Can’t sleep, time to do a fresh reboot of VV’s talking points— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) November 23, 2020
Isaac Saul on X: "One thing a lot of people aren’t ready for is that if this recession comes, a lot of people in the Trump camp are going to celebrate it. Job losses and the stock market, GDP, 401ks etc falling will be celebrated as a way to wash out inflation and cheap labor. Gonna be wild." / X
documentation of people in the Trump crowd framing recession as a good thing
Divya Venn on X: "the rules around using your sex appeal (as a girl) to get ahead are obvious intuitively but are very hard to codify. sometimes sex appeal raises your social status and sometimes it lowers it it's an interesting problem and i would like your thoughts 🧵" / X
sometimes sex appeal raises your social status and sometimes it lowers it
it's an interesting problem and i would like your thoughts 🧵
— Divya Venn (@divya_venn)
Molly Crockett (@mjcrockett.bsky.social)
Thread on how Twitter amplifies perceptions of outrage
(1) Isaac Saul on X: "1/ ALRIGHT Y'ALL. ELECTION FRAUD DEBUNKING MEGA THREAD. I’m following claims of fraud and looking into them. I think I’ve solved most now. Nothing is holding up under any scrutiny so far so I’m making a thread to track in one place. Please RT! #ElectionResults2020 #Election2020" / X
— Isaac Saul (@Ike_Saul)
(1) derek guy on X: "To understand why black tie requires you to cover your waist, it helps to know a little about the history of men's dress. 🧵 https://t.co/uA4mNdahFP" / X
thread about trraditional men's fashion and the different kinds of formal wear to wear for different occasions
(1) Maddy on X: "I do feel like there's a lot of misunderstanding about Alicent and Rhaenyra's relationship in the first season into the second that comes from people not fully understanding Alicent's reaction to the Driftmark fight" / X
nice character analysis for Alicent in House of the Dragon
Last week I spoke about how we build ultra-reliable AWS services. It's my favourite talk that I've given. Everyone I've asked has told me that they learned something new and interesting 😃 Here I'm going to tweet some highlights to tempt you to watch ...
— Colm MacCárthaigh (@colmmacc)
(1) oca.computer (⨍) on X: "📜 Intro to Augmenting Human Intellect by Douglas Engelbart semantically embedded and plotted in space. Cool visualization, but much more interesting when feeding a song into it... https://t.co/kC5pEBkeDw" / X
visual plot of an essay by Douglas Engelbart
I've been feeling very under-nourished in my male friendships recently
Thread on dearth of emotional investment in platonic male friendships
Hot take: Kyoto is the Philadelphia of Japan
1. Former capital and primate city with lots of historic architecture.
2. Has been surpassed in importance by other cities in the 19th and 20th centuries.
1/3
— @mdasilva.bsky.social (@mdasilva1563)
Nobody asked for this, but I just signed up for instance with and I already have some strong thoughts and feelings about their app design.
Designer auditing the poor design of the State Farm app's onboarding flow
Love it or hate it, you have to admit, it’s a new way to see tennis!
I oversaw all VFX on Challengers and thanks to great direction from Luca and amazing artists it’s unlike any sports movie ever made!
More breakdowns to come. Go watch the movie on Prime!!!
— Brian Drewes (@BrianVFX)
Emery Wells on X: "Ever wondered why apps like @linear, @arcinternet, @airtable, and @frame_io feel like gliding on ice, while others feel like trudging through mud? It’s not subjective nor based on taste, it’s all about precise, measurable front-end rendering techniques I call ‘FluidUI.’ The…" / X
It’s not subjective nor based on taste, it’s all about precise, measurable front-end rendering techniques I call ‘FluidUI.’
The…
— Emery Wells (@emerywells)
For the GANG awards, the Jedi: Survivor audio team put together supercuts of all our favorite audio moments in the game. I felt like they were too good to not share, so I got permission to upload some of them here! Starting with the video for Sound Design of the Year 🧵
— Nick von Kaenel (@nickvonkaenel)
AskHistorians on Twitter
Explanation / easy summary of the Reddit API debacle
Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin on Twitter / X
Wikipedia has honest to god some of the worst source work I’ve ever seen on virtually all its pages that are primarily historical/political rather than scientific/mathematic. https://t.co/SJxT2enRur— Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin (@realerjoetalley) February 19, 2024
Mike Smith on Twitter / X
Lulu Cheng Meservey on X: "A lot of people dunking on this, but going on TV is hard. Most founders have had interviews they flubbed. Usually for the same 3 reasons: (1) weak elevator pitch (below I suggest a better one) (2) didn’t prep for the TV format (3) forgot the audience Quick points on each:…" / X
Sarah Chieng on Twitter / X
I compiled a prompt engineering "best practices and tricks" doc 😀Created based on OpenAI @isafulf's prompt engineering talk at @NeurIPSConf and enriched with more details, examples, and tips.I focused on making the document as comprehensive and concise as possible, and it… pic.twitter.com/nPjux6JSzO— Sarah Chieng (@SarahChieng) January 1, 2024
Brian Goldstone on X: "Carole and her kids were sent home, and she was taken off the waitlist for a donor match. Her doctors have promised to appeal @Cigna's decision next week. In the meantime, there is concern about the cancer spreading. If that happens, a transplant will no longer be an option." / X
Carole, a cancer patient and single parent, was denied a previously approved double lung transplant by Cigna right before the surgery, causing public outrage and leading to a promised appeal by her doctors alongside a social media campaign urging Cigna to reverse their decision.
James Rosen-Birch 🕊️ on X: "WHAT PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOUR KILL COMPANIES? we set out to answer this question as part of our work a little while ago, did a few hundred interviews, and built out a network model -- which revealed seven interconnected loops! (h/t to @visakanv who convinced me to share results!)" / X
festive goblin ⊙v⊙ on X: "spent the weekend with a bunch of highly agentic people and now i've got a bunch of thoughts about agency" / X
notes on agency
Jake Ward on Twitter / X
We pulled off an SEO heist that stole 3.6M total traffic from a competitor.We got 489,509 traffic in October alone.Here's how we did it: pic.twitter.com/sTJ7xbRjrT— Jake Ward (@jakezward) November 24, 2023
kepano on Twitter / X
Thread on the thread of Sam Altman’s AGI and how he’s managing OpenAI and WorldCoin
Mo Husseini (@mohu) on Threads
On the importance of language during conflict
Frank ⌁ on X
So IDEO largely built its marketing around the idea that The Designer is a higher-level thinker who can sift through all of the mass-produced junk that was rising up as a result of automation and find quality.
This was rooted in racism and was doomed to fail... (thread)
brian🧃 on Twitter
“Why does it seem like the more inner work a person does the less likely they are to maintain a relationship”
Bill D'Alessandro on Twitter
“Damn. This is the most unreal (and yet depressingly so real) story of unintended consequences I've ever read. "Why Do Employers Provide Health Care in the First Place?" Some excerpts... https://t.co/q1DFnfXvzl”
Ronen▼ on Twitter
“Since Spiderverse came out, lots of artists have been posting behind-the scenes tweets sharing their contributions to the beautiful film. So I'm starting a thread collecting them in one place:”