#Material

Disappointing article in the Economist about antitrust.https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2020/08/08/what-more-should-antitrust-be-doing It only reports the rather populist debate between "Chicago school" style libertarians,
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@mugecevik is an excellent scientist and a responsible professional. She likely read the paper more carefully than most. She grasped some of its strengths and weaknesses that are not apparent
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Many of us are about to begin a new semester of online teaching. The learning curve for moving my lecture units last semester was STEEP, so I compiled some sort
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1) There is so much to unpack here I'm going to share a short thread.https://twitter.com/RodRosenstein/status/1282084285755928576 2) First, note the perspective of Rod Rosenstein as he shares this op-ed *written by
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Imma make a small little thread... I remember when starting out on furry twitter always wondering why popufurs would turn off DM’s,Well from the looks of it it can be
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Just learned I'm "famous" because I am quoted in a bunch of crazy articles about how awful it is that English teachers aren't teaching Shakespeare. This will be a great
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In a nutshell: Besides vague notions of “masculinity” & “femininity”—this type of analysis reflects a narrow, classist, & elitist view of family disguised as concern for piety. Such rhetoric actively
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1/ The city of Hattusa - near present- day Boğazkale in Çorum province - already existed about 2000 years before the beginning of our era (BCE). 2/ At the end
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I don't think anyone truly knows or understands the sheer long term damage the 4Kids dub did to One Piece as a brand, and that only just RECENTLY has it
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Ah, the #prochoice trending hashtag: breathe that sweet, servile odor of prochoicers singing their allegiance to their capitalist bosses. Pointing out that the child-killing is the fuel by which large
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On this day, 1979, Dennis Lillee walked out with an aluminium bat (the brand was called ComBat) during a Test match.But a quiz question before all that.There were many surplus
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"The External Affairs Ministry virtually functions as a wing of the Kremlin ... The Defence and Foreign Ministers shuttle back and forth between Kremlin and Delhi like errand boys."https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1354750
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Mocking double-masking (in the absence of all of us being able to procure and correctly wear a new N-95 every single day) is kind of grotesque. Like asking why all
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The way the Right has seized on "postmodernism" in "academia" as this massive... thing... is so dissonant with my experiences as an academic. I learned about various postmodern/poststructural theories, foolishly
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Currently reading a Shanghai party committee paper about German industrial practice. It's highlighting to me how the famous Mittelstand firms function as working groups. You can only achieve this with
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I'm noticing a dynamic around physics/causality-compatibility-or-not-with-woo that strikes me as a sort of "emergent motte & bailey"and I'm not really sure how to approach productively(curious for any thoughts/advice a
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