#Distraction

Liam Bright

lastpositivist

Ok I've been thinking more about why it the culture war periodically generates heated disputes about, like, correspondence theory of truth or non-standard models of arithmetic - intensely abstract things

Rachel Thomas

math_rachel

Like @cfiesler, I've gotten a lot of "It's not the algorithm, it's the training data" explanations/responses over the years (including IRL when I give talks), and I want to explain

Ms. Imani Writes Things

ImaniKushan

Pssst...that thing you're doing that you're using to subliminally overwhelm yourself-stop it. Don't you fix your mouth to "nu uh" me. You know what I'm talking about.When living thru severe

jules rylan ✡︎

radiantbutch

blanket TW for self-harmi recently saw a post saying people with scars should be able to wear short sleeves because “other people’s triggers aren’t your responsibility.” as someone with both

James White

DrOakley1689

In light of many threads today:ποιεῖσθαι δεήσεις προσευχὰς ἐντεύξεις εὐχαριστίας ὑπὲρ πάντων ἀνθρώπωνto make petitions, prayers, intercessions, thanks, for all men (1Tim

kj

kjgbrks

why we may never see black liberation: a thread. i’ve been told so much to keep my head down and keep working on liberation regardless of who shows up. i

the dreaded tetrapod

pancake_puns

Hi everyone - I'm mostly Off Here but popping back for important stuff, and this is one of them. Last week's attack on abolitionist educators was a huge distraction -

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neonweekends

Here's a thread of breathing exercises and anxiety reducing gifs for anyone who needs it right now: here's a technique that

Miriti Murungi

NutmegRadio

So @sidlowe spoke to Carlo Ancelotti, and I was not expecting to hear Ancelotti on James Baldwin.https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jun/19/carlo-ancelotti-everton-merseyside-derby-coronavirus-lockdown I've been saying for a very

Elizabeth C. McLaughlin, Esq.

ECMcLaughlin

Good morning, white women. Pull up a chair. We need to have a chat.Let's just say that hypothetically you consider yourself to be left-leaning. Maybe you've got #resist in your

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

Today in pulp... a postwar Parisian curio: Collection La Cagoule! Published by La Bruyère from 1945-1951 Collection La Cagoule was one of many imprints looking to bring back the Roman

Dr. Jacquelyn Gill

JacquelynGill

I’m on the board of a non-profit, and we hired anti-racism consultants to do an assessment of our culture and practices. One thing that came up is this notion of

Terry Rountree

RountreeTerry

Questions being asked now @NottsCC Full Council Meeting to the Chair of the Communities & Place Committee Cllr. John Cottee, about failures to achieve less than 50% of the available

Katherine Smith

ProfKatSmith

#HealthEquity commentaries often simply summarise SDH but this 1 made me pause: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210204.432267/full/#.YCOfIGGsDg8.twitter It makes points I & others have (eg @ProfBambra @FafardPatrick @jul

Fahaad Al Abbadi🚀

fahaad_abbadi

New year resolution and goals: Just a piece of advice from my perspective[ Thread ] There are no resolutions(sounds ironic) but instead of resolutions, we should better build habits, habits

Tom James

TACJ

So a chap called David Graeber wrote a book on “bullshit” or useless jobs. He identifies five categories of bullshit jobs. Going to do a short thread on my thorts

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