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☉rthnormalist

orthonormalist

Most of my big life decisions right now account for a belief there's a significant chance that the US ceases to be functional in the next 20 years as a

Dr Claire Hardaker (she/her)

DrClaireH

This #WednesdayWisdom let's do metaphors. These can be super-slippery ways of both controlling current thinking about events, *and* setting up people to respond in certain ways in the future.NB. The

Abraham Newman

ANewman_forward

Thread: US risk abandoning the open internet and giving huge gift to China. Example of naive weaponized interdependence and how it could backfire.https://www.state.gov/announcing-the-expansion-of-the-clean-network-to-safeguard-americas-asse

natasha mascarenhas

nmasc_

I started covering edtech for @techcrunch & @extracrunch the same day that Stanford first closed campus; here's what I've learned so far (a thread) The first few months of remote

Bike Cop

jUsT_A_bIkE_cOp

This gets long and somewhat eclectic.3 main elements of the de-escalation model is the concept of Time, Distance, and Shielding. Time to work out solutions, distance to afford you time,

miss punk

smmrtimesuicide

please do not ignore this any longer,the Canadian government is currently trying to build a pipeline on stolen indigenous land.not to mention poison communities with the inevitability of oil spills

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

With its US body count around 200k, the opioid epidemic may seem like small potatoes next to the slaughter of the bungled covid response, but it's a still-suppurating wound on

Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D.

KatherineJWu

A few weeks ago, I heard scattered rumors about bizarre positives coming out of coronavirus testing programs at universities.It didn't seem to be the coronavirus. It also wasn't contamination in

Harmeet K. Dhillon

pnjaban

Thread: In case y'all are wondering who at the DOJ is in charge of election law matters at the @TheJusticeDept -- there are two places to look. First, the Civil

Brad Simpson

bradleyrsimpson

1/8 Trump, in endorsing China's genocide against the Uighurs, joins a long list of US presidents of both parties who have winked, nodded, or openly supported genocide. We could start

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

@who going to investigate Covid-19 originating from frozen foods rather than #laborigins because lab leak too unlikely based on what the Wuhan lab personnel told them.https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1359093856957005824 Not too confident t

Justin Stevens

_JustinStevens_

A timeline thread on Australia’s vaccines 19/8/20 PM media release: ‘Australians will be among the first in the world to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, if it proves successful, through

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

Removing Trump from office early can (and will) happen if (or when) GOP Senators stop shielding him. That's a constitutional reality.My view: The GOP Senators will stop shielding him when

陰陳俊傑 Carl Tan Chun Kiet

tanchunkiet

The more I reach out to old leftist friends of mine (many of whom helped steer me in the right direction politically), the more I realize how many of them

Tomi T Ahonen of the Smile Police

tomiahonen

PARDON ROULETTEMcENEMY: Mr President, as you're handing out pardons to family & close staffers, could you give me a Presidential pardon too?TRUMP: Who are you?#McEnemy#PardonRoulette #PardonGate PARDON ROULETTETRUMP: Steve, you

Puff the Magic Hater

MsKellyMHayes

Rich people break the law every day and get away with it. But y'all think the law will stop Trump from declaring the election is postponed due to COVID-19 and

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