#Archive

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ztsamudzi

I just find it so interesting that in all these chats about inequality and “how bad it’s going to be for Africa” none of these commentators have mentioned the regimes

James Fallows

JamesFallows

1/n Re-upping post, on two levels:-Back in 2004 I did Atlantic piece called “Blind Into Baghdad” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/01/blind-into-baghdad/302860/Its point was that risks, consequences, and blowback of US &

balajis.com

balajis

Many folks whose basic worldview is:- that can't change- already been tried- shouldn't change- just be normal- stop changing things already The decelerationist ideologyIt's essentially an attempt to verbally put

Mohammed Zubair

zoo_bear

A screenshot of tweets by 3 "Doctors" with same exact text is viral on social media. All three accounts (@dr_sonalii @Drsomna @isalonichopra) have been suspended. Let's see who these "Doctors"

Ryan Goodman

rgoodlaw

Important book by Mueller top prosecutor @AWeissmann_“They were hamstrung by Mueller’s decision not to look into Trump’s financial dealings with Russia, which might have established a source of Russian leverage

Joshua Leifer

joshualeifer

For the @JewishCurrents newsletter today, I wrote about the @hrw report on Israeli apartheid, which comes as the politics of Israel/Palestine hang in an interregnum between the discredited Oslo paradigm

Skionar

Skionar

For those who missed the drama yesterday - here's the digest. I was made aware that @BBCRadio4 were airing a long series about ghosts which was using the title of

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

I've seen a lot of people wringing their hands about COVID antibodies dropping off after 3 months, screeching things like "immunity doesn't last". @DKThomp called up the experts, and explains

Edward-Isaac Dovere

IsaacDovere

NEW - Eliot Engel represents the district the early coronavirus hot spot of New Rochelle, and that is still reeling. He hasn’t been there in months.Last weekend, I rang his

Mike Gerdts

OMGerdts

How have I not seen this before? It so needs to be live tweeted.https://archive.org/details/UNIX1985 Why all the excitement about UNIX? And will UNIX become the next MS-DOS? Shortly after showing

Benny

bennyjohnson

BREAKING, HUGE US State Dept warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat viruses- This lab was creating synthetic bat viruses for human transmissibility- Researchers at lab have history

R Bratten Weiss

Prof_RBW

We need to talk about Fatima and fascism."Fátima, like the rest of Portugal, also had fascist links during World War II, when Portugal was neutral under the right-wing dictatorship of

Simon McGarr

Tupp_Ed

For a flavour of the sort of things Government TDs have been saying about campaigners out of the glare of these public fora where they will be engaged with, here’s

David Frum

davidfrum

"If you really cared, if you really wanted to save the population from dying of COVID, you would encourage people to slim down." - Tucker Carlson October 5, 2020.1/2https://twitter.com/amalhotra2/status/1313273063627206672 "W

a house of tortured syntax

mienwhile

increasingly tempted to do a thread of operas certain cql characters should not see together. i have a couple of ideas, but if there are any groupings of characters you’d

Eric Topol

EricTopol

3 optimistic essays: the path to ending the pandemic1."Although attempts to delegitimize vaccines have posed a serious threat to human health, anti-vaccination movements, at least in the long run, have