#Problematic

George

FFigureFBust

Why diets and weight loss can fuck people up. Obviously the idea of weight loss is often super problematic. It’s seen as a route to happiness, health, desirability. It’s something

𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐭

clbolt

Thread on Critical Theory/Critical Race Theory/Intersectionality (CRTI) since we don't already have enough of those.Two questions:1. Is CRTI a problem?2. Is CRTI a problem in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).Let's

AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez

brwneyedamzn

I’m going to ask you to bear w/ me bc this is lengthy. While it may seem to speak directly to my interactions w/ @JonathanMerritt, it is more a statement

Privacy International

privacyint

WhatsApp's notification to accept its new policy or lose your account is wrong on so many levels we need a short thread to talk about it 1/9 First this

Chris Post

ChrisMPost

News Safety Update 2#: Let's talk about Situational Awareness! SA is the ability to identify, process, and comprehend the critical elements of information about what is happening. More simply, it's knowing

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

Unconscious bias training scrapped.There is q.strong evidence that "unconscious bias" is significant in unequal opportunities But there is an absence of evidence in the UK on whether/not past training makes

UtdArena

utdarena

THREAD:One of the most important biomechanical elements in football is shooting technique; it heavily influences a player's ability to score.This short thread will analyse finishing and how Marcus Rashford's efficiency

Tarleton Gillespie

TarletonG

In a recent piece I called this “stacked moderation”. Platforms or other intermediaries “below” platforms that can demand standards of moderation.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/technology/parler-apple-google.html "Moderatio

CHAS

Chaswied

All this renewed discussion about Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again made me want to re-read my office's letter from February that I had some part in writing and illustrate it

Harry Facts.

HarryFacts

It’s time for the conspiracy theorists to stop this nonsense already. You are an embarrassment to Harry every step of the way. You are his most effusive haters and constantly

Golnar Nikpour

g_nar

I'd like to do a brief thread on global pop music & questionable Euro/U.S. vinyl reissue labels. One of my fave Iranian singers, the legendary Ramesh, passed away this week.

Pete Irvine

peteirvine

Some thoughts and questions about the new PNAS paper on cloud collapse Schneider et al. 2020 [S20-solar]: "Solar geoengineering may not prevent strong warming from direct effects of CO2 on

Laura Zats

LZats

As an agent who is closed to queries and desperately trying to get through her slush pile (s/o to QueryManager for the incredible self-own that is the stats homepage) I've

Dave Feldman

DaveKeto

1/ Interesting timing, @LDLSkeptic -- @siobhan_huggins and I are coauthoring a post that lays out the "lipoprotein-centric" vs "lipid profile-centric" schools of thought.But since this has come up a lot

Aram Zucker-Scharff

Chronotope

This is so on point. The big problem w/the various UUID proposals is it assumes publishers can (or even should, which is a larger question) push users to use their

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

The ACLU in NYT on why the union of Silicon Valley monopolies -- Apple, Google and Amazon -- to remove Parler from the internet is so problematic. While ACLU is

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