talk to anyone who’s interested!!

Coding it Forward

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Today's the day: applications for the 2020 Civic Digital Fellowship are live! 🎉 We're looking for mission-driven software engineers, data scientists, designers, and product managers to modernize tech at federal gov agencies. Apply now—apps are rolling:

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Grateful to have spent the last 4 months supporting the awesome @jj_anastasoff & Tech Talent Project. I learned a lot about tech, policy & project management from amazing leaders in civic tech My internship might be over but the effort to make government work better continues 🚀

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Do you still have your high school ID number memorized or are you normal

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Outlandish Stanford facial recognition study claims links between facial features and politics by @Kyle_L_Wiggers

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PSA for my stanford friends: The CS coterm doesn't need the GRE anymore. Not sure why the department hasn't publicized this yet, but don't let the testing companies scam you out of more money!!

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In today's episode of "Nik gets really annoyed at tech bros talking about epidemiology"

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