#Societies

writing in this moment

_tanwho_

1/15Today (the 1st of July) is the 99th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party in Shanghai. Here's a historical thread about the events leading up to the founding

Aurelien Mondon

aurelmondon

Uncritical coverage of the 'white working class' and the 'left behind' is not only factually wrong, it is reactionary and dangerous. Here is why First and most obvious, it

dr. professor kashiwagi, esq.

kwamurai

Conquest's Second Law of Politics states that "Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing" or, as Modlug phrased it, "Cthulhu may swim slowly, but

DK

dkcrypto13

I want to be extremely clear about it:#crypto is in a raging bull market because of the Fed. It‘s not because #Defi or $DOGE all of a sudden have any

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

Media briefing on #COVID19 with @DrTedros https://www.pscp.tv/w/cg6K8TI2MTAyMHwxTHl4QmFCT2pXYkpOa9Se-iyyRy2XIndD2U_TaYKelNuoKekBPT84__YpxsY= "I’d like to begin today’s briefing with an update on the #Ebola outbreak in the Equateur

Zakarian

mariam_zakarian

What I'm missing from this discussion: (thread)How did Twitter & Facebook define and decide which tweets to remove and why?Did Trump say anything explicitly illegal?Did he share a link to

Paballo Chauke

ChatWithChauke

UCT is wild bra, you go to class with children of presidents, ministers, judges, celebrities and they all act “normal” and drink your black label with you when they can

jc🧢🔮 🏄‍♂️🔴

truebluej

Watched "Challenger" on Netflix (the story of the space shuttle tragedy in '86). Mind's been on this Fourth Turning idea lately (h/t @Bquittem). Fourth turning is all about chaos, institutions

Kai Nagata 🇨🇦

kainagata

Creepy surveillance tools the RCMP has likely used against Canadians: - software to unlock social media privacy features- facial recognition database from #ClearviewAI- voice recognition (videos, phone calls)- AI to

Coalition Tea Lady

ItsBouquet

"The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse ... it would serve us well to understand why."Timothy Snyder -

Jambavan

SirJambavan

https://twitter.com/hinduacademy/status/1325686776334225411?s=20Some thoughts on this tweet and the widespread fallacy that somehow religion is inferior to science [corollarily, religion has to be elevated to a science in order to be respec

Anil

anilsaidso

This is the story of two disruptive innovations, several centuries apart, with remarkable similarities.My hope is that you'll gain insight into the largely invisible technological forces that alter the incentives

the_ex_slur

ex_slur

THREAD: Factual details on sex chromosomes and rare genetic variations to the normal XX female and XY male.Sex is biological and 99.98 percent of humans are either straight up male

Jill Filipovic

JillFilipovic

This column by @ezraklein is very good and I agree with him 100% on policy -- we need a generous child allowance now. But I'm seeing this creeping argument on

Mari Brighe

MariBrighe

Cis folks— I know that a lot of you mean well, & I appreciate that some of y’all are actively standing up to transphobes.But y’all gotta let go of “there

Rohit

threedotsandash

In 1822, the American Colonization Society—a group of politicians, religious leaders, and slaveholders—established Liberia as an African homeland for freed American slaves. The slaveholders were worried about the "corrupting influe

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