#CULTURE

This sexist nonsense again. Facty thread time 1/12?https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/feb/04/tokyo-2020-chief-pressed-to-resign-after-saying-women-talked-too-much-at-meetings There's a popular belief that women talk more than men,
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I am reading Ahmed El Shamsy’s recent book on the impact of #printing on modern discourses on #Islamic scholarship. Like his previous book, it is extremely readable and insightful. I
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Four facets of OSS are 1) Licensing (Foundations or Trade Associations play no role here) 2) Governance - There are many ways to implement governance. The vendors keep open or
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I'm at the #mla21 panel on changing departmental and institutional culture for equity. I don't even belong to a department. Why attend?Because the future of good scholarship and pedagogy depends
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Flapper girls from the 1920s are a Western manifestation of a much larger social phenomenon.When capitalism hits a certain point values quickly shift from traditional to consumer-capitalist. This is because
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okay i said i was gonna do this so here it is:Dear Goyim,a thread of how to be a good jewish ally / how to recognised your ingrained antisemitic behaviours
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I will always be entertained by the idea that only fascists have racist views. And by entertained I mean fed up with the way some of y'all do the gaslighting
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I'm with @chrislhayes – before you start talking about how the events of last Wednesday will make a dramatic difference in American politics, I'd like to remind you of how
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Many know about how bad it is to grow up Mormon in Utah - but I really don't think people understand the extent of it. I personally know/knew two kids
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The greatest gift you can give a prospective candidate is a list of all of the reasons they may fail at your company.Too often we focus on "the sell" but
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Like seriously, this is such a gigantic killer of a problem that North America is completely failing at regulating I mean “killer” literally. Fossil fueled killer machines.In airline industries, there’s
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This is a special wee, the Christmas week of a challenging year, so let's all let the Light cover us and focus on what's important like family, love, health, friends
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the culture war over the vaccine stuff and the just rank dishonesty that chart pundit dudes are throwing out there about the process and how definitive a few slides might
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Why Jeff Bezos Only Hires Excellent Writers[THREAD]Let’s go Jeff Bezos banned PowerPoint at Amazon’s meetings in favor of narrative documents. He realizes the power of good writing and made
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Our statement regarding today's layoff of more than half our video staff: Our video team was (and is) full of incredible talent. Here's some of their best work: Standing in
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friends is it time to have a talk about purity culture and how it's infiltrated lots of left wing spaces disguised as 'respect for women' and 'keeping it respectful' but
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