#Policies

Matthew Facciani, PhD

MatthewFacciani

I recently gave a talk on how to have productive conversations about controversial scientific topics (and politics). I broke it down into a five step process: 1) Leave2) Listen3) Relate4)

anonymousghana.com

qweku_malone

Google says it banned over 119,000 malicious app developers in 2020A thread https://anonymousghana.com/google-says-it-banned-over-119000-malicious-app-developers-in-2020/ The Play Store is not exactly known for its security, but Google

Evan Greer

evan_greer

One of my problems with "The Social Dilemma" is that it makes the same mistake a lot of tech observers are making: it treats social media as if its cigarettes

John Ferry

JohnFerry18

This would entail Scotland issuing vast amounts - billions of pounds worth - of 'sub-sovereign' bonds directly to the market. Potentially a good idea? Maybe, but ironically it's likely a

Luke Murphy

LukeSMurphy

Today @IPPR's Environmental Justice Commission launched it's interim report calling for a new approach to tackling the climate and nature crisis - one that is faster, goes further and is

Anand Kochukudy

AnandKochukudy

The article title has been restored in the evening and my bio, which was mischievously edited after publication, had already been fixed much earlier. However, I guess I owe everyone

Imagine Freedom 💜

iimaginefreedom

THREAD:Universities can and SHOULD use their political clout to call out racist policing and demand accountability. AND they must be willing to reimagine their own campus police departments which are

Vusi Thembekwayo

VusiThembekwayo

Thought: The scrambling by the government of South Africa to deal with COVID19 & arrive at a consistent policy direction shows the level of neglect that we’ve lived under. a

Greater Ohio Policy Center

GreaterOhio

GOPC developed a report & documented the impacts of the multi-sector partnership between @OCCHstrong, @OhioHousing, & @COHHIO, called the Ohio Preservation Compact, which retained 11,646 affordable housing units in Ohio

Doctor Historianess

historianess

Minneapolis has a long history of police brutality. Starting in the 1950s, a lot of police violence was directed at Native people living in the Twin Cities. 1/ The Federal

Gitabushi the Anti-Fascist

Gitabushi

One of the reasons the Left is so good at enacting their agenda, why the ratchet only goes Left, is *because* they use every single position they hold to break

Jeff Kosseff

jkosseff

Time for another not-very-happy rant about the state of 230 coverage, this time about the claim that it is the law that “allows political censorship.” See these two articles this

Michelle D'Arcy

mishmishjuba

Thread 1/14 - In light of the powerful #BlackLivesMatter movement going global there is a growing number of critical narratives being released on the systematic racism the Aid Sector

Lisa Sharon Harper (she/her)

lisasharper

On #Reparations: Recently, I’ve watched as some white evangelicals have jumped into this conversation with talking points they heard at the dinner table or recently, on Fox News. Neither of

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Here's an important discussion that people are missing in this polarized environment. Not only can we not remain in full lock-down forever because of its human costs, we should not.

It's Going Down

IGD_News

A reminder that the term "Libertarian," was originally used solely by the anarchist movement, in an attempt to get around censorship of anarchist publications in places like France. Only in