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Wolfie 🐺

CouldaWoulda18

I am pretty vocal on this front, so kind of feel the need to explain myself. We can agree/disagree, but no hard feelings either way. I have had a

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

If you watched any of the vote counting last night, you probably noticed how rigid and formulaic the whole thing was. Outside of the objections, everybody spoke robotically, reciting the

Felix J Berrios 🏳️‍🌈✨

FelixJBerrios

I have another thought I want to share tonight. I am constantly getting asked "How have you done so much in your 2 years of undergraduate" and the short answer

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

The Greatest Showman has great music but makes the life of an interesting man far less interesting than it actually was His theater wasn't burned down because people thought the

Elsa H Elmi

HibaqElmii

The day that was 14 of June 2020.The day that shook Farmaajo denfenders and his fanboys.If you’re in the Somali tweeter or somali-media ecosystem of punditry, the Farmaajo defense game

Uri Pilichowski

RationalSettler

A thread on the Loeffler/Warnock Race: There's been very little honesty in the Georgia Senate race between Senator Kelly Loeffler and Reverend Raphael Warnock. 1/14 I'm generalizing, but save for

Mohamed Elmaazi

MElmaazi

Outside Westminster Magistrates' Court for Julian Assange's latest bail hearing. Craig Murray, ex-diplomat & whistleblower, says he's "very optimistic" Assange will be granted bail because no one who has had

Tal Linzen

tallinzen

My DMs are exploding with requests for language model bigness takes and I'm happy to oblige: The scaling laws paper (Kaplan et al https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361 ) shows that, *for a particular neural

Ta'o Collective

Tao_Collective

[[OOC :I want to spin further off this sái-post to elaborate on the "appropriation" non-argument. Here, I want to whatab- I mean, focus on a certain other ethnolinguistic group in

Abdu Sharkawy

SharkawyMD

This thread is brought to you by the letter "P". Pandemics, pain, pancreatitis, planning, protection & patience. I'll bet you're wondering if sleep deprivation has finally got the best of

Adam Wagner

AdamWagner1

This news is really worrying for a number of reasons:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54977290Police suspend fixed £10k fines for big gatherings (thread) Since July, police have had power to issue Covid 'mega fines' of

Avinash Paliwal

PaliwalAvi

1. The ISI seems to be truly sharpening (& exercising) its covert assassination programme against dissidents abroad. Of course, no one can point the finger on the org. forensically given

Mattie Bowen

mattieebowen

Grad school app season is (mostly) over, and since academic twitter is going nuts about the idea of paying research assistants $15/hr...Let's talk about how expensive it is to be

Teresa M. Bejan

tmbejan

1) Last week, I made the case for ‘free speech’ as parrhesia — the Ancient Greek word for ‘saying it all’.https://twitter.com/tmbejan/status/1283732314657300480 2) I argued that critics of ‘cancel culture’ are

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

“Surgeons wear masks, so you should too.” 1/ Surgeons wear masks so that bodily fluids — which always have bacteria even if a surgeon is asymptomatic — won’t go into

Rod Dunn

redunndant

I've been trying to put the rise in cases in the State of MI in context - the 7-day avg hit a low of 150 on 6/13 and has now

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