#Interesting

DECODE (12/16/20)This Decode is based on a Lin Wood Tweet, Pinned to his TW Page TRUTH:Light always overcomes darkness. Truth always overcomes lies. ...https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1276885076853379072 1.“But he that doeth truth com
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I passionately hate this. (Also, emotion detection is junk science, this is a WILD invasion of privacy, and I am looking forward to videos on how to locate and cover
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Watch how the @NASAPersevere rover will execute its "seven minutes of terror" landing on Mars on Thursday, February 18 (via @NASAJPL) https://youtu.be/rzmd7RouGrM  It's called that because while the EDL (Entry,
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New TTC report recommends shutting down the Scarborough RT in 2023. Keeping it running to 2023 would cost $275 million. Two options under consideration for 2023 shutdown scenario: buying new
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I’m very excited to share some new work, with @SpencerPiston, @EGolberstein, @Sarahgollust, and @DanielEis7, out today in @PNASNews: College roommates have a modest but significant influence on each other’s political
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This started with my being aesthetically offended by these tiles and their maker's "not your grandma's mahjong" attitude.But what's more interesting is the rabbit hole I fell down about mahjong's
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CW: discussion of general trans issues, transphobia, that kind of stuff etc.Last year, I had gotten really into researching stuff about the "rejected parents" community which is really small but
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ADDENDUM Genuinely remarkable to see one of the authors of the 2019 report touted as providing ‘evidence’ of the alleged problem in Unis simply dismissing the relevance of the fact
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Given supply chain got sexy in 2020, it only feels fitting I do 365 days of interesting supply chain facts to keep it going in the new year... 01/ ~90%
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With friends at LSE, I recently had a reading group session in memory of Emmanuel Farhi. I discussed some of his influential papers on production networks with David Baqaee.I thought
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With apologies for the profanity: a thread on "bitch" and the problem of journalistic pseudo-scholarship. The major argument of this Vox article is that the insult "bitch" became more common
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Discernment = "The ability to judge well" How much truth is in front of us that we don't notice?Examples in this thread are based on my own discernment, right or
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If you watched Biden's inauguration (my condolences), you've probably noticed that this black girl's bloviating ''poem'' was one of the highlights. Amanda Gorman is the inaugural holder of the title
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i'm just more and more grateful for creators who have a sense of who they're writing for and what those fans want, and take a real pleasure and delight in
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Weekend read: @Medium post by @GavinSBaker on his mistake in buying @intel stock in June 2020I may not be as pessimistic about Intel's future as Gavin is, however the post
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It is a Wednesday. It is almost half term. I am still homeschooling. I am still in lockdown. I want a holiday so much I could cry. But instead, I’m
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