#Theory

Eric Weinstein

EricRWeinstein

My explanation for Wokeness taking over our world:Out institutions select specifically for hierarchical game playing and intrigue and against anyone who thinks from first principles and is willing to stand

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

Recently, quite a few people have told me“I thought you were on our side”“Turns out you’re a shill, after all”“You’re such a let-down”etcSo here’s an explanation of why I’ve disappointed

David Roberts

drvolts

This week I posted a 3-part interview w/ @dcullenward & David Victor, authors of the new book Making Climate Policy Work. It's about CO2 pricing -- mainly cap&trade systems, which

michael dobson

michaeldobsonNZ

I was very happy to contribute a review of @GaraviniG's excellent new history of OPEC for an @HDiplo roundtable, published today. Garavini connects anticolonial political history with contemporary climate policy

Raffi Melkonian

RMFifthCircuit

I once read a case where the defendant signed a contract “Mickey Mouse” and then argued he hadn’t signed it. To be clear, he agreed he had signed the document.

Taylor Pearson

TaylorPearsonMe

For my next trick, I will now attempt to summarize @ole_b_peters very insightful paper in @nature : The Ergodicity Problem in EconomicsAt the risk of being hyperbolic, I think it

Shylock Holmes

shylockh

A metaphor for the likelihood of voter fraud, for people who insist that it's a conspiracy theory, or there's no evidence of it.(1/7) Suppose Amazon wanted to know how many

Issa wrap.

mrdespicable22

The vaccine does NOT cause Bell’s palsy. Period. It does NOT do that. Let’s start there, and allow me to show you how you are being fed disinformation INTENTIONALLY. Here

Sam Hoadley-Brill

deonteleologist

THREAD ~ Charles Mills v. “Master’s Tools”This strategy—the “master’s tools” must be abandoned/destroyed—can be applied at will to generate a new radical thesis, e.g. OP’s “black people can’t be healthy.”

Ketan Joshi

KetanJ0

If, like me, you got caught up in pop-psych climate comms in the denier-ridden haze of 2010-2014, you might have heard about the 'backfire effect', where giving a non-science-accepter facts

Elon Mask

ShadowMusk

[Theory of imaginary progress] I do not know if you ever thought about this, but we are in a phase were there are really few people that really accelerate progress.

Sean

SlashClaw14

I’ve been lowering my social media usage recently to give myself more free time. Yesterday, I felt really inspired to start learning video game music composition and picked up an

Upstate Federalist

upstatefederlst

Hi, I can help.Leftism in America is constructed upon Blank Slate Theory (which is laughably wrong) and a dozen logical fallacies. If exactly one (1) of the lies unravel, the

Anil

anilvohra69

Analysis of Trump 2020 (Thread)Something is not right here. @vtchakarova said years ago that Trump wasn’t going to be on the ballot in 2020. All sorts of things changed over

Brett Goldstein 🚀🏠🌴

thatguyBG

Metaphor is one of the most powerful tools for writers, but also technologists.It goes far beyond comparison. @gerogelakoff's "Conceptual Metaphor Theory" is the basis for understanding how every new technology

Megan Lavengood

meganlavengood

These responses are written by people with phds and long careers in the humanities, yet they have allowed themselves to remain blind to some of the most obvious problems with

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