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Jake Higdon

Jake_Higdon

Some thoughts on this thread from @drvolts. It is absolutely the case that the coal worker (typically the traditional idea of a white male miner) occupies an outsized, even mythical

balajis.com

balajis

We really should be in the middle of a golden age of productivity. Within living memory, computers did not exist. Photocopiers did not exist. *Backspace* did not exist. You had

Jessica Fu

JessTiaFu

Thread: In Puerto Rico, just 150 of 780 school cafeterias are providing breakfast and lunch to children during the pandemic, in spite of judicial orders to reopen them all. Advocates

Shannon Bond

shannonpareil

Twitter & Facebook both say they'll label posts with premature claims of victory before a race is called.Here's what those labels will look like on Twitter: Twitter will also show

Epilepsy Action

epilepsyaction

We are currently receiving a high number of enquiries about whether people with epilepsy are included as part of priority group 6 of the COVID-19 vaccine programme. We are aware

another_patron

another_patron

The most interesting development recently in TN political landscape is the holy cow of TN politics -- srilankan Tamil issue--is no longer regarded as the "holy cow". DMK IT cell

Eli Zupnick

elizupnick

This column from @richarenberg defending the filibuster is a great example of political analysis that is at best stuck in the past/wrong and at worst dangerous misinformation. A thread.https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/512512-unintend

Dana Fried

leftoblique

I want to add a couple of things to this (excellent) thread.The first is something Kukshtel hints at near the end, but which can have an immediate, negative impact on

Darius Kazemi

tinysubversions

Just came across a really great paper about bots and misinformation. "Middle East Twitter bots and the covid-19 infodemic", by @abulkhaezuran @nouraaljizawi at @citizenlab. I think it's a preprint?PDF: http://workshop-proceedi

Anthony Starks

ajstarks

In this thread I'll show you the original plates for the #DuBoisChallenge The first ##DuBoisChallenge plate: "Comparative Increase of White and Colored Population in Georgia" . It looks like a

Gareth I. Jones

GarethTSq

Why the hell would Ryan Reynolds (and Mac) want to buy Wrexham AFC? A thread 1/ A couple of years ago I wrote an article titled Wrexham, what a shithole.

ShanghaiPanda_No2

ThinkingPanda2

What is China's "Five-Year Plans"?The Five-Year Plans (五年计划) are a series of social and economic development initiatives issued since 1953 in the People's Republic of China. （1/N） Since 1949, the

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Today, Pornhub took down all videos from unverified accounts after a @nytimes report documented instances of nonconsensual pornography can child sexual abuse material on the service.1/ But the Times editorial

Comorienne 🇰🇲

_ShamGod

*sigh* okay. One thing I wanna say - I find it fascinating that the only thing that people are obsessed with in the movie is the sexualization. There are SO

C. Ní Chléirigh📚🖌

CClearych

Reminding myself that not all the news of the past few weeks has been gloomy: e.g. the Book of Lismore returned to Cork! Of course, we have been fortunate enough

Andy Smarick

smarick

I just finished reading the new study on factors influencing school re-openings. I first want to thank the authors for their valuable contribution to our understanding: @KatharineStrunk @SReckhow @MattGrossmann Meg

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