#Connected

A THREAD on insightful timeless ideas shared by Paul Graham (@paulg) during 2010-15:1/Almost all business books are an essay's worth of ideas, macroexpanded one way or another. 2/Advice that will
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Throughout Western civilization the history of memory externalization runs parallel with the experienced disappearance of its artificial, man made, character. An accidental disappearance, however much intrinsic to our experience, that up
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Myself and a few others are preparing a letter to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to ask for an ambitious programme of temporary and trial action to enable social distancing and
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That @Nytimes op-ed in which @fmanjoo counts 100+ contacts outside his bubble, then decided he loves his family so much that he'll expose them to risk w/ a Thanksgiving gathering
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i finished the book: The Time Keeper (in 1 day omg)and here are some words by @MitchAlbom that i super duper loveda thread, knowing something and understanding it were not
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ok really weird because i could have sworn tim burton was connected to coraline somehow and was brought up a lot in marketing for the film but apparently he wasn’t,
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(1) Well, first thing, the child labour allegations wasn’t just Tesla.It was Tesla, Google, Apple, Dell, Microsoft, and more. And they’re still in court over this — or maybe it’s
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#icymi this past weekend, #APOD had a GREAT graphic showing where all the elements in the periodic table come from (data from @jajohnson51) "The hydrogen in your body, present
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People here's a map. Study it carefully for a second. The KMT invaded and overthrew the East Turkistan government after WWII ended. It was summarily absorbed into the PRC after
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~ thread ~ on computing the oriented cobordism group in degree 4! idk if this is how ppl normally do it, and some of these steps are my own, so
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Race is a fixed class, and Amy Cooper understood the true class dynamic at play. Friend & I used to joke about how you should never be rude to anyone
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Easter weekend in lockdown, a thread of suggestions. Any more welcome. Major museums and art galleries are putting lots more stuff to look at and read about on their websites.
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USAID is joining Germans' effort to privatize electricity production. Since the 1960s, STEG has been developing energy infrastructure/providing affordable electricity across the country w/our following a capitalistic logic. Marketizatio
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I've spoken to nurses at dozens of hospitals who have told me they are classifying every death they can as coronavirus in order to get more funding from the government.They
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It has come to our notice that there is a challenge being promoted on social media called The Orijin Challenge which asks consumers to gulp down a PET bottle of
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Here i will gradually leave songs that i recommend. Some will mean things to me, some will have connected with me in a moment and some will just be silly
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