#INFLUENCE

fantasy and sci-fi have always been genres that embrace new and strange paradigms which is why I'm so glad that in 2020 there are D&D people hung up on if
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Even on its own terms, the “all uprisings against authoritarian ‘anti-imperialist’ states are CIA plots” narrative is so unbelievably disempowering. It’s amazing its exponents are allowed to get away with
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I'd rather live in a society containing vestigial racism than in an aggressively antiracist one. Hint: Only one of these choices provides a path toward less racism. It's the one
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Did you know I’m the world’s leading expert on “O9A”? I know more about it than anyone except its creators. Do you know why I don’t claim to be an
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The Bank for International Settlements is the most powerful bank in the world. It's older & more powerful than the IMF & the World Bank. It funded both sides of
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9 things I've learned in the first 2 months of starting my business.These might be common sense to you, but they were totally new to me. 1) Commitment and consistency
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When people talk about "the madness of crowds", as many have done recently, I suspect most are unaware of the politics they're invoking. Mostly without knowing it, they're drawing on
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CW: ableism, SiaYesterday, in an interview on an Australian TV show, Sia said this about her decision to cast Maddie Ziegler as a nonspeaking autistic person in her new film:“It
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Kamala Harris has a track record of foreign policy views worth understanding. With the caveat that personnel is policy, what we already know tell us a lot. Fits well w/
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After having a chance to take a step back from the report today and reflect on the past year, I need to say this: EOIR Director James McHenry is a
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Every institution is a type of government. The quality of said government cannot avoid affecting society outside of the formal boundaries of the institution. The existence of every institution must
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#mufc 1-0 Burnley — match analysis @cainsmithMUA THREAD: The hard-fought win against Burnley yesterday took United to the top of the table. This thread will analyse three key aspects of
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There’s a genre of guy (and it’s always a guy, white, middle class, probably has two surnames, parents help pay his rent, aged 20-40, cis-hetero and painfully, desperately single, likely
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the talk @SekaiFarai gave at #UXRConfAnywhere (I’ll be thinking about it for a long time) and I keep coming back to this:We UXers spend
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Actually, I'll finish this off now so that I don't forget. How do you beat The Food Optimizer? The only way I can see significant fractions of the Western World
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1) Science denial is destroying our societies, our civilization. Various vested interests, usually right wing ideologues find various scientific facts and information contrary to their agenda, so through propaganda they
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