#Poverty

A bit of a meta-point about Korea watching - As we could see from S Korea's Assembly election, there is a sea change in the people who are forming the
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Short story This is blowing up, so might as wellhttps://humanappeal.org.uk/donate/projects/where-most-needed/emergency-fund?l=2214 A Palestinian requestedhttps://social.fund/hwhkag/?sw=1  Thing is that my avi goes perfect with this
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1/ If people can’t work, they can’t eat.@aniewang and me published a press release today highlighting the impact of the COVID-19-imposed lockdown on informal workers in Nigeria. https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/14/nigeria-protect-most-vulnerable-covi
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Yesterday I had a long thread about why Biden winning is bad for Syria. Today, I want to highlight a scenario which is very possible in case Trump is re-elected.
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I’ve seen an upturn in the number of historical patient photographs being shared on Twitter at the moment and I have THOUGHTS. Bill Jay, in ‘The Romantic Machine’, says ‘What
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The government denied the motion to extend free school meals to help the most vulnerable children over the holidays. Their argument is the following: 1. It’s the job of parent
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So to recap, #1 in Africa has decrepit res facilities, prejudiced res allocations, were prepared to have us go to lectures in the midst of a pandemic only to kick
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Oh for chrissake what have I missed that an Autism-related word is trending. Oh. Oh no. This is really actually bad. Fucking Elon Musk. Now listen there wasn't a lot
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Let's talk about how much shame and anxiety ppl, self included, feel when they have to keep asking for help. It is exhausting, like Lily said. And embarrassing. To the
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How did Seneca follow stoicism, enjoyed the upside of wealth creation and made himself anti fragile. //Thread// Seneca was among the wealthiest people in the Roman Empire. He was also
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Fuck JK Rowling, Bari Weiss, Chomsky, Rushdie and their entire pack of rabid fucking bigots pretending that they're victims because they feel "I can't be a fucking sack of shit
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1/ I wrote in @Wired that the rush to capitalize on #BigData to solve #COVID19 may lead to deeply unjust outcomes for people living in poverty and other marginalized populations.
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“We would like you (and your noble teachers) to know that we did not take up arms for the pleasure of fighting and dying; it is not because we don’t
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Was bored and decided to engage someone today on Houseparty. During the conversation I was buttressing the fact that we can beat this virus if we just follow the government
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[thread] 1 of 10Another 4.4 million jobs sacrificed to Flat Curvers. Over the last five weeks, here's how the two biggest problems facing America stack up.COVID-19 deaths: 1.5 out of
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THREAD: DeSean Jackson's IG posts are so problematic that I needed to talk about it—especially in the sunlight of the Black Lives Matter moment in America. This cancel culture trash
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