#Systems

El Sandifer, Rationality Expert to the Stars

ElSandifer

Thinking about this again, and it occurs to me that the ugly truth a lot of people on the left don’t want to face is that a successful leftist political

Taisu Zhang

ZhangTaisu

1. There’s something intellectually interesting in the rise and fall of QAnon: like almost every influential political worldview (which it is, despite its ridiculousness), it rose and fell on the

Michael Shurkin

MichaelShurkin

1. Now watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1rlY7eEMJQ&feature=youtu.be. Inspired by Mystery Science Theater 3000, I shall provide commentary. 2. GEN Townsend's talking: "I've got a couple of slides..." I be

Doug Johnson Hatlem

djjohnso

I can't stand Trump any more than the next person. Felt relieved as everyone when media announced he lost (even if I also can't stand Biden).The impulse to assume we

Ryan Rubenzahl

RyanRubenzahl

My first first-author paper is now on @arxiv! (https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09371 )We found that WASP-107b, an exoplanet the size of Jupiter but just 1/10th its mass, is orbiting its star backwards in a

Akanksha Mehta

AjeebAurat

1/ I had the first dose of the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine yest morning ('clinically extremely vulnerable') & of course, I am relieved, but can't stop thinking about people with illness

sheabutterfemme.

sheabutterfemme

Divest/invest is a good strategy and way to pull people over to abolition imo but I'm starting to get worried? I think maybe @cemicool has talked about this. But it

sumdirt

upfromsumdirt

Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, for your consideration. started her presidential campaign on Jan. 25, 1972. she was for equality & education but most politicians are not anti-imperialist, so im not sure

Kristen Thometz

KristenThometz

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is set to give his daily COVID-19 press briefing momentarily. Meanwhile, state health officials reported 9,757 new and probable cases of COVID-19 and 238 additional deaths -

Tudor Girba

girba

The governor of New Jersey called explicitly for COBOL programmers to help with the development of the unemployment system:https://twitter.com/manicode/status/1246497036389793792This is how the software environmentalism crisis looks like. A

Rachel Gutin 🏳️‍🌈

Rachel_Gutin

The first panel I attended at #ConZealand this year was “Fantasy Today: The Best of Recent Fantasy”, with @gracikim, @gaileyfrey, and @clairerousseau, moderated by @redscribeThe panel began with the expected

Tim Wise

timjacobwise

1/ Wanting M4A is righteous & correct. Forcing the vote bc 'people are dying & can't wait' is empty rhetoric bc every rational person knows it won't pass. Doesn't mean

coreyhaines is not a function

coreyhaines

So, I'm not really that "out in the public eye" these days, but I like to think that my voice has some weight, and I like to consider myself a

Crypto Patriot

CryptoPatriot55

1) I want to start this thread off by saying that this is some very serious stuff if it is ever proven to be true. On a personal note, I

Stacey Ma Dukes Hopkins

staceyhopkinsga

Okay, so I have watched as certain black-led groups and organizations got flooded with cash since the election for helping to get out the vote, but I would like to

Kelly Wickham Hurst

mochamomma

Last night I was debriefing with my spouse about diversity and equity. He is, by the way, the only person in his family who is NOT in education. He went

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