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Darwinian Gaia: the persister perspective on evolution. https://aeon.co/essays/the-gaia-hypothesis-reimagined-by-one-of-its-key-sceptics via @aeonmag I think this an amazingly refreshing and interesting new view on evolution. For several re
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It's good to see some congressional attention finally being paid to YouTube, but focusing exclusively on the YouTube algorithm is a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem. It's disheartening to see
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Today’s summary reversal in Taylor v. Riojas is a big deal. In it, SCOTUS breathed new life into the notion that qualified immunity should be denied if the constitutional violation
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Straight from the CDC websitePreparing for a zombie apocalypse https://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/ On the CDC site, a brief history of zombies mentions the game Resident Evil Now this is the
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The Chinese government just sent a very aggressive message to Biden-world, saying officials who pursue a policy framework averse to the PRC will have trouble earning money from most American
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Folks—we have to prepare people: ‘This is what you need to expect. Take Tylenol and suck it up for a day.’“REACTOGENICITY” is initial fatigue/headache one can get from a vaccine
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Hi. Waves. Remember all that talk about remaining within 1.5°C of warming, or else? Well we're already at 1.2°C. Is this bad? Yes.https://twitter.com/ed_hawkins/status/1338862201264717827 For one, it means we're on the
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Studios plan to make streaming their primary bread & butter & this was obvious for the past few years to anyone paying attention. BUT they'll STILL continue theatrical releases b/c...(1/3)
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Every institution is a type of government. The quality of said government cannot avoid affecting society outside of the formal boundaries of the institution. The existence of every institution must
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So many fascinating ideas at yesterday's #blackboxNLP workshop at #emnlp2020. Too many bookmarked papers. Some takeaways: 1- There's more room to adopt input saliency methods in NLP. With Grad*input and
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1. BREAKING: The Canadian government has just banned 4 far-right groups as terrorist groups, along with 9 others, mostly AQ/ISIS affiliates:(a) Atomwaffen Division(b) The Base(c) The Proud Boys (Canada is
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Other fans breaking a canon ship for their own shipping preferences and enjoyment doesn't threaten or diminish it in any way. People will create for any pairing, and any dynamic.
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Facebook has blocked Australian users from sharing and viewing news content on its popular social media platform, escalating a dispute with the government over paying media publishers for content https://reut.rs/3pzZxV0 
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OK I'm going to weigh in on the tagging/content moderation conversation happening right now regarding Archive of Our Own. To be clear, this is me as a content moderation researcher
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THREAD: New Toy1/x Just finished building a new toy in python, gotta share. How it works: you type in a stock, group of stocks, index, sector, industry, factor, WHATEVER, plus
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normalize captioning your videos & adding photo discriptions to your content!!! here’s a free app you can download to add captions to your instagram story & videos, there’s other ones
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