#Historical

Jerry Capital

JerryCap

My Notes on Statistical Consequences of Fat TailsReal World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and ApplicationsBy @nntaleb "Insurance can only work in Mediocristan; you should never write an uncapped insurance contract if there

Jay Kapoor

JayKapoorNYC

With the meteoric rise of the athlete-investor, folks often ask me WHAT professional athletes are investing in...But we don't often talk about WHY they are investing or HOW so many

Kenny

PlayerToTheLeft

To borrow an idea from John Mulaney, if there is an idea you are willing to engage with, and one that you are not, odds are the one you are

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egoldmanrevolt

Yesterday’s shooting in Portland by worthless incel @SkylorJernigan provides a glimpse into really bad fascist propaganda that inexplicably works despite being disproven in real time. 1/ As is usually the

Trinh

Trinhnomics

Leszek Kolakowski - What’s socialism? Let me tell u what it isn’t, a state in which:One responsible for one’s ancestors;A crime to be a bro, sister, son or wife of

Prof Sarah Churchwell, PhD

sarahchurchwell

A few days ago @mrjamesob asked me if I felt vindicated bc I’ve been saying for years that they’re fascists. And I realized when I woke up this morning the

LotusIdentity_ZM

LotusidentityZm

Homosexuality is not African? Who says? Because we’re taking a dive down history and pre-colonial times and it’s looking quite queer over there a thread of African Queer History

Reed Wommack

ReedWommack

This week I wrote a newsletter about how studying Bitcoin teaches people about voluntaryism and leads to their de-politicization.A thread People claim that Bitcoin is for everyone, democrats, republicans, and

Flag of the Day

FlagoftheDay0

Catalonia#Catalunya We want to start this post off by making it clear that we are not Catalan and that it is not our intention to offend anyone with regards to

🇧🇧 Ethereal Bisexual Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

IBJIYONGI

Thinking about hidden figures this morning and how one of the ways white supremacy works in astro/physics is hiding the work of people who opened doors for the students of

djels 🇨🇰

sucnblo

Thread of Cook Islands facts Cook Islanders also practiced the hongi (sharing of breathe) but the practice became quickly eradicated during the arrival and influence of Christianity. Now a

Clare Malone

ClareMalone

So, I got laid off late last week as part of the ABC News layoffs. I won’t lie, it was a bit of a surprise, but if anything 2020 has

Karen & the Sorrows

kandthesorrows

In “Sand in My Boots,” we learn that no matter where you go, you’re still that same small town boy (his Red Wing boots by her flip flops). You are

Kate Kelly

Kate_Kelly_Esq

Did you know:—in old-timey-times women got abortions w no constraints?—ads for abortion were so common in the 1800s they were blasé?—native women controlled their fertility & men had no say?Today's

Nigerian God

Echecrates

Belly Schmurda needs to do another music video for Cash App In a better country with better infrastructure, the Cash App song would be getting ad revenue dollars from Square/CashApp.

Just A Citizen

ks_NotANiceGirl

TW: Men Are TrashA couple days back, I used these three words and well, many people here lost their minds.Today I want to talk a little more about it from

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