#Countries

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/12Very good, sober @noahpinion piece on digital RMB (it seems hard for most to write soberly about digital currencies). He makes at least four important points:First, given how advanced China's

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

It's #WorldMentalHealthDay !-Close to 1 billion people have a mental disorder-Depression is a leading cause of illness & disability-1 person dies every 40 seconds from suicide-3 million people die every

Gordon Pennycook

GordPennycook

New WP on attitudes about COVID-19! https://psyarxiv.com/zhjkp/ - Political polarization is stronger in the U.S. than U.K. - But misperceptions are more strongly predicted by IQ than ideology (even in

usagi @ failed grisha training ☆ミ

usagiko

I don't know who's doing the subs for Mars Red but let me give you major props because quoting poetry and books from the Taisho era is no easy feat.

Trevor Tombe

trevortombe

Today's COVID vaccination update:- Total shots given: 8,330,898- Shots per 100 people: 21.9- Shots reported today *: 334,776 (new record!)- Inventory: 9 days (at avg pace)Source: https://covid19tracker.ca/vaccinationtracker.html* Includ

Aliza Ovadia

OvadiaAliza

The one high brow European Marxist who is worth reading would be Nicos Poulantzas for how he conceptualized capitalism as a system that is ever evolving, how class position is

Kevin Bass, MS

kevinnbass

Telling people to "lose weight" to survive COVID-19 is in really bad taste and stupid as well, because it: 1. Won't work if "you will die early from heart disease,

Jay Vasantharajah

jayvasdigital

Service businesses can be wildly profitable.I ran a PPC agency for 5 yrs & it generated nearly $1m in net owner earning (43% net margin, P&L link below). This cash

Cat Hyde BREAKING NEWS (I'm just here for my ban)

KBoomhauer

Dear @ADL, this is not a 'white nationalist' conspiracy theory, nor is it anti-Semitic. And the truth is: the west is under attack by its own governments and the global

Ben White

drbenwhite

During the covid19 crisis 'the positive professor' Karol Sikora, CMO of Rutherford Cancer Centres, has been promoting his private interests. On 11th May he tweeted: "can we please stop with

Lindsay Broadwell 🌹🏳️‍🌈

LindsayPB

This here is very fair comment - and why I talk about things like public finance of construction, public ownership of utilities, standardisation on a single design, etc etc.Is it

Asher De Vuyst

AsherDeVuyst

Corona virus is fast forwarding trends that have been slowly progressing but inevitable. The future is touchless. The need to physically insert cards, touch screens, will disappear (Inconvenient, inefficient &

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

There are 3 cities in the world that fall under no national authority, have separate laws, pay no taxes, have their own police force & control the economy: the City

Esteve Amagat Carbià

Senyor_Esteve

A wanderlust/motorcycle journey thread sparked by trying to find the title of a book I have forgotten and finding others I didn’t know existed.1. Bessie Stringfieldhttps://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvxke7/bessie-stringfield-first-black-w

Benoni Belli

BenoniBelli

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the San Francisco Conference, which laid the foundations of the United Nations #DelegatesDay https://www.un.org/en/observances/delegates-day Brazil participated in the conference and signed the UN Charter

Martin J Keatings

MartinJKeatings

THIS IS A KEY MISUNDERSTANDING THAT THESE PEOPLE DON'T GET - NAMELY THAT IT'S NOT ABOUT THE DEATH RATE - IT'S ABOUT THE SPEED THAT PEOPLE GET SICK AND THE