#Democracies

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

"Hitler’s Africa in the East: Italian Colonialism as a Model for German Planning in Eastern Europe"the Third Reich looked to the undertakings of Fascist Italy in Africa for inspiration. When

Roel Dobbe

roeldobbe

"Google is most likely renting [Deepmind] its TPUs [computational infrastructure] at a discount"Energy devouring AI-infrastructure hidden in another Alphabet business unit. And while they argue it's all green energy, there

Wajahat S. Khan

WajSKhan

Full disclosure for this thread: I don't vote. I follow the old ethical tenet that journalists & judges shouldn't vote.Exactly two years ago, I was excited to see @ImranKhanPTI win

Kevin Webb

kvnweb

This is fascinating thread on the mechanics of the breakdown in political discourse, but for better/worse, that seems to be only symptomatic of a much more fundamental societal failure, triggered

Abraham Newman

ANewman_forward

Thread: EU set to redefine global digital regulation. Big implications for Big Tech and big opportunity for US policy.https://www.ft.com/content/4e08efbb-dd96-4bea-8260-01502aaf1bd7 2/For years, the EU has walked a tightrope on digital regu

Richard JR

Richard__JR_

This is a long thread meant to be read as one contiguous stream of consciousness. It addresses my dire concern for our democracy in #Alberta.I fear @jkenney is a false

Drew Pavlou 柏乐志

DrewPavlou

Nuance - Even as an ardent opponent of Leninism, I think this day should be less one of celebration than of reflection, in that the USSR's dissolution ultimately provides us

Jeff Sharlet

JeffSharlet

Those dismayed at what is evidently considerable support for Trump must remember that fascism isn't a fad. It takes time to grow. It's been growing a long time. It will

planefag

planefag

I tried making this point myself by referencing the attitudes and words of General Sherman, Horace Greely, and other abolitionists - and had reconstruction thrown back in my face as

John Hayward

Doc_0

An important lesson of the post-Cold War era, learned far too late: allowing totalitarian regimes to interface with the political, economic, and media systems of free nations is like installing

Resist the Hologram - Stu Cvrk

STUinSD

Thread – Dealing with Corporate Virtue-signalers1. The country continues to descend into the lunacy of the Marxist cancel culture – the Marxists’ latest gambit to destroy traditional American cultural and

Dr. Malinda S. Smith

MalindaSmith

6Jan US insurrection:Democracies need the social sciences & humanities more than ever.We need political science, sociology, anthropology, history, phil, ethics.We need better media, smarter journalists, social media literacy.We need ant

Teresa M. Bejan

tmbejan

1) Last week, I made the case for ‘free speech’ as parrhesia — the Ancient Greek word for ‘saying it all’.https://twitter.com/tmbejan/status/1283732314657300480 2) I argued that critics of ‘cancel culture’ are

✞Servant✞ن

MssLiberty

The Lord warns consistently about what we read in English Bible translations, of the Jewish Pharisee & lawyer hypocrites, (hupokrités); from hupokrinomai; an actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e.

Elsa B. Kania

EBKania

Frankly, I find this commentary frustrating and consider it counterproductive for several reasons, even though (and perhaps especially because) I don’t disagree entirely with many of the basic points raised

William Yang

WilliamYang120

Latest: Chinese citizen journalist #ZhangZhan has been sentenced to four years in prison for reporting from Wuhan during the #COVID19 lockdown. I chronicled her journey to Wuhan and talked to

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