#Contexts

One reflection on my long discussion w Helen Pluckrose - she aims to mark out a "rational middle ground" position. She says not only shld we not expect organisations to
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*Two Cents* - These "Africa is doing great with COVID" takes are as problematic as the "Africa is hopeless in the face of this crisis" takes. They lack nuance, downplay
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here's a shortwhy suju got their full album in 30 days: Twins (debut single) didn't have good public response. They were called DBSK's "leftovers," since they were just the leftover
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Akkadian has a verb nΓ’kum 'to have sex with,' which is cognate to Arabic Ω†Ψ§Ωƒ nāk- 'to fuck.' I can't find any cognates in Aramaic, Ge'ez, or Hebrew, so potentially
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From my new @PrincetonUPress book "Empires of Vice." On what the dark history of empires and opium prohibition in #SoutheastAsia can teach us today about how to solve morally-charged transnational
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For #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth I’d like to touch on some terms that I often seen tossed around loosely and improperly on twitter and other social media in a short, 5 part
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Submitting a proposal for #ASHE2020? Authors are able to select from one of the 10 general conference sections or 4 pre-conferences. Below is a brief overview of each section. For
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For those in the Scottish literary community wondering about the cancellation of the @Saltire_Society Lit Awards this year, it's worth remembering the controversy that arose this time last year, which
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Appreciating the Sahihayn: A Proposition[Thread]The 2 Sahihs have been continuously defended & appreciated in many contexts. However, there are ways that are yet to be thoroughly explored.One of those is
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So a while back I did this thread about how almost everything we "know" about the Minoans was made up by Arthur Evans to soothe a European inferiority complex about
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My talk this morning for ESL teachers in Mexico, for MEXTESOL, is about usage. It's a topic that is rarely covered in ESL contexts. For most of us, "usage" is
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if you write bts fic and you're white, at the very least, accept that you are entering into a space that doesnt belong to you. your queerness doesn't change that
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Look the question "Do AMAB trans people experience male privilege before coming out?" keeps going around Twitter and I think we need to understand that it is, at best, a
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Fascinating section in The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin, arguing against software customization.I don't agree with his conclusion, but he still raises some great points. Some thoughts: ⬎ Quick caveat
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Today, @UN @antonioguterres is releasing a report on gender-based violence in this crisis. A few thoughts off our GBV analysis released last week taking a look which women, girls and
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Today the leader of the Greens appears to have told the BBC women like me who think #sexmatters are like racists, and Labour was reported to have a candidate who
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