#Critique

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courentine

concept: a writer's group except i already know i like everyone's writing style & we do it as informally as possible via comments on shared google docs and no one

Zoe Baker

anarchopac

How to write a Marxist academic critique of anarchism:1. misrepresent anarchist authors through selective quotes. 2. quote what historic Marxists wrote about anarchism and treat it as automatically true or

Kirsten de Wolf

k_dewolfwrites

Art is about showing you something you didn't see before. The way a photo is framed, what your attention is drawn to. The way you paint something—what do you distort,

Trygve Taranger

CuriousnTT

Open request to stop pretending that critical theories are on the same level as scientific theory. A more accurate name would be activist practices. That doesn't make them worthless, but

Noah Haber

NoahHaber

(non-COVID warning)"DAG With Omitted Objects Displayed (DAGWOOD): A framework for revealing causal assumptions in DAGs" is now up as a pre-print on arXiv!https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04251 Please critique the hell out of it.@anecdatally

Emmett Stinson

EmmettStinson

In a Cormac McCarthy novel, the rain isn't thin or drizzling, but thin and drizzling. Never use one modifier when two redundant ones are available. It's a style that parodies

James Surowiecki

JamesSurowiecki

1. Texas now has more Covid deaths than California does, even though California's population is 33% bigger. So Texas's per capita death rate from Covid is 40% higher than California's.

an inconvenient compassion

allegralovelace

it's ~richtig und wichtig~ as we say in german to call out structural, systemic whiteness in fandom. and at the same time to recognise how racism and misogyny, queer/transmisia and

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birthmarxist

twitter is where i critique western imperialism, esp. the u.s. empire. if you want my nuanced takes on the targets of u.s. empire, you gotta talk to me irl or

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

paimadhu

Thread on BCG vaccination and #COVIDー19.There has been a flood of ecological studies & media reports claiming that BCG vaccination protects against COVID-19. See:https://www.medrxiv.org/search/BCG%252Bcovid%252B Some of the studies are thoughtful

Lee Mandelo

leemandelo

Art does not exist to be evaluated on a scale of “harm” to “uplift,” and if we want to talk dog-whistles, that right there is a huge one: it’s deeply

thx 4 ur advice | RM

suddenlyrise

Pour en revenir aux fanfictions, tout ça ça m’a fait penser à un autre débat. Je sais qu’il y a des gens qui ne lisent QUE des ff sur Wattpad

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DrDeclanK

My thoughts on academic writing & language: books should be accessibly written but sometimes frustration with expression is simply one’s own lack of fluency in modes of thought. I’ve certainly

della ~ mothra shrine maiden

della_morte_

This is what “just asking questions” leads to. This is what signing up to defend the “free speech” of hateful bigots involves you in. This is what the people you’re

Aleš Kot

ales_kot

incredibly excited for them to meet all the other toys, and for the lunchboxes, and for the artistic integrity that will be on display, and the new wild ideas that

Allen Holub

allenholub

The reason for decisions to happen at the team level is agility plain and simple. This applies even to strategic decisions, which are best made collaboratively at the executive-team (they