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Elizabeth Sandifer

@ElSandifer

All right, let's move on to better things and do #ElRobot for ep1.6_v1ews0urce.flv

OK let's make a pot of tea first. But.

Ok so I got distracted. Starting now.

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Vishy Kuruganti

@ulaar

Tim O’Reilly on The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy | qz.com/1540608/the-pr…

Long evocative read. Chiding one & all using Hoffman/Yeh’s Blitzscaling as canvas. Key quotes on thread:

Blitzscaling promises to teach techniques that are “the lightning fast path to building massively valuable companies.”
Blitzscaling “prioritizes speed over efficiency,” and risks “potentially disastrous defeat in order to maximize speed and surprise.”

O'Reilly challenges notion that "network effects" doctrine (as imbibed by SV) is THE way forward.
A strong case can be made that blitzscaling isn’t really a recipe for success but rather survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.

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Prairiegale

@prairiegale

I want to talk about abortion and BC from the perspective of the 70s and what we knew. BC was difficult to get and I very well remember living in MPLS and going to my 1st gyno appt, which was like the Spanish Inquisition.

I was asked all kinds of ? about why I wanted BC and how long I had been having sex with my boyfriend, which was 3 yrs. Then I was asked if we were thinking of marriage, and at that time that was a YES.

I was the last of 8 kids and my Mother was 43 when she had me. In my 50's my cousin, who was like my older sister, told me that she had heard my mother tried to abort me several times. I was not surprised. I knew I was not wanted and kinda given to my aunt.

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Science and Space

Lisa in Winter

@lisaquestions

It's interesting to me how much cis people (like Jesse on his tantrum about the immutability of ~biological sex~ insist they have all the answers and simply dismiss what trans people have to say about being trans, about medical transition, etc. Singal invokes science as a

justification, as all transphobic cis people (and many transphobic trans people) do, but their invocation is always restricted to the parts they agree with, ignoring the reality that scientifically speaking, sex is complicated and is certainly not defined - scientifically - the

same way it's been defined in the past. No one's saying that biological sex doesn't exist, but we do question the assumption that it's an unyielding set of binary categories with no permeability. This is something that is extremely hard to explain to people who aren't intersex,

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Chris Yelland

@chrisyelland

@Eskom_SA

Straight talk by @Eskom_SA CFO Calib Cassim. This is just 1 of 15 questions put to the Eskom CFO in a wide-ranging post-SONA interview by @chrisyelland of @eepublishers on Friday 8 February 2019. Watch this space for the full interview tonight. bit.ly/2tdOGVV

@Eskom_SA

@Eskom_SA @eepublishers Cassim: "The best thing that has ever happened is the presidential task team, & the fact that we have the ear of the president who understands the urgency. He used the words “financial crisis” in his state-of-the-nation address, & this is the best way to describe where we are".

@Eskom_SA

@Eskom_SA @eepublishers Cassim: "I fully agree that this is undoubtedly the biggest ever financial calamity faced by government. At the end of the day, it’s not about Eskom any more with the guarantees. If we go down, we bring down the sovereign and the economy. This does cause sleepless nights."

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Ratnakar Sadasyula-రత్నాకర్ సదస్యుల

@GabbarSanghi

#BasantPanchami traditionally refers to the fifth day of the month of Magh, usually around January – February. It is primarily meant to welcome the arrival of Spring, after the long and dreary winter in India. This is observed primarily in the northern and eastern parts of India

echnically speaking, it falls in Magha Shukla Panchami, the bright phase of the moon. Magha in a sense, marks the spring festival cycle in India, that also includes, Ratha Saptami, Maha Shivratri and concludes with Holi.

In ancient times, Vasant Panchami was celebrated in honor of the God of love, Kamadev and his wife Rati. Spring or Vasant was Kamadev’s close friend, and hence it was associated with him.

