#Conformity

These are the questions, big and small, that I will be asking about the shape and quality of a Brexit deal when the text is out:(A long thread) On manufactured
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I didn't even know there were tweeps whitewashing the Soviet-Afghan war until @suraiasahar tweeted/rt some stuff. Afghan historians worked too hard to push back on US narratives only to have
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Ugh, so let's talk about Worldcon for a minute. If you haven't been paying attention, the latest cockup is that Worldcon has Toni Weisskopf as a Guest of Honor. Toni
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I’m not sure I believe in mental illness anymore. I think mental illness might just be certain types of neural diversity - predisposition to certain traits - and external factors
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The quiet between Christmas and New Year is proving to be a good time to reflect on the Afghanistan Inquiry Report. For those thinking about how to lead professional discussion
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People say we are in a cold civil war. This is wrong. We LOST a cold civil war, because we had sticks and our enemies had guns. The best plan
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The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan. Core thesis: the way we use our senses to perceive the world also shapes the way we interpret our perceptions. Print media isolates the
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Twitter has become like Scandinavian culture of yore. The Iron Law of Envy, the Law of Jante demanding 100% conformity not only in behavior and speech but in thoughts to,
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EU accused of risking lives in standoff over coronavirus medicines produced in Britain after Brexit . Story plus thread. 1/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/07/11/eu-accused-risking-lives-standoff-coronavirus-medicines-produced/ Bru
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In college, I was a behavioral economics major. Those classes taught me more about investing than any finance class ever did. Today I want to share some of the things
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A thread:I have not written this out ahead of time, I am writing as I go, so bear with me, this is just a musing. The Lord of the Flies
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Buckle up, folks! It is important for every person to understand cults & cultic relationships. (Not all cults are religious btw). So— A cult thread The first time I
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Kick Ass Thread about China, the Social Credit System, Discourse Power, NBA, Hollywood, Culture, Human Rights, "the virus" and South Park. You’ll know so much, it'll make you high. Let’s
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In the run-up to the last election, I wrote several pieces about politics from a meta-rational point of view. I’m going to tweet links to some of them as a
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1/: Of the impossibility of truth, the limits of knowledge and the end of science in the #corona-crisis.A (rather lengthy) thread 2/: Let us assume that Galileo Galilei had
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The best analysis of the C19 pandemic mass hysteria."[H]ow different political institutions and the state affect the development and extension of mass hysteria[?]""the size of the state exacerbates the negative
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