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One of the projects I'm working on at the moment is a new history of the RIBA's headquarters at 66 Portland Place I've been thinking about this building for nearly
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Curious to get insights about the traffic happening on your website/landing page? You do not need Google Analytics for that. There are several, more ethical tools with a focus on
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I am shocked to see this article on Indian Express about Sushant Singh Rajput by veteran journalist Nalini Singh and I wish to rebut it, point by point.I wonder why
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** Rating the COVID19 models **What's the "best" (= most accurate) of the COVID19 models out there? How can we make consistent comparisons over time?This thread discusses a (new) framework
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I'm heading out to Thurston tonight with @RNGDave for a scheduled Black Unity rally on the ass-end of Springfield.The rally is called "The Noose is a Nuisance," likely in response
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Friday was my last day at @Optimizely, a bittersweet ending to a 7 (!) year journey founding @expengine, joining Opti, and leading our product team. I shared what I've
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1/. This diagram shows how the US & UK govts appear to have a joint/parallel #COVID19 strategy, giving military-backed data-mining company, #Palantir, access to heath data on a mass scalePalantir,
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So last night we decided to go for one ‘last hurrah’... we chose a local Chinese as we’d not been to one for ages. The drama that unfolded during our
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Happy birthday to Sasha Shulgin, born on this day in 1925. He invented hundreds of chemical technologies for exploring the mind and healing the soul. Sasha's first known publications are
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I know that sounds a little vague, saying I owe the success of #TheExitStrategy to fellow writers so I think this topic merits a thread.A lot in my acknowledgments blog
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Last night Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito spoke at a Federalist Society event. It did… not go great! In fact it was a Supreme train wreck. Here’s a link to
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THREAD: Federal immigration authorities have been undermining social movements in violation of the #FirstAmendment for a long time, and it's gotten worse under this administration. What's happening with the #PortlandProtests
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Farewell John le Carre, thank you for all the extraordinary books and the immortal George Smiley. It was no doubt very hard work, but you made it look so effortless,
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Where do math problems come from? I write lots of them, and I have shared a fair number that I really like. Below is one that I think is awful.
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Lots of "cultural anthropology" dead-enders are just the softest limb of US regime change operationsI thought that after their embarrassing participation in Bolivia's 2019 coup, some of them would have
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ROLLING #bandcampfriday THREAD Starting with this heartfelt rolling techno from The Neighbourhood Character, with added remix from Laurel Halohttps://theneighbourhoodcharacter.bandcamp.com/album/down-fruitvale Not sure if this is old or new
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