#Basic

Tracy King

tkingdot

I think this is what I expected would happen here. But there is no well-oiled British hygiene machine, just a week-old mask worn under the nose and a dirty cotton

Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

xandvt

There are lots of people out there who sincerely believe that the government are not responsible for COVID deaths: in the end we all managed our own risks. Personal responsibility

James Goodwin

J_A_Goodwin

1/ *cracks knuckles and begins typing* Dear Twitter diary, I have some thoughts about the Biden Day One memo on Modernizing Regulatory Review...https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/modernizing-regulatory-

Sarah Onken

s_onken

Here’s a thread of basic tips about having conversations on race from Ijeoma Oluo’s book “So you want to talk about race” 1. State your intentions - Why are

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐠𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩 🏳️‍🌈

disco_socialist

It's funny how the only message a lot of folks have gleaned from MLK is boiled down to "everyone be nice to ME" and not anything regarding the material conditions

UnmodernM

UnmodernM

Don’t praise the commitment of a man who has no options. Admire the man who can have whatever & whoever he wants, but then commits to one. Thread One of

An0n661

An0n661

My theory all along has been a complete and total media and internet shut down. No TV to watch the news, no internet to check FB or Twitter. Why is

Thomas Chatterton Williams 🌍 🎧

thomaschattwill

This is straight-up tragic. The “anti-racism” sweeping institutions still ends up rendering black people as somehow different, other, unable to meet even basic standards. Ralph Ellison weeps.“Rutgers English Department to

Kiran Kumar S

KiranKS

Some numbers on clothes industry.1) Every year, the world produces $1,300,000,000,000 worth of readymade cloths. Female's cloths $689 billion, men's $403 bn & children's $208 bn.2) Footwear sales per year

Matt Olm

MattagenOlmics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2505-4 I loved this paper and I bet it's conclusions will be taught in "Intro to Microbial Physiology" classes for decades to come. Very fun to read about a fundamental

Yair Rosenberg

Yair_Rosenberg

Here's the essential lesson you can learn from this: For good or ill, Israel policy in America is—and has always been—set by the 98% of Americans who are not Jewish,

Miriam Brett

MiriamBrett

Failing to combat a moral panic fuelled by disinformation scapegoating transgender people is a failure to protect the rights of a marginalised community. The tipping point should’ve been a long

Santiago

svpino

The one million dollar question:"Is it reasonable for someone to dive into machine learning with a shallow knowledge of math?" The short answer is "yes." The more nuanced answer is

Sarvesh Tiwari

bhAratenduH

“Southern langs have more Sanskrit while Hindi is corrupted by Farsi” is an oft repeated myth. Telugu (very dear to me) has so much Arabi Farsi that people don’t even

Bi Dyke

Azure_Husky

I cannot express enough how fucking weird it is to be in your mid to late 30s, going through puberty again, and figuring out basic things like "what is my

Mike Boylan-Kolchin

MBKplus

Plenty of people have dunked on a variety of aspects of that moronic WSJ op-ed — the misogyny, the condescension, the anti-intellectualism. I’m here to complain the revisionist history. There’s

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