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@ShabbosK @BillAckman I love how gay and man are mutually exclusive terms here lol

An open letter to current Harvard faculty, donors, and trustees: I know you hate me. I know you hate President Trump. I know you think the enforcement of federal law is actually a conspiracy to overhaul higher education. I know you think the multiple conclusions of religious discrimination against Jews is a lie. But I am genuinely struggling to understand, irrespective of antisemitism, how the current disastrous state of the University has not resulted in tangible, meaningful reform. I implore you to answer basic questions about how you continue to choose to run Harvard University: 1. Why do you insist on paying Claudine Gay, an actual serial plagiarist who was forced to resign, a salary of $900,000 a year? 2. Why specifically should Claudine Gay of all people be teaching a class on leadership, using Harvard as a case study? 3. What specific merits and talents does Chairwoman Penny Pritzker bring to the table? What is the specific justification for keeping her? 4. For what specific reason is the University refusing to comply with federal law by not sharing the criminal background history of your foreign students to DHS? 5. Does it bother you that 97% of the faculty identify with one particular political ideology? If yes, what are two specific actions you're willing to take to rectify the problem? 6. What specifically have you done to ensure that the few conservative students left on campus aren't self-censoring their work and opinions? 7. Does it bother you that multiple faculty members, such as Professor James Hankins, admitted they or their colleagues were told that white men, in the post George Floyd backlash would no longer be hired if there was a (less qualified) black or gay applicant? 8. Thousands of donors, representing billions of dollars, have refused to give anymore since 10/07. What specific policy overhauls have you implemented to win them back? Irrespective of antisemitism, I'm genuinely struggling to understand why Harvard refuses to get out of its own way. This entire controversy since Day 1 has been entirely self inflicted and avoidable. Poor leadership after poor leadership...

@Qyoon_FR @Tom_Antonov I’m not saying they are bad shooters. I’m saying this exercise is performative.

@Qyoon_FR @Tom_Antonov Wow, they must have been babies in 1994! That’s actually very impressive.

French GIGN shooting range training. - The first exercise involves a coordinated sniper strike, where multiple snipers act in perfect sync to neutralize several threats simultaneously and secure the hostages (The commander of the GIGN is positioned at the center of the five targets). - The 2nd exercise is the well-known ‘shot of trust,’ a traditional shot that all GIGN operators perform at the conclusion of their formation. via @TF1Info

There is an undefined cannon of twentieth century high art pop/rock music. Songs and albums which aspired to artistic purity. In the coming weeks I will be putting forth the cannon as I see it through a series of spaces. I welcome anyone and everyone to join in the debate and discuss the value of any song I put forward. The goal is to begin the conversation a cannon of the true art pieces of music created in the last century with full hindsight. The schedule is to be decided in the near future but I plan to hold a regular series of spaces going forward: each focused on a particular song I would like to place in the previously defined cannon. My spaces will be strictly focused on the music itself, the value of the piece of art and structured as a a presentation of my chosen song followed by an open floor to individuals to ask questions of any hosts who are presenting with a subsequent open floor for discussion among the group of speakers. I am open to any suggestions of songs but would like to limit each discussion to a yes or no on inclusion in the cannon rather than comparative analysis. I will post each song a day ahead of time so that I can be heard unadulterated with the link to my space. “All are welcome” I say as I post into the void

@lacancerous @RamboVanHalen *Canon, but sure

@orsonscottcard Woah! I tore through the ender/bean books when I was 11 or 12. Amazing work! Had no idea you were on twitter. Instant follow!

Addendum: How I did it -- once. My only start-quick novel was Ender's Game. I had had some traction with the novelet “Ender's Game,” and I had already committed to its main character as the protagonist of Speaker for the Dead. I needed a novel version of Ender's Game to properly set up Speaker, so readers of the EG novel would be prepared to pick up the story 3,000 years later. (Time dilation in lightspeed flight allowed frequent travelers to live through millennia.) I already knew, from expanding Mikal's Songbird into the novel Songmaster, that you don't novelize a short story by tacking twenty chapters onto the end. If the short story works, you start way earlier, developing characters and situations leading up to the same climax and resolution that worked so well in the short form. (If they did not work well, why are you novelizing it in the first place?) So to set up the story of EG, which began when Ender was given command of his own “army” in the orbiting Battle School, I went back to when he was chosen, and chose, to be taken out of his childhood home at around the age of six. Rigorous testing had led to Ender Wiggin being one of the most promising young recruits (draftees) to be trained to fight the invading hive queens. To show Ender's childhood family, I handled it quickly by putting Ender in my own family, back when there were only three of us kids. In my family, my sister was eldest, and a four-year gap between me and my older brother made us anything but close. So Ender grew up with a hostile older brother and a protective and kindly older sister — both of whom had come close to being drafted themselves. Every vile thing Peter did to Ender, my own brother had done to me. Every in-joke between Ender and Valentine was based on real memories shared with my sister. In this tiny cell, the parents seemed as distant as prison guards, quite unlike my own parents, who were in the main much more nurturing and involved. 1/3 🧵 ➡️

@musicradarclan Thanks! I just bought a pair. My Weejuns are wearing out after 18 months of daily use. Loafers are the ultimate office/casual shoe.

Lo que mucha gente no sabe, es que uno de los mejores mocasines del mundo se fabrica artesanalmente en España desde hace más de 100 años y vale 150€. CASTELLANO. Y es mejor que cualquier mocasín de Gucci, Zegna o Saint Laurent.

@AFpost you made this chart from only 3 data points, didn’t you

Catholic converts in the US have reached a near 20-year high, with Catholics on track to become the largest single religious group, surpassing American Evangelical Protestants. Protestants as a whole will likely still outnumber Catholics, but the trend suggests the US may be entering a new era of religious leadership. Follow: @AFpost

@Delikwu @Mind_of_yakub @interesting_aIl Claude

@WantMakeRE @Mind_of_yakub @interesting_aIl Is this Perplexity?

So how tf did anyone win

@Mind_of_yakub @interesting_aIl K…. what about peak Middle Ages since that’s the topic?

@WantMakeRE @interesting_aIl Your time period is misleading as it includes the early dark ages where a king a barely the head of a small warband so backwards that they could only dream of the armor from the high Middle Ages where the king if present at the battle, did very little to no fighting at all

@gtagmemes @interesting_aIl More comfortable than being dead

@interesting_aIl How could anyone be comfortable fighting in these? I’d be as stiff as a statue if I I wear them

@Mind_of_yakub @interesting_aIl They did a lot of fighting.

@interesting_aIl This level of plate was only affordable to very few knights and were most likely worn by the ones doing the least fighting

@interesting_aIl I think that’s why hammers and maces were popular. Cant stab em? Knock em out or cave their chest in.

@Rainmaker1973 Wow so traditional and Irish (only Irish thing is the whiskey, probably)

Irish coffee made by an 82-year-old veteran master who worked for 50 years. [📹 harapeko_kc] [📍 Le Monde, Tonomachi, Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture]

Dear @Apple iPhone team: I am not currently seeking any loan approvals. I get about 10 of these voicemails a week. I flag/report every single one of them as spam. Please make it stop.

@ObtainerOf I like madewell’s 1991 straight. Kind of a classic fit like this

Where can I buy jeans that fit like this? I’m a manlet and everything I try is either skinny or baggy, I wan’t relaxed with a tasteful taper

@wil_da_beast630 Does alt right still have a meaning

For any alt-right followers: why do you follow me?