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Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Grifts are undertheorized, and too often conflated with long cons, scams, frauds and other more blatant soft crimes. Lemme offer a definition.A grift is a scheme that profits from the

Jon Opstad

JonOpstad

1) Now that THE FEED is available in the UK through @AppleTV I’ve enjoyed sitting down and watching the series on TV for the first time since completing it. Reminded

Karam Bales

karamballes

1/ Thread: Testing and Schools.Independent SAGE invited me to participate again in their last broadcast, we ran out of time for my bit but this was because @AndyBurnhamGM attended and

Eamon Hamilton

eamonhamilton

Air Marshal Mel Hupfeld (@CAF_Australia) speaks to Air Marshal Geoff Brown (retired) of the @WilliamsFnd, about RAAF Strategic Intent and Future Capability. It’s a 3-part video starting with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiLSVF3T_V0&

Aynul

amireureka

It’s difficult to describe anomalies without insulting everyone. Many very fast growing software companies had just one very good salesperson until several million ARR, even tens of millions. So why

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Here's a thread of my latest blog post, on Japanese homogeneity. Lots of people say Japan is a "homogeneous society". But how homogeneous is it really?https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/how-homogeneous-is-japan 2/Lots of peop

Tom Dolphin

thomasdolphin

Here's another (long) thread about normalcy bias - this time in relation to healthcare systems breaking down.I will start by saying the worst case scenario in this thread hasn't happened

Patrick Lee Miller

Plato4Now

Failure fertilizes SuccessThis is “Fort Necessity,” an hour’s drive from Pittsburgh, in the middle of a beautiful field visited by few. Here is where the first world war began. Not

Heidi Cuda

Heidi_Cuda

Late nights and lowlights: A lo-fi perusal of treasony low-lifes in the first 100 pages of the Mueller Report.1. Russian-IRA accounts reach 126 mil thru Facebook; Twitter reports 1.4 million

Lapsyrévoltée

lapsyrevoltee

POURQUOI IL NE FAUT PAS IDEALISER LA MEDITATION DE PLEINE CONSCIENCE :1. De quoi parle-t-on ?A l'origine, la méditation n'est pas une pratique laïque, c'est une discipline permettant d'atteindre un

DEE-AH-nuh VEE-lich

DianaVilic

Things Your OCD/Anxiety Make You Do & How to Deal With Them: A Thread. Science breakdown: Your amygdala, aka the part of the brain in charge with emotional regulation, aka

aya

political_aya_

What is the Al-Qard Al-Hassan Association?-excerpt from Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s speech on the 8th of January, 2021#Thread The Al-Qard Al-Hassan Association had recently been subject to a wave of attacks

Meghann Cuniff

meghanncuniff

Ok I’m here at the Downtown Women’s Center on Skid Row for the 10 am hearing with Judge Carter. It looks like we’ll be in this tent. Tight limits on

Chirpy Says

IndianPrism

*Thread on Tatas* Tatas were BJP's biggest donors via the dubious electoral bonds. Ratan Tata has endorsed Modi, giving him credibility amongst cosmopolitan and middle class Indians.Tatas are *enablers* not

Dre. Alexandra Gros ⚛ 🧠 🐭

alexandra_gros

Bon hier soir j'étais énervée par les mecs qui viennent la ramener sur la précarité menstruelle à coup de "ouin ouin", "on va pas se mettre à payer le PQ

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

“WHAT IS PROTRACTED WAR FOR THE BLACK LIBERATION STRUGGLE? If the nature of the crisis of the system of oppression is protracted, that is, drawn out over a considerable period

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