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I'll chronicle the books I read here. I'm happy to openly admit that reading is my favourite passtime.I read 90% non-fiction, of which approx 60% is about China. Book recommendations
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Look, there is a real conversation that we need to have about hyper-sexualization in comics but before we do people have to understand something.No one’s mad at you for finding
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I was trying to take an internet vacation. Then the Hugos happened, and racists came to my subreddit so here I am, tired and angry and sad, about to embark
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What may appear to be an image of Tacoma, US, it is, in fact, a simulated one. Welcome to the brand new world of deepfake satellite images. https://www.washington.edu/news/2021/04/21/a-growing-problem-of-deepfake-geography-how-ai-falsifies-
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Git: Tag Overview Git Tag is a powerful way of organising your git commits and history by setting markers in your git history.In this thread, I'm going to cover
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Fight?!?! @GoodwinMJ & I discuss social media, academia, & Brexit. I argue that calling out dodgy data, bad stats & the misuse of evidence - "intellectual garbage disposal" - is
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Why Taliban destroyed Buddhas of Bamiyan(Untold story) [Thread] The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th-century monumental statues of Gautama Buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the
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PRESS RELEASENigeria Will No Longer Tolerate Harassment of Its Citizens in Ghana - FG The Nigerian Government is deeply concerned by the incessant harassment of its citizens in Ghana and
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Our paper on discrimination difficulty during perceptual learning was just published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review! Really short, entirely exploratory paper describing a surprising finding of a *reversal* of the
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In physics a singularity is a hypothetical one-dimensional point in space-time that approaches infinite gravity and density. A point that bends space and time towards it. A singularity is covered
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a crash course to #nen by yours truly #hxh WHAT IS NEN (AND AURA)?AURA is a person's life energy- the "floating wispy thing that surrounds a person". EVERYONE has an
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After seeing that bot account post lies suggesting that being Christian is somehow punishable by death in Iran, I want to clarify some things:First of all, no. It's not. There
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Four Weddings and A FuneralA thread https://gottadothetruffleshuffle.wordpress.com/2021/04/11/fourweddings/ You can't combine Hugh Grant and Richard Curtis in a sentence without mentioning Four Weddings and a Funeral, it was their firs
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One of the consequences (maybe not the most interesting one) of the Rooney cluster controversy is that we need more and better analytics for disaggregating “queer” and “kinky.” I remember
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A guide to responsive design in @Bubble (THREAD)Bubble has a reputation for being unfriendly for responsive design, but it's actually fairly simple if you follow a few basic rules. 1.
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St. Francis Xavier, his companion Cosme de Torres, and his interpreter Anjirou arrived in Kyushu in 1549 with the intent of bringing Catholicism to Japan. Here St. Francis is seen
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