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Just came across a really great paper about bots and misinformation. "Middle East Twitter bots and the covid-19 infodemic", by @abulkhaezuran @nouraaljizawi at @citizenlab. I think it's a preprint?PDF: http://workshop-proceedi
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Anyone who is insistent they can live cheaply on healthy food is currently being an arsehole. Sure you can eat a handful of pasta with 5p of onions, 40p of
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Some perspective in a quote from Bill Byrne, the founder of the Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL), back in early 1979:"Some day when we're in our rocking chairs and girls
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Working at an IT company means you can work on the concept and iterate without ever showing it to the users. You only get feedback from users once you release,
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Like a landing in a flight, the transfer of power is the riskiest moment in the life of states. Liberal democracies remain stable because of existing conventions that power will
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Great first day at #SPSA2021! Drawing attention to a few really cool papers from up-and-coming judicial scholars... Started the day watching #USCPOLI grad student @maddyshanks24 present some early dissertation work
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So many people got into gaming late in life, not because they didn't want to game, but because of the price barrier. This is the story with sooo many of
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LIVID about that @NatureComms paper. I was at a conference once w a panel on Women in Wildlife. During the Q&A the male dept head of my former university said
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I don't share the of this take, but I'm gonna make the boring, ho-hum case for this premise.https://twitter.com/vandrewattycpa/status/1338308262022811648 If you spend a lot of time driving around the Midwest
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Chelsea players as Marvel characters Iron Man - lamps Yes. The man on the wheel Captain America - Christian PULISICHe is also nicknamed captain america. He has been doing great
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quick thread of justin timberlake being a shitty person. it's happened to more people than you think.sean pauls story on how JTs bodyguard threw him out so smoothly, he almost
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Going through the $ENB Q4 preso. On-going ENB developments probably have the most immediate implications on the WCSB industry (L3, L5, mainline contracting). A couple random thoughts.... #EFT #OOTT Line
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I have found embracing the paradoxes & weirdnesses & sadnesses & awkwardness of Mormonism & Mormon history to be a great defense against other ideologies, conspiracy theories, habits, & politics
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VIMAAN AND SATELLITES ARE THE FRUITS OF OUR ANCIENT WISDOMRigved 1.27.5Here Dhyulok denotes light or Prakash which is the symbol of Knowledge and Space or Antariksha stands for Universal truth
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Short background thread about the significancehttps://twitter.com/comparativist/status/1327224546089345024 China is somewhat peculiar in that there was no settled endonym (name you call yourselves) for what what we call China today for most
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I meant 1954 (to be precise).1954 was when the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, the case kicked off the modern civil rights movement, which jump started the
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