#Intellectual

Sham

just_sham_it

So I've been having intense conversations recently with people about @softiethefilm and what it means in terms of a body of work. People who have watched it can attest to

Otto Saumarez Smith

OSaumarezSmith

Nominated by @gilliandarley for 10 buildings I love. 1. Laon Cathedral - here I am sitting in empty nave. Laon wears the then-new Gothic style with such graceful & intellectual

Rabbi Goldblatzberg

RGoldblatzberg

Thread - 'The Great Replacement' Speech by Renaud Camus 'What I am about to say is precisely what the ruling power do not want to hear.When I say "Ruling Power",

Mohammad Akbarpour

akbarpour_

Today is @ShengwuLi's birthday! An incredible coauthor! An excuse to write about our ECTA paper on "credible mechanisms."There, we made a theoretical prediction that in the online world, real 2nd-price

Lili Loofbourow

Millicentsomer

I get the longing--I even share it--but the naivete is annoying. Online pundits should know (and factor in) that social media as a "public square" where "good faith debate" happens

Sam Rocha

SamRochadotcom

There two ways in which people try to dismiss the existence of white privilege. The first is to deny social privilege in toto, which is very stupid. The second is

writing in this moment

_tanwho_

1/15Today (the 1st of July) is the 99th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party in Shanghai. Here's a historical thread about the events leading up to the founding

Juvoni Beckford

juvoni

I listened to @david_perell & @patio11 talk and found a slogan for the soundtrack of understanding media.Incentive Structures Rules Everything Around Me (I.S.R.E.A.M) get the money Dolla, Dolla Bill yall

Judd Legum

JuddLegum

1. Here is some information you won't read about in Politico Playbook today. On Jan 5, @benshapiro turned over his "Daily Shapiro Action" email to Ted Cruz. Cruz used the

Divyanshi Sharda

Divya06Sharda

How to reason with someone who disagrees with you, especially regarding Indic socio-cultural-political issues:1. Assess/perceive the person you are interacting with. Understand that he/she/they is an individual before an ideologically

Dr. Harish Purohit 🇮🇳

harish_purohit

'Mitra-Varuna' of Rig-Veda who become 'Mithra' for ancient Iranian was the 'Mithras' for Romans long before arrival of Christianity. In the middle of the third Millennium BC, a branch of

Jason

longwall26

Change of pace. A thread of (some of) my favorite word origins, in no particular order1) "Pedigree" comes from the French pied de gru, meaning "foot of a crane" because

Alliance of British Entrepreneurs

AllianceBE

Happy Friday folks!! Here is a bright, shiny new trade deal for you as a gift wrapped #Brexit present from our friends in #Japan Remainers said we couldn't get a

Nathan Oseroff-Spicer

nathanoseroff

Am I reading Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay's recent book, Cynical Theories? Yes.Is it bad? Of course.Am I wasting my time? Naturally. If I understand this correctly, Pluckrose and Lindsay

Nefarious Newt

NefariousNewt

I have been enraged for a while. Every utterance that comes from The Gaslight Administration sets my teeth on edge and whips me to a froth. It's the ignorance, the

Pausa Fútbol

PausaFutbol

A takeover that never happened.Yesterday, the long standing offer of £300m to buy Newcastle United was withdrawn by the Saudi Arabia led consortium. However, why was this done?[THREAD] The origins

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