Edgars Lapins 🇱🇻❤️🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️🌈
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≈ ≠ = Science & running geek. Teach critical thinking & argumentation @SSE_Riga. Co-founded @SkeptiCafe & @skepticisms. Spoke @TEDxRiga, now coach speakers.
Riga, Latvia
Joined August 2009
(1/2) Skills & concepts to teach your kids (often not taught in schools): 💡Humility 💡Curiosity 💡Instinct control 💡Perseverance 💡Consent 💡Storytelling 💡Self-reflection 💡Data visualization 💡Learning to learn 💡Belief updating 💡Persuasive presentation skills (cont.)
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FLOW has now won Best Animated Feature at NYFCC, NBR, and LAFCA. The last film to pull this off? THE INCREDIBLES in 2004.
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In what will probably be today's most satisfying video, I present you the Romanian President vs Viktor Orban.
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I invited a live HeyGen AI avatar to a Zoom meeting with the instructions that it run the most stereotypical corporate Zoom meeting ever. What have I done.
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Abusive bosses don't drive performance. They undermine it. 471 studies, 149k people, 36 countries: in aggressive workplaces, we do poorer work, collaborate less, and shirk more. Incivility breaks confidence and breeds resentment. The best way to get results is to show respect.
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First trailer for ‘FLOW’, described as one of best animated films of 2024. • 100% on Rotten Tomatoes • Predicted to be a potential Best Animated Feature nominee In theaters later this year.
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A few months ago we ran a small experiment. We created a new account in Telegram and started looking for a job. We joined channels that were directly about jobs in Estonia. Here’s what happened.
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I used to think I was rational. Then I read Daniel Kahneman's Nobel Prize-winning work on human decision-making. He routinely asks 8 questions to expose cognitive traps you fall into daily. Test yourself with these questions (it's the ultimate BS detector for your brain):
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In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce a British far-right activist, Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra). He’s best-known for his role in the far-right, Islamophobic organizations like the English Defence League (EDL) and his close connections to the Kremlin. 1/23
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In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce an American politician and author, JD Vance (@JDVance). He’s best-known for his strong stance against US aid to Ukraine, and for being the Republican party’s nominee for vice president in the 2024 election. 1/20
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Write me a corporate memo covering the following points, integrating them together in a good way: -Forgive me for the murder I committed -We will hit quarterly steel crumpet goals -The fish people are here to evaluate our offer. Make sure to speak to them only in fish. Include
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If I could wish for the future of animation, these images would be its magnificent, breathtaking start.
Flow - an animated feature film directed by Gints Zilbalodis which premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard 2024. https://t.co/IsL9cKVGil
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Un šis ir skarbāk - igauņu ģenerālis par Krievijas militārajiem draudiem Baltijai, interesantas detaļas par krievu nelietīgo taktiku un ko mums maksātu uzvara. Neesmu no mūsu armijas spices dzirdējusi tik tiešu valodu, palabojiet, ja kļūdos.
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If Russia launches an attack on Estonia in the future, Estonia would certainly win, said Gen. Martin Herem, head of the Estonian Defense Forces (EDF). But the victory may still be ugly, he added.
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Reaģējot uz Re:Balticas stāstu un LR atklāto vēstuli, dažas domas par vārda brīvību, žurnālistiku un kontrolējošo iestāžu rosinātajām pārbaudēm: 1. Par sūdzībām un kontrolējošām iestādēm. Tas, ka Latvijas kontrolējošās iestādes uzskata, ka tām jārosina pārbaudes uz KATRAS
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Mykhailo Tkach, a journalist of Ukrainska Pravda media, went to the Polish border and conducted an investigation to find out the scale of trade turnover between Poland and Belarus. It turned out that while Ukrainian agricultural products are blocked at the border, Poland pays
"Europe is flooded with Russian grain and this is causing huge problems. Almost 15% of the grain currently delivered to the EU comes from Russia." - Wojciech Staniszewski, mayor of Brzostek, Poland. Putin uses grain prices as a weapon to destabilize the internal policy of
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During the Munich conference I was asked why I am so gloomy. Well, somebody has to tell it like it is, so here’s how it is: Things are not going well. 🧵
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Don’t forget to report your income from illegal activities and stolen property as you’re doing your taxes this year
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An ‘ALIEN’ kids book is being released by Disney next year. The book will be a light-hearted reimagining of the film that follows Ripley & the Nostromo crew as they introduce the alphabet from A to Z.
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