#Social

What is Journalism?It seems a pretty fundamental question, particularly for those of us who express our dissatisfaction with the standard of journalists and their workI thought an appropriate starting point
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Pizzagate/QAnon people have Wayfair trending today. They falsely claim price glitches on storage boxes prove that the company is trafficking children.This took off because of a post on Reddit's r/conspiracy
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Nostalgia is becoming increasingly poisonous. It's an insidious little beast of a thing that gets in under your radar, with feelings of comfort and ease, while making it easy for
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1. Every single temple management Act in this country is the same. There are 2 main parts when it comes to affairs of the temple (a) things maintained (b) things
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2021 predictions () Student loans will (finally) be understood as a bubble on a par with the housing market in 2008. Some of the fallout will be temporarily explained away
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There are a lot of tweets about Orwell being an "anti-fascist" showing up on my timeline because of his journalistic work in Homage To Catalonia, and I find this bothersome…
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Just read the WSJ piece on Tamilian Brahmins. Why does that piece exist in the public domain?Note to self: Vasu you should also be able to write bad pieces and
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What to do if you decided you want to start taking antifascism seriously yesterday but have no idea where to start: A Thread 1) Go to Sprout DIstro for free
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On October 16 2020, a secondary school teacher named Samuel Paty was beheaded with a meat cleaver in the street of a small town 20 miles down the Seine from
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why non-black people shouldn't use aave - a thread aave stands for african american vernacular english. it is a dialect made by black people that has been taken by non-black
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I have become so wildly uninterested in almost all celebrity gossip over the past several years? I just want actors to do their acting and be cute on red carpets
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The combination of the Trump years and the ongoing social-commercial adoption of “diversity” as both an economic good and a cultural identification of the upper class ensured that the concept
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Precision in Implicit Social Cognition research can and should be improved 1/nA thread I’m increasingly concerned with conceptual and measurement issues in Implicit Social Cognition research (ISCr). The reason
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If we really want to unlock the power of science, we need a better working relationship between academia and industry. In many fields, there’s a weird animosity between the two.
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Many of us in the youth sports world have had a zillion zoom meet ups about using the pandemic to re-balance youth sports and increase access and equity. Meanwhile...IRL...- clubs
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1/ THREAD: A walk in Camden celebrating (mostly) council housing and municipalism. Firstly, the Regent's Park Estate built by St Pancras Metropolitan Borough Council from 1951. Swallowfield (left), a later
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