#Interesting

Patrick McKenzie

patio11

If you have heard the words "75 years" and "Post Office" recently you may enjoy a brief digression about how to account for pension liabilities: Defined benefits pensions are an

Cassidy Leventhal

cassidylev

Uber CEO says “Gig workers deserve better” @dkhos proposes a “Third Way” to better support gig workers without sacrificing flexibility of contracting.Does it work? #edtech and #futureofwork friends, what do

Berna Devezer

zerdeve

Reading Godfrey-Smith’s (2006) The Strategy of model-based science. Similar to Weisberg (whose ‘Who is a modeler?’ I tweeted about yesterday), GS treats models and model-building as characteristic of one particular

Isosceles Finance

isoscelesfin

Our new division, ireport, is now live. ireport is a division of the Isosceles Finance group. Other divisions within the group are @iFDfds and @icountOnline.#Technology | #ireport | #PowerBI |

sine

stellarbokuto

What the colors in team jerseys mean and symbolize; thread Shiratorizawa - VioletViolet is often associated with royalty. Back then, the pigment to make this color was difficult to obtain

wombat

gaylittleboscha

im livetweeting dana's livestream too i guess !! i'll do the thread here !! yall are so confident barking in dana's live chat help SHES SO CUTE OMG EDA STUFF

OPEN COMMISSIONS | kiro

kirogaraii

I am generally not against making country personifications. In fact, making them is sort of a cultural landmark itself. Humans have been summarizing their countries and nations with One Person/One

Nora Loreto

NoLore

As I've mentioned a few times, I'm writing a book about how journalists shaped how Canadians understand COVID. And early on, already, the theme that I keep coming back to

John Pistotti

JohnPistotti

Is #AirBnB a game changer for #RemoteWork? Quick Thread After recently accepting a job that is 100% remote one of my first instincts was to look on @Airbnb for

SmallholdersUK

SmallholdersUK

Sorry for the relative silence today. Today has been one of those days where I remember why I want to have a smallholding rather than doing the day job. But

Erik Torenberg

eriktorenberg

Here's a meta thread of some of my favorite twitter threads, updated edition The most interesting books I read in 2019, including- The Accidental Superpower- Nonzero- The Sovereign Individual-

Sentona 𓅃

sentona97

Why do all metallurgy gods have a limp?Hephaestos, an ancient Greek god of metallurgy and blacksmithing, was born ugly and his mother Hera threw him from the Olympus after which

Carl Minzner

CarlMinzner

(1/x) China's national legislative session (两会) starts today. First: opening of CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference)This is front page of top Party mouthpiece @PDChina from day after same event

🌷🤡💋🌷🤡💋Prof. Grace Lavery💋🤡🌷💋🤡🌷

graceelavery

I was just chatting with one of my oldest and dearest friends in the UK—a cishet Labour activist, so a recruitment target for the terfs—and she mentioned she had emailed

Sergey Tselovalnikov

SerCeMan

It's amazing to see that ZGC (JEP 377) and Shenandoah (JEP 379) are going to become non-experimental in 15! However, we've been successfully using ZGC for our gateway components since

Manish

ManishEarth

so last weekend @raphlinus told me about using geometric algebra instead of homogeneous/projection space matrices to do geometry (siggraph talk linked)and i had some Physicist Thoughtshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4H_ctggYo warning, most of this