#Amplification

New from me: chat logs and emails show the IRA-linked trolls behind the fake "PeaceData" news site tried (and failed) to place articles in Jacobin and buy their way into
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By re-sharing data your fellow "bot purge survivors" have selectively shared without any attempt to add analysis or context, you are indeed demonstrating how echo chambers are created. The purpose
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This week I was given a lesson in Hyrum's Law:With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable
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Parts of the Arctic averaged up to +14 °C above normal for the entire month of November. Preliminary data suggesting we witnessed the hottest November globally on record. 2020 is
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Tomorrow I'm releasing episode #001 of SamLearns Writing!This is a brand spanking new YouTube channel for writers looking to improve their storytelling.But honestly y'all I barely made it here. Here's
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Megumi’s Potential strength and how he will become stronger than Gojo. A Thread: #JUJUTSUKAISEN #JujutsuKaisenSpoilers Since beginning of the story we seen Characters like Sukuna and Todo being shocked at
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The current Covid reality @DonnellyStephen @SusanMitchell_ @knutmoe @DrValerieMorris @MihaiVioreanu @FergalMcGoldri2 @asam100 @DrJohnCurran @stevemur67 @RiochtConor2 @higginsdavidw @DrBrianHiggins @ProfSuperJunior 1/ I am struggling to unde
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This diagram nails the problem with many ‘garden towns’. Poor location compounded by bad design. A thread by way of amplification. (1/)https://twitter.com/davewalker/status/1272830883205132289 To get good places, we have to
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In discussing control measures, many people think in terms of intratemporal tradeoffs (health vs wealth), while most economists think also about the intertemporal tradeoffs (health AND wealth today vs health
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I still can't believe we as citizens cannot get our votes audited. We really do need to #AuditTheVote no matter whether we win or not. this is different from the
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In 2003's Pattern Recognition, @greatdismal discusses the role of "apophenia" - finding patterns where none exist - in paranoid thinking. We are a pattern-matching animal, prone to seeing faces in
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I want to tell you a story, and it begins with this VERY WEIRD animal: Meet Thetys vagina...[a thread ] m_patton http://bit.ly/2Mgw8Sf #DailyJelly (not related to the story: the person who
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What is a PCR cycle? We sciencey types throw in words that we use for a specific purpose, but which also have other everyday meanings among most of the people
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a lot of people still seem to not understand what this means, so let's lay that out for a minute.PCR tests look for RNA. there is too little in your
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Had a chance to read the PNAS paper I believe we absolutely need more Black physicians, and more physicians from multiple under-represented groups! Unfortunately, the paper is too weak to
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In 1995, Eco published "Ur Fascism," an essay in which he described what he saw as the fundamentals of fascist ideologies.https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/ Fascism, Eco said, was a "fuzzy totalitarianism
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