#Overreaction

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smolrobots

It's another example of the conflation of "offensive" (violent, dangerous, aggressive) with "being offended" (shocked, scandalised, put out). They don't mean the same thing, but thanks to Ricky Gervais and

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wealthandvirtue

Copywriting Tip𝕋𝕠𝕡 𝕋𝕚𝕖𝕣 𝕊𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪𝕥𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘Top Copy needs good storytelling skills......but how do you get better?You can start, by studying experts. (A thread) This doesn't mean taking

ChrisTomlinson

cltomlinson

Good business people know how to strike a deal that benefits all parties, and in the time of COVID-19, renegotiated #realestate deals will require everyone to share the pain. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/kind

Guillermo Rojas Hernandez

guillermokrh

@timnitGebru identified a huge problem w/artificial intelligence today: English text generators (language models) are built using online text from sources like Twitter. But there's so much abuse towards women, people

Eric Lipton

EricLiptonNYT

1) Nothing President Trump today undermines even a single fact in the stories we published over the weekend. The truth remains that the nation's top health advisers concluded as of

Stephen Foung

StephenFoung

I think I’ve figured out why people are so vehemently opposed to conspiracy theories. I don’t just mean dismissive, I mean actually triggered/inflamed at them. On the surface it seems

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autisticwangji

1/18 let’s talk about the popularity of beefleaf, the scorn of xuexiao, and the absolute complicity in ableism that exists online. for context, i started talking about this the other

Sima Ladjevardian

SimaforTX

Hey @DanCrenshawTX: While we're at it, let's fact check your "fact check."*Cracks knuckles* (1/8) Lie 1: Dan claims he never downplayed our hospitals being overwhelmed.On June 11, he said “We

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charcharap

Faker is and always will be the (Greatest of All Time) T1 (the org) knows this and believes in this so much that in the meme where “what would

Daniel Ciarabellini

D_Ciarabellini

In honour of #MentalHealthWeek, and to encourage others (esp. lawyers) to share their own struggles and solutions, I'll reveal some personal stuff that I normally keep hidden from public view.

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Kate_Biscuit

Whole thread is well worth reading (always is from this writer), but this point, right here, is crucial.My triggers around *perceived or real* anger and raised voices make things hard

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innocent

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James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

A few points about why I think voting for Trump isn't necessarily a horrible idea.1) Radicalization by Trump is already priced in. Certainly there will be many among the Woke

Eric Weinstein

EricRWeinstein

I can at long last explain to everyone what the “Intellectual Dark Web was about”.It was about this.And what comes next if you the media and you the Democratic Party

Nathan McNulty

NathanMcNulty

Re: NYC blocking ZoomI like Matthew a lot, but I don't feel this is a "dumb overreaction."As a security admin overseeing 40K+ students and participating in communities serving over 1.5M

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

All over the world, the authorities are closing down parks and trails—but that's unsustainable, counterproductive and probably even harmful. Instead, we should adapt to the pandemic and retool them for