#Discourse

M_Methuselah

M_Methuselah

So. I've been thinking about the "marketplace of ideas" idea because I've come across disconnected talk about the contagiousness of "bad ideas" and how "good ideas" can't beat "bad ideas"

el gato malo

boriquagato

it's feeling like @jack and the winged monkeys are really upping their censorship game again.respond (respectfully and with data) to a blue check pushing covid fear, and you get your

A.R. Buckle

JuliusGoat

They never cared about deficits, never cared about fiscal responsibility.They never cared about national security.Never cared about corruption.Or freedom of speech.Or preventing terrorism.Never actually even wanted to reduce abortions.It was

NUTS N DOLTS TIME

rosesscythes

Ableism// Can we talk about how the #Halo community has a serious ableism problem? Because I’d like to talk about it. I’ve mentioned before how a lot of the

Chad Topaz

chadtopaz

This morning's thread: Chad contends with public damage done by a colleague. A.K.A. I swear, we DO know how to do (and teach) mathematics and statistics at @WilliamsCollege. A.K.A. I

Joe Weisenthal

TheStalwart

I'M MORE WORRIED ABOUT SUPERSTAR COMPANIES THAN I AM ABOUT "ZOMBIES" In today's @markets newsletter, I wrote about why the huge, booming tech companies could be holding back GDP growth

Morag Fearnsby

fearnsby

In teaching about women's art, I find that as soon as students detect any biological essentialism, they ricochet over to poststructuralist ideas that deny biology altogether. It's tricky.So, I wrote

ein-sofist

aesthetikeit

thread on ornithomancy (bird divination) in medieval kabbalah /0 while divination is forbidden in lev. 19:26, ornithomancy is understood to have been popular with jews beginning at the latest in

Cisphobia™

shaeydied

it breaks my heart to see fellow lgbt saying shit like "not all cishets are bad, bro u r a good one ily uwu"they don't need this validation, they aint

Harry Rutter

harryrutter

Obesity thread...A policy announcement on obesity is long overdue. We face a huge and growing epidemic, and since the Foresight report was published in 2007 there has been no excuse

The Homicidally Horny Mr. Ripley

ahabthepredator

(LRT) I agree with this and other threads I've retweeted about this whole thing. Like, look -- personally for me this whole issue boils down to harm done to actual

Flute Person

ComradeFlute

“Fascism is when the violence that the imperialist nations have visited upon the world over the course of the development of the modern, parasitic capitalist world-system comes back home to

Off the Table

Off_theTable

Hey everyone. We at Off the Table hope you are taking care of yourself during these unsure times - that includes your mental health. 1/22 The thread to follow covers

villainfucker defense network

redemptionarcs

[thread] Can we please talk about this growing anti trend of actively targeting their own mutuals when they find out their moot ships something they don't like? And the implications

(((E. Glen Weyl)))

glenweyl

Thanks to @henryfarrell , I just finished one of the best books I have read for years, @hugoreasoning and @dansperber's The Enigma of Reason. I strongly recommend it to anyone

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

janeclarejones

So, with all these claims to the extreme marginalisation of the trans community floating around - and being used to dismiss women as uppity privileged bitches - I thought we'd