#Context

I think a lot of disinfo flourishes by hitting a sweet spot: Too complicated to shoot down in a couple sentences, too obviously absurd to people with real expertise to
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Online learning will form a significant part of, at the very least, the first half of 20-21...unless a large proportion of teaching staff have experience in online teaching, the importance
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Some days it really seems like every significant “intuition” that managers have about metrics or systematisation of their workplace is at best useless, and more often actively harmful to the
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Know where you are in the process, follow and act accordingly.1. Aggressive expansion (10k - 2MM)2. Accumulation (2MM-20MM)3. Reduce Risk and Diversify (20MM +)Most of what we hear is phase
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The Recovery trial of hospitalized covid patients is continuing its hcq arm after DSMB made an interim look because of lancet observational study. DSMB found no reason to stop study
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Mentions going a bit wild over my thread about the 700th anniversary of Declaration of Arbroath. Here is the blog version, if you prefer a single text rather than a
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My tips for making horror comics: 1. Consume lots of horror. As you do, think about what you think works or doesn't work. Okay that scene was scary... but why?
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Thinking about my favorite writers and I think the most essential thing for me is always the idea of 'Can I see the creator's face in the work?', which I
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Tempted to just mute "cancel culture" going forward. But some supposedly people are failing to distinguish between ideas that are not discussed in the mainstream because they were discredited eons
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Welcome to the White House daily Shadow Press briefing. Real reporters ask the questions but we give you the real answers, not the nonsense that comes out of @PressSec mouth.
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A lot of the twitter brahmanas who wax eloquent about the virtue of caste based occupations remind of the reasons local brahamanas are hated by other castes in Bundelkhand. Had
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The iconic 1,2,3 bitch in delicate: a thread This type of intimate swiftie only concert is a dream The amount of times she stared at joe during this set was
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It's why I usually refer to "fundamentalists" or "fanatics" rather than, say, "extremists" or "radicals". Rejecting the Quran's origin myth would, in a context of Islam, be "extreme"
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Is the World Health Organization's reliance on China in this pandemic a problem? Of course. But that's the reality of international fora, and the risk of that problem needs to
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Nice thread on German assistance to their neighbours. It's fascinating, good chunk of pundits doesn't seem aware of it but comments a lot on how 'German doesn't rush to help'.
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My translation of Kirito meeting Eolyne scene in SAO volume 24 (containing a lot of YujiKiri angst on Kirito's part) part 1/2I posted this on SAO Wikia Discord. I will
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