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Culture and Books

Cara Ramsey

@LizMarieGhost

@taquitoprincesa

@taquitoprincesa @subcide @Jasondietmeyer @nospokenwords @Ancient_Fae @STEPD0C @isjessme @TrainwreckTravy As one example, Lev 18:22 does not say a man shall not lie with a man. It says "ish" (generic man) shall not lie with "zhakhar" in the bed of "ishva" (bed of a woman, euphemism for sex). What is "zhakhar"? Any male thing dedicated to the temple, aka the Levite priests. So...

@taquitoprincesa

@taquitoprincesa @subcide @Jasondietmeyer @nospokenwords @Ancient_Fae @STEPD0C @isjessme @TrainwreckTravy ... what Lev 18:22 is really about is an admonition against temple sex, which was used by all the Pagans surrounding Israel as a means to fund their religions and temples.

@taquitoprincesa

@taquitoprincesa @subcide @Jasondietmeyer @nospokenwords @Ancient_Fae @STEPD0C @isjessme @TrainwreckTravy Likewise with the ancient Greek. The centurion didn't ask Christ to heal his servant. The word that transliterates from ancient Greek to approximately "pais" in English was used for centuries to describe one single thing - a younger, male, slave lover. Surprised? Centurions...

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André Gagné

@profagagne

1/ For those who might be interested, I will periodically tweet about New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) primary sources. I am currently rereading, for research purposes, several books I used to have as a former evangelical. I just finished Wagner’s book called “Dominion!” (2008).

2/ This is a foundational source to understand the NAR notion of “dominionism.” In the introduction, Wagner explains why he wrote this book. His basic premise is “that God’s Kingdom should come and that his (God's) will should be done here on earth as it is in heaven” (p.11).

3/ Wagner says that he's not advocating for “theocracy” but favours democracy (p.12-13). He wishes that Christians could “move into positions of leadership influential enough to shape the whole nation from top to bottom” (p.15). It sounds like theocracy by means of democracy.

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Vishy Kuruganti

@ulaar

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Politics

Seema Chandwani #LDNLeft

@SeemaChandwani

THREAD: We can have as many reviews and slogans as we want, but we fail to be a ‘people led movement’ when the feelings of one MP supersede the feelings of hundreds of local members without access to media or friends who can use a parliamentary speech.

Justice is not about who can get more exposure to their side. It’s about truth and facts.

All members, regardless if they’re an MP or not, should be treated equally. If not by the Labour party, then who?

We should be the example we want to see in the world. For the many etc..

It’s tiresome to see some MPs act with impunity. They slag off our party and dash our chances almost every time they get on the media.

One 5min clip of a MP slagging off our party/members/leader equates to wiping out 800 members knocking on doors.

What happens? Nothing

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🇮🇱Dor Bar

@dorbar

@CoryBooker

I don't care for Senator @CoryBooker's politics and I admit his drama is a bit too much, but he's a great friend of Jews & Israel and knows more about Torah and Gmara than most American Jews. There are many Democrats who are friends of Israel in Congress. Where are you guys?

https://twitter.com/KatTheHammer1/status/1094376183347716097

@realDonaldTrump

Can't y'all put your hatred towards .@realDonaldTrump aside for a moment and fight for your values? b/c you can't claim to be a SJW if you condone the massive waves of antisemitism your newbies bring to Congress.

@realDonaldTrump

And let me tell you something, in the past 30+ yrs only a candidate that supported Israel was elected as #POTUS (Obama was hateful only in 2nd term) b/c deep down, even the DEM Jews don't want the Jewish State to be annihilated no matter how much they hate @realDonaldTrump

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Olga Lautman

@olgaNYC1211

Putin’s name is mentioned every day but many don’t know who Putin is and circumstances leading to his rise to power. Many call him a terrorist, a mobster, a murder. All of the above is true! While in Dresden working in KGB PGU illegal intel Putin was a liaison bet RAF and KGB

The RAF at the time was being trained in East Germany and committing terrorist attacks in West Germany. Putin then came back to Leningrad and watched what he called one of the most tragic events occur, the fall of the Soviet Union.

While in Leningrad Putin made alliances w powerful mafia figures who who controlled politicians & were under protection of intel agencies. Putin was taken under the wing of Sobchak and began running the Committee for External affairs handing out contracts for food that never came

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