#SOCIETY

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RoiSinMinh

It cannot be overemphasized how fucked up it is that everyone knows Shamima Begum's name, but not the name of Yago Riedijk, the white adult man who groomed and married

Meaghan Porter

MeaghanEPorter

Hey, @joey_senator, have you thought through the economic consequences of this?My husband & I have health issues that put us at elevated risk for Covid complications. If businesses can't enforce

Shailly Gupta

Shaillytweeting

#TRIPS waiver discussion started 4 months ago @WTO. Even in the midst of a pandemic, many rich nations are using all possible tactics to slow down the process of reaching

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kjellnugget

Transguy cleaned his house and figured out why “slut shaming” is a thing (a thread)Trigger warning! Brutal honest thoughts Contents:I'm a transguy who disagree with how society made the ground

Jim Dickinson

jim_dickinson

I've long been really torn on the in person teaching debate, but one aspect of it that I've been reflecting on over the past week is what I've been thinking

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

Indeed. There is another option between "Everything is already great and people just need to pull themselves up by the bootstraps" and "Criticise all the things that exist."You know what

Jack Shanahan

Fermat15

Final AI thought for 2020. Why is excessive homogeneity and lack of diversity considered to be a major problem in every aspect of AI research & fielding, other than when

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hyyhddaeng

Karl Marx was an exploiter who did not bathe or pay his own worker, Helen Demuth, who he impregnated and never provided financial support for, and was known for being

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dontcalltextme

Hello from the Bible Belt! As I’ve mentioned in other threads, there are many ways to be an activist. I like to fight misinformation and propaganda. In this thread, I’ll

Nigel Carlsbad

pompilivs

Fun case: in 1949, Frank Buchanan (D-PA) was appointed chair of the Select Committee on Lobbying Activities, which investigated anti-New Deal conservatives, among others. One of their targets was Edward

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

The debate over using entrance exams to screen students into special schools is happening with a real shortage of evidence on both sides; I'm seeing mostly woke gobbledygook vs status

Lydia X. Z. Brown

autistichoya

Why is it that disability advocacy orgs specifically are sometimes the actual, absolute WORST at supporting their own disabled employees? It shouldn't be the case that I've heard these horror

American Solidarity Party

AmSolidarity

This was the response from the Republican governor South Dakota to a story about a food pantry for schoolchildren run by a Christian ministry in cooperation with a local school

George Fraser

frasergeorgew

We're far enough away from 2020 that we have good estimates of total mortality from @HMDatabase. What do the data tell us? First, in the 25 countries for which we

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

I have finished @charlesmurray's Human Diversity which gave me considerable food for thought. It causes me some problems as a liberal leftie individualist whose main focus has always been improving

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lynnspiracy

I think where a lot of abolition theory goes off the rails in praxis is where ppl say "abuse is an ongoing pattern of control" yet still, after the initial

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