#Understanding

./ I see Ones coming Clean & Just being Themselves. Both sides were given the tools to make this all work in the end. Not everyone is perfect or made
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The usage of the word empathy in design has careened into over-intellectualization, methinks.Sometimes someone does something because they didn’t have time or focus, it’s not that deep. We spent a
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Some thoughts on the way history is taught, the way history is understood, and a 15th century axe head that nearly moved me to tears Teaching history from the top
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Today on Twitter I saw something I disagreed with. I know, shocker. When this happens I ask myself a series of questions. First, do I have a direct personal relationship
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I have one specific thing to add to this: the attacks against the legitimacy of FND as a diagnosis hit me particularly hard in their (perhaps unintended) dismissal of mental
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With a recent fundraiser, I see a lot of people talking about not understanding how "cosmetic surgery" could help someone dealing with dysphoria feel better about themselves.So let me talk
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mental health/neurodivergent symptoms as strengths, a thread."Doesn't pick up on social cues" ->Immune to attempts to distract with indirect digs or insulting tone. Unflappable; focused. "poor working memory" ->
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Turning implicit understanding into explicit code is a great productivity & quality step.Let's talk about some whys and hows for that idea. As we forge into the topic, please do
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From what I can see, there is no solid evidence outlining exactly what role conspiracy theories are playing in test refusal, and to what degree. This is a clumsy stab
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talking with a high school friend and I had the terrifying realization that not only is past me entirely foreign to me, I truly don't remember anything of what they
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*sips coffee*It strikes me that we need more capacious and nuanced understandings of what "liberalism" is instead of making broad sweeping statements about it. I know, I'm a repeat offender
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I learned the hard way that even the best sources can be wrongIn the war against the DS the most potent weapons are:MisinformationDisinformationDiversionand MisdirectionOften leaks that come from good sources
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Understanding the World Through #Mathematics Maths helps us understand the world — and we use the world to understand #maths. 1/N Algebra can explain how quickly water becomes contaminated &
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Yesterday I wrote a long thread about how I keep seeing able bodied cultural leaders asking for specifically *visibly* disabled artists/workers/representation. I wrote about how “invisible disability” is a misleading
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TOOL NEEDEDIt’s primarily a graphics tool for building clickable entity-relationship networks (in the broadest sense) that are viewed in web browsers. Ideally it’s open source with a publicly editable form,
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Like everyone, I see videos of police officers with bad judgement and decisions and actions. There is usually more to every story than the clips show but there is just
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