#System

ΞndgameWoki

owocki

18/ Lets dive into the nature of these coordination failures; If u havent read “meditations on moloch” - https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ u should! it is a thoughtful analysis of the animalistic forces

🏳️‍🌈Aaron Clarke

AaronTheClarke

Having spent 2 weeks locked down in #Madrid, I have to say how starkly deficient arrangements in the #UK seem to be in comparison.Maybe when folk in YOUR family or

A.R. Buckle

JuliusGoat

CANCERLet me give you a hypothetical scenario.Imagine, as best as you can, that there's a cancer.To help your imaginations, I'll describe this cancer. Say it’s been growing in a body

Rose

Rosebrujeria

This is about POC, this is about a broken system, this is about black lives. Stop making it about other shit, white people really need to check yourself right now.

svetlyak40wt

svetlyak40wt

Today's Common Lisp Project of the Day is "dynamic-mixins".This is an interesting library which allows to add and remove mixin classes to the CLOS objects on the fly! Common Lisp

Spek

spekulation

As police violence becomes more widespread, I increasingly see police apologists justifying their abuse by pointing to past destructive actions by protesters. I want to talk about this fallacy and

David Andress

ProfDaveAndress

Did you know that between 1912 and 1956, the Moroccan city of Tangier was run by the imperial powers as an "International Zone"? By the early 1950s 3/4 of its

Dillon

Deezus_Walks

While it sucks that Bernie isn’t going to be the next president, it is nice knowing that a candidate holding his policies down the line will be. With how overwhelmingly

Nupur J Sharma

UnSubtleDesi

I learnt a long time ago never to compromise with one’s beliefs for friendship. If the friendship requires you to do that, the person isn’t worth it. Friends come and

anand mahindra

anandmahindra

The number of new cases has risen, despite flattening the previous few days. With higher testing, a continuing rise is inevitable given the low absolute number of cases relative to

Robert Saunders

redhistorian

This is the next step in the presidentialisation of UK politics: a US-style "Administration," staffed by prime ministerial appointees from outside Parliament, whose authority flows directly from the PM, rather

allison (very normal)

allisongeroi

I miss 2012, when you could change an .mp3 file to "finalpaper.docx", creating an unintelligible stream of type, and then email it to a professor in order to buy yourself

Longtouyun

Longtouyun00

Went to manoa library today. I think the socialist institutions in the US are all very good. Libraries and the USPS are good. the US should become more socialist. While

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

New @TheLancet study on Oxford Adenovirus vaccine out and is indeed good newsFirst, its an early phase trial -- assessing both safety and efficacyRandomized -- about 500 folks in each

Populism Updates

PopulismUpdates

In the aftermath of WWII, there were questions about what would become of Germany. SPD leader Kurt Schumacher favored a unified Germany with a "strong national presidency" which the occupying

Victor Ray is Sheltering in Place

victorerikray

Please no more, “education will save us from racism” takes. The most sophisticated racism in American history has been designed by the most educated. And arguing that education will save