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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
That's why habitual bullshitters like Elon Musk HATE shorts. Musk leads a cult of credulous worshippers who buy whatever he's selling. Shorts make bets that Musk's cultists will get deprogrammed.
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Andrew Petrosoniak
petrosoniak
THREAD: Spent the past 2 days co-designing & testing the #CovidVaccine administration process @UnityHealthTO using #simulation informed #design. A huge multi-disciplinary effort coordinated by @Sim_StMikes. cc: @IrfanDhalla Here's s
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C Thi Nguyen
add_hawk
I've got a new paper forthcoming: "How Twitter Gamifies Communication". Games are appealing because they offer us clear, simple goals. Twitter is so thrilling because its goals have been artificially
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Dr. Indu Viswanathan
indumathi37
I'm the eleventeen millionth person to say this, but it's going to need repeating until it sticks: There is a pervasive, persistent myth that secularism is a neutral, neutralizing framework
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The Confessing Millennial
confessinmill
THREAD. For 40 yrs now, "evangelical" political/cultural engagement has been dominated by the Religious Right, which was influenced (somewhat paradoxically) by theonomy & fundamentalist dispensationalism. In contrast, I'm
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zooko
zooko
Great Op-Ed by Alex Stamos on what the USA Federal Government should do about cyberattacks like the one that has just been revealed in which Putin's spy agency (probably) has
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
Back in April, Xi Jinping gave a (just released) speech about his "dual circulation" plan for China's economy:* stimulating consumer spending and reducing China's dependence on trade, and * increasing
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J.
the_levantist
THREAD: The short-lived Damascus Spring (2000-1): After Hafez al-Assad died in 2000, there was a brief period of open and public forum in Syria, especially after Bashar had emphasized themes
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JB
Tars_Tarkas_
Turkey under "Secular" Atatürk:1. An old Turkish word used for pagan Turkic deities, replaced the customary Allah. Turkish call to prayer replaced the traditional Arabic prayer. The press referred to
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
The US election news has largely overshadowed a seismic moment in global finance: Ant, a fintech company that spun out of Alibaba/Alipay, was scheduled to have the world's largest IPO,
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
Many wonder how epidemiology could have become so politicized. But epidemiology - like climate science (the other "mysteriously politicized" subject) has intrinsic politics: to take epidemiology seriously, you have to
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American Sociological Review
ASR_Journal
In light of yesterday's events at the U.S. Capitol, sociology & other other social science research provides critical insight.Below, several recent ASR articles that people may find helpful in contextualizing
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Matt Mikalatos
mattmikalatos
HI.I'm an evangelical Christian and I have thoughts about this recent tweet in which it was suggested that the DNC didn't include the word "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Helen Pluckrose
HPluckrose
I share some of Malcolm’s concerns but I can’t really get too worried about definitions. This is coming up a lot lately & I know they relate to concepts &
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
The Democrats are at least two parties. The progressive wing of the party (which is by no means unified) and the finance wing of the party, which is also the
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hannah anderson
sometimesalight
A few thoughts to follow-up on yesterday's thread about Christian Nationalism:Part of what makes Christian Nationalism so hard to nail down is that it overlaps & mirrors other ideological approaches.
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