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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 21 May 2016

    Aral Balkan Retweeted zeynep tufekci

    Some are grounded in “laws of nature” but, quoting Dawkins, “evolution is a terrible system to base a society on”.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/733302787547779072 …

    Aral Balkan added,

    zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
    Math doesn't make algorithms scientific. Subjective decisions cannot be "neutral". My piece. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/opinion/the-real-bias-built-in-at-facebook.html … pic.twitter.com/78fh6C54Fs
    12:05 AM - 21 May 2016
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    • Camille Clifton David PalmcrashValentine Michael McCarron @8BitTaxi Ronan⋈Whitteker Sjoerd Kranendonk 🤔🙏🏼🎶 Guy Leedon Andrew Wise
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      2. Alexander Hanff‏ @alexanderhanff 21 May 2016
        Replying to @aral

        quoting Dawkins early on a Saturday morning is a bit deep *puts headphones on to listen to The Selfish Gene audiobook...*

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      3. Alexander Hanff‏ @alexanderhanff 21 May 2016
        Replying to @alexanderhanff @aral

        I think I need to expand my travel selection 😉pic.twitter.com/bGPwtMKehK

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      4. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 21 May 2016
        Replying to @alexanderhanff

        Hah! Remind me get recommendations on sushi when I see you :)

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      5. Alexander Hanff‏ @alexanderhanff 21 May 2016
        Replying to @aral

        well that is easy we just need to make sure we meet at a sushi restaurant 😉

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      6. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 21 May 2016
        Replying to @alexanderhanff

        Deal! :)

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      1. Camilo Rodríguez‏ @CamiloGuezRodri 21 May 2016
        Replying to @aral

        @zeynep 3. ..political legacy of human rights, for example, is the declaration of their universality. The anchor is the declaration..

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      1. Luc Dockendorf‏ @LucDockendorf 21 May 2016
        Replying to @aral

        @zeynep a bunch of very bad people tried that about 80 years ago. It didn't go well.

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      2. Camilo Rodríguez‏ @CamiloGuezRodri 21 May 2016
        Replying to @aral

        @zeynep 1."Subjective decisions cannot be neutral", that's why they're political. Missing epistemological twist is that there are no

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      3. Wendy Cockcroft‏ @wendycockcroft 21 May 2016
        Replying to @CamiloGuezRodri

        .@CamiloGuezRodri @aral @zeynep Use "reply" to continue the thread so your posts don't tail off. You can see them, I can't, without clicking

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      4. Camilo Rodríguez‏ @CamiloGuezRodri 21 May 2016
        Replying to @wendycockcroft @aral @zeynep

        My bad, sorry. Got carried away & forgot thread logic.

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      5. Wendy Cockcroft‏ @wendycockcroft 21 May 2016
        Replying to @CamiloGuezRodri @aral @zeynep

        It's easily done, I do it myself. You make a lot of sense. :)

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      2. Wendy Cockcroft‏ @wendycockcroft 21 May 2016
        Replying to @aral

        People keep forgetting that FB doesn't put information on, e.g. news reports, people do. And if they're too busy lamenting the state..

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      3. Wendy Cockcroft‏ @wendycockcroft 21 May 2016
        Replying to @wendycockcroft @aral

        ...of political discourse to discuss posts and articles about it, that's not FB's fault; politicians need to sort themselves out.

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      1. Camilo Rodríguez‏ @CamiloGuezRodri 21 May 2016
        Replying to @aral

        @zeynep 5. What the left is sorely missing, is the articulation of a political narrative that doesn't fear envisioning universality.

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      1. Camilo Rodríguez‏ @CamiloGuezRodri 21 May 2016
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        @zeynep 4. ..itself. This is the lesson the political left has forgotten; only political left re-vindicating lesson is @ahorapodemos.

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      1. Camilo Rodríguez‏ @CamiloGuezRodri 21 May 2016
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        @zeynep 2. .."laws of nature" to serve as anchor, or as Nietzsche overcame Kant, "we decide because we don't know". The radically..

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