#Social

Sridhar Vembu

svembu

1/ There is this technocratic idea that Economics is a scientific discipline like Physics. Not true.Subject to the "conservation law" that the world cannot consume what it has not produced

Chris Vanderveen

chrisvanderveen

I'm listening in on @CDPHE call taking place right now... Will try to put news coming from it in this thread below... #COVID19colorado Interesting to note Dr. Jonathan Samet on

la serveuse

laserveuse2

1. macron has announced that strict confinement will continue until 11 may at which point it'll be relaxed and schools will re-open. the "sick and vulnerable" will remain confined- well,

Jonathan Turley

JonathanTurley

The latest move by Twitter against President Trump will only fuel calls for government intervention. The standard of "glorifying violence" is so ambiguous and subjective that it could be used

silviowaisbord

silviowaisbord

Here is my take on this article. It makes some good points, familiar to people who work on comm, social norms and behavior/social change. New behaviors should be easy and

On Deck

beondeck

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thembo

immaterialfags

russian feminist artist Yulia Tsvetkova faces 6 years in jail for several cartoonish drawings of naked women with body-positive captions. i can’t even begin to explain how infuriating that is.

Bloomberg CityLab

CityLab

A group of several hundred urban planners is calling for the largest U.S. planning organization to support defunding the police.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-06/the-city-planners-case-to-defund-the-police?sref=aGTrSb9U&

Nicole Auerbach

NicoleAuerbach

OK, I have a wild story to share about online dating in the age of social distancing: My best friend in Dallas was texting with this guy for a month

Doug Saunders

DougSaunders

One of this historical moments when citizens step in to limit the violent excesses of their rulers By declaring social media a de facto broadcaster, Trump has made it follow

Yele ‘夜雷’ Bademosi 💸

YeleBademosi

1/n I'm super excited to announce Bundle (@BundleAfrica), an Africa-focused social payments app for cash and crypto After working on this for the last couple of months, we are coming

Helen Pluckrose has returned to Hermit Mode

HPluckrose

Nope, not arguing. Don't even bother. I don't have to pretend to think someone who expresses a wish for a demographic she is prejudiced against to die of a virus

Matt Murphy

murphyliverpool

. I am an academic Warden overseeing a 1500 bed hall @livuni There is much low-information hysteria around the Halls experience. Here, Students are in households

Imandeep Kaur

ImmyKaur

So, we’ve had a range of reactions to us talking about dilapidations processes and our bill @ImpactHubBrum. I want to talk to you a little bit, about these reactions, my

Sam Sacks

SamSacks

Bernie lost because a social democrat can’t win the Democratic nomination. The party is even more conservative now—It’s teeming with never-Trumpers. I was wrongly optimistic that the Dems might get

Huttser Coyote

huttser_coyote

I've...never had someone DM me and prompt me to ask my feelings on social justice issues when I simply wanted to commission them. I never brought these things up to