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The Australian National University is insisting that students install "invigilation" software that monitors their computer use to prevent cheating during tests.This is incredibly worrisome.https://www.woroni.com.au/news/analysis-the-issues-
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(Thread) The Future of the GOP: Part IVPart I begins here: https://twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield/status/1302665636246515712I left off showing how working to end voter suppression in California shrank the California Republicans down to about
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A lot of people who are into cryptocurrencies will see this FinCen leak as vindication and proof that banks are money launderers. But, this will be used against cryptocurrencies...1/ See
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Fed AND state governments know the long term effects COVID-19 has on lungs. New info is coming out about the effects on the kidneys, heart, and other whole systems in
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Robert Moses is trending... TL:DR #RobertMoses was a New York City politico and urban planner, who at one point held TWELVE different titles of government AT THE SAME TIME.He’s credited
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My thanks to Thomas Wright for the debate about how progressives should deal with China. A few replies:https://twitter.com/thomaswright08/status/1264162925058625536 1. Wright's main point is that the accommodating, soft-power-loving EU
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"Subprime Attention Crisis" is a new book by @timhwang that argues that the ad-tech market is a bubble created by an ad industry doing what it does best: convincing advertisers
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1. All right, friends, it's time for my semi-weekly Trump Roundup: a non-comprehensive list of the horrific things we found out about our president & his behavior this week. Let's
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#NTiHoR 1/15 Before the railways was the carrying trade—an intermodal network of waggons, boats and coastal ships operated by independent carriers. Historians have written about these transport modes, but the
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Over the past days I've been exploring extreme right-wing sites from all over the world again. There are various approaches to Corona which I will detail another time. What stands
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Thread – An Open Letter to Xi Jinping from the Executive Editor of World Is One News (WIONEWS)1. While #Dementiacrats like that poor excuse for a US senator Dianne Feinstein
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#WalkAway: "I never voted until 2016 , the guy I was dating at the time influenced my vote for Donald Trump, at that point in my life I was very
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Thread: For 2 years, I've been trying to answer a question that, despite its importance, has not been addressed adequately: what is the climate impact of the SUV boom in
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I recognize this is a pretty important Canadian discussion we are having. And in some ways, long overdue. I hope it proceeds in as honest and constructive fashion as
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A couple of notes on this piece about Salim Ayyash, the Hezbollah operative who was convicted in Rafik Hariri's killing by the tribunal earlier this month:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/man-convicted-in-2005-assassinat
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My mom, aunts, grandmother, & great grandmother were all domestic workers for white families in segregated Mississippi for white families. As Mom tells it, that’s all they could do. As
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