#Cultural

So. Let's talk for a moment about why "get rid of Trump and Barr to restore justice" is imperfect./1https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1286324251415511040?s=20 /2 Americans have a long-standing habit of focusing on simple,
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Me: working class (white) family in low-SES migrant-rich western burbs of ADL. High unemplymnt, low uni education. Strong anti-racist culture (Aus Day v foreign for eg). Also my family: tearing
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Trump's big political problem right now is that he talks about "law and order," often with all-caps tweets, but he isn't delivering any. He's running like a challenger, not an
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https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/improving-care/better-mh-policy/college-reports/college-report-cr228.pdf?sfvrsn=c64e10e3_2 New report out from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, about autism. Quick highlights:"It is reco
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Sydney's gift to international finance, James D. Wolfensohn, from Sydney Boys High to leading and reforming the World Bank in a tumultuous decade, among other things. Can't think of any
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I have spent much of today studying the Stochastic Parrots paper by @emilymbender, @timnitGebru, @mcmillan_majora and @mmitchell_ai. (http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers/Stochastic_Parrots.pdf) This paper is important for many reas
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We all know UK has productivity crisis, right? (If not, see chart). And we all know part of the answer is "better skills", right? But how to achieve that...? 1/
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Why only Native People can smudge with white sage: let's start with what smudging is. of course, smudging methods can differ from person to person, but this is my experience
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We need to talk about how the very-white writing industry expects diverse authors to explain every cultural term in their books. THREAD The industry wants anything slightly diverse to be
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* Why the First Amendment Matters *I saw a horrific racist on Parler a moment ago. I immediately went to his Tweet to report him & have him banned...There it
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Surreal watching Rowling become some sort of literary and political totem. This to me is the achievement both of her unnecessary intervention and the way the discourse is structured: people
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i love my #Maryland but there are some downsideslet me explain them you're gonna get crabsthey even get on your bumpers and windows you're gonna stay lostmaybe sand in your
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Was listening to the fascinating podcast on Aesthetic Resistance with @johnsteppling @RedKahina @elleprovocateur & @HiroyukiHamada - Highly reccomend. Haven’t yet finished, maybe this comes up, but was struck in the
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In new article now online @journstudies, @ruthiepalmer, @rasmus_kleis, & I find the "watchdog" ideal, the notion that news media play an important role in holding power to account, largely absent
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The biggest level-up moment going from a player to a designer is learning how to "speak" like a designer, to other designers. Communicating ideas and feedback clearly and concisely has
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1)Teaching Derrida this week and just reread Barbara Johnson’s definition of critique in the introduction to Dissemination: 2)“The critique reads backwards from what seems natural, obvious, self-evident, or universal, in
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