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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.
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.
Already has 85M+ views on X/Twitter. Most people criticizing her don't understand her argument at all. I have a PhD in… — Mushtaq Bilal, PhD (@MushtaqBilalPhD)
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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.
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
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
— Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD (@Nicole_Lee_Sch)
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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:
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:
— David Roberts (@drvolts)
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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
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
We’ll have a lot of re-reruns from 2020 (original thread below). Send me any you see. I will investigate… — Isaac Saul (@Ike_Saul)
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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
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
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
— Patrick McKenzie (@patio11)
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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
(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)
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(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.
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.
— Shrimp Billionaire (@fentanylbrownie)
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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) 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
(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
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(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.”
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.”
It’s a check on the House, the one body that carried a direct responsibility to constituents. 6/11 — Trey Ferguson (@PastorTrey05)
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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 ...
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)
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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!
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!
— Chris Alvino (@ChrisAlvino)
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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
(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
thread of nicer looking ai-generated images
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(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) 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
I know many people who bought houses but only know of who designed it — Nick (@nickcammarata)
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(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
(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
thread about homelessness and the experience of being homeless
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(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
enjoyed this slice in time from jordan's career emails, so here's one of my memorable ones when i was rejected by a startup for not having good visual design... but i asked for a chance to prove myself and got it
enjoyed this slice in time from jordan's career emails, so here's one of my memorable ones when i was rejected by a startup for not having good visual design... but i asked for a chance to prove myself and got it
this startup got acq'd by fb, and made my career today — julius tarng cyber inspector (@tarngerine)
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enjoyed this slice in time from jordan's career emails, so here's one of my memorable ones when i was rejected by a startup for not having good visual design... but i asked for a chance to prove myself and got it
So Apple has introduced a new system called “Private Cloud Compute” that allows your phone to offload complex (typically AI) tasks to specialized secure devices in the cloud. I’m still trying to work out what I think about this. So here’s a thread. 1/
So Apple has introduced a new system called “Private Cloud Compute” that allows your phone to offload complex (typically AI) tasks to specialized secure devices in the cloud. I’m still trying to work out what I think about this. So here’s a thread. 1/
— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green)
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So Apple has introduced a new system called “Private Cloud Compute” that allows your phone to offload complex (typically AI) tasks to specialized secure devices in the cloud. I’m still trying to work out what I think about this. So here’s a thread. 1/
(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
(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
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(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
1. One of the main drivers of inflation in the US is skyrocketing rents, which are up 30%+ over the last four years.
1. One of the main drivers of inflation in the US is skyrocketing rents, which are up 30%+ over the last four years.
So, it's surprising that the recent FBI RAID on a corporate landlord based in Atlanta has received little attention. The raid was part of a federal probe of an… — Judd Legum (@JuddLegum)
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1. One of the main drivers of inflation in the US is skyrocketing rents, which are up 30%+ over the last four years.
sirens operate as control - not a sign of threat - in israel. last time i was in tel aviv visiting family, a siren went off while i was on the bus. everyone flew into panic, two women sobbed. when the all clear was given, people on the bus started singing the national anthem /1
sirens operate as control - not a sign of threat - in israel. last time i was in tel aviv visiting family, a siren went off while i was on the bus. everyone flew into panic, two women sobbed. when the all clear was given, people on the bus started singing the national anthem /1
— ben (@benvyle)
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sirens operate as control - not a sign of threat - in israel. last time i was in tel aviv visiting family, a siren went off while i was on the bus. everyone flew into panic, two women sobbed. when the all clear was given, people on the bus started singing the national anthem /1