Dr. Laura Robinson on X: "I think a huge part of the draw of tradwife content is that it markets the idea that we actually don't need social services, schools, or a government because everyone has an endless possibility of bootstrapping inside them. Tradwife content usually deliberately obscures or" / X

Oh Doechii, the places you’ll go!! 🏆

derek guy on X: "I'll tell you about turtlenecks. 🧵" / X

my best friend is 47 with a newborn, a toddler, two dogs and a husband. i just spent a week at their house. it should have been chaos but it was total serenity. the delightful beast of a toddler tried my patience but over and over her mom had the winning response. i am just /1

How to be more emotionally intelligent (without trying so hard)

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

The MOSFET below turns power to the lights on/off, and if you treat this assembly wrong the mystery chip burns a bit in its memory and refuses to ever turn the lights on again.

The frame of “applying to jobs” is spiritually humiliating because it makes the job into the subject and the applicant into the object. You’ve cast yourself as a dependent on the Jobs’ generosity. A victim to its judgement.

re: Anora, i feel like some films are more akin to novels, while others to short stories. Often short stories craft a glimpse or vignette of someone where the reader is expected to work to pull the “interiority” from the character from the intentional but limited context

Criticizing a film about lower class characters because it defines them by circumstances and/or plot mechanics instead of giving them any sense of interiority is a bit tricky. There should be a question of what the film is exactly doing with that choice rather than dismissing it.

I have officially been professionally reading screenplays and giving story notes to writers, production/literary companies, and competitions for 5 years now🥳! Here’s what I’ve learned: (1/5)

ProPublica (@propublica.org)

current FDA-approved treatments are few:

Dr. Ally Louks's PhD thesis is set to be one of the most influential theses of 21st century. Puts forward an original argument with remarkable clarity.

Molly Crockett (@mjcrockett.bsky.social)

It is a really jarring moment to be a historian. To know what might be coming is alarming. To realize that no one around you sees it or acknowledges it is a weird place to be in. Its like time traveling without time traveling. 1/8

I'm glad I don't have to write an endorsement piece, because I really wouldn't know how to go about it. Ever since 2015, when Trump descended the escalator, I have had the same feeling, which I've never quite seen articulated, so I will briefly try:

1/ Alright, friends. It’s starting, and I want to get ahead of it. Four years later, can’t believe we are doing this, but… ELECTION FRAUD DEBUNKING MEGA THREAD, PART II

wow - this blew up! i really appreciate the support ❤️

Patrick McKenzie on X: "The tech industry is fundamentally unserious about how it recruits, hires, and retains candidates. About which I have a lot more to say than could fit in a tweet, but, a good thing to know." / X

(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

Reminder: HR departments don’t approve performance raises to force turnover so they can stay busy hiring and onboarding. It’s always cheaper to just give the employee you already have the raise they requested, but they never do that because retention isn’t a KPI.

(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

(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

Senators were chosen by state legislatures, and their terms were staggered & considerably longer than house terms so that they are *less* responsive to “the will of the people.”

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 ...

Can we STOP promoting LASIK like it's some miracle cure? No one should be getting LASIK, it's INCREDIBLY fucking dangerous. The industry LIED to consumers about its safety. I am LEGALLY FUCKING BLIND after LASIK. I have friends who have attempted suicide bc of LASIK!

(2) Linus on X: "Making a thread of some DALL-E 2 (not 3!) generated images I find strikingly beautiful. this kind of varied, surreal, almost soulful style is hard to find in modern RL/preference-tuned models, and I think it's a huge loss. thinking of fine-tuning SD 1.5 on this dataset https://t.co/dhunYcaZWB" / X

(3) Nick on X: "I’m surprised more people don’t design and build their house rather than buy it. It feels like a nice life ritual to design the space you’ll spend a lot of your life in from the ground up I know many people who bought houses but only know of @simonsarris who designed it" / X

(3) Josh Ellis on X: "A few years ago, I had a cool idea: what if I used Amazon wishlists to get homeless people in Vegas what they needed? I could create lists of things they needed and my followers on social media could buy it and it'd get shipped to my house so I could hand it out." / X