#Gatekeepers

1/ In August of 2019, Senior Google Engineer, Zachary Vorhies (@Perpetualmaniac) leaked 950 pages of internal Google documents providing evidence of Google's political bias against conservatives, censorship, & the use
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How I pitch publishers*I put myself in their mindset by asking these questions:-does this concept have legs?-do we believe this team can execute?-will they execute with the budget and timeline
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Prediction: Demands will escalate that amateurs abstain from independent analysis and defer to credentialed experts.The better the analysis, the more strident the denunciations will be.The reason is that credentials are
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this is absolutely dangerous on so many levels. diné people should not cosign or give space to folks who are anti-black. why do y'all still follow people who spew absolutely
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"What do we need to know to explain why there is an Indian flag here?"Well, maybe the primary sources, for a start? Not that you would know how to. Do
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“...the organization with the most influence over what Americans believe, including about Donald Trump, is Facebook”Sharp, somewhat unsettling, and must-read analysis from ⁦@WillOremus in today’s newsletter⁩https://link.medium.com
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How did Theresa Greenfield— locked in 2020's closest Senate race—not get a Wikipedia page until a few days ago? The answer involves a small civil war on Wikipedia, a personal
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THREAD'Aliabad Sarai’ was one of the 14 Sarai's (halting stations) on the route between Lahore to Srinagar(Mughal Road). Emperor Jahangir got it constructed in the last leg of 16th century.
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I'm on furlough for another two weeks, starting today. That's 3 weeks of unpaid furloughs in the span of one month.I don't say that to make you feel sorry for
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Having a Ph.D. doesn’t make a person special, but it’s a gruelling years-long initiation many of us were never expected to survive and did so in spite of shitty, incurious
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One of the things that’s broken about academia is academia is so broken that students often get put in a position where they need someone to pull them out of
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If you saw Fridays @UKColumn and my segment on the #RussiaGate document release, I can now add from initial reports that the Obama-Biden Admin, FBI & Media did in fact
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Yesterday, we submitted our response to the @EU_Commission #DSA consultation. This is a critical opportunity to establish the principles of what constitutes a values-driven Open Internet. We aim to promote
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Stream of conscious thread on Dysphoria and TransmedicalismI've made some posts about what is or is not dysphoria, and this thread is to explain why those posts are technically garbage
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How do we know the Russian Troll farm had no impact on the 2016 election? Short answer: Cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore, I am) Long answer: see below From
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This is a great episode of @yourewrongabout, about misinformation, why it ends up affecting older people the most/worst, and why the bulk of it comes from the right.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/losing-relatives-to-fox-news/id138000
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