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The only way to make unacceptable words and actions truly, socially unacceptable is not to accept them. Saying it is unacceptable without changing your behavior to the people who do
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There is no such thing as a natural disaster. Natural hazards like hurricanes, earthquakes, extreme temperatures become human disasters when they interact with unsafe housing, poor drainage, lack of savings,
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Module 6 -the final set of readings!- is about long-term predictions and planning. (For anyone new here, I'm live-tweeting the lecture prep for my course, Predictive Fictions, which I'm teaching
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this is a fascinating piece."Ninety percent of human-avalanche encounters, Ryan said, are triggered by humans, making humans the primary avalanche problem."https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/magazine/avalanche-school-heidi-julavit
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I'm so angry that when I was a kid, all I knew about Dolly Parton was the size of her chest. And her hair color, I guess. Imagine taking all
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I quit my Sherlock Holmes reread when the racism got to be too much (it was getting pretty repetitive by that point, too) but 1 thing that struck me was
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I had to take some time to think about this. Thanks Cory for the prompt! I initially felt a bit squinky about tagging people to talk about privacy but I
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One of the problems we face in this disaster response is how bad we are at talking about values and scarcity, or maybe how reluctant.https://twitter.com/skoczela/status/1354812815148634117 Disasters create scarcity. They bottleneck
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Just in case you want to follow along with something ELSE right now, let's get started with Module 5, also very relevant, on predictive fictions about things we don't want
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I really hope that the inauguration will be free from disruption and violence. If it is, there will be hot takes of the "See? The threat was exaggerated" variety. As
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Prosecuting people for their political affiliations or opinions is anti-democratic abuse of power. NOT prosecuting indictable crimes is also a political decision. If those crimes include crimes against democracy and
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I'm reading @JincyWillett's very funny Amy Falls Down, which includes a lovely fantasy segment about someone paying for a bunch of writers to train their way across the US doing
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