#Failures

George Selgin

GeorgeSelgin

(Private currency history, thread #4: Canada's private currency system.) If you consider the black line on the chart (https://twitter.com/GeorgeSelgin/status/1274702423412654081?s=20) w/ which I ended my last thread (https://twitter.com

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Covid Epi Weekly: Scariest. Halloween. Ever.Hard to imagine a worse confluence. Cases surging in much of US. People are tired of limitations the virus is imposing. Economic harm is real,

lotus

lotus_ruan

the first day when trump's account was banned a small number of analysts and self-proclaimed overseas chinese democracy fighters equate twitter's move to 'chinese-style censorship.' china experts like @dwertime @tony_zy

Tim Alberta

TimAlberta

*Long thread alert*I've spent 2020 writing "Letters to Washington" from across the country to elevate the voices of ordinary Americans.This is the series finale—with a twist. It's unlike anything I've

Dale Flower

BoycottsBat

Let's dissect some of this drivel, shall we?Andrew Tickell: How Scots have learned to love independence in 2020https://www.thenational.scot/news/18970919.scots-learned-2020-independence-feels-good/?ref=twtrec "When YouGov first rep

Mike 'READINESS means actual readiness' Black

MikeBlack114

PSA on the topic of the COVID vaccine and why it isn’t yet mandatory for DoD, unlike other vaccines (and why there’s actually more thought behind that than “lol dumb

Arthur Chu

arthur_affect

I'm still thinking about the Can Opener Dad and the viral response the thread got online and how badly he handled it by digging inThe one material fact that made

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40_head

1. Is COVID-19 is a "test run" to see if we'll accept the New World Order? If so, who could possibly have set it up? A truth has unraveled that

Labour For UBS

LabourForUBS

UBS vs UBI (Thread) Confused at the difference between UBS and UBI? Are they compatible? Why should we advocate for UBS ahead of UBI? Answers are in the thread below.

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

aesthetics seems to be the entry drug of conservatism everywhere in the world doesn’t matter what kind; any kind of primary concern with beauty seems to do the trickif

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Let's talk about the Uighurs, and why you should care about them, and why people in America do care about them (which are two very different things).https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-29/china-forces-birth-control-on-musl

Roger Pielke Jr.

RogerPielkeJr

My 2020 year-in-review thread1. A “Sedative” for Science Policy @ISSUESinST A critical look at Vannevar Bush's Science: The Endless Frontier at 75https://issues.org/endless-frontier-sedative-for-science-policy-pielke/ 2. Memo for Pr

O₿iWan

ObiWanKenoBit

0/There is a pervasive undercurrent which seeks to undermine the very root of the capitalistic ethos inherent in Bitcoin’s design. Many question the accumulation of bitcoins by early adopters &

David Roberts

drvolts

It's a slow, snowy afternoon. How about a on "rationalists" & "rationalism"? I want to talk about what real rationalism might look like & what people devoted to rationalism

Sam Connor

criprights

So many of you are writing from the perspective of the entitled.Because the businesses have Jobkeeper, it’s the workers, who have been laid off. The crips who have been locked

Bill Carroll

elevenbravo138

#BlackFootballHistoryMonth I am reminded constantly why "stick to sports" is myopic, impossible and a crystallization of privilege. From Joe Lillard to the 14 Black members of the 1969 Wyoming football

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