Black Lives Matter – Alameda Protest and Car March
Tweet by benorlin
You're about to spend the next 25 minutes watching a guy solve a Sudoku.
Not only that, but it's going to be the highlight of your day.https://t.co/gnuI31x0PT
— Ben Orlin (@benorlin) May 17, 2020
# 2020.06.10 – 08:54
Tweet by overlyorganic
I read somewhere that people with anxiety LOVE rewatching old tv shows and movies they have seen millions of times bc there is no ounce of anxiety in wondering what the end result is. Now I know why I prefer to rewatch than start something new😅
— ☕️ (@overlyorganic) May 7, 2020
# 2020.06.10 – 08:54
Tweet by CitysEra
When Sweden play Denmark the scoreboard says SWE-DEN and the unused letters from both teams spell out Denmark https://t.co/6cqDMINTDQ
— Ben (@CitysEra) May 5, 2020
# 2020.06.10 – 08:54
50 years off-grid: architect-maker paradise amid NorCal redwoods
50 years off-grid: architect-maker paradise amid NorCal redwoods
April 26, 2020 at 06:57AM
# 2020.06.10 – 08:54
Tweet by GergelyOrosz
I've been reflecting on what the most surprising learnings I've had, working at well-known tech "unicorns" like Skype, Skyscanner, Uber. Here is a list, as I'm writing up these reflections in more detail. pic.twitter.com/KZzuTOu8nV
— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) April 26, 2020
# 2020.06.10 – 08:54
Tweet by Neuronologist1
Basketball as therapy for Parkinson's disease.
Why does this work? Nobody really knows. All of our best answers to date fall short.
Hey @NBA or @nbacares, wanna help us figure this out? pic.twitter.com/VjlOlNPuIX
— Benjamin Stecher (@Neuronologist1) April 25, 2020
# 2020.06.10 – 08:54
Tweet by NewYorker
Within the first sentence of “The Stranger,” two subtle and seemingly minor translation decisions have the power to change the way we read everything that follows. https://t.co/D5gQt5lYks
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) June 8, 2020
# 2020.06.10 – 08:46
Tweet by samswey
We just launched #8cantwait, a campaign to get Mayors across the country to immediately adopt these 8 use of force policy restrictions that can reduce police violence by to 72%. Check it out at https://t.co/myfBGwQRhT. Let’s talk about why this matters. (1/x) pic.twitter.com/EMAUCbPQHY
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) June 3, 2020
# 2020.06.10 – 08:46
Tweet by DrIbram
It is empty when politicians call for healing and peace without stating antiracist policies they want to institute. Words bring momentary healing and peace. Policy change brings lasting healing and peace by rooting out the racism suffocating so many people. We want to breathe.
— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) June 3, 2020
# 2020.06.10 – 08:46
Tweet by PoliceLawProf
How to Actually Fix America's Police
In a long op-ed in @TheAtlantic, my co-authors and I provide an extensive roadmap for police reform at the federal, state, and local level.https://t.co/iaJ4LkisoU
— Seth Stoughton (@PoliceLawProf) June 3, 2020
# 2020.06.10 – 08:46
Tweet by AngelaDSaini
Race science is not just a pseudoscience, it is the intellectual framework upon which our modern-day racial categories are built. It underpins the structural racism of our institutions. It is the toxin inside our minds, and the minds of too many of our leaders.
— Angela Saini (@AngelaDSaini) June 3, 2020
# 2020.06.10 – 08:46
Tweet by No_Little_Plans
There are known strategies to reduce police violence. In the past, the federal government has been empowered to investigate local departments and force them to adopt these strategies and reform. It works: when they do, police shootings go way down. https://t.co/QaKuX8sI0K
— Rob Arthur (@No_Little_Plans) June 1, 2020
# 2020.06.10 – 08:46
Tweet by EireannDolan
For more information about so-called “Slave Bibles” this is a helpful place to start: https://t.co/qPuvlt3EcD
— Eireann Dolan (@EireannDolan) June 2, 2020
# 2020.06.10 – 08:46
Tweet by AlanLevinovitz
As a consequence, ultra-processed information is even more difficult to resist than ultra-processed food, because the reward comes from the pleasure of consuming the information *and* the pleasure of being praised for making and sharing it.
— Alan Levinovitz (@AlanLevinovitz) June 9, 2020
# 2020.06.10 – 08:46
What Trait Affects Income the Most? Hierarchical Rank.
“Neoclassical economists will have none of this. The idea that hierarchical rank most strongly affects income, I’ve been told, is ‘foolish and absurd’. Why? Because it explicitly contradicts neoclassical scripture. Income, scripture says, must stem from productivity. So behind hierarchical rank, there must lurk some unmeasured skill. Silly me — I’m naive enough to take my results at face value, just as Galileo did when interpreting the phases of Venus.”
# 2020.06.06 – 18:20
This is an Us Problem
“Democrats seem fundamentally unable to conceive of themselves as a big part of the problem. At best there is an argument about the Republicans being worse – which is true, and is almost universally true – that is used to deflect criticism. It is necessary to face up to the reality that many of the places with the worst problems with police violence are, and have been, controlled by Democrats at the local level for a long time. If you look at protesters and don’t understand why they burn property rather than channel their anger into voting, the very obvious answer is that there is no imaginary future in which voting for Joe Biden and whoever they just elected Mayor will actually solve the problem. Republicans offer pure authoritarianism – they actively *encourage* police to be brutal – while Democrats have done nothing to stop them, or in many cases abetted them.”
# 2020.06.01 – 12:28
The Immoral Equivalent of War
“European intellectuals from Voltaire to Lenin have had only three really big political ideas. One of them, the liberalism conceived in the 18th century by Voltaire and Adam Smith, and carried on by people like Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill and Claude-Frédéric Bastiat, has made the modern world. The other two, nationalism and socialism, conceived in the 19th century by Hegel and Marx, and carried into the 20th century by Lenin and Mussolini, have nearly unmade it. The modern plague is a threat to sweet liberalism, because it is an encouragement to nationalism and socialism, and, God help us, national socialism.”
# 2020.05.21 – 04:36