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This morning we held the first session of our short inquiry into the treatment of autistic people and people with learning disabilities. Here is a summary of the key points
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THREAD: Time for a welcome distraction.Which passage of the Bible comes to mind when you think about a garden, a tree, thorns, angels, swords, and flames?Genesis 2–3, right?It’s an option.
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1.The economics of a child being sold into sexual slavery are such that it is very lucrative.A child in the sex slave business has a useful expected lifetime of two
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A thread capturing part of our conversation with former Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles-Belton. It's lengthy, but the context is crucial: "I grew up as a teenager right in that neighborhood
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RIGHT! Finally doing this MAMMOTH list-of-lists of grassroots orgs supporting migrants & refugees through the festive season Ofc I've been overwhelmed by the good people out there who we must
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1/ Notes from @ericvishria episode at @InvestLikeBest I have started listening and reading the transcript of the episodes at the same time. It helps me keep focus while reading, and
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Project Veritas with help from Sputnik is spreading around audio of a reported exchange with Assange and the State Department in regard to unredacted cables. I have written about WikiLeaks'
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The last five months have been a weird time to cover baseball. (Lord knows there’s been more important stuff to write about.) But that’s meant a chance to tap into
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The prospects of Poland's main opposition Civic Platform (PO) party on its twentieth birthday [THREAD]: Do read the great piece from @danieltilles1 below on the party's current lack of leadership,
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Sooo... the time has come to tell a tale.For several months, one of the most unwell edutwitter trolls was tweeting that I'd received a police caution and various other crazy
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1/ The Republican coronavirus relief negotiating position, over the past six months, tells you everything you need to know about why the modern GOP is so corrupt it needs to
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I want to tell you about a person evicted today in Nebraska. And I want to tell you this so that you might understand why we are talking about Housing
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MASSIVE BREAKING NEWS Rutgers Merch is now LIVE on the Barstool Store. Check out all 6 (!!!!) designs below, and screenshot your receipts for a follow back!YOUR FAMILY. YOUR
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Thread: if data is the source code of AI, what tools could we steal from the Software 1.0 world?Here are 10 examples. I'll mostly be using an image classification example
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Between recent work stuff and catching up on the excellent @GundamPodcast, I've been re-researching the geography of the original Mobile Suit Gundam story and its "One Year War" setting. For
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A thread on my analytical approach to determine the most underperforming and overperforming units in the 2020 #NFL season. I built a separate model to measure performance that was
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