#EFFORT

Even if I accepted that Virgil's pogrom Facebook post was intended to communicate embarrassment/frustration rather than ironic flippancy about platforming Nazis, it was1) not an apology for platforming Nazis (I've
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In last 24 hours, just a ton of immigration news. Not counting of course the pain and trauma felt by tens of millions of people each day. A few things
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Around 70 years ago, another country went through one of the most destructive witch hunts in modern history. It was the start of the cold war and Senator Joe McCarthy
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1. Because of risks and public health concerns, the Obama administration had banned (in October 2014), federal funding on efforts to weaponize three viruses – influenza, MERS, and SARS. Trump
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Just did an analysis of 10 years of half-assed self-publishing. Executive summary: Life in the long tail10 years (started with Tempo paperback in May 2011)10 volumes — 9 ebook-only, 1
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Look, I don't want to sound like a jerk here, but I have an issue and I think other authors have this too and just don't want to be the
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Dalita is a Sanskrit word which means split or scattered.Prior to 1871, there were no records of untouchables in Hindu society, the people who do unclean jobs meant those who
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"Meritocracy" changed from "How do we ensure the best rise up?" to "How do we ensure ppl get an equal chance? Who decides who's best? How?" It was used to
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Trump's broke. He has lots of assets (whose value *he* assesses), and those assets have lots of debt. But he also has massive operating and personal debts that he will
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New KFF/Cook surveys: Arizona: Biden+5Florida: Biden+1North Carolina: Biden+2And a nice thing about these polls is that they're methodologically unique, with a novel live phone+mail-to-web methodology for full coverage RBShttps://www.kf
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Am I a GPA snob? You bet. Later in life, it matters less, but when you're a 22 year old job applicant, it matters a lot. A student from a
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NEW: Twitter suspended over 1,500 accounts after BF News & @DigiAfricaLab uncovered an influence op involving employees of a Nigerian PR firm, a UK-based nonprofit called Digital Good Governance for
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Thread. Decided today to have a nosy at some boxes of Dad’s old stuff in the garage. He passed away in 1979. Some absolute treasure troves of NZ and Welsh
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most people have a hard time managing cognitive dissonance, AKA the state of holding inconsistent beliefs. everyone does this, but it’s difficult to confront. no one wants to acknowledge their
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Hello,I am writing this tweet thread to show all of you the seriousness of COVID19 and how our governments are putting everything they have to fight this disease. Please take
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Apple & Google's annoucement provides HUGE support for #DP3T against centralised solutions, which *no longer work* under it. The API they specify lets devices to query list of IDs they
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