#System

Premier Doug Ford is about to make an announcement on testing in Ontario. Today is the 7th day in a row the province has failed to meet it's 16,000 tests/day
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Michael Collins was my favorite astronaut when I was a kid. I realize this may not make sense without the self-mythologizing of a long, discursive thread, so here we go.
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What if the way we've been thinking about change and disorder is all wrong? Perhaps there is no going back to the way things were.Change is not something that passively
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thread: how I classify and identify with RW twitter. I identify with more than 1 group. I'm writing this thread so that I can better elaborate my position. (1/n)https://twitter.com/vegpulao31/status/1245985068562014208 I
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"Measure twice, cut once" is bullshit.A brief thread rant on woodworking and causal inference (yeah, you read that right).From table legs to descriptive stats tables, from picture frames to the
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hello everyone, i have something to say again we are seeing a lot of things that leftists have been asking for suddenly be accomplished in the past week or so
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Our so-called EU "friends" are willing to turn vital shared infrastructure into political weapons. The case for building energy resilience is overwhelming and mini-nukes should become a cornerstone of our
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I've been in science for many years.For many years, I've pleaded and pushed for change. I've taught myself how to organize communities in science healthily, because science sure as hell
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1/ Outbreak investigation: #covid19 super-spreading event on a bus in China.This study in @JAMA_current is compelling.They describe notable spread of #covid19 throughout a bus that had recirculating air via AC
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What’s great about these privacy warnings is that nobody is calling the researchers irresponsible for revealing them immediately to the public, & Twitter is thanking them instead of trying to
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Hello philosophy/pol theory/feminism twitter! I’ve been following many of you and would like to say hi—but instead, may I bring your attention to the popular women’s strike current under way
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(A few) Ops Lessons We All Learn The Hard Way -- a Twitter : 1. Email is the worst monitoring and alerting mechanism except for all the others.2. Absence of
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The Mammy stereotype.Mammy is the cheerful and willing house-slave. This cheerfulness is depicted in films/novels, namely the main character #AuntJemima from 'Gone with the Wind.' The Mammy was created to
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This is a jarring look at the complete nightmare Facebook’s news feed has become for many of its users, especially Boomers, and for the body politic.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/facebook-disinformation-boomers.html Nothing h
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It would be nice to have a President who doesn't spend every waking hour trying to figure out which of his fellow citizens he needs to pick a fight with
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Beliefs and practices are connected, yes, but separable. At least, we can find examples religious behaviors that are isolated from a unifying doctrine. I dream of cooking up a religion
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