#Context

Stuart Lau

stuartklau

Latest EU-China trade talks just finished. EU side represented by @VDombrovskis & @PhilHoganEU, China by Xi’s top trade aide, Liu He, who signed phase 1 deal with Trump. Key takeaways:

Rauðgrani ᚱᛆᚢᚦᚴᚱᛆᚿᛁ

GraniRau

Human Sacrifice as a Biblical PracticeMany will tell you that the Israelites did not practice human sacrifice to Yahweh. The evidence is to the contrary. There is a bias toward

Mr. Lautzenheiser

CVlautzenheiser

The President’s commission is akin to gift shop historical analysis. His panel of enthusiastic white-washers want American students to beat their chest & wave the flag without ever taking the

Brian Fung

b_fung

Twitter is about to become a little more like reddit and Wikipedia, turning to users to add context to misleading tweets in a new pilot project known as Birdwatch:https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introducing-birdwatch-a-co

Kyle

DrKyle

An expert panel had released a set of guidelines for enhancing COVID testing. This thread is my "Hey Sask, we should do this" set of screenshots with context.https://twitter.com/DennisKendel/status/1350213253255688193 We need

Karsten Wade (he/him)

quaid

Thinking back to myself in the kitchens at 22, in light of what I know about myself now. I was a feisty young'un who cooked from the heart. Which meant

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

The mainstay of online advertising is "behavioral advertising" in which ads are placed based on dossiers of your activity and preferences that have been compiled by Big Tech giants and

Michael Plaxton

MichaelPlaxton

Maybe I'm just feeling cranky, but I have some Christmas wishes for the law of evidence: 1. Stop using "narrative" to circumvent the need to establish relevance to a material

Stuart Neil

stuartjdneil

I was listening to @today this morning (surprise surprise) and I was struck by an interview with a GP talking about the logistical difficulties of the vaccination programme She said

Zhigang Suo

zhigangsuo

Thank you, @BobbyChesney, for pointing to this affidavit against Professor Gang Chen, of MIT, prepared by the Special Agent Matthew McCarthy, of the Department of Homeland Security.https://www.wwlp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2021/01/Ch

saf ☾

Safvilliany

The dark depression of Earl Sweatshirt’s: Some Rap Songs. If the average trap, pop, or general music listener were to listen to Earl Sweatshirt’s “Some Rap Songs” it would probably

Yuriria Harris

YuririaHarris

There is a fundamental mistake that many atheists do and that is to consider religion as the cause of a type of behaviour. Ex. misogyny, pederasty, violence, etc.The mistake is

Manu Sebastian

manuvichar

PB Mehta spoke about this paradoxical situation of dissent in a democracy & spoke about how dissent gets normative value when formal processes cease to be truly representative. Thinking about

Chana

ChanaMessinger

The best thing I've read about Glen Weyl and Scott Alexander's back and forth was this *excellent* critique of Weyl from Devin Kalish, someone who likes both him and Scott,

Norman C

NormanC28839418

Notwithstanding the staggering irony of lecturing others on the importance of strong datasets and need to consider the complexity of context, I would agree it is important to avoid generalisations

Tasha Suri

tashadrinkstea

...did I seriously just read a British Asian journalist at the BBC just defend JK Rowling's anti-trans hatespeech by quoting Enoch Powell's racist screed? Yes. Yes, I did. On JK

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