#Reason

Josh Marshall

joshtpm

Not terribly well-known to most Americans but there was a dry run for secession and treason in 1831-33. The so-called Nullification Crisis. Nominally about tariffs it was in fact about

Orange Juice🍊

thehiphoporange

Why I think trap music is declining (A thread): Trap albums are too commercialized for their own good. Having the same features and bloated tracklists has led to a major

Elissa M. Redmiles, Ph.D.

eredmil1

One of the many reasons I have deep respect for German academia. They treat PhD students as employees, not "students".PhD students, at least in CS, are IMO almost always invisible

Bill

willie__gus

I've been thinking about the autoreply that @sfmta_muni uses on 311. Does anyone at SFMTA actually review these reports and study trends? Do they use it to find the +

Joseph Mireku

thejosephmireku

This letter from Muntaka is neither a retraction nor an apology, for a number of reasons.1. First, he still calls it a "disclosure". (Check your disctionary). Meaning he was making

Simon Usherwood

Usherwood

A couple of pedagogical thoughts about this1/https://twitter.com/Usherwood/status/1295667212506869761 Hopefully, part of the design of any HE provision this autumn was resilience to cope with new C-19 outbreaks and/or restrictions(if your i

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

This was a good post, and the Pozen-Scheppele paper it relies on is eye-opening (Kim was my office neighbor at Princeton, and posted about Hungary on my blog). But I

QuintusCurtius

QuintusCurtius

1. Opinion time. Frankly it's been dismaying and humiliating to really see how rickety and unreliable our voting system is.The whole idea of a polling station is that a citizen

Fuck Around and Find Out Duke 🏴🚩🏴‍☠️

TheLatteDog

You wanna know the why some companies are, supposedly, more left-leaning than others? Well, let me tell you about the difference between a finance capitalist and a domestic capitalist. A

Ja-Crispy

Jcrspyy

I really hate when people try and compare these two scenes to each other. Because the main reason why I don’t like TLJ Luke is because it completely ignores everything

Travis (not a Cylon) Kimmel

coloradotravis

Are we stuck in a Gamma Mill?The dark side of the Hive1/ So we talked about waveforms earlier in the context of return profiles, and since then I’ve been thinking

Duncan Hothersall🌹

dhothersall

Interesting to see people confidently asserting that live, unedited broadcasts of politicians speaking are somehow intrinsically more honest than edited news coverage. This ignores some fairly obvious truths. Politicians say

@365hye

ult3ye

kpop songs that have the same energy; a thread 1. gxxd boy by everglow and whistle by blackpink 2. gxxd boy by everglow and cherry by itzy 3. hush by

Chris Kessell

THEChrisKessell

We are years and years past the stating the problems with soccer being good enough. Everyone knows Pay to Play, lack of access, undeserved communities, etc etc etc are all

Ben

Strickland__Ben

@Boro_Breakdown [THREAD] RE: Neil WarnockWe shouldn’t be aspiring for a manager like Warnock to stay on longer than these 8 games(1/6) We want someone who, unlike Woodgate, has some coaching

Chloé S. Valdary 📚

cvaldary

If you see the world through the lens of material power, it will appear as if "oppressors" -- real or imagined -- are having a hell of a time; &

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