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Naomi VanDoren ✨

NaomiVanDoren

Self-awareness: A mentor once shared that some art isn't meant to be sold but is used to learn & grow. It still holds great value because of that process in

Dr Adam Rutherford

AdamRutherford

The curse of human uniqueness theories."Baron-Cohen postulates that between 70,000 and 100,000 years ago a genetic change took hold in the human brain.."https://bit.ly/3uNeVR2 This is not a great look. I'm

Mr. Scott

mscottr

Happy #TrekTuesday, everyone. My homebuilt #StarTrek captain's chair is nearly finished! I've gotten the electronics all wired up, and I've painted it. Just needs some topcoat and maybe some

Grace Thomas

GraceGThomas

I have a lot to say about the ClickHole piece that came out at Wired today.To begin with, calling a consistent patterning of demeaning and ignoring marginalized voices a “culture

Clark Neily

ConLawWarrior

Anthropological take on overcriminalization:1. We’re all hard-wired to exploit resources in our environment. For hunter-gatherers, this includes casting the net broadly regarding what’s edible and also being very clever at

Phil Gash

philamgee

I did a case study on how women respond to DMs from strangers on social media: One group of women don’t check their DMs at all. They’re usually the ones

Dan Fox 🦊

d4nf0x

Will be posting some favourite and random #longreads every day or so as a #lockdown distraction. #Corlongavireads, if you will.First, David Foster Wallace’s incredible 2006 essay on what it’s like

Catherine

whitequark

"huh i wonder what's a piece of tape doing there" *pulls off* "you motherfUCKER"WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP DOING THIS. WHY DO I HAVE TO CLEAN THIS SHIT UP tinning the

serena⁷

luvrubyjane

blackpink at wired music festival - a needed thread god is a woman SHE’S SO SICK FOR THIS literally breathtaking

Rick Wilson

TheRickWilson

1/ Since y'all are all too young to remember this, and since I was only 5 at the time, there's some ancient history here to be considered.In the 1968 race,

Sara Danner Dukic

saradannerdukic

Read this, and remember a few things (more below).https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/08/facebook-roger-stone/ Roger Stone was in personal contact with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/us/pol

Shreyas Doshi

shreyas

2 approaches for professional growth:A) Goal-driven: What do I need to learn to immediately solve this concrete problem?B) Interest-driven: What can I learn about this domain that I don’t already

NUTS N DOLTS TIME

rosesscythes

Ableism// Can we talk about how the #Halo community has a serious ableism problem? Because I’d like to talk about it. I’ve mentioned before how a lot of the

Mozilla

mozilla

The producers of The Social Dilemma brought some serious and valid concerns about the impact of social media platforms to a broad Netflix audience. BUT… There were glaring omissions,

Propel Women

PropelWomen

We instinctively brace ourselves when we see pain coming. Our muscles clench: we curl up, we clam up. In the face of pain, we stiffen. But what if, in the

Tarleton Gillespie

TarletonG

I’ve been quietly writing about the “borderline content” policies at YouTube and Facebook for a while, or failing to - it’s taking me more time than I want to get