#Consensus

Ben W. Ansell

benwansell

MERITOCRACY IN THE NEWS @David_Goodhart and Michael Sandel have both written provocative new books about the trouble with 'meritocracy'. Both argue that non-graduates have been undervalued and that graduates in

Spartan Psyche

SpartanPsyche

Social Tug of WarHow to USE dark psychology to get what you want - Powerful techniques. // THREAD // In a Utopian world, people would look out for each other.

Xonq Nopp Cemetery

OankaliHoe

Do y'all know about “transracial adoption” (which almost always refers to whites buying nonwhite children)? Shit is wild. “Although most adoption social workers espouse the view that the child should

Sharngan

Sharngan_94

Ukraine is a training ground for Russian cyber ops - Ukrainian Rep right now in the UNSC virtual meeting on cyberspace 2/n Cyberspace not Wild West, need committment /

Ammar Ali Jan

ammaralijan

This year, poor countries owe $25 billion in installments to creditors in rich countries in the midst of a pandemic. Demands for canceling Third World's debt are absolutely rational and

Darren 🥚 🐣 🕊️

ReformedTrader

1/ The Greatest Trade Ever (Gregory Zuckerman)Thread"Did investment banks and financial pros truly believe that housing was in an inexorable climb?"Why did the very bankers who created toxic mortgages get

John Stoehr's Editorial Board

johnastoehr

Undecided voters are dangerous radicals by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/undecided-voters-are-dangerous-radicals?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. I wrote Wednesday that Joe Biden demonst

Drew Hinkes

propelforward

We've got a new proposed #SEC #token #safeharbor that would let issuers offer tokens in the US. It's big. But, what's new? How is it different from the prior proposal?

Brandon Beylo

marketplunger1

[THREAD]Unity (prop ticker: $U) filed their S-1 this AM. I read the filing so you don't have to (but you should). Here's a thread on what I found interesting, fascinating

Gal.G🕯 🇮🇱

GalG____

1/ Hi followers from around the world, I feel that we need to take a moment and explain to you what is happening in #Israel today. Everything is so fast

Niskanen Center

NiskanenCenter

NEW PAPER and THREAD: “Defunding the police” does not enjoy broad public support in Black communities. Most voters prefer reform (community groups, a larger social safety net, and limits on

John Stoehr's Editorial Board

johnastoehr

1. David Brooks is maddening but interesting. Maddening, because no matter how often the Republicans behaved barbarously toward Barack Obama, the Times columnist could not quit apologizing for the party.

Ash

ahboyash

1/ An L1 with a current market cap of only $150m? Transaction fees costing less than $0.01??@HsakaTrades (allegedly) market buying $2m worth of $FUSE?!Today we explore @Fuse_network and how it

David Sussillo 🏡💻🤞🤓

SussilloDavid

Ever wonder what the heck an Echo State Network (ESN) is, or what the fuss is all about and how it relates to recurrent neural networks (RNNs) more generally? Follow

robert rosencrans

rfrosencrans

Trials claiming benefits of weight loss *actually* measure many effects of pleiotropic interventions (incl. weight loss). But we don't manipulate weight. No manipulation, no causality. It's scientifically irresponsible to confuse

Rakesh Thiyyan

ByRakeshSimha

Thread on journalist Rajeev Sharma who has been arrested by the Delhi Police for spying for China.1. In 2011 I started writing for Russia Beyond, a Russian government media outlet.