#Commonsense

In festiveangst news: SuperGLUE is officially "solved". Twice.Not sure if 0.7% improvement over T5 means NLP got radically better. But it IS a mental goalpost: we're now back to defining
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Thread: The Feminization of Men1/ Traditionally, men were capable and strong. They were leaders and authorities; patriarchal and protective.Men shaped and guarded culture and were the driving force in public
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THREAD: The oil industry is suing over President Biden's commonsense order to pause new oil and gas leasing on public lands, citing a shoddy study out of U of WY
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The Trump Administration has been awful for #LGBT Americans. A thread!https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1296305484279021570 From jump, one of the first actions of the Trump Administration was to roll back critical protections for t
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Donald Trump's second impeachment trial in the Senate is more meaningful than you think by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/donald-trumps-second-impeachment?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitte
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a 2021 book review thread, aka: goodreads in twitter format, aka: watch me try to read 150 books this year lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll i read this one because i found it
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1./ A thread. The Scottish Parliament was at its best and worst on Tuesday debating the Hate Crime Bill. The fine summation by @DAJCameron reminds us it has already lost
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7 CommonSense Rules For Finance & InvestmentSome years back, one of my mentors called me. He wanted to assist a family member but he didn't want that person to know
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Another day, another @DanielAndrewsMP attack article. With the attacks on Hotel Quarantine only growing Dan's popularity, it seems #MSM is trying a new approach. A thread #auspol #springst #ThisIsNotJournalism https://www.theage.com.au/
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Had some time on my hands for a thread.I imagine why so many find such dust ups & self-righteous takes (like @conor64 offers) frustrating is we have long dealt w
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Why Marjorie Taylor Greene could look a Parkland massacre survivor in the eye and call him 'a coward' by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/why-marjorie-taylor-greene-could?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&
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Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 2301/ @NateSilver538 & team @538politics tell us that Biden has a 90% chance of winning. If he does, many things will change, but when it comes
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To distill @mattyglesias' take: gun politics are bad for Democrats, gun policies aren’t effective enough to be worth the sacrifice, so progressives should just cede the issue in favor of
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Situation Update, Dec. 3rd – Trump invokes foreign interference provision of his 2018 executive order, authorizing military response to cyber warfare, see NSPM 13 [M.Adams] Ask yourself
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Big news: Mike Konczal’s Freedom from the Market is out. I got an early copy of the book and read it last month, but now that it’s officially published, you
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In this thread, I will discuss the proselytization of Christianity in British India, and the evolution of strategy from James R. Ballantyne to Monier Williams and beyond. I will argue
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