#World

1/Have Albertans figured out the Scheer and Kenney trips to India?Many must wonder why these lacklustre Opposition leaders with no mandate are suddenly jetting off to pretend they are doing
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There's been a wave of good pieces on COVID-19 long-haulers in the last few weeks. Here's @tanyabasu in MIT Tech Review on the Body Politic group that organized to research
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Accounting prof and #GND cofounder @RichardJMurphy wrote an astounding thread over the weekend explaining where money comes from and what purpose taxation serves. https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/13377376066883338261/ He's sinc
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Many people discuss using alternative welfare measures, prominently @beyond_ideology.This article by @BrunoSFrey discusses why happiness is a useful indicator (Bruno pioneered that research), but should be used to improve processes,
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1/ An elector story.Once upon a time, there was a very very very fraught presidential election.An election where each side thought that the other would likely destroy the United States.
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Okay a few things.a) Let nonbinary people define themselves for themselves. If I say I'm a nonbinary woman and my partner calls me their girlfriend, they're not misgendering me, because
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The irony of US threatening unilateral, presidential action to ban TikTok is that it might just kickstart the conversation about how the EU would be better off kicking out Facebook/Google/Amazon
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EPSTEIN, THE MAXWELL SISTERS AND THE FBI’S COUNTER-TERRORISM DATABASE[NEW THREAD] RT if you like this thread Jeffery Epstein could not have raped as many children as he did without
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Protecting the #OpenInternet is a key objective for Twitter – it’s why we exist. There are two key areas to consider:1. Avoid entrenching the dominance of the biggest players by
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The definition of ideology is that it is immune to empirical refutation. Facts literally bounce off it.https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/1327082667591028737 2/ Scientists who have to pay attention to how reality works & not
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Damasio in his book 'The Strange Order of Things' argues that the core of condition lies in homeostasis. I agree with this generalization. But let me work out in a
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1. Just because our own media portrays Corbyn as either completely inept or, alternatively, extraordinarily dangerous doesn't mean that this is how he is viewed in the EU. A short
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So, this is leading to quite an interesting conversation. I'm going to clarify a few things, and then in a bit I'm going to delete, because under present conditions of
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Hello! Tamara Broderick, Ryan Giordano and I have a new working paper out!! It's called "An Automatic Finite-Sample Robustness Metric: Can Dropping a Little Data Change Conclusions?" https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14999  Here
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1/ This fall I’m teaching a new @AU_SIS MA/PhD course on humanitarian interventions. Lots of new stuff—trying to address hard Qs & push disciplinary boundaries. See thread. Things I should
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This week on #WednesdayswithWIFIndia to get a National Health CardPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Independence day announced the National Digital Health Mission, under which every Indian citizen will get a
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