#Fascinating

visa is almost done ✍🏾📖

visakanv

been procrastinating for years on an essay exploring how lady gaga chose to be weird as a positioning strategy in order to get the attention (for her hard-won talent) that

Blue and Gray Dog

Countrydog8

Changing meaning of the Chicks / Dixie Chicks controversy in cultural memory (a thread) My main area of interest concerns how the meaning of cultural artifacts and phenomena change over

Dan Ernst

ernstdj

1/ How should we talk about DP FLOPS for A100? A thread. #HPC #AI #Nvidia 2/ Nvidia announced A100 this morning and you can read about it from any number

commie lee jones

commieleejones

MIT researchers 'infiltrated' a Covid skeptics community a few months ago and found that skeptics place a high premium on data analysis and empiricism."Most fundamentally, the groups we studied believe

Alex Bean

ABeanTweeting

Back on my bullshit again, looking up photos of national capitol buildings and commenting on their architecture.Here's last night's thread about capitol buildings in the Americas.https://twitter.com/ABeanTweeting/status/128681039198

Pandatheist

Pandatheist

Happy Follow Friday!Its been a loooooong week. Today Id like to share with you a small group of people who manage to make me keep on keeping even when everything

Matthew Ball

ballmatthew

1/ Since Dec, $TWTR stock has grown 50% above all-time highs. Lots has been said about Twitter’s product upside, ability to capture more of the value it creates (see @Post_Market

Ariel Ron

arielronid

Thread: 1/For folks interested in 19c US history of capitalism and pol econ, I cannot recommend enough @yuenyuenang's How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. It offers fresh thinking for reflecting

Stephen Dziedzic

stephendziedzic

Right, this could be interesting. A host of Pacific Island diplomats are giving evidence at a parliamentary committee in Canberra. Focus on trade and economic ties between Australia and the

ran

ranylsan

My Top 25 Films of 2019 (Thread)Better late than never 25.) Midnight FamilyDirector: Luke LorentzenIt's a documentary about a family who runs a privately-run ambulance, showing their struggle in making

helena merriman

helenamerriman

Two years ago I started researching an extraordinary escape story under the Berlin Wall for the podcast #tunnel29, for @bbcradio4. Since then lots of you have been asking if there

v ness: global pomegranate

theoctopiehole

Ways in which the seminal Black horror film "Get Out" by @JordanPeele reflects (and inverts!) aspects of Homer's Odyssey: A THREAD Alright, I know I actually have to explain this

Dr Mike Martin ⛵️

ThreshedThought

Time for an update on the Battle for DonbasA thread. As expected, the Russians have sort of fizzled. They pulled all of these mauled units out of Kyiv, and then

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update September 21: As the world approaches 1 million deaths, and the U.S. 200,000, where we go from here is the most important thing.And there is a simple trick

Sailesh Kumar Shaw

SaileshKumarSh4

As Harsha once said, "In Indian cricket, we don't plan things. An accident happens and suddenly we are in the right place". This is indeed true. There have been quite

Scheplick

scheplick

I finally got around to reading the New York Time's explosive take on Robinhood and the emergence of wild day traders.I have some comments about it. A thread 1.