#Ideas

Random thought thread.I don't expect anyone to read this or comment. Not many people do anyway and I'm not here for likes. Honest!!!But I have something I need to get
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Goose bumps. I am preparing my talk for India's FP conf and ran across some quotes from Joe Armstrong passage. I read them avidly. Bear with me as I list
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So over the few Months probably since June, I've been developing ideas for what a live action Batman tv show would be like. I kinda tweeted this before a few
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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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1. You don't need to be a genius to predict the scams that are going to come out with the government's test... no wait that's not going well erm... track?
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Illiberalism on the left is a real problem. But voting for Donald Trump to stem the rising tide of illiberalism would be a huge moral and strategic mistake.My latest @TheAtlantic.[Thread.]https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/ha
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His name is Luoke Yu. He was humiliated in front of 100,000 audience before execution during Cultural Revolution. His crime was to oppose China’s version of #CriticalRaceTheory-The Birth Theory. It
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1/ To characterize Pan-Europeanism as a rootless American idea or the lust of the "cultureless American" is simply to be ignorant of facts. Pan-Europeanism has its origin in Europe having
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When you study history, you will learn that there were (and still are) places where people had different ways of understanding their relationships to their bodies and to healing. This
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One of these days, they really need to put out a Grant Morrison Art book.Dude's an artist first and foremost, who draws out and designs a bunch of stuff before
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Out of curiousity, I turned on my car radio yesterday.Got on a station where this man got angry about Colin Kaepernick possibly joining the Las Vegas Raiders.He had a lot
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Overnighted in Toronto to run errands and buy supplies. First night in a hotel since early March; hair cuts for self & my wife. Toronto on Friday reopened restaurant interiors.
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sorry i know we all bang on but within my lifetime it was unlawful to tell school kids that being gay is finehttps://twitter.com/Independent/status/1310870440622149634 and as stan says, british education -
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Wannabe writers and makers of things, short long thread here. In 2015 I wanted to write more about other sports, but found it really hard to find anyone hire me.
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“All of the information I looked up … it's very hard to find any resources that don't involve gendering the person who has cervical cancer as a woman," said Rae.
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I wrote about a key ally of COVID-19 in this pandemic: Your voice.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/wear-your-mask-and-stop-talking/615796/The virus spreads thru large and small droplets that we produce when we speak and sho
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