#Language

Putri Prihatini

BlogTolkien

Letters from Father Christmas always fascinates me because it combines Tolkien's affinity for storytelling, letter writing, world building, and the intention to give his children the kind of childhood he

Kevin Gosztola

kgosztola

Neera Tanden, who is Biden's pick for OMB director, is ardent opponent of Medicare For All. Here is Neera on 2016 DNC Platform Committee rendering "healthcare is a human right"

EJ Watson

ejwatsonjr

Something we keep forgetting in this debate about queer Mormonism is that Mormonism =/= the Church. The Church consists of a group of well-meaning but bigoted, queerphobic, authoritarian men. Mormonism

Tudor Girba

girba

The governor of New Jersey called explicitly for COBOL programmers to help with the development of the unemployment system:https://twitter.com/manicode/status/1246497036389793792This is how the software environmentalism crisis looks like. A

Ali Aydar📚

eyedar

The podcast hosted by @APompliano with @m2jr was like a master class in early stage investing.These are my notes from it, along with my application of @m2jr's principles my three

chomsky's daughter

javorchomsky

DEBUNKING ALL CANADA BELIEVER CLAIMS — A THREAD I've been seeing a lot of tweets on my tl lately that seem to either presuppose or outright assert the supposed existence

Andrew Steele

statto

These BBC covid explainers have largely been very good, interpreting complex guidance in simple language.But this one uses a travel PR exec who knows no more than anyone else and

Peter Ellis

almostconverge

Mini Hungarian language lesson: music.As my series is drawing to its close, I thought I might as well post something 100% self-indulgent: a list of bands I like.Most of them

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/DECOLONIZINGGENDERThis decolonizing gender event promoted by Billion Dollar brand Lulu Lemon says "resist capitalism."What is decolonizing?Why would I do it to my gender?How do Billion Dollar brands resist capitalism?All this

Krishnan Ram-Prasad

KrishnanRP

This is a thread on Vedic ""racial"" terminology, specifically the terms "dāsa" and "varṇa".I recently returned to teach a text (ii.12) where the phrase "dā́saṃ várṇam" turned up,

Faisal Al Yafai

FaisalAlYafai

Was Abu Nuwas an Arab? / A Thread. So this week @newlinesmag we published @alexjrowell's unsurprisingly popular essay about the love early Arab poets had for wine. (Unsurprising because it

Baghwallah

baghwallah

1/ You will either read this article and nod your head sagely at the sagacity of it all (because you have a bumper sticker saying "Let's Go WTO!"), or you

Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth)

avsa

In 2016-17 the Ethereum Foundation hired @cure53berlin for a security Audit of Mist. The process was eye opening and contributed to the discontinuation of the project. The report was never

Tony Connelly

tconnellyRTE

How significant were @vonderleyen's remarks to the European Parliament this morning?One senior EU diplomat says takes note in particular of her opening words. "Frankly, I cannot tell you today if

Rachel Coldicutt

rachelcoldicutt

This is such weird framing, as if AI is one coherent, knowable, predictable thing: ““I’m happy to hear there’s such a programme and AI is a great way to do

Pratham Prasoon

PrasoonPratham

I made a lot of mistakes during my machine learning journey.Being a web developer, here's why it took me 2 years to get started machine learning when I could've done

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