#Stuff

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

Oh, Betelgeuse, everyone’s favorite M2Iab supergiant star. Why did it dim so catastrophically earlier this year?Hubble may have clinched the answer: It erupted, blowing out a HUGE dust cloud that

@AdamSmithWorks

adamsmithworks

#WealthOfNations I.ii is all about the secret sauce origin story: why does the division of labor happen in the first place? #AdamSmith illustrates (in part) with doggos to hold our

Lost

BrigadeLost

check chat gushing thread bc four (4) people said it was ok ((as i write this)) n i have no self-control: the beginning always gets me. i love how george's

Charlynn Schmiedt

ohtheprofanity

Yesterday, I conducted a poll about whether people were listening to podcasts more or less in 2020. I also asked if people would share the reasons why they're listening more

Corbin K. Barthold

corbinkbarthold

1/ While I was in the hospital for the birth of my daughter, Techdirt posted my thoughts on the right's reaction to the post-Capitol Siege deplatformings.And what a reaction it

Rosie Roti

supriyan

2020 review thread. I read a lot of op-eds analysing k-drama's popularity and far more of them emphasised the male leads (hot, good) than the reason I watch them: how

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Welcome to Friday! I'm glad you made it, especially because our topic today is European medicinal cannibalism. This is is basically my origin story as a person who researches cannibalism

Mark Hertling

MarkHertling

In the middle of a friendly conversation with a new civilian friend this morning, he asked: "Do you remember where you were on 9/11."My wife and I glanced at each

David Fisman

DFisman

This is a key point. We REALLY need to know that we have good surveillance infrastructure in place for novel vaccine technologies. We haven't used mRNA vaccines at the population

Jack Ellis

JackEllis

One of the most interesting things about serverless is how much people argue about it. It's like Marmite, you either love it or hate it. PSA: Serverless isn't for everyone.Thread

The Strix

the_strix

Today I want to talk about the most secret of secret sauce; narrative resonance in games, and why it pays to think like a poet. Resonance, while easy for me

FTND

FightTheNewDrug

TW: Sexual violenceIt turns out, people are still watching Pornhub. So for anyone who is still unaware of Pornhub’s pattern of profiting from non-consensual content, child sexual abuse material, image-based

Jack Shepherd

jackwshepherd

I hope that at some point in the future, we "componentize" legal documents. What I mean is: move from one huge document to lots of smaller documents that collectively make

˗ˏˋ Josep ˊˎ˗ 📚🌳🚲

lomecreu

Hey. Yes you. I know you think 2020 has been crap. But nice things have happened too. Here's a hairy pig to grab your attention and my list of unequivocally

Wayward.streamer

StreamerWayward

Good morning twitter. I am Wayward, I've been streaming since occupy. I've been in Minneapolis, Baltimore, passed through Ferguson, and was at capitol seige yesterday. I have a basic set

Dr Amy Kavanagh👩🏼‍🦯 🦮

BlondeHistorian

The most exhausting thing about being blind on social media are the people who constantly ask “if you’re blind how do you tweet?”I’m so bored of answering these questions.There is

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