#Inscrutable

Victor Godinez

VictorGodinez

My theory on SW: its vision of sci-fi is largely mechanical (switches, levers, giant lasers, walkers) because that’s what sci-fi was in the serials that influenced George Lucas growing up.

Oluwatimileyin

timmodryoid

Evil is inscrutable. It is irrational. To attempt to "know" evil is an exercise in futility. Those (that includes us) who do evil think we do good. We see "evil",

bean

christapeterso

Grading isn’t fun but easily the worst thing about the end of the term is hearing people talk about their baffling students who almost certainly have uncontrolled ADHD Not starting

Alan Levinovitz

AlanLevinovitz

I am...um...slowly coming around to critiques of (much) scholarly writing in the humanities. The problem isn't that people can't understand it—as I've pointed out, physics is hard for laypeople—it's that

Katie

ZiziFothSi

My cat just brought home a sword How did you get this through the cat flap raffy Also are you the king of England now All hail the rightful king

Christopher Szabla

c_szabla

Tuning in now to @HKULaw/@GeorgetownLaw's joint conference on "Data Sovereignty along the Digital Silk Road": the great @FrankPasquale demonstrates in his keynote how tech platforms are using the narrative of

Anosognosiogenesis

pookleblinky

There's a cool psychological test on loss-justification.Basically: you give people a multiple choice online form, asking them stuff.On one question, regardless of how they answer, the answer is always switched

Ioana A. Cristea

IoanaA_Cristea

Thread rant about #hiring #promotion, #tenure in the academia #AcademicTwitter. Until recently I worked in a LMIC (Romania) university where I welcomed ANY quantitative criteria, number of publications, impact factor,

The Secret Barrister

BarristerSecret

This serves as an important illustration of the danger of #FakeLaw, and how this government in particular is prepared to deploy it.A brief [THREAD]https://twitter.com/barristersecret/status/1304071480687419397 The Attorney General is a barr

The Bubbles Tickle My Tchaikovsky

TheTchaikovsky

This week I watched dark comedy LUCKY GRANDMA, starring Tsai Chin as an inscrutable curmudgeonly gambler who makes enemies with the mob. She’s fantastic in it, and I really recommend

Holden Shearer

HoldenShearer

Seeing some folks I follow circulating a point that's worth drawing a bit of attention to. One of the oldest canards in low-denominator comedy is that women are inscrutable and

Deontological Vijayalakshmi

wataboutery

#ArnabGoswamyI have been at a certain point where I was feeling puzzled at the turn of events in our world of narratives There is a famous TV news anchor, famous

rat king

MikeIsaac

ten hours in to Cyberpunk and it is clear the studio knowingly pushed out a half-baked game that wasnt ready for prime timea lot of people are upset, and for

Post-Culture Review

PostCultRev

This is straight-up, 100% ahistorical bullshit. Not the part about comic books being modern folklore, because whatever, but the part about Nordic myths and European folklore being for kids. It

cavegirl

DyingStylishly

The thing about 'you can hack the game to remove that problem' arguments is, well, *can* you do that?Not every game is equally easy to modify, for various reasons. Perhaps

Eniko

Enichan

I feel like performance of code needn't be opposed to ease of writing code, but it virtually always is. Why is that? It feels like that doesn't have to be

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