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RT @RichardHanania
I just ran the numbers, and it's really shocking. You can see the democratic decline in a global context. It's hard to explain to non-political scientists how bad this is. I'm having to rewrite the syllabus and think about how to communicate what's happening to my students.

RT @poiThePoi
@eigenrobot @sgodofsk There are many reasons I'm happy to no longer be working for AWS, but not begging the cops to kill me every few weeks is high on that list.

RT @LordVesconte
Wow there’s some abandoned (free!) bottles of Pepsi on the road. They are filled with yellow liquid, I can’t believe Pepsi is yellow over here! Tastes awful but my facial expressions of not liking it showed and the locals were mortified so I drank another to not insult them

RT @MidwestMidwit
@eigenrobot @tayloramarr There are so many stats you can look at to know what kind of place you’re dealing with. One of my favorites is single female head of household. If it’s high you know it’s a shitty place.

RT @obversers
people (including me) often decry university and school for filling their students' heads with nonsense - but I don't think it's really about a particular set of ideas or doctrines -

what's learned there is a meta-lesson: "when new Truths are dispensed, accept them immediately."

RT @BellaRudd1
@eigenrobot unt limericht:

zose germans, it seems zey equips
zeir cops vith ze rods zat zey grips
ze volk shan't deny
ze stadtluft not frei
zey schtick out ze rods und touch tips!

RT @acrossthespread
20 central bank policy meetings this week (including BOJ) amidst resurgence in global inflation, COVID variants, supply chain mess, energy crisis, property debt defaults etc

Meanwhile in 🇯🇵…

Kishida gives whole new meaning to → “how do you sleep at night??” twitter.com/afp/status/1470263

RT @dystopiabreaker
since everyone is talking about log4j/supply chains

an experiment years ago i calculated 1-bit offset utf8 strings of the top few hundred npm packages and registered packages under them

they received thousands of hits per week from machines trying to download and execute them

RT @chaosprime
the nature of the kind of information that Twitter considers that you need to be """protected""" from grows more suspect by the minute

RT @SparrowAdmirer
Went to the cinema today to watch an animated feature. Hungry, I ate from a can of baked beans. Minutes later, disaster; beans all over my shirt and pants. A black teenager seated nearby mocked me in a way I dare not type out.

RT @Thinkwert
ᴴᵉˡˡᵒ ᵐʸ ᵇᵃᵇʸ ʰᵉˡˡᵒ ᵐʸ ʰᵒⁿᵉʸ ʰᵉˡˡᵒ ᵐʸ ʳᵃᵍ⁻ᵗⁱᵐᵉ ᵍᵃˡ

RT @HamishSymington
Here's another video of bees falling out of the sky when the lights go out. I'm surprised it's an on/off choice for them - no graceful trying to glide to land or anything like that, they literally just stop flying and plummet. Surely that's more dangerous than keeping flying?

RT @woodlandbirder
An old beer bottle in Monks Wood NNR, used as an anvil to smash open countless snails by countless Song Thrushes. The bottle may have been used by the birds for more than half a century, it's embossed 'Huntingdon Breweries Ltd', who ceased production in 1954. @NE_WestAnglia

RT @alt1na1
if ur at a company about to IPO and you’re not producing measurable value as an individual contributor but hold unvested stocks ur gonna get wacked

this is SOP airbnb playbook

RT @alth0u
when hellenistic kings consulted oracles at times of great need no difference between that and bringing in McKinsey

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