#Inequality

Julián Castro

JulianCastro

1. 50 yrs ago, a week after MLK's assassination, President Johnson signed into law the Fair Housing Act, which promised to address racial housing discrimination & proactively dismantle the pervasive

Sugar Grizzly

sugargrizzly

[THREAD] Soybean futures, Solidere shares and the #FourthTurning: Lebanon’s crisis from a historical and demographic perspective 1. In #Lebanon these days, it’s easy to get lost in the minutae of

HODLdax

HODLdax

In 2014, the ECB started an unprecedented monetary experiments with catastrophic side effects. Time to sum up what happened & the impact on various aspects of the economy, especially in

Michael Roberts

mikejrob

Here is a thread about big forward-looking climate change econ questions -- how do we stop climate change fast, fairly, and efficiently? #EnvEconThis thread is a beast. Hopefully useful. 1/

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

When you hear the phrase "free market," you probably think of "a market that is free from regulation" but that's the opposite of the phrase's original meaning! 1/ Adam Smith

Kayode Fayemi

kfayemi

Nigeria's Federal System and Potential for Collaboration and Partnerships. Nigeria's founding fathers bequeathed the country with a federalist system which has a number of positive features that can potentially support

Kristian Niemietz wants several competing Twítters

K_Niemietz

I've just bought Squealer's book, and I already regret it.It starts with an Ash Sarkar quote... Doesn't get any better. The first few pages already contain a full set of

Season for Change

JoinTheSeason_

We are moving on now from @_dspk's takeover to live-tweet our next workshop, which has just started:Could museums be the engine-rooms of the imagination?We're here live with @HappyMuseum @hannahfox @robintransition

Frisco Uplink

_danilo

Kurzweil predicts accelerating paradigm shifts (I’m specifically revisiting Singularity is Real)But I’m seeing stubbornness in that rate of technological acceleration. The stalling of VR/AR is a good example.2007-2010 shattered existing

Red Lori Bright Eyes, BAA, Black Belt Tang Soo Do

RedloraineV

My personal theory of unification: it is all the same a$shole!Let's explore.https://twitter.com/RedloraineV/status/1145741829578432512?s=20 https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/the-man-suspected-of-shooting-new-jersey-judges-family-was-an-a

Abeba Birhane

Abebab

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? By Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, & Shmargaret Shmitchell #amreading #StochasticParrots One of the biggest

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

This is the hardest piece I've had to write in a long while, it's about #COVID19 vaccines, how we are entrenching inequality in the vaccine roll-out, both domestically and globally;

Nemets

Peter_Nimitz

Thread with excerpts from “Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America” by David Hackett Fischer The four major waves of settlers before War of Independence: Puritans from E England to

GMF Digital

GMFDigital

Today, we are proud to release #Tech2021 - a collection of 15 turnkey policy proposals for the next administration to unlock an innovative and equitable digital democracy:https://www.gmfus.org/publications/tech2021-ideas-digital-democracy .

Chris Herd

chris_herd

Output focus: time will be replaced as the main KPI for judging performance by productivity and outputGreat workers will be the ones who deliver what they promise consistentlyAdvancement decisions will

Luke McInnes

lukemac16

The contents of the @ttmygh & @fleckcap 'End Game' podcast is a must listen. My notes on the key points for 6 of the worlds best investors provide not only

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