#Perspective

Good morning! Today I learned that Kansas’ statute on body camera footage renders it practically useless from a public transparency perspective. Apparently -all- such footage is considered a record of
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A reason why a lot of Desi trans women hold characters like Umrao Jaan, Anarkali etc. In high regard and idolize popular depictions of femininity in their culture.(a thread): It's
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My thoughts on #Cuties. A thread. Maïmouna Doucouré made a powerful film about the patriarchal expectations on young girls. Its also about shame around burgeoning sexuality and the awkwardness of
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Hard to believe but in academic time, fall 2021 is just around the corner. Delays in vaccination program make this extremely challenging for universities, in many ways more challenging than
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"It is not okay to keep forcing autistic children into social skills training. It is not okay to tell them to stop talking about the things they love & know
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I am struggling to articulate a coherent response to this direction in American diplomacy, which is at once unsurprising and a continuation of recent trends, yet terribly consequential nonetheless.https://www.wsj.com/articles/secretary-of-s
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Any man who's ever watched porn, knowingly contributing to the human trafficking, pedophilia, divorce, societal rot, and unprecedented mass suffering, is gross. I'd never date, marry or have sex with
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1/ A short thread on the accidental Ethereum hard fork from a distributed systems perspective:This event isn't really a big deal. It's normal for Nakamoto consensus to split. This should,
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20 Lessons from 2020. 2020 was an unforgettable year, and I was fortunate enough have the opportunity to learn some important lessons. See all 20 here: 1. Take asymmetric bets.
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This is a good set of jobs in the content moderation sphere but I noticed something leap out at me while reading through a selection: Twitter is the only employer
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So much stuff happened in today’s amazing Haikyuu episode, which makes sense given that it was the climax of the entire thing. But the turning point of the episode was
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Depp v Sun libel decision out at 10amYou can never predict a High Court decisionThat said: on basis of reports from the hearing, a Sun victory would be more remarkable
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Historically rules/institutional frameworks for monetary and fiscal policy were motivated by the concern that politicians were BIASED towards too much deficit increase, inflation, living for the moment, etc. Certainly some
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So, one thing I have never been able to understand as an empirical economist is the dominance of OLS in regression analysis. Because you are minimizing the sum of squared
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Be the person that cannot wait to start the day.P-ersonal R-esponsibility I-nD-ailyE-xcellence.It is a lifestyle. To be successful, this mindset can not be turned on & off like a faucet.
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This is amazing, but not really. There is no more authoritarian species in the wild than US liberals. In every controversy, they side with institutions of authority: they love the
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