#Folks

In the course of the work-week since this article was published, some things have happened & some other things HAVEN'T happened.Let's recap
https://twitter.com/docfreeride/status/1295410981741318144 A thing that hasn't hap
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The Turner Diaries... a thread (if you really must read the book, please don't pay for it bc it may fund extremist groups): There have been a lot of references
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Josh Jacobs ThreadAs a rookie, Josh Jacobs rushed for 1150 yards and 7 TDs on an efficient 4.8 ypc behind a mediocre (at best) offensive line. He didn’t get much
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Another 1.1 million people applied for UI last week, including 779,000 who applied for regular state UI and 349,000 who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). 1/ https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf  The 1.1
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT "2+2=5". As a former mathematician, I have things to say. 1/ Statements like "2+2 = 4" are abstractions. What that means is they're generalizations
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I could feel a thread starting so I wanted to put this on the main tl: my life changed when I realised that (for me at least) anger is a
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1/4Racism?Rittenhouse caught flashing "ok" sign co-opted as a sign of "white power" in bar after his arraignment. His fundraiser, ex-Rudy Giuliani lawyer John Pierce has posted about "Anglo-American" law &
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Prob with desk journos is that they always compile reports basis Google & some phone calls;reason why real story is lost in the process. Let me write a detailed story
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It's all too common to see people using the phrase but not doing the work, so here's a thread on how you can ACTUALLY support women within the sports industry
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I don't love the 30-day deadline for an interim social cost of carbon, as I mentioned to Abby Smith in this good piece she wrote on the topic https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/biden-increase-government-carbon-cost My
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Hey ELF twit, your resident ELF shitposter here to make a slightly less shitty post asking you to stop comparing Siwon to Ronald Reagan for the love of God please,
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Some have reached out to me to ask about the recent preprint by Institut Pasteur International Network on the SARS2-like bat virus that was found in North East Cambodia in
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Congratulations to @TheEconomist and @tcross81 on a fantastic survey on #AI and its limitations this week: https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2020/06/11/an-understanding-of-ais-limitations-is-starting-to-sink-in. There is a fund
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To be “cancelled” in the mainstream roughly means “Someone popular or famous is deemed no longer worthy of support because of their anti-social words/actions”https://twitter.com/richarddoomed/status/1286369800533364737 Of course the
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At least I'm not crazy, but I am also so sadhttps://discuss.python.org/t/disappointed-and-overwhelmed-by-discourse/982/78 Like.... Discourse has a fatal flaw that Hyperkitty was explicitly designed to avoid. Yet somehow it's getting
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I am going to do something that is dumb and try to add nuance to a twitter debate. This is surely going to fail but hey it's been a hell
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