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Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

#Prop22 was the most expensive ballot initiative in history: "gig economy" companies firehosed $200m over voters, outspending 48/50 state legislative races on a single question.That question: can employers misclassify workers

ResearcHers Code

ResearcHersCode

Good afternoon everyone! Today I'll talk about some Open Science projects that are close to my heart. I've already tangentially mentioned the amazing @turingway project in previous threads. But I

Philipp Heimberger

heimbergecon

Politicians, economists and the media have been using distorted images of Italy and the Italian economy. How do we reduce these distortions? Niki Kowall and I make an attempt by

Ⓜary Education needs ZeroCovid

MaryJ1979

Timeline of a controversy 8th October 11.30am PAC meet to discuss the Comptroller and Auditor General’s special report on the disposal by NAMA of the Project Nantes loans, and NAMA’s

Corey Quinn

QuinnyPig

A lot of assumptions about how the servers behave are "baked in" to how Parler (and any AWS hosted application) are built. A lot of companies don't realize that those

Sunshiny

sunnshiiny

Reform & Alliance were offshoots of a Social Credit past in Alberta. Subsuming the federal PC party in 2003. Peter MacKay selling out to libertarian influence & a desire to

Rajesh Jagdish Lal Ahuja

iamrajeshahuja

Dineshwar Sharma belonged to rare breed of officers who could speak truth to political executive with all the requisite bluntness. His voice carried weight as he had no vested interest

Dr Meenal Viz

meenalsworld

Our govt hasn't published this, so please share this thread As a result of our judicial review, we've brought PPE guidelines up to international standard. With a new covid variant,

Poppy McPherson

poppymcp

Breaking -- Another landslide at a jade mine in #Myanmar has killed at least 50 people.https://news.trust.org/item/20200702044920-bbgvv/ @Shoon_Naing, @sam_aungmoon and @Simondlewis did an in depth-story on the issue last year. There

Bruce Western

WesternBruce

Important contribution to the police debate by @pat_sharkey in the @washingtonpost. He writes about research and local initiatives to describe a community-led safety. There are great ideas here, but I

John E Deaton

JohnEDeaton1

Ripple executives like @bgarlinghouse @chrislarsensf @JoelKatz @s_alderoty have stated that XRP was not designed to pay for a cup of coffee. Instead, it was designed for the banks and money

🔥Margo Kingston💧

margokingston1

The #transitzone podcast, where ⁦@MediaActive⁩ ⁦@timdunlop⁩ me and guests will converse about #coronavirusworld, is now in Apple podcasts. If you listen, maybe email me at transitzonepod@gmail.com for a chat about

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sydbedrosian

WHY THE US HAS AN OBLIGATION TO AID ARTSAKH AND ARMENIA: A THREAD, EXPLAINED IN LAYMAN’S TERMS. [please RT, especially if you have non-Armenian followers] During and in the aftermath

TransHealthNow

DadTrans

A University of Oxford & WPUK funded Philosopher has started to talk about Third Gender cultures, & their "re-writing in line with trans ideological framing as a gross distortion". I'm

Toby Young

toadmeister

1/ I was disappointed to read the following statement by Sam Bowman (@s8mb) in @euronews today: "Right now, in hospitals in the UK, most of the wards are filled with

Ilhan Omar

IlhanMN

As a young immigrant, I took out thousands of dollars in debt to go to for-profit college—thinking it was part of the American Dream.Like millions of Americans, I was left

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