#Standards

Arshad Ezhar

arshadezhar

1/ Recently, there was a sudden uproar in twitterraya criticizing the practice of Islamic Banking.The uproar was a result of a twitter space event by @magmalaya inviting Safdar Alam to

All Dead Generations

DistemperedGus

Having talked about Alignment and Reaction Rolls, I think I can manage another thread on classic mechanics that help mitigate some of the concerns around moral essentialism (and the corresponding

Parker Molloy

ParkerMolloy

The thing is... if there was anything actually damning or illegal in these emails, the FBI supposedly already had them months ago and nothing came out of it. Rudy's decision

Molara Wood

molarawood

Overdramatic, ham-it-up performances are what is celebrated as great acting, often, in Nigeria.Films without vision, deeper message or underlying meditative thought, are 'masterpieces.' Overhyped directors at start of journeys, stil

Ranking Digital Rights

rankingrights

1/ Read our new report, “Getting to the Source of Infodemics: It’s the Business Model.” Targeted advertising is exacerbating today’s misinformation infodemic, threatening democratic discourse and public health. https://www.newameric

Brynn Tannehill

BrynnTannehill

I study genocide. It's been a theme in my academic endeavours for nearly 30 years. More accurately, I study the conditions in the lead up to genocide, be they cultural,

Min Chao

wordsfromtaiwan

Did you know that the earliest financial institutions in #Taiwan were so-called "merchant houses (媽振館)" that handled loans and currency exchanges for #Taiwanese #tea traders and international buyers? The term

Erin Quill

Equill

Ok, now I do not want to take the focus from #BlackLivesMattters or any of the activism required to dismantle what aides and abets a system of privilege but I

CSM

usacsmret

Why "Green" Energy Is a Terrible Idea https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/11/why-green-energy-is-a-terrible-idea.php?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=sw&utm_campaign=sw via @powerlineUS Using wind power to replace the 3.9 billi

spookgwy 🎃 (student era)

ctrlcolfer

cw // food---lumpiang gulay baybehttps://twitter.com/definitelystay_/status/1321253625797066752 palaspas aka panghampas HSHDHDHD its palms for palm sundayhttps://twitter.com/definitelystay_/status/1321253635037167617 CW // FOOD---OMG MURON

🦗New Free Soil Party

FreeSoilAndrew

Since the Neoliberal Subreddit twitter has deigned to dunk on me for my monetary and banking views, it's time for a thread of indeterminate length! As to the question of

Noah Kaufman

noahqk

It’s Friday so can I interest you in awith a highly incomplete and self-serving history of the “optimal” taxation of carbon dioxide emissions? *proceeds without waiting for answer*Let's do this!

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

EARN IT is a bill that takes away online service providers' "safe harbor" (a rule that says that the company that provides your messenger app isn't liable if you use

anonymous historian formerly known as James

james_e_b_

A thread about the Taliban & sharia law. Everyone knows the Taliban run a brutal and oppressive legal system. But there are different ways a legal system can be bad

diane #ForAll straub

didikins4life

This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: COMBATING THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND PURSUING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (Part 2)Only one party recognizes the urgent existential crisis facing our planet.

lena 🤍

lensicles

Fetishism of the Hijab - a (very long) thread: Fetishism itself arises from s*xual fixation on a material object - an er*tic obsession. Fetishism is a pathological tendency to place