#HISTORY

As a journalist covering AI, sometimes I write brief stories or breaking news, and sometimes I write things that require a little bit more oomph. Here’s a on the stories
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Overthinking Imran Khan's 'ideology' - a thread 1. Back in 1994 or 1995 Imran Khan visited my school. He was there to raise money for the Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital,
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𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒂 π‘Ίπ’‚π’π’ˆπ’‚ - 𝑻𝒉𝒆 π‘¬π’Žπ’‘π’†π’“π’π’“ 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔"𝐼 π˜©π‘Žπ‘£π‘’ π‘›π‘œ π‘‘π‘’π‘ π‘–π‘Ÿπ‘’ π‘‘π‘œ π‘ π‘’π‘“π‘“π‘’π‘Ÿ 𝑑𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑖
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The German Stahlhelm - Part 1 I’m going to do this about face, part 1 will focus on the most commonly used Stahlhelm of WW2 & its evolution. Part 2
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I disagree that Trump ran as an "economic populist" in 2016. He called for tax cuts for the rich, opposed increasing the minimum wage (@PeterBeinart says otherwise), & called for
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Albert Londres dans son livre 'Le Juif errant' dΓ©crit ainsi les meurtres de Juifs ce jour lΓ  : Ils coupΓ¨rent des mains, ils coupΓ¨rent des doigts, ils maintinrent des tΓͺtes
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#AnarchismIs the belief that humans are most fulfilled when we are free, have a fair say in the decisions that affect our lives & our societal relationships are equitable.Anarchism seeks
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I am seeing so many tweets with takes like this: "the president's rhetoric is incredibly damaging to our sacred norms of a peaceful transfer of power". This should really stop.
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[Thread]Jewish Ritual Killings have been occurring for over thousands of years. It has been documented since the Prophet Jeremiah wrote the message given to him by God to warn the
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Welcome to the greatest time in history for starting a company! Incredible Startup Vintages: 1999-2000: Dot-Com 2012-2014: MobileBut the best is yet to come: 2021: NoCodeThe playbook is being
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My new preprint, "Why do species get a thin slice of Ο€? Revisiting Lewontin’s Paradox of Variation" is up on BioRxiv! Now that I’ve had , I’ll step through some
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This is racist pseudosciencehttps://twitter.com/CJR/status/1273011468728807424 The word "ethnic" means "relating to a population subgroup... with a common national or cultural tradition"The notion that the people we call
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Nas is one of the undeniable best rappers of all time, he is my #1 artist of all time. I have spent my time going through the best part of
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The first ever printed document wasn’t Gutenberg’s bible. It was a sutra. 10s of k were printed (!). In the 7th C (!!). In a language people couldn’t read (!!!).Enclosed
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IMPORTANT THREAD: https://news.isst-d.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-false-memory-syndrome-foundation/ @skepchicks might want to re examine her belief in the bulk of @KTHeaney article. This Jan 1st article from the ISSTD is essentially Katies
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You know what's a great thing to SAFELY do over the holidays? Buy books online from your local indies/@Bookshop_Org for holiday gifts. I've included some books below (and links to
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