#Folks

I’m only halfway through Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s book and my mind having been conditioned a bit by analysis from others who read it before me like @afrispheric, I can’t help a
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THANK YOU for the full house in yesterday stream!We explored how to create horizontal shots only. We saw a bit of most common aspect ratios and why they exist. Different
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Confirmation Thread State by state. Let the games begin.Alabama has been confirmed without objection. Alaska has been confirmed without objection. Arizona is being challenged by Republicans.Woahs from the Dems.Standing ovation
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7 years ago, California enacted a law that explicitly stated that trans students should be allowed to participate in school sports consistent with their identified gender.One argument against it was
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but hyper-independence is the result of trauma. "I don't need *anybody* & must do everything myself" really means, "My ability to trust
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Are you confused about why it is that sometimes nuclear costs seems to increase even though nothing has changed? Alright then. Prepare thyself for a #thread on possibly one of
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Churches I attended & lessons learnt. [A long, musical thread because for each I have a soundtrack, or 2 or 3]I was born into the United Methodist Church (ma Yuna
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This is racist pseudosciencehttps://twitter.com/CJR/status/1273011468728807424 The word "ethnic" means "relating to a population subgroup... with a common national or cultural tradition"The notion that the people we call
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Gather round, writers. Let’s talk about what literary agents do and whether you need one. This is mainly going to be oriented towards comics/graphic novel people but prose folks, I’ll
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FOLKS—if you think #COVID19 cases is really bad in the US, it is even more epically surging in the UK & Ireland . I made a short video... and
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I worked for Jill Tarter in 2008 as an REU student, classifying radio frequency interference (RFI) at the Allen Telescope Array. This was like 20+ hours in the car so
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Reading Sean Wilentz's review of "American Carnage," in which he sees the roots of Trumpism in GWB's presidency, brought to mind the way Bush stoked the fires of homophobic bigotry
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This discussion was getting long, so I thought I'd lay out my thoughts on a common argument: should models produce probabilities or decisions? Ie 32% chance of cancer vs "do
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THREADDENIALISM—PART I: A CONSTRICTION OF THINKINGEven as we come ever closer to descending into an authoritarian abyss, our society continues to adjust the boundaries of normalcy, in a continuation of
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This is both unsurprising and an interesting reframing of how we think about whose job it is to hire talent -- specifically eng talent. Any time I see the recruiting
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A THREAD detailing the daily routine of Hindu emperors of the past during peace time. Once we are done through with the thread, one will realize what a contrast the
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