#Communities

Electoral politics suck in general and today was undeniably frustrating. I do think there's an opportunity here to take away a lesson that I strongly believe will make us better
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1/ Insightful article on how group fitness classes are substitute churches for millennial atheists. Great consumer companies, like churches, solve core psychological needs. So here's a tweetstorm on 6 needs
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Quick thread on how to think about building a business from things like dev tools or OSS projects. Particularly OSS projects. I don't have a fancy @benthompson name for this,
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1/ To prep for @mariodgabriele's S1 Club on @Airbnb, I listened to eight interviews with Airbnb management. Key takeaways and full interview notes below. $ABNB https://thegeneralist.substack.com/p/airbnb-the-disaster-artist 2/ @bchesky
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NEW THREAD:Not on Trump, on another topic which is of great importance-American Identity and Anglo-American RelationsTopic doesn't interest you? Read anyways, it has wide-reaching consequences and you may learn something
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1/ I'm sitting here thinking about freedom this morning.Specifically, freedom of expression (speech), first amendment rights, etc.Asking myself whether my knee-jerk absolutist support of it is still justified in the
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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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Four days out from the 2020 #NewYork Democratic Primary and this piece today from the @GothamGazette reminds me what I have accomplished as part of @es_indivisible and @makeNYTrueBlue and why
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Out today in @PLOSONE, @jaquelynjahn and I map rates of fatal police violence + racial inequities in those rates across all 382 metro areas in the US. We started writing
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1/ Hi we're Kenny & @AJ_Watson_. We are presenting a Twitter paper on 'analogue cremations in a digital age'. In this age, where anything is possible, why are more &
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Today we release “Malign Creativity: How Gender, Sex, and Lies are Weaponized Against Women Online.” Yes, we're breaking glass ceilings, but our study shows how far we have to go
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New UK Coronavirus analysis. A thread. Public Health England has today released the second tranche of data for COVID tests. This is the most comprehensive data we have for tests
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We hear a lot about Facebook as a platform for manipulation - using machine learning to bypass our critical faculties and trick us into believing things that are bad for
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Saving the climate with stethoscopes: as a boggling week in #US politics winds down, a new study documents fantastic work done by US-based @HIHngo & Indonesian @YayasanASRI to save lives
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COVID Update July 11: Donald Trump is projecting a “V” recovery as his strategy for re-election.The problem is he hasn’t told the virus that. Or has he?1/ Trump’s confident he
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How do bears, bobcats, and coyotes interact with cougars and their kills? Really excited for new paper from Joel Ruprecht. 51 GPS collared animals from 4 species, 972 DNA metabarcoded
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