#Traditional

Something salient that is guiding how I’m thinking & talking about... everything in the mis/disinformation space: Radically different approaches for regular people/audiences/users than for elites/politicians/ platforms/pundits/execs 1
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1/12 Yesterday was a sad day & the end of an era in Irish Music. I collected remaining stock of my CDs from @CladdaghRecords b4 they close in a week.
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Tonight is #BonfireNight2020, an event that puzzles many readers from outside the UK. What is this festival of anarchy and why do the Brits keep doing it?Let me try to
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How to do casual style if you're on a tight budget.My simple (winning) formula: Step 1 - get yourself into shape. This is the hardest part of the formula.The good
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Agenda for today’s 1:00 Senate Education Committee hearing on a balanced calendar (aka, year-round school). @MissDeptEd will also provide an update on implementation of Mississippi Connects. Hearing begins. Speakers will
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Last week we heard rumors that the U.S. Treasury and Secretary Mnuchin were planning to rush out some new regulation regarding self-hosted crypto wallets before the end of his term.
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We don't talk about the mechanics of *WHY* UBI is affordable enough.Any individual plan is complicated, that's life, but the economics of why UBI is affordable are actually quite simple
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Have seen a few articles talking about Coinbase Analytics - figured I would share my thoughts on it, since I don't think it's particularly newsworthy - and lots of conjecture
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I see two possibilities ahead for the Republican Party.#1: The party hardens as a right-wing white nationalist party and shrinks in size. #2: Moderates conservatives retake the party. This, however,
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In just a few months, an online stock trading community has become the center of the world of finance.For the last week, it has led a meme-centric movement against Wallstreet
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TATAMI (畳)When we transition between 'summer' and 'winter' in the tearoom, one particular tatami mat is lifted up and replaced, to either conceal or reveal the sunken hearth.https://twitter.com/camelliakyoto/status/1324877
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A thread on Confucian view of China and the US: One of the most important distinctions that is drawn in traditional Confucian thought is between a "junzi" and a "xiaoren."
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A new thread and some fun facts on where I am now, the beautiful city of York. Hit the motorway, follow the signs for The North (these actually exist in
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Fairchem speciality - decent results. Sales at 403 cr. Down 10% year over year but up 3% sequentially. 18.3% operating margins vs 20.0% year over year. Overall EPS is 45
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People's intuition about how "human genetics" works (how DNA variation is distributed around people around the world) and how it relates to "ethnicity" (the boxes people tick when asked to
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Fun to see the early-webcomics-recollections. Here's one of the takeaways I had from those days (I had some involvement back in the day).The so-called war between newspapers/syndicates and webcomics was
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