#Philosopher

David Mejia-Canales

dmejiacanales

Meet Prudencia Ayala, an Indigenous Salvadoran woman who was the first (and only) woman to ever run for the presidency of El Salvador in 1930 despite women not being able

Frederik 'Neckar'

NeckarValue

How Paypal led to Palantir, a quick thread:Peter Thiel and Palantir's CEO Alex Karp were roommates at Stanford. Both received their JD's from Stanford Law in 1992.https://stanfordpolitics.org/2017/11/27/peter-thiel-cover-story/ Karp

Jack Saint

lackingsaint

WAKE ME UP WAKE ME UP WAKE ME UP WAKE ME UP you know your video definitely isn't a shallow promotional ploy when you spend 30 minutes talking about the

Bourgeois Philosophy

bourgeoisophy

This is so true. Stalin was one of the greats!https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1314240051472224257 This reminds me of situation in grad school. Now, I'm a third world intellectual, revolutionary and staunch defender of Stalin

Angry Staff Officer

pptsapper

Just sitting here reading about Antietam, doing some research, and then something catches my eye: the 10th Maine, in the XII Corps attack in the East Woods, was led into

Bovinia

Cow__Momma

The 19th cen Maharashtrian philosopher and anti-caste social reformer Jotirao Phule had written extensively on King Mahabali’s reign. #Onam In Gulamgiri, or Slavery, one of his seminal books on caste,

Wyatt, Austere Deplorable

austere1717

We see this all over the place in the entertainment industry:Especially Project MONARCH and MK ULTRA mind based trauma symbolism. https://twitter.com/familyman20181/status/1260416891325239297 And we get one more shot of the Occult symbolism on

Rabbi Micah Streiffer

mstreiffer

Jewish views of God that aren't the "Old Man in the Sky." A LOOONG Lots of people say to me "I don't believe in God." And they are surprised to

rivatez

rivatez

A tweet-storm (my first ever?) to attempt to add context and defend the position of this earlier tweet:I picked these 3 not because they are particularly related but because they

JML - The Cut novel coming soon

TheMidside

A thread because I keep seeing people refer to this small visual nod to Plato in Man of Steel as if it means Snyder endorses Platonism when the opposite is

Brad Stulberg

BStulberg

8 Principles to Navigate Periods of Disorder.1. Stop Resisting What's Happening.2. Focus On What You Can Control3. Nail Daily Habits4. Use Routines5. Stay Connected6. Think Adaptation7. Respond Not React8. Show

Pallando the Blue

KomninosM

Tiny thread on bread..In our tradition, bread is a very important object vis-a-vis symbolism. In Ancient Greek, it is called "artos". The word is clearly cognate with the word for

Sayed Tabatabai, MD

TheRealDoctorT

It starts raining as I’m driving home from the hospital.Normally the rain is background noise.Today it’s different. The raindrops are splattering against the windshield with an urgency, an intensity.As if

Great Women of Mathematics

GWOMaths

GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: SOPHIE GERMAIN, 1776-1831. #GWOM Marie-Sophie Germain was born in 1776 in Paris. During the French Revolution, she was confined to her home, for safety. She used

Travis Kimmel

coloradotravis

What does it mean to say the Fed is “out of ammo?”A (properly sized) thread on how interest rates are, in the end, the only bullet. Oh, and also a

van

etherealkdy

a philosopher(KIM DOYOUNG) once said, “if you like someone, express it”“a star will shine no matter where it goes”“you are the main character in your own life”“i hope you're not