#Conversations

It's a Friday afternoon and I'm actively procrastinating, so here goes: Everything I've Learned about Networking in a Virtual World. A thread from an introvert's perspective. (1/) I have a
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As far as I can tell, Bertrand Russell's "neutral monism" is just a logically-denatured, reheated misunderstanding of William James' "pure experience" (there's some Mach in there too but go with
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According to @NoBordersMedia, Montreal’s John A. Macdonald statue has just been toppled. As an historian of settler colonialism in what is currently Canada, let me share some accessible resources to
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I'm researching Zoom for an essay and things just keep getting weirder and weirder... This is (allegedly) form an interview with the C.E.O. It's like someone took a "live, laugh,
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I just discovered (thanks @hunrachel) about the growing gap in publication submissions in the past month since the covid-19 started (links below). Moral of the story is: we need to
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THREAD:I'm a sucker, I know. You don't have to remind me, but I'm sure you will anyways & I don’t blame you. I have long since stopped worrying about Stan,
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There's an openly racist man as your president, lauded anchors on your news networks spewing racism, a head writer on said shows resigning because his open racism was discovered, applause
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I’m reading a book called 30 Something and Over It by Kasey Edwards. I recommend it for people (women in particular) who feel like they wonder about whether they have
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Rising college junior who's just declared as a history major? Congratulations! Interested in getting a jump on next year + beyond? Following several conversations I've had on this IRL, here
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THREAD alert! I'm not suggesting anyone is interested in my view and I have like a handful of followers, but this has been on my mind for a while, so
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As I get ready for bed, I have a few more closing thoughts on today's announcement from @AdrianaLaGrange. The first is about outcomes: what is it that we are trying
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Farhan talked to @knbrmurph this morning. 6:45 in, he admits two ways he (and Kapler) screwed up. 1. They didn't seek advice from "advocates" during the process. "we were just
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Hi Twitter, this is a personal/job news tweet. This is my last week as part of the @newtropicmiami/@WhereByUs team. Next Monday I'm joining @WLRN as their digital editor. I'm really
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At a top business school, women receive lower grades in quantitative courses compared to men who have similar academic aptitudes, GPAs, family backgrounds, and demographics as captured by their college
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Folks, censorship/deplatforming/suppression-of-alternative-viewpoints/"thought-suppression" is *already* rapidly metastasizing. https://twitter.com/zooko/status/1277667936782573568 https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/127761
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I've started to think English really loses something by not really having a concept of "public face" and "private face" as eg Chinese and Japanese do.In English, if I hang
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