#Society

Daphne Keller

daphnehk

What do platforms do when the law tells them to take down illegal user content? They take down a bunch of other stuff, too. How do we know? Well, here's

Chad Felix Greene

chadfelixg

Trump was the catalyst.He represented to many people a key figure in an historic narrative and that created a massive divide with passions running high.He exaggerated this due to his

ayana⁷♟ baby atiny era

ayanaara

a valentine’s day thread of gentle reminders for ya love comes in all forms, and it’s all around you. February 14th is just one day. (see what i did

Marcus H. Johnson

marcushjohnson

Up at 3 am reading Google Scholar on why people are attracted to conspiracy theories. Some broad themes, people are attracted to conspiracies when:1. They feel powerless or hopeless2. Feel

Jared Wesley

DrJaredWesley

We can learn a lot about who politicians refer to as their "friends". In speeches & responses to questions, the people they choose to mention offer us insight into whose

Asian American NPC

Mont_Jiang

I was along for the GameStop ride today, but I've also been at the SEC where we regulated firms like Citadel and RobinHood. The SEC does not intentionally favor rich

dwtruthwarrior (@dwtruthwarrior on Gab/Parler)🇨🇦

dwtruthwarrior

The instant ridicule of ‘conspiracy theories’ especially from academia is fairly predicable given that ‘scholars’ tend to be narrowly focused & quite incapable of synthesising knowledge from a variety of

Dylan Levi King

dylanleviking

It was with the Jiang Qing material that I realized something was wrong with Can't Get You Out of My Head. I covered it before. I'll be brief, but I'm

the apocalypse, but make it fashion. ✨

ElleArmageddon

I was in a relationship with a police officer for three years of my life.I am an abolitionist.You really sure you wanna go there, Lee?https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1334276442796957696 The fucked up thing about

Jack Wakefield

Jack_Wakefield

Feeling totally exhausted by the inevitably of climate disaster now, and the huge gulf between urgency for action and our ability as societies to grasp that reality. But am holding

Luke Klipp 🏳️‍🌈

lukehklipp

Parking minimums, a thread.Why? Because this is something many continue to approach from the perspective of "well I drive and so everywhere I go needs to have parking."Warning: This was

Big Joel

biggestjoel

ive been watching a lot of destiny debates with lefties lately. and my fav part is when, at the beginning, he says "i dont have any principled attachment to capitalism"

Matthew Sporn

Matthewrva

*THREAD*What follows is a conversation I had recently with a retired RPD officer, who agreed to go on record. The conversation is short, but jarring. The conversation has been lightly

Anurag Shukla

Anuraag_Shukla

When Governor-General Bentinck abolished Sati (Suttee, as Britishers called it), he had a larger-than-life statue commissioned showing him dramatically rescuing and Indian women from the funeral pyre. (It can still

Chloé Benoist

chloejbenoist

If I may, from a French perspective, rain on an American parade that is still waiting for the final count: The danger has not disappeared with Biden (presumptively) becoming president:

The Ghost Who Walks

manwhocantdie

Random thought thread. I’m sure some people already know this...in Man Of Steel, Clark in front of Pa Kent’s grave looks at Lois and says “My father believed, if the

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