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They have't got a clue how the virus works or whether the vaccine works, they're testing the vaccine on the general population without any evidence it is beneficial or doesn't cause harm.https://t.co/gON8UWp5Kk
— Julian Assange (@ImJulianAssange) December 15, 2020
https://t.co/jcUfxbzvRv
Getting scattered messages that something is going down
— Jon Robberson (@RobbersonJon) December 19, 2020
Cannot report anything concrete
Early reports indicate internet is down in 7 states
THE 7 states
Also hearing scuttlebutt about Marine Corps movement in CONUS
This is rumor & innuendo at present
NOT hard news
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— Dan Scavino\U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8\U0001f985 (@DanScavino) December 19, 2020
Spatial metaphors for human systems
for @threadapalooza
Spatial metaphors for human systems.
— Conor White-Sullivan \U000100cf\U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 (@Conaw) December 18, 2020
1/ Okay, let's start with BRIDGES!
(first that came to mind)
This is a common human system metaphor, people talking about bridging between cultures or perspectives, or communities/individuals.

2/ In fact it's the metaphor @vgr used in the prompt he gave me for @threadapalooza last year, in a thread I never
1 like = 1 opinion on "Bridging subcultures that don\u2019t quite harmonize"
— Malcolm is back by the \U0001f30ecean! (@Malcolm_Ocean) December 16, 2019
(It's not quite a natural category for me but it's what vgr gave me and I like a challenge! good way to draw out some implicit opinions. comment if you have more specific Qs) https://t.co/eAn0MhwZfX
3/ The bridge metaphor is kind of an obvious one: forging some kind of translation connection between two different perspectives.
It's a kinda limited connection though. In fact, the word "translation", in the context of mathematics, means "to move across" which matches bridge

4/ So a bridge, as a metaphor, is a way to move one perspective across to another. But let's contrast that with the metaphor of "depth perception", where the two perspectives are integrated into a larger whole.
Way harder than bridging, & more
Your two eyes have different perspectives and thus contradict each other constantly about what's closer and what's on what side of what...
— Malcolm is back by the \U0001f30ecean! (@Malcolm_Ocean) May 11, 2020
...and\u2014usually\u2014rather than wasting energy on an argument over which 2D view is right, the brain integrates them into DEPTH PERCEPTION \U0001f92f pic.twitter.com/k9w9t8pqxE

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— SPACEX (@SPACEX25587506) December 29, 2020
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God walks amongst us

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“HAGENS BERMAN, NATIONAL TRIAL ATTORNEYS, Investigating SolarWinds (SWI) $285 Million Insider Stock Sales, Knowledge of Hack in Orion Products, Encourages SWI Investors with Losses to Contact Firm Now”
SolarWinds report (Feb 2020): “2020 Key Findings
For the fifth year in a row, careless and untrained insiders are the leading source of security threats for public sector organizations”
https://t.co/TjgcuaBzUb

“‘Security is everyone’s job, but holding the team accountable is lacking. Until there are real individual accountability regimens in place, the network will remain at risk.’
- Division Chief, Federal Civilian”
Again insiders are the top threat, why ignoring in public rhetoric?
https://t.co/603WejHoYG

This "thinking" traces back to Critical Theory, The Frankfurt School, Theodor Adorno & ultimately Antonio Gramsci.
parents are tyrants. "parent" is an oppressive class, like rich people or white people.
— Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) December 14, 2020
The Frankfurt School employed a technique called Critical Theory – a social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole.
The point of the theory is to criticize every traditional social institution – and to specifically avoid offering any alternatives – as a means to breaking down Western Culture.
Theodor Adorno wrote the influential book The Authoritarian Personality which argued that anyone who defended traditional culture was a Fascist.
Sound familiar?
Antonio Gramsci was a Marxist theorist and a founding member of the Communist Party of Italy who created the Theory of Cultural Hegemony. And Counter Hegemony.
Gramsci felt that in order to change society, the entire value systems of Societal Institutions must be overturned.
There\u2019s a strong case to be made for allowing eurozone borrowing costs to fall lower, says @komileva https://t.co/bO86NHutqs
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) December 14, 2020
First, negative rates are a reflection of a problem. Sub-zero arrived in Europe in 2014 in response to a critical problem of policy credibility – the arrival of the zero lower bound for the ECB’s main policy rate in the face of persistently low inflation expectations /thread/ 2/n
Europe, like much of the developed world, had seen a secular decline in the trend real rate even before the Covid19 shock, reflecting ageing populations and slower trend productivity growth - higher hhlds savings demand, lower business demand for capital #ECB #negativerates 3/n
The structural shock of the pandemic only accelerated the processes that began a decade ago with the Global Financial Crisis and the Euro government debt crises, pushing the eurozone trend rate even lower. #ECB #negativerates 4/n
This leaves the ECB facing a symmetric credibility challenge. In normal times, the ECB policy rate will follow the trend rate lower. If expected inflation adjusts to the demand-determined output gap, then the policy rate must fall below the equilibrium rate to bridge the gap. 5/n