#FREEDOM

Japanese books have stunning, striking and aesthetically pleasing designs. Here are some covers of translated editions of foreign language (e.g. English) books found in a local bookshop, as well as
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(Shared with permission.)As we finish up the visit, I wonder again.What’s in the backpack?The patient sits before me. A large man of few words, head shaved, muscles rippling, tattoos.I finally
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Thread: We Already Have a Social Credit Scoretl;dr: (in the same way we have utility functions - by backsolving)Unpopular opinion that I actually believe: it’s dumb to make fun of
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I've noticed a new wrinkle in the rhetoric of deplatforming latelyβ€”asking explicitly why something was platformed, with the suggestion being that it shouldn't have been. 1/? In some cases, it
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This is colonization- via the @NewYorker : "Inspired by the liberal reforms espoused by the French Revolution and by SimΓ³n BolΓ­var’s battles for independence around the hemisphere, a Puerto Rican
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The morning after the night before.A few reflections, my own, without emotion. There is no shame in losing to Wolves away, they’re a very good team & our performance was
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You shouldn’t break the law when you’re pushing your children in a stroller it sets a bad example for them. Defenseless #MAGA Flowers were trampled by some young
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Are the Internet and social media a "liberation" technology (Diamond, 2010)? If you read the news coverage of the "Arab Spring" a decade ago (yes, a decade) you might think
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Let's talk selfies.I've noticed a pattern as I get more familiar with the tics and nuances of social media. The pattern relates to the correlation of selfies posted versus creepy
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The anglophone comics industry works like this: the overwhelming majority of people working in comics are freelancers. Publishers do have permanent staff- editorial and so forth, but generally only the
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"Every" Trump supporter I know has looked down their nose at the riff raff at the rallies and the guys with the guns in their profile pics and the breathless
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I keep thinking about the posts I'm seeing about why artists don't speak out in support of BLM, and a lot of it boils down to "it could hurt their
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π“π¨ππšπ² 𝐒𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐑𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐩 π‰πšπ²πšπ§π­π’This 𝐭𝐑𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 is about π₯𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐑𝐒𝐩 π₯𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 you can learn f
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Hello, it's me - a chronically ill and vulnerable person - here to remind you that lockdown never ended for disabled people.No one outside of the disability community seems to
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#WalkAway: "Hello Everyone,I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For 3.5 years, I hated Donald Trump. I was an atheist, angry and under educated Liberal.I hated the USA, I wanted to so
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Always nervous when tweeting about US politics because:a) Silicon Valley hates it &b) I’m from EnglandThe has given me a lot, and I hope someday to become a citizen.That
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