#Cultural

Patrick S. Tomlinson

stealthygeek

Thread time. This one may go on for a whiiile. I've been reading up on Elon Musk's plans for Mars colonization and... woof. We're not getting into the ethical arguments

TC

TESLAcharts

1/ What’s it like starting an anonymous Twitter account in an effort to expose a powerful billionaire of malfeasance? The simple answer is this: Don’t do it. On the occasion

Jacob Crisp

jacobwcrisp

Post independence in Latin America, save for Brazil, nation building took a generally similar path through the area. The new liberal ideas of the enlightenment- coupled with the growing restless

Katrina Leonoudakis 🐟 Polysystem Theory Hypewoman

katrinaltrnsl8r

Machine translation can be a wonderful translation tool, but its uses are widely misunderstood.Let's talk about Google Translate, its current state in the professional translation industry, and why robots are

Yung Ògògó

akintonmide

Unintended consequences of interventions1. Malaria nets given to poor people for protection turn into fishing nets. Malaria problem persists. Poisoning added2. Fish stock declines. Focus is on subsidising Coconut farming

Sarayu Pani

sarayupani

The one glaring difference between the US and India brought out by these elections has been the positions taken by large corporations (which is usually a decent reflection of what

Azad Yakatally

AYakatally

If you’re trusted with the social media handles of the company you work for, please understand the responsibilities that come with it. This especially rings true if you are allowed

"Cloutthirsty Trender Ho"

PedanticRomantc

So, I saw the usual suspects reacting to the news with takes along these lines over the past few days, getting MASSIVE viewcounts on videos covering it, and upon literally

Religion Media Centre

RelMedCentre

Today, we're talking to @ZaraM01, the new Secretary General of the @MuslimCouncil, and the first woman in the role 'Taking the step to run for Secretary General was definitely a

Jen

JenReadsRomance

this is a really good example of why world building is for contemporary authors, too. I talk about it all the time because I see it all the time.https://twitter.com/romanticparvenu/status/1357699402857668609 One

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ahaybale

today in hk lit discourse: i tried to ask a podcast on HK anglophone lit to consider expanding their readings to non-white hk writers and they shut their podcast down

Ana Mardoll

AnaMardoll

Speaking as someone who was homeschooled well, but has spoken with a lot of people who were homeschooled poorly, I think it would be LESS disruptive to cancel school for

Centrist Stacy

CentristStacy

The other day I couldn't stop jumping into threads about the Atlantic article on "TERFs", and it made me want to write out my thoughts on gender critical feminism. In

A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon

JuliusGoat

Behold, a failure to grasp the difference between oppression and opposition.https://twitter.com/FDRLST/status/1072514595086954496 The photo they use to underscore their point is Ben Shapiro, wealthy and famous, presenting at an annual conse

Solairis

solairis_

Why does Bitcoin have value?Sure, It has a monetary policy enforced by law (code), but people often forgets that software is a social endeavor.I started designing a model to solidify

steven t. piantadosi

spiantado

In our own tasks, when we find low scores, we usually discover it’s due to lack of clarity by experimenters (or translators), not evidence of inability. We address this by

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