W00t!
«The package would also… increase the availability of the machine-readable versions of legislative documents.»
Lots of good stuff in this rules package and conservatives are upset about… gender-neutral language.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/01/01/terry-sanford-north-carolina-race-segregation/
He also created Research Triangle Park, iirc. Definitely a forward thinker.
«He was a governor of unusual energy, creativity and vision. A Harvard University study in 1981 ranked Sanford as one of the 10 best governors of the century. Campbell considers Sanford one of the greatest governors in American history and the finest Southern governor.»
https://twitter.com/bobonbooks/status/1344267074802229248?s=20
The beat goes on. Favorable review by a white evangelical.
Bob Trube (@bobonbooks) Tweeted: A sobering history of the influence of racism in American evangelicalism. @uncpressblog @AntheaButler https://t.co/HuF3JEYGwY
https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/1344119032715210753?s=20
A few more. Especially now that people will let their guard down now that we have a vaccine.
Schooley (@Rschooley) Tweeted: He had young kids. His timeline is full of pictures of campaigning without a mask surrounded by people without masks. How many times do we have we see this tragic scenario play out? https://t.co/w6EK1zXPBr
https://twitter.com/udarnik/status/1344263801022144513?s=20
“your predecessors, unlike you, were competent.”
😀
Angry expert, indeed.
John (@udarnik) Tweeted: 6. You did note in the example above, that, while there were a few niche news stories about triage in a few areas, the pandemic fizzled, right? It fizzled because your predecessors, unlike you, were competent. Testing was ready nationally in a month. One. Fucking. Month.
https://twitter.com/robertskmiles/status/1343956492878290951?s=20
Fun thread for the “robots will take all our jobs!” folks.
Rob Miles (@robertskmiles) Tweeted: I wish I had the money to establish a Prize Challenge in robot chess. The challenge would be: “Take the board and the pieces out of their packaging and set up the board ready to play” (The specific chess set used is withheld info) I believe in a few years this may be possible
https://twitter.com/chimeracoder/status/1333442945127735296?s=20
Um… hold on….
Aditya Mukerjee, the Otterrific 🦦 🏳️🌈 (@chimeracoder) Tweeted: Ironically, because the Myers-Briggs test is *not* backed by any scientific evidence, it’s legal for employers, schools, etc. to require it even in situations where requiring medical or psychological exams would be considered discriminatory.
Nice job, isolationists.
«If reached, the deal would come hard on the heels of China success in creating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership with 14 other Asia-Pacific nations [Congratulations on getting TPP shot down]….
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Observers said the biggest gain for China would be geopolitical.
“After four years of Donald Trump, the EU is sending a very clear message that it will go its own way on China,” said Noah Barkin, an EU-China specialist with Rhodium Group, a research firm.
“This doesn’t doom transatlantic cooperation with Biden, but it shows just how difficult it will be. The big winner if this deal does come together is Beijing.”»
N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) Tweeted: This is the tone argument. “We would’ve helped her, but her request wasn’t polite or deferential enough!” How dare she be angry about being left untreated in pain. My God. It’s just so blatant: the white doctors & staff deserve compassion but not the patient who died. https://twitter.com/nkjemisin/status/1343252763019522049?s=20
https://twitter.com/StevenBeschloss/status/1127583834579451904?s=20
You can find this quote a million places on the web, 850,000 of them being beautiful images which cannot be text-searched. I choose to pin this one, repeated by a well-known presidential biographer. (At least, that’s how I think of him.)
Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) Tweeted: The truth of this from Elie Wiesel is especially clear now:
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”
Here, Read This 