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Paul Cousins

PaulSCousins

Bit of a thread on retiring @essendonvfl skipper Aaron Heppell. We got to the club about the same time, early on he was a fringe VFL player often not getting

Megan McArdle

asymmetricinfo

The point being: the optimal level of fraud is never zero. At some point, it's more costly to wring out those last few instances than to just accept that yes,

Brian Bilston

brian_bilston

I’ve written a few poems chronicling the pandemic this year. Here’s a thread of some of them, beginning with ‘Serenity Prayer’, back in March. Here’s a poem on establishing a

Mostly Borrowed Ideas

borrowed_ideas

1/ Thread: Adios, AmericaCirca 1920, my grandpa was born in rural Bangladesh. Of course, there was no Bangladesh back then. It was still part of the British Empire.~30 years later,

Rick Smith

RickSmithShow

Sarah Kendzior: I worry that they'll use cheating & brutal force. They're not attempting to WIN the election, they're trying to STEAL it. People should be paying attn--I think voter

Jeremy Littau

JeremyLittau

This story is worth your time. Note the ties between government help, civic life, and information access.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/us/crime-poverty-pandemic-cleveland.html?referringSource=articleShare Note this, for example: Local

Osaretin Victor Asemota

asemota

Opera changed an important paradigm with African startups. Instead of waiting for the market, create the market. We keep thinking that if we build it they will come. They decided

Mill Wistman

wistmanswords

There are a lot of accounts of abuse and harassment on my feed lately. For some of us these accounts trigger memories of times when we felt victimised, which can

David “HINDSIGHT IS 2021” Walsh

DavidAstinWalsh

Can we *PLEASE* stop calling Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories about the election the creation of a new Lost Cause myth?It’s not a Lost Cause myth. It’s a stab-in-the-back myth. The

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

One of my favourite graphs from Joel Smalley. It exposes most of the deceits in media daily. Note this is public data with nowt taken out.The most peculiar claim, which

Disabledgirlonfire

Disabledgirlfi

I recently put a link on my website to my ABLE account for gift contributions if anyone valued my labor or learned something from it. I've gotten questions as to

Ballot Box Scotland

BallotBoxScot

Folk may recall one of BBS' other interests apart from electoral reform is local government.It's, ah, interesting to see this proposal for local government in England to cover an average

𝐉𝐚𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭

JayCostTWS

Please point to the relevant text in the Constitution where it indicates that.https://twitter.com/muxedo76/status/1292284240885772288 SCOTUS is *an* arbiter. While it’s dictates cannot be undone by another branch (not without substantial

Kristin Raworth

KristinRaworth

My miscarriage a thread.When women I know talk about this it’s like some dark secret. Like a deep personal failing that feels impossible to talk about. The experience exists in

Leon Palafox

leonpalafox

What if we've been thinking on Machine Learning and Ethics in the wrong way. A thread. Machine Learning is, by its very definition the act of learning from data to

#WeAreWashington @WeAreWashington2020

are_washington

Wow-I didn't know this, I didn’t know this. Did you?“In 1975, President Ford was left to manage the difficult ending of the Vietnam War. President Ford went to Congress for

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