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Why no #library is an island, a thread.The phrase "local libraries for local people" keeps coming up in my discussions about a better future for public libraries. It describes a
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The #agedcarerc hearings this week will be significant, I think. Staring this morning. On financing, funding and prudential regulation. I will try and update as we go, though live tweeting
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There's a more general problem, hinted at but not made explicit in this piece, that the framing of pro-lockdown vs denialism is handing over analysis of the pandemic to two
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My students just completed a module titled "Liberty in the Technological State" in my Sc, Tech & IR course.Health surveillance is necessary in a pandemic but the extensive data collection
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.@JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris should establish a Commission on Transitional Justice.A thread on why 1/ At the core of President-elect Biden’s first address was an appeal to unity and a commitment
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COVID-19 UpdateThere are two new cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today, both detected in recent returnees in managed isolation. There are no new community cases. One person
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Since the quarantine I've been collecting screenshots from my local FB group. Sometimes they're funny, sometimes they are delightful hippy musings, sometimes they are WTF, sometimes it's NIMBY bullshit. But
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OMG Hamilton is up like a full hour before I expected it to be so @crashmargulies_ & I are watching it; they’ve never seen it before, and have only listened
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#LebanonProtests: Toppling down the REGIME(A thread): Unlike other Arab regimes, power in Lebanon is not concentrated in one person/figure! Yet people call on toppling down the regime. What are the
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With it being Mental Health Awareness month, I wanted to share a little bit on my mental health and how the quarantine has effected it. First off, the human body
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i think Nana Addo will give power and step down as president, as Keita has in Malii dont think it will be a military move per sé, i think it
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People should read "Why I am an Atheist" before imputing a Marxist origin to Bhagat Singh's revolutionary activities. On the very first page, he clearly states that virtually everyone else
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1/ Did a thought experiment last weekend: what if, in addition to paying for 1 year of software service fees for @barrelny, we took that same amount and bought stock
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1/ The New York Times released their latest installment in their terrific Trump taxes series today. I've got some thoughts on this one as well, which I'll be outlining here
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People ask me for a lot of advice on what to do about technical debt. Here some things I’ve learned about how and when to prioritize fixing bad code: 1.
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A citizen of J&K, India, has spent ~190/- in the last 9 months for 4G data that he couldn't even use for the first 5 months and after that, only
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