#Silicon

Henry Williams

humford

State education budgets are getting slashed and millions of children are starving. Meanwhile, they are pouring billions into "engagement pedometers" to track student excitement and make the "future of education."This,

Jay Rosen

jayrosen_nyu

A thread about a metaphor that increasingly misleads. I refer to the image of "exposure" as a description of what the press does, should do, or isn't doing well enough.

Maressa Brown

MaressaSylvie

CA friends: Here's my case for #YesOnProp22. Last year, I founded @cafwu. My colleagues spent the last year fighting for CA journalists+writers to fix AB5 and remain self-employed. We were

Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ

sankrant

I have been asking for cross-country data on India's "English advantage" even in IT, but have yet to see anyone come up with it.Perhaps this table will conclusively establish this

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

"Binding arbitration" is a system for resolving legal disputes without going to court. It was invented to help large corporations of equal bargaining power amicably and quickly resolve their contract

Greg Cadger

CadgerGreg

Some thoughts and rambling. I will be 50 soon. Hard to believe as it seems like just a few years ago I graduated college & left for Silicon Valley to

Abeba Birhane

Abebab

I promised a few people that I'd compile the Twitter threads of previous books I streamed a while back. What better thing to do when you're sitting in an airport

Robert Young Pelton

RYP__

Here is the entire 21 minute Channel 4 piece on how Donald Trump used his campaign funds to suppress black American voters in 2016. He had 200 million profiles. Share,

فهد الرشيد

FahRasheed

افضل نوع من الافلام هو الذي يثريك بمعلومات مفيدة ويمتعك بحبكة سينمائية رائعة في هذا الثريد سأذكر أفضل الافلام التي شاهدتها وتعلمت م

Teddy Schleifer

teddyschleifer

NEW: Jack Dorsey's announcement is perfect timing for a new, long story we have just published:We are living in tech billionaires' world now more than ever. These are the tradeoffs

NeoDravidam

NeoDravidam

வட மாநிலங்கள் வளம் மிகுந்தவை. Indo-Gangetic-Brahmaputra plain என அழைக்கப்படும் பஞ்சாப் முதல் அசாம் வரையிலான

Anime Jeff Bezos🧢

AnimeBezos

I've got a #YangGang thread inboundHere we go...#Yang2020#UniversalBasicIncome https://twitter.com/pemalevy/status/1197931428069171200 1/ “Tech Bro”Ah, the hackneyed ‘tech bro’ smear. The insinuation is clear – They want people to associate Yang

Paris Marx ☭

parismarx

okay so, the social dilemma on netflix:the film is populated with a bunch of former high-ranking tech employees and executives (for the most part) who have seemingly seen the light:

jonstokes.com

jonst0kes

A few days ago, @arrington called it that there was a big hit piece in the works based on the Coinbase memo. The piece is now live, & it's remarkable

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/OK, just for fun, let's take this tweet seriously, and think of a list of ways that the world has progressed since the 1970s. 2/The first category he names is

Gagan Biyani

gaganbiyani

At Udemy, we were 3 first-time entrepreneurs trying to raise seed capital. We made every mistake in the book.We got 200+ no’s and wasted 12 months fundraising.We eventually pulled through,