Archives: Social Notes

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    @ohkafuimykafui @ashleyshaneb @jessesingal I’d learned recently of “zero-risk bias”, where we eliminate ALL instances of cancer-causing stuff around us without regard to the actual risk. Do you think this may…

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    @ashleyshaneb @ohkafuimykafui @jessesingal I think an example outside of the current conversation: does wearing a pink ribbon make anything better for breast cancer by itself? If you wear bc you…

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    @ohkafuimykafui @jessesingal I’m fully behind that too. I think it is fine changing it, but agree that big public pronouncements about changing language absent of anything else isn’t going to…

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    @ohkafuimykafui @jessesingal The argument isn’t that. It is the implicit bias that white is good and black is bad and should we as a society continue to define those colors…

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    @mredding The whole making sense thing isn’t something Sen. Cornyn is strong in.

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    RT @amhistorymuseum: Today in 1863: Readers of “Harper’s Weekly” learn of a daring raid by U.S. forces into rebel-held territory in South C…