#Economic

John Morrison

John_Liberator

It's Black History Month and today, I want to talk about Black historical things. Here's a thread of some pieces that I've written exploring some interesting corners of Black music

Dhruv Bansal

dhruvbansal

\1 Try this one on:#Bitcoin is a distributed, append-only, eventually-consistent, content-addressable key-value store written to by public auction.Multisig UTXOs are stateful synchronization primitives enabling "database transactions

Wrath Of Gnon

wrathofgnon

“Bigness is pervasive in America as nowhere else in the world.”— Human Scale Revisited, by Kirkpatrick Sale If true, that the most productive factories are those “with fewer than forty-five

Adrianna Tan

skinnylatte

I have an explainer for these people. They are scripture literalists who believe (1) the end times are coming (2) numbers and fengshui shit (Chinese characters like 十、林 or anything

Eddie Du

Edourdoo

In the mid-1920s, Joseph Goebbels was given the difficult task of fostering support for the growing Nazi Party in Berlin, "the reddest city in Europe besides Moscow."https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/how-the-nazis-succe

Frédéric Leroy

fleroy1974

Because words like 'collapse', 'death' & 'elimination' seem to be part of the vocabulary indeed. So what's the timeline for this Great Food Transformation? And the UN seems to be

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

In a major new paper, just released as a preprint, the eminent UK computer scientist and digital rights campaigner @1Br0wn makes the case for "Interoperability as a tool for competition

Winston Chow (周祥龙) 🇸🇬

winstontlchow

Rather annoyed the KL-SG High Speed Rail link being terminated. Apart from the socio-economic benefits it would have brought, the significant decrease in carbon emissions from reducing existing air +

Thomas Shugart

tshugart3

While you're all hanging out at your computers clicking "refresh" for election news: a few thoughts on this recent response to @AaronFriedberg in @ForeignAffairs:https://twitter.com/ForeignAffairs/status/1320456512616255488 Th

Alison Wright

alisonmawright

"‘Bury your treasure,’ Hitler advised Bormann, ‘for you will need it to begin a Fourth Reich.’ That is precisely what Bormann set in motion, the ‘flight capital’ scheme. The treasure

Health Nerd

GidMK

So, I have had a proper read of this document, and I thought it might be worthwhile to actually go through and carefully analyze the documentLet's do some peer-review on

RiseUp4Rojava

RISEUP4R0JAVA

Around the world, the action week has creatively shown that the achievements of the #Rojava revolution must be defended! Here's a thread on recent developments and the importance to continue

Naboth's Vineyard

nabothVin

Forever youngI want to be forever youngDo you really want to live forever?Forever, and everWhen we were young, we sang along to this song with a deep conviction that its

Heidi Cuda

Heidi_Cuda

As America celebrates its defeat of an authoritarian in the middle of consolidating power, it is critical to stay vigilant.In my @BylineTimes interview with historian @ruthbenghiat she cautions these so-called

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: January 24, 1848. Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California. Let's talk about how the California Gold Rush reflected the intersection of race, gender,

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

There is another factor which played a part in Rebecca Long-Bailey's downfall. Which I noted during the leadership campaign and hugely concerned me. It was certainly the number one reason

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