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@kevinrothrock
This is not one the supposed victims of the "bombing" that supposedly set off the entire thing, right?

Is this someone killed in airstrikes after they left Rostov?

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9. Why does it matter?

At a very basic level, it's important to point to the immediate causal sources of problems that one wants to remedy, because those sources are the best targets for interventions.

Telling women to cite themselves more frequently is not necessarily going to be a fruitful remedy to a self-citation disparity if men and women with similar numbers of previous publications cite themselves at similar rates, and the disparity is driven by an upstream cause (publication number).

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@Mabande
But yeah, separation of powers doesn't on its own prevent a fascist turn if the support is strong enough, and it's really weird when people argue that anything but anti-fascist agitation and action is inherently able to stop it.

@Mabande
Well, that's not true since checks and balances include separation of powers as a pretty big part of its concept.

Had Trump been able to pass laws by decree there would for sure not be any federal elections left in the US, so the fact that there's been some since then is a pretty solid deliverable.

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This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

@warmapper The extra nice thing is the only way people experiencing problems will know if is they read this explanation somewhere other than twitter...

@erikdelareguera
Hela grejen med landsomfattande protester mot ändringar av pensionerna och så viftas lagen igenom utan omröstning kanske gör att folk är lite mindre övertygande om fördelarna med mer fredliga metoder?

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TIL that „beyond the pale“ actually derives from „pale“ as in a stake driven into the ground as part of a fence (think of „impaling“ someone or „palisades“).
So its meaning of going beyond acceptable behaviour suddenly makes much more sense to me

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@Mabande
Moahahahah! Ännu ett offer till groddammen!

@philipncohen
Must have been some Chinese hackers that changed the data once it was on his computer! /s

More seriously, I guess the NYT editors didn't pass the story to a journalist with the patience to read more than the headline of the one datacolada post ...

@Mabande
Har du kollat på DiVA eller Google Scholar?

Spontant känns det dock inte som om det är så mycket där, Ben är ju en självgående karaktär medan hela golem grejen handlar om att det inte är helt lyckat att leka gud...

@franco_vazza
Some species have root networks that can be on the order of a kilometre think, the sort of thing that happens when a species can just grow new bits indefinitely

@kevinrothrock
seems like the crossposting mechanism can't handle longer tweets? this definitely looks like a bit got cut off

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If Ayn Rand's own life wasn't enough to show that libertarianism is a failed idea, we now have further evidence.

onlysky.media/alee/why-liberta

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@kjhealy “That’s right:
Two different people independently faked data for two different studies in a paper about dishonesty.”

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