#Dissonance

wasmormon

wasmormon

Facts are More Important than any cherished, Mistaken BeliefsA thread https://wasmormon.org/facts-are-more-important-than-any-cherished-mistaken-beliefs/ “The honest investigator must be prepared to follow wherever the search of truth ma

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

The greatest misunderstanding in the history of morality is that “selfish” motives taint actions with immorality Altruism, selflessness, is not a virtue, not even a little bit. It’s a vice,

Middle Earther

Silmarillion88

Although this piece and book have been thoroughly discussed on twitter in the past few days, I want to talk about something in more general terms: cognitive impression of another

Alex Oxford ☭💥

AlexOxford3

Time for some live tweeting again, in an attempt to get a little ways back to normal. I'll be covering the @TJMonticello webinar "Enslaved on Grounds: Slavery @UVA"https://youtu.be/d6CWELrEQ50 Event description:

Kathleen Stock

Docstockk

An angry thread directed towards North American "progressive" academic philosophers.This influential psychologist, Diane Ehrensaft, works with children. She thinks gender identity is expressed pre-verbally. There's no good evi

Wes Kao 🏛

wes_kao

1/ To build something new...Look beyond what’s immediately around you.When building the altMBA, Seth and I didn’t look at edtech. That was too narrow.We studied what makes ppl feel *zealous,

Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych

Nick_Carmody

When people don’t know what to believe, or feel like they can’t believe anything….they will attach their beliefs to bias-confirming narratives…even if they are illogical. I’ve previously used a “circuit

🧟Sia's Semi-reincarnated Simulacrum

digitalkai

Once upon a time, I wanted to run away from home but never did. Well, actually there were foiled attempts. But when I was finally able to do it for

DHH

dhh

The @AppleCard is such a fucking sexist program. My wife and I filed joint tax returns, live in a community-property state, and have been married for a long time. Yet

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

ThreadJust a reminder.@ron_fournier is the man who put the final nail in the coffin of western journalism.He's the father of "accountability journalism." As Associated Press Washington Bureau Chief, Fournier put

Fuzzy

coolieduppy

Until 2003, Rastas were shaved when prosecuted in Jamaica. This might come as a shock to most here, since the majority would have been born before 2003. We like to

Matt Waldman

MattWaldman

Seeing some of my colleagues talk about what it's like being black in America--@DianteLee_ comes to mind prominently this afternoon, I'd like to offer a different perspective. Being white, growing

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DichotomusPrime

Thanks Amr! With some great fundamentals on what swinginess is artihmetically, what I'm going to be getting into on my end of the #TabletopChopShop is what swinginess transforms into wrt

BrightWin Titas☀️❄

BrightWinTitas

METEOR GARDEN | F4 THAILAND: A Personal Narrative.The good, the bad and the in betweens from someone who actually grew up in the MG era.I was a fangirl. They were

Deconverted Calvinist

DeconvertedCal1

Dr. Robert Lifton has done extensive research and writing on the topic of brainwashing in large groups, using fascist countries who do "re education" as a template to study how

grace

bIairswaldofs

— every episode of gossip girl ranked from worst to best —The Princesses and the frog season 4 episode 20- blair gets engaged to a prince- serena sabotages blair- chuck