#System

1/ Random Trump thoughts.Trump supporters I encounter (most don't know my dismal opinion of him) increasingly caveat their support with statements like:I don't like his tweetingorI disapprove of his manneretc.
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Thread on Dr Crane. A Transgender surgeon. Will post youtube at the end. It was temporarily made private and comments removed. You’ll se why. My thread is from the original
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In case it’s still unclear.400 years ago white people brought black people over here and enslaved them. And sold them. And treated them as less than human. For 250 years.
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To those arguing for vote by mail, to get the average American to agree with this convenience, you need to overcome some actual reasonable objections, not attempt to drown your
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A thread on @TaxJusticeUK's big 3,000 person poll on attitudes to public spending, tax and wealth. It was carried out as we went into lockdown. Full details here: https://www.taxjustice.uk/blog/new-poll-reveals-concern-about-the-state-of-public-s
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THREAD: In light of today's dismal #BelgianGP Practice sessions for Ferrari, I've been trying to find their worst qualifying performances just in case it doesn't improve tomorrow. Hard to find
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wish we weren't plural so we wouldn't have to put our entire, very vulnerable system at risk when taking political action we wouldn't survive in prison, we don't have the
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This "getting people fired is Being A Cop" bullshit is tedious but it also makes me furious. Firstly, because the timing is terrible - we've just seen yet another person
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Challenge lifting restrictions even with arguably world’s best Test-Isolate-Contact system in place. Virus not changed remains highly infectious, human population remains largely susceptible.Probable that lifting restrictions will lead to
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A very rare bit of research that is directly, straight-up relevant to real alignment problems! They trained a reward function on human preferences AND THEN measured how hard you could
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Today I learned about something which I did not know about and we were never taught in our history lessons. The sysem of "Inboekselings". (Extract from Illustrated history of South
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Living with #bipolar sometimes means dealing with hypersexuality. It's by far one of the hardest conversations to have because of the shame associated with wanting sex not just as a
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Lots of questions on our vote-by-mail experiment this morning, so I thought I'd do a big wrap with some extra info.- 21% of our mock ballots hadn't arrived after 4
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Gather 'round, children. We need to have a conversation about confidence in graduate school. I've been a graduate student basically forever, and younger PhD/MA/MS students often ask me how I
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Today a small @ImmDef team, led by @L_Toczylowski & myself went to the Long Beach Convention Center to start providing KYRs to the children in ORR custody. Most children were
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One really has to take issue with these sunny statements. Just today Lenin Moreno found Rafael Correa guilty of some confected crime, fraud/embezzlement/caring for his people etc, and the Bolivian
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