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26 Mar
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Dreaming and overfitting; Dirty NYPD cops can't lose; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/03/26/ove…

#Pluralistic

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Dreaming and overfitting: The Overfitted Brain Hypothesis has a lot of explanatory power.



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Dirty NYPD cops can't lose: The secret legal defense fund for the indefensible.



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26 Mar
The NYPD is a notoriously corrupt institution, whose indiscriminate acts of violence and murder have steadily worsened for decades. A powerful police union and a cowed City Hall ensure that even the worst cops rarely have any kind of reckoning.

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After a series of legal wrangles - a New York state law, a lawsuit by the police union, and @propublica's brave decision to publish - we finally got a glimpse at the buried horrors in the NYPD disciplinary files.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/27/ip/…

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We also learned about the impunity enjoyed by dirty cops, including the cops who were caught on camera breaking the law to brutalize and maim protesters in last summer's #BLM uprising.

pluralistic.net/2021/03/18/new…

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26 Mar
I'm not the first person to note that our understanding of ourselves and our society is heavily influenced by technological change - think of how we analogized biological and social functions to clockwork, then steam engines, then computers.

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I used to think that this was just a way of understanding how we get stuff hilariously wrong - think of Taylor's Scientific Management, how its grounding in mechanical systems inflicted such cruelty on workers whom Taylor demanded ape those mechanisms.

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But just as interesting is how our technological metaphors illuminate our understanding of ourselves and our society: because there ARE ways in which clockwork, steam power and digital computers resemble bodies and social structures.

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26 Mar
Happy Birthday, Mad Monster Party? wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/646691482… ImageImage
Happy Birthday, Mad Monster Party? wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/646691482…
Happy Birthday, Mad Monster Party? wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/646691482…
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26 Mar
Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra (1934)
Costume Design by Travis Banton & Vicky Williams
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Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra (1934)
Costume Design by Travis Banton & Vicky Williams
atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/646686596…
Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra (1934)
Costume Design by Travis Banton & Vicky Williams
atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/646686596…
Read 10 tweets
26 Mar
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
1982 | dir. Tommy Lee Wallace
wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/646677752…
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
1982 | dir. Tommy Lee Wallace
wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/646677752…
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
1982 | dir. Tommy Lee Wallace
wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/646677752…
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