#Essay

Caucasian ≠ White. Many who check "Caucasian" on forms can't name any ethnic groups from the Caucasus. The term was appropriated and popularized by a German man who was obsessed
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Tobi Lutke (@tobi) is the CEO of Shopify He's one of my favorite CLEAR thinkersI spent some time in lockdown going through his interviewsHere are 6 mental models I got
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A THREAD, about lynching and Confederate monuments 1/24 About 25 years ago, I studied lynching & cultural representations of and memory of lynching, & later memory of Reconstruction, including monuments.
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Gymshark went from nothing to a billion dollar company in just 8 years with no outside capital.How did they get here? What strategic risks are they exposing themselves now?(Megathread) This
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Trump got my support when he started calling out #FakeNews. Why? Because at the time I had begun reading a lot about propaganda and how its used to dehumanize opponents.
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A Father’s Day Gift SuggestionAn open letter to my sons, aged 17 & 18, on Father’s Day, about voting.1/ Boys,As you know, I’m pretty impulsive when it comes to buying
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A long thread about slaughterhouses. This thread was sparked by an interesting thread (below) from a historian I deeply respect. And I think the larger argument is mostly correct, but
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Today I am teaching Zhuangzi, Wolf and Russell on the good of uselessness. Since the idea of usefulness and efficiency is so deeply ingrained in our society, so integrally a
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If you've read U Missouri econ prof Michael Hudson's writings on the subject, you know that for millennia, rulers in these circumstances simply wiped out the debts, declaring a "jubilee"
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When I think about being a kid, I think about how there was no seam that I could detect that indicated that my body and myself had been somehow stitched
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I saw a tweet about Tamaki and Bakugo bonding over their boys who are "like the sun" so uh,,, here's a thread Bakugo and Tamaki were assigned surveillance over
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1/5 This @nytimes article by @paulmozur is a smoking gun on the genesis of the coronavirus lockdowns.According to the article, the CCP launched a massive social media campaign in ITALY
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The reasons why Kenma has been treated as an “uwu baby” in fandom spaces are numerous, mainly based on foundations built around ableism, homophobia, misogyny, and to an extent racism.
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Story time: May 2018 i graduated from college and was so ready to work. I thought that when you're a graduate from a reputable university, got good grades it'll be
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Thread: Exposing the CIA1) In this explosive thread, I will uncover what I believe to be the CIA’s actual base of operations.Hint: It’s probably not located where you might think.Buckle
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Alright, no, we're going to talk about psychedelics some more. Owen brings up a good point, which is that for the psychonaut, the use of psychedelics is an ideology, it
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