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Apophenia is the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things. In September 2020, Reed Berkowitz published this piece on Medium, discussing how apophenia plays
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Journalism doesn't have much of a memory says @PeterCronau - we miss systemic issues about war, about power - the archive of @wikileaks provides context, insights, and an ability to
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Superstitions concerning fire, may lead us to consider the hearth, and chimney, where apotropaic objects are often concealed as a form of protection to ward against malevolent forces. The chimney
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I'm currently reading a Victorian reissue of an 18th-century jestbook. 49 jokes from the original text were omitted on account of the "greater delicacy observed in modern society & conversation."
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Thread: Who is a tech worker and what does tech organizing look like? Like most sectors, organizing is informed by legal and political considerations, industrial relations, hierarchies of skills, gender,
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Behold! Our latest @biorxivpreprint #preprint in which we explore if duplication of #TumorSuppressors helped #elephantscrush their risk of #cancer as they evolved large body sizes #PetosParadox #EvMed #EleFunFactFriday #TheMoreYouKnow https
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And we're off. New Brunswick here we come. Off the 1000 Island Parkway We drove towards the end of the rainbow but didn't find any treasure. We are done for
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Having been recently encouraged to "stick to the science", I'd like to write a bit about COVID-19 disinformation, where it comes from, and how it is undermining our public health
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Thread (longish): During the excavations of the the Temple Repositories at Knossos, among many early 2nd millennium BC faience (glazed ceramic) objects, Arthur Evans unearthed ceramic crocuses and models of
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THREAD: (1) Anons and frens, Im not sold that the twitter bans are necessarily a black hat op. This is gonna be a bit more scattered than my normal threads
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Unpopular opinion: CentOS switching to Stream is not a bad thing at all.When you wanted to run Openstack on CentOS in 2015, you needed to enable https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL  to even begin
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1. Transgender Vikings is my pick for Fake News Story of the Year.Were the Vikings "trans"? Of course not, and everyone knew this until 2020, when the media decided to
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Incoming: a longish thread featuring armed insurrection, Council meetings, tea, a library, a street name, and acts of trespass in a Glasgow park.If that's your sort of thing then let's
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All the"tHeY'rE gRaBbINg raNdOm pEoPle" leftists are outing themselves as kiddies spitting in the shallow end of the "Feds are bad" pool, because anyone with an iota of a clue
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1 like = 1 Good thinghttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1287261898866479105 1. my followers! you guys are wonderful and unbelievably polite and interesting and I cherish you 2. Clint Eastwood's eyes in A Fistful of
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I’ve been playing #FPL for three years now. I don’t know much about football (soccer). But I do know a bit about statistics and economics, so I’ve built a model
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