#Theory

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

I want to tell you a story about a mathematician you’ve probably never heard of, but whose work has helped shape a lot of what we’re taking about today... 1/

Christine Burns MBE 🧜‍♀️🦍⧖

christineburns

I know I’m getting to sound like a broken record on this point but, in the current climate, reading about trans people so you understand our lives is one of

Chengxin Pan

ChengxinPan

The Chinese 'paper' or 'document' referred to in this report may lead the reader to think this is a leaked document from Chinese military, but in fact it's a published

christy hope

ilike2beright

This is my first thread(long time listener, first time caller)I have a theory that I just cant shake, and since I haven’t seen anyone else discussing it on twitter yet

mathfrak{Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt}

betanalpha

I just finished Box, Hunter, and Hunter and I cannot praise it enough. There were multiple passages where I literally giggled. In fact I may have been a bit _too_

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

This is the title of a real academic paper: "Beyond the Face of Race: Emo-Cognitive Explorations of White Neurosis and Racial Cray-Cray."Guess who wrote it. First sentence: "Interaction with White

'kæ-rɪl • a Black Lives Matter Kiwi

pohutukaryl

an ongoing thread of my favorite OIA requests which absolutely no one asked forI often reference my "top five" but these are in no real order, and I've withheld a

Gillian Smith

gillianmsmith

Wrong things that I learned as an undergraduate in computer science, either explicitly in courses or implicitly through its culture (or both!), that I have had to unlearn over the

Jeff Guhin

jeffguhin

One test to see if your argument is a work of social science is to find out if the people you are writing about learn something from the concepts you

Rakesh Thiyyan

ByRakeshSimha

1. This is Mahmoud Abumayyaleh, the Muslim store owner who called the cops, saying Floyd George had given him a counterfeit $20 bill. He is not to be blamed but

Kate Devlin

drkatedevlin

Another day of juggling everythings to enable the university to move online. It’s like playing football on a bouncy castle while the goalposts are moved every 5 minutes. This isn’t

Activist #MMT 🦉 (podcast)

ActivistMMT

1/ I DON’T WANT *MY* TAXES PAYING FOR *YOUR* HEALTHCARE.Yet our insurance premiums are pooled and actually do pay for the healthcare of others.Under #MedicareForAll, our taxes would (and could)

יובל־עזרא

lezbianke

Progesterone is kicking in so I'm a bit drowsy as I write this out, so please be forgiving as I rant about transmisogyny! I think the part that's most difficult

Joel Chan, #slowthespread, support your neighbors!

JoelChan86

I am *very* excited about the potential for augmented collective intelligence as @RoamResearch begins to roll out multiplayer and API. I think balancing context and privacy is going to be

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Enaemaehkiw

The reason I find TRN's political trajectory "boring," as I said the other day, is because I think it's ultimately some kind of retro-fueled backwards thinking of failure dressed in

Paul Lewis

PaulLewis

To all who read this story about the government's 'Stalinist' censoring of advice from scientists, there's been a u-turn. The report has just been quietly republished online, without redactions. Why