Devon Eriksen on Twitter / X
Thread on the role of property ownership in civilization
Jeff VanderMeer on X: "Esquire has been very kind to me this year, in providing a venue for several subjects, from DeSantis to climate fiction, and beyond. A thread of links, from a year in which I wrote thousands of words of nonfic the first 6 months and 175k the second six. 1/?" / X
yatharth 🏠 on X: "as far as i can tell, people fall into cults because they are missing one of the following things - love and people - visibility of their soul - status, excitement, belonging - hope - a recognition of their vast underground pain and the cults are the best match for those things" / X
Nick on X: "absurdly tentative scratch-notepad awakening stage theory, don't take too seriously 1. hint: you hear that awareness might be worth studying, meditation is a thing, you don't know what it's for, people say it can change things. todo: do practice, try things 2. clue: you take a…" / X
Rakesh on X: "3. be greedy. don't waste your time finding the best thing. act on your curiosities, trust the vibes and don't overthink. if the endeavor you want to embark on is risky, make sure to hedge. the best course is the one u complete. the best movie for the night is the one u watch." / X
MimZWay on Twitter / X
Head on airport design influencing poor behavior on planes
Jordan Taylor on Twitter / X
Thread on increasingly sharp types of blades/materials
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.
Malcolm Ocean on X: "my systems theory of unconscious frame control: conditions: 1. two+ people have sufficiently different experiences of reality 2. one of them desperately wants something from the other (money, sex, approval. can go both ways simultaneously!) 3. they attempt to communicate" / X
anton (𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖎𝖒𝖊) 🏴☠️ on X: "good morning from san francisco. now that the dust has settled on the first round of the openai debacle, it’s time to start asking some questions two of the board members who voted altman out, helen toner and tasha mccauley are deeply enmeshed in ‘effective altruism’" / X
critiques and pitfalls of the effective altruism movement
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
𝙰𝚍𝚒𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚛 on X: "Falling in love should feel like an irrefutable proof of the existence of God and like a testament to His benevolent genius. Nothing about it is ambivalent or half-hearted, I am not 'of two minds' about her, I am unequivocally hers, forever, until my life is over. Period. 1/ https://t.co/cBW3dCuXLh" / 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
•Freyja• on Twitter / X
worms cited on X: "The “Israel wants Palestinian self-determination, but they keep acting out :(” thing is completely fake, the obligation is immediate withdrawal, not withdrawal once the occupied peoples become sufficiently docile" / X
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
QC (10.7k/50k words) on Twitter / X
Thread about a weird feeling of Sam Altman’s ability to influence people
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
Ananya Chadha on Twitter / X
Jellyfish having a different style or type of brain neural network
The Cultural Tutor on X
thread on the harm of cold LED lights on streets versus orange lights
Josh Kirk on Twitter / X
Guide on scrolling through frames of a video
Get Her, Jade! on Twitter / X
Hypersexuality often gets called out for having an unhealthy relationship with sex but it’s the exact same thing with purity. Instead of leaning into sexual expression in a way that may be unsafe, unwise, uncontrolled, it’s abstaining from it with shame, control, & judgement.— Get Her, Jade! (@keatingssixth) November 6, 2023
haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn: Docker container running Transmission torrent client with WebUI over an OpenVPN tunnel
Docker container running Transmission torrent client with WebUI over an OpenVPN tunnel - haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn: Docker container running Transmission torrent client with WebUI over an...
Yehuda Shaul on X
[1] These days in Israel, in response to Hamas’ brutal massacre, calls to ethnically cleanse Gaza, deliberately targeting civilians on a mass scale, and other dehumanizing language, have become common.
Here are a few examples of this discourse over the last few days.
THREAD
Nate Bear on Twitter / X
Climate scientists want us to look at the fundamental failings inherent within corporate-controlled democracies. To hear about that, you’ll have to go beyond the mainstream press. Sources and to read more:https://t.co/TieSooWjcp pic.twitter.com/XI1F4LVo4R— Nate Bear (@NateB_Panic) November 3, 2023
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)
Tony Tost on X
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (2023). I feel like late stage Scorsese -- perhaps from WOLF OF WALL STREET onward -- is carving out this new genre: the true-ish fever dream lyrical essay about America. Pictures that feel like full literate novels, all grace notes & soul sickness.
Jennine on Twitter
Feel like I can share my story about BetterHelp. During a particularly dark time and being affected by Israeli lobbyist attacks on me and my livelihood, feeling paralysed, lost, I signed up to trial online therapy. How BetterHelp works is that it (cont.) https://t.co/HbUrMehDdB— Jennine (@jennineak) October 11, 2023
Erik Robson on Twitter
Dedicated thread for Dall-E 3 screenshots of classic 3D modeling/animation apps that never existed. pic.twitter.com/dFOeCj8SEf— Erik Robson (@ErikRobson) October 20, 2023