#Interesting

Mike Wavsz

mikewavsz

I think I’ve experienced this twice. First with traditional theistic old-man-in-the-sky God, now with “Expertise” as worshipped by academics and professionals.https://twitter.com/mikewavsz/status/1339848810604843009 I’ve struggled m

Ban Midou ( ParakalaRamanujadasan)

BanMidou12

Sri Vaishnava Acharya Prabhavam: This thread is dedicated to the illustrious lineage of Sri Vaishnava Sampradaya. Every now and then I will post interesting details about Sri Vaishnava Acharyas. Any

Scott Zakaib

scottzakaib

Watch out folks: there's a lot of news circulating of a "new strain" of COVID called G614 found in southeast Asia. This is NOT A NEW STRAIN, but rather it

pete wolfendale

deontologistics

Best short explanation of the GameStop phenomenon I’ve seen so far.https://twitter.com/mrbrowneyes2020/status/1354517067240771584 I suppose that my main takeaway from this is that r/wallstreetbets has enough collective consciousness to co

Fred Connelly

brendonconnelly

I have a bunch of 'memos to myself' that I like to keep in mind while writing fiction. Over the next few days, I'll share some of them in this

Ben Dreyfuss

bendreyfuss

I like 538 and the economist version and the NYT version. I learn a lot about Math™ and Probabilities℗ by reading the Articles® It’s just a fact that Nate Silver/538

hormonal jew

degendering

I don’t think it’s inherently good or bad that gender-based “empowerment” “expression” and “authenticity” are such readily commercially available narratives for cosmetics industries. But it’s certainly umm interesting! Let

emptywheel

emptywheel

And now onto Cambridge Anlaytica and the other non-GRU influence campaigns.Let's start with this hilarious description of an industry that exploits US social media companies. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7039357-200818-SSCI-R

Magnus Davidson

DavidsonMagnus

Interesting to see a community lead planning submission for a new golf course at Coul Links. Whilst the Coul Links campaign is still being celebrated it looks like the community

Saraswati Films

mmpandit

Thread:One of the most fundamental mistakes good intentioned and correctly aligned people make is to assume that others will DO good simply because what the good person tells or does

Witchcrit

Dis_Critic

This was an interesting article outlining some of the reasons politicians gave for refusing Women a voice. A number of them sounded familiar....https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43740033 Then: Godfrey Collins, MP "Intuition is far

Matthew Wright♿

mcmwright

Why is #Acoustics sometimes hard to learn? A thread of thoughts provoked by revising my materials for two acoustics modules I'll be teaching in October. First reason's positive: acoustics is

N. K. Jemisin

nkjemisin

Been thinking about one of the questions @wkamaubell relayed to me during our NYPL event earlier tonight, which was basically: In a time like this, for an artist, should I

Tyler Buchanan

Tylerjoelb

THREAD: Protest coverage at the Ohio Statehouse over the years. Starting with one of 5,000 college students shortly after the Kent State shootings. (May 8, 1970) May 1972 -- more

The Claremont Run

ClaremontRun

Though already an Omega-level mutant, expert thief, and melee fighter, Claremont also built a delicate, but hard-to-trace, thread by which we can perceive Storm as a magical being as well.

addy is recovering

babyblowkcals

recovery realizations - a thread any weight you gain in recovery is weight that your body NEEDS to gain, regardless if you're underweight, at a healthy weight or overweight there

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