#Rights

Watching tech folks "explain" Gebru's firing as normal, with their own stories of injustice, I'm reminded of survivorship bias in institutions:For those who stay & advance, our attempts to "help"
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So I am still pondering things from the discussion this afternoon and here is what I have so far: a feature of American society is a liberal fear of 'stepping
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1. Swing State #Explainers, history/lit-style; go a bit deeper than the media (& colleagues, help me out!): A for #Arizona @gerry_cadava https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674970892 & um...https://www.hup.harvard.edu/c
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Had to laugh earlier because if I was looking for affirmation as a woman I most certainly received it. From being called a fake feminist to being told I knew
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ThreadI’m over being scolded for not “defending liberty” by the same people who keep telling me “they will tread on me” and who keep trying to empower the state to
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Larry Summers is a good example of why economists should not be seen as some kind of meta-authority on public policy. Economics is not and never has been primarily about
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A thread: about the background of the Khojaly Massacre. No one should ever try to debunk something that has been this well documented. This topic is really important to me.
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Allow me to clarify,If a man has been so harmful and cruel that the thought of him winning has cities preparing for riots, does that sound like a man you
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The controversy over nonpayment of royalties to Alan Dean Foster following the assignment of his book contract to Disney, a third party, raises important issues re all IP contracts, including
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If Little Saigon, OC turns red this election, it is NOT a marker of how much this community is actually changing (or hasn’t), because it IS. If it flips it
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pages dont even load faster lol but I think working in tech contributes to my depression because almost everything in this thread is old news by at least 5 years
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I am devastated about the horrific consequences that Covid restrictions have on our society (which are ultimately killing more people than saving lives, not even to speak of the loss
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Fun fact:When a police dog bites and holds, that's a trained response. When it bites repeatedly, that's it having a stress-induced panic response, lashing out to protect itself.We don't track
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1. Trump is today disowned as an aberration In truth he is the culmination of how the US Right has been going for yearshttps://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/us-dc-capitol-riots-donald-trump-republican-party 2. Pence, McConnell and Cruz d
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Hi!! So most of you probably won’t have heard but there was a massive leak of women’s and teens’ nudes in Ireland around 6000+ all from men on discord. There
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In 1990, the population of Western Germany (62 million) and France (58m) was within a whisker. Then reunification happened – and Germany suddenly had 80 million.In 2050, France’s population could
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