#Pretty

I'm on break, it's almost New Year's, and I can't do any more book proposal revisions today so I'm going to tweet about stuff I like. I was inspired by
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When you grow up "IRL" vs "Extremely online"(forums kids)you tend to want to have genuine conversations more often, and it is so fucking hard to be genuine online. It is
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Very disappointing events this weekend, its truly a shame to see people you look up to dismiss concerns of anti-blackness when all of that evidence is just right there for
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DC denizens! I went for training this morning to be a ballot clerk. (If you've never been a poll worker, I highly recommend it!)In the process, I got a lot
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Analysis of #Colcorona Trial results in #COVID19 outpatients with risk factors.I will add Bayesian take and focus on the ITT. (cite @ProfHayward here) Primary endpoint death or Hospitalization -- legitLink
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I used to think I was pretty much just a regular person, but I was born white into a 2-parent household which now labels me "Privileged", racist and responsible for
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In honor of it reaching 100 followers and being in service for nearly a year, here's a little bit about one of my favorite projects for the past year, Toad
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DUNE 1984 is a paradigm case of a movie I love but which I would never call a great movie. It's fun and inventive and quotable. It's also awkward and
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The New COVID-19 Variant, explained for curious kids and twitterers.Imagine the virus in the book "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". Think of the book cover (pictures and words) as the
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OK, so we're apparently getting more or less a UK-EU free trade area for goods, although service trade will de facto face new protective barriers 1/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/business/Brexit-deal-british-pound.html?action=click&
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NEW: 3rd Circuit appeals court in Philly denies Trump campaign's request for emergency injunction in challenge to a district court's ruling last week to stop certification of the vote in
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1/ A thread of some US military recruitment commercials because as a foreigner this stuff is fascinating to me. The level of propaganda that exists in these ads & the
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1- #COVID19 has fast tracked globalization of internet and some service businesses. Remote work is more normal now than 6 mo ago. You can build a global team and there
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Well unfortunately, this @monthly piece is still relevant. Time to revisit the sequencing and see what step we're at (we're in relatively deep).https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/april-may-june-2019/how-trump-could-lose-the-elec
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One interesting phenomenon re: romanization of Chinese names is sometimes it's very difficult to tell what the original character of the family name is. Especially with SE Asians who trace
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there's a lot that's familiar in this excellent @1843mag piece on models, money, access, and the global rich from China business, but I wanted to single out one bit in
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