#Parallel

Sajith Pai

sajithpai

New (and a tad long) post on elite colleges in India,, national economic mobility, privilege and what it says about us.Thread.https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/merit-schools-national-track-india-privilege-blindness-sajith-pai/ 2/17It is common

Peter Walker

peterwalker99

A mini-thread on how the debate about NHS staff parking shows a/ how the transport narrative is dominated by an assumption of driving as the norm, and b/ more widely,

akhivae

akhivae

Flapper girls from the 1920s are a Western manifestation of a much larger social phenomenon.When capitalism hits a certain point values quickly shift from traditional to consumer-capitalist. This is because

Seerut K. Chawla

seerutkchawla

1/ One of the things that makes cancel culture so much like abuse is stripping the target of agency.Something is being ‘done’ to you that you have no agency over,

Vermanubis

Vermanubis

A cryptic excerpt Your way of thinking can be divided into two groups: synchronous and asynchronous. The former is what feels right or reasonable within your current psychological context. Asynchronous

Molly Beck

MollyBeck

Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects lawsuit filed by @WILawLiberty on behalf of a Dane County gymnastics center and parents of athletes against county health officials over COVID-19 health restrictions. Decision to

Ali 👑 suck it and see

etherdragons_

Every so often I get brainrot from thinking about the Losers' parents going through a similar ordeal to their kids on the Pennywise cycle before theirs, surviving through sheer dumb

Taniel

Taniel

Two HUGE resuts in Georgia: Dems have flipped the sheriff's offices in Cobb & Gwinnett counties (pop: 1.6 million)This is big for many reasons. 1/ The GOP sheriffs here have

Paul Mason

paulmasonnews

A short thread on the Nazi/Trump parallels, drawn from research from How To Stop Fascism (see bio): 1/ The modern far right grows from the same ideological rootstock as Hitler/Mussolini

Dilyw

DilywCymru

Where I live in The Valleys is slowly turning into an English village. Locals have been priced out of one part already. The newcomers I’ve spoken to seem to dislike

john milbank

johnmilbank3

Typically excellent piece from AR. Macron’s crucial combination of resistance to Political Islamism with new active European engagement in Africa (effectively if benignly neo-imperial) very much accords with the last

Steve H 🇷🇺🇵🇸🇻🇪🇸🇾 #Socialist #FreeAssange

geol_uk

1/ What bothers me most about the "Russia Report" is an underlying presumption that Russia is an enemy, a hostile state, which poses some sort of (always undefined) threat to

Derrick Barth 🎃

darklightdays

I crunched in triple-A and as much as I hate to say it, I don't think having a seat at any table would be enough. What we need is a

Robert McNees

mcnees

Who first obtained the field equations of general relativity: Einstein or Hilbert? For many years this was the subject of debate! Hilbert's paper on the subject was published after Einstein's

dmitrydao

dmitrydao

There’s a lot of confusion about what @chainlink is and what it represents. Here’s a clear breakdown: 1/ Chainlink represents an ecosystem of numerous decentralized oracle networks. This implies

Mumbai se Hoon BC

NotAgainRaj

Felas, I STOPPED doing this, since i shifted my FOCUS to PS. let's do this again. and try to decode things.Remember, few days back we had seen a report that

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