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Quantitative analysis methods in the form of GIFs. A Sunday thread...


This is the kind of content I am here for. This exactly

In honor of Taylor Swift’s new album, I present: Taylor Swift as SaaS companies (a thread)



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the incessant and insane categorisation of every single little feeling a human can have as entire personality model is entirely down to content-ifying our lives and the ‘branding’ that individuals build themselves. it all boils down to consumption

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Amazingly well done 👏

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This week, Chile announced a proposed new constitution written by a democratically elected convention, and it is likely the most legitimate constitution in the world, as it is written boldly in the context of the climate crisis. A 🧵on its inspiring climate provisions.


Australia gonna Australia

Sydney aquarium staff on their way to deal with this at a Sydney train station.

fictillius's tweet image. Sydney aquarium staff on their way to deal with this at a Sydney train station.


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Hi there 👋🏽 it’s your local “radical extremist” here regularly introducing legislation that’s popular with voters from both parties yet challenges the class interests controlling both so instead they convince you it’s “naïve, ineffective, and unreasonable,” how do you do? 🤠

The loan shark prevention act, introduced by @AOC, caps credit card interest rates at 15% and was the second most popular policy we polled last year out (Prescription drug negotiation was #1) out of 113 policies tested!

davidshor's tweet image. The loan shark prevention act, introduced by @AOC,  caps credit card interest rates at 15% and was the second most popular policy we polled last year out (Prescription drug negotiation was #1) out of 113 policies tested!


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For the record I think abortion is our best issue right now and we should do everything we can to raise its salience

My main thing is that we should try to focus public debates on fights where the public trusts us (abortion is probably the best issue for us at the moment), and not ones where the public doesn’t. Especially if we’re running against a political party that openly wants to kill us.



I finally muted Elon on this app. I can’t anymore


Cooooool!

“It’s exciting to really change the aesthetics of technology,” says Yoel Fink, who teaches the course, "Computing Fabrics," to students from MIT and elsewhere. The class explores the history and future of fabrics, including next-gen textiles. Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT



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Being opposed to positive discrimination on fairness grounds (as opposed to thinking it doesn't work or is harmful) strikes me as an example of "trying to live in the ideal world by enforcing its rules" even if enforcing the rules of the ideal world makes it harder to reach.


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In case anyone needs to hear this: having ethical worries about abortion is perfectly consistent with being against suddenly making it illegal.


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Phenomenal consciousness = Does it have an inner cinema? Self-consciousness = Is it aware of itself? Sentience = Can it have positive or negative experiences? Moral patienthood = Should we care about what we do to it? Moral agency = Should we hold it accountable for what it does?


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