#Social

Ursula Rising, astrologer, BLM

ursularising

Social media has a way of sweeping you up in a feeding frenzy of attacking whoever the Enemy of the Day is. I’ve been on both sides of that before.

Evil Saint

sanctemalum

Appearances are the bedrock of social dynamics.You can up your 'perceived' value by improving your physical appearance,and you can down your 'perceived' value by dressing below your actual value. A

Glenn Kessler

GlennKesslerWP

So the Trump campaign has taken over the @washingtonpost home page with ads that take you to a series of YouTube videos that make claims that we have fact-checked as

Chad Felix Greene

chadfelixg

Of the important aspects of this story of Ibram X. Kendi being frank about gender identity is this argument here.This does not happen. White kids do not do this. There

Dominic Packer

PackerLab

The Supreme Court news bumped me from a radio show this AM to talk ab how to get people to take public health advice seriously. My first point would have

Mike Konczal

rortybomb

NYTimes has a 50y retrospective on Milton Friedman's popularizing of shareholder primacy, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits,” with line-by-line commentary from smart folks.I discuss the

Dunstan Allison-Hope

dunstanhope

There are many excellent threads debating the action social media companies have taken against Trump. This #bizhumanrights thread is intended to ask, “what would the UNGPs imply”? 1/12 Principle 16,

🍿Justice is Served

pleasesaveour

Social Security/Deficit ThreadI saw an ad yesterday, and it got me to thinking, who's telling the truth about Social Security and the Deficit?Here is Ronald Reagan in 1992 definitively saying

Ezra Klein

ezraklein

Over the years, I’ve had a lot of discussions with Facebook officials about how engagement-based, algorithmic social media changes people. They tend to argue it doesn’t: It just reveals what’s

The HT lab

theHTlab

Yesterday I saw a post that stated something along the lines of "don't work with PIs that aren't tweeting about the election and covid" I didn't respond and don't know

Clovis Sangrail

ClovisSangrail4

(1) Found on social media. These organizations use images of children, puppets and cartoon characters vaping. They inform teens "all your friends are doing it" and "they come in yummy

Keno S. Neal 📸

_kenoneal

Trump initiates campaign to overturn election via social media, ramps up support going into Georgia. 1/5 -Dems call for impeachment proceedings. 1/6 -Trump supporters raid Capitol building amid suppressed police

Sasha de Vogel

sashadevo

I’ve seen a few tweets framing protest in Belarus as a the end of a post-Soviet social contract where people gave up democratic representation for the stability of authoritarianism. People

Mahka Moeen

mah_kaa

The scientific uncertainty may be resolved. But, for new products to become mainstream, uncertainties about ecosystem and legitimizing institutions need to be resolved too. Can we scale the production &

Doug Robertson

TheWeirdTeacher

I'm a broken record but I don't see how schools can even pretend to open at the end of summer. We all know all the protocols being proposed are less

Harsh Gupta Madhusudan

harshmadhusudan

For centuries per capita incomes hardly increased but then suddenly over the last couple of centuries (albeit at different times in different places) they exploded.When economies change, societies change. Zero

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