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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
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
#dating#self improvement#career#advice#threads
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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
Rakesh on X: "let's unpack every point: 1. you need to learn that the world is random and it runs on luck. life is unfair. either u can be disappointed about it or u can work on maximizing your luck surface area. never conflate the luckiest people u know with the smartest." / X
Rakesh on X: "let's unpack every point: 1. you need to learn that the world is random and it runs on luck. life is unfair. either u can be disappointed about it or u can work on maximizing your luck surface area. never conflate the luckiest people u know with the smartest." / X
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Rakesh on X: "let's unpack every point: 1. you need to learn that the world is random and it runs on luck. life is unfair. either u can be disappointed about it or u can work on maximizing your luck surface area. never conflate the luckiest people u know with the smartest." / X
Mouin Rabbani on Twitter / X
Mouin Rabbani on Twitter / X
in order to highlight the distinction between Hamas and PIJ propaganda clips that show direct confrontations with Israeli forces, and Israeli ones that exhibit its soldiers firing with abandon into empty rooms or a hole in the ground in obviously staged performances.— Mouin Rabbani (@MouinRabbani) December 17, 2023
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worms cited on Twitter / X
worms cited on Twitter / X
dude this story is WILD. what is happening pic.twitter.com/zBJZlvLQ0i— worms cited (@christapeterso) December 16, 2023
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Just Ken on Twitter / X
Just Ken on Twitter / X
It's crazy to realize how insanely competent I am. I can pretty much do anything, I think. I can do hard, technical, creative, collaborative work, for long hours, under enormous stress, while making friends and connections, resolving conflict, and having fun from time to time— Just Ken (@kenthesimp) December 15, 2023
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Yashar Ali 🐘 on Twitter / X
Yashar Ali 🐘 on Twitter / X
CNN's @clarissaward is the first Western journalist to enter Gaza since October 7. She did not enter Gaza with the IDF. Like most militaries, the IDF requires journalists' footage to be vetted by them before airing. Clarissa entered Gaza with an Emirati medical team. There… pic.twitter.com/qxhkB9qtqP— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) December 14, 2023
#discourse/counterclaims#news#journalism#israel-palestine
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Yashar Ali 🐘 on Twitter / X
Sherry on X: "You repeat what you don’t repair and you transmit what you don’t transform—that’s why weaknesses we haven’t mastered or fears we haven’t conquered create patterns overtime (Eg. Certain things become “triggers”). When we anticipate danger that hasn’t happened yet, that’s anxiety." / X
Sherry on X: "You repeat what you don’t repair and you transmit what you don’t transform—that’s why weaknesses we haven’t mastered or fears we haven’t conquered create patterns overtime (Eg. Certain things become “triggers”). When we anticipate danger that hasn’t happened yet, that’s anxiety." / X
#self improvement#introspection
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Sherry on X: "You repeat what you don’t repair and you transmit what you don’t transform—that’s why weaknesses we haven’t mastered or fears we haven’t conquered create patterns overtime (Eg. Certain things become “triggers”). When we anticipate danger that hasn’t happened yet, that’s anxiety." / X
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
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.
#threads#healthcare#govt/policy#lobbying#metrics v humanities#public-life/cost-of-living#see-replies
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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
Massimo on Twitter / X
Massimo on Twitter / X
a full USB drive theoretically weighs less than an empty one because storing data as binary ones removes electrons from the flash memory transistors, reducing the overall mass, while an empty drive full of zeros contains more electrons.
#amusing#storage#tech#hardware
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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
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
#mental models#persuasion#difficult-convos#threads
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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
Bipolar Express ❄️🍉 on X: "How do you start dating fr? Everyone I’ve dated has literally just fallen from the sky. I’ve put zero effort into finding people and my therapist said her goal for me is to go on one date a week 😭" / X
Bipolar Express ❄️🍉 on X: "How do you start dating fr? Everyone I’ve dated has literally just fallen from the sky. I’ve put zero effort into finding people and my therapist said her goal for me is to go on one date a week 😭" / X
#dating#see-replies
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Bipolar Express ❄️🍉 on X: "How do you start dating fr? Everyone I’ve dated has literally just fallen from the sky. I’ve put zero effort into finding people and my therapist said her goal for me is to go on one date a week 😭" / 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
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
#threads#critiques#startups#vc#trends#ethics#public-life
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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
🌀 on Twitter / X
🌀 on Twitter / X
My first essay since “THE NEW TECHNOLOGIST” ManifestoIn “DIGITAL QUALITY OF LIFE” I set a reminder about why we came to work for computers / the internet in the first place…Taking a lot of inspiration from Nicholas Negroponte, cofounder & first director of the MIT Media Lab pic.twitter.com/Oydg6Bk411— 🌀 (@HipCityReg) December 9, 2023
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UN News on Twitter / X
UN News on Twitter / X
#BREAKING United States vetoes Security Council draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and immediate and unconditional release of all hostagesVOTEIn Favour: 13Against: 1 (US)Abstain: 1 (UK) pic.twitter.com/hY0YcJ1JKF— UN News (@UN_News_Centre) December 8, 2023
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PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 on Twitter / X
PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 on Twitter / X
🚨 NEW ISRAELI ARMY'S LIE EXPOSED 🚨THE PHOTOS THEY RELEASED CLAIMING TO BE HAMAS FIGHTERS SURRENDERING FROM TUNNELS ARE DEBUNKEDField reports confirm they're civilians, some kidnapped from a UN shelter.Shockingly, our journalist colleague Diaa Al-Kahlot, the office director… pic.twitter.com/JwrwGcMyYY— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) December 7, 2023
#israel-palestine#discourse/counterclaims
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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
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
#business/hierarchy#work/productivity#leaders#startups#threads#best practices
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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
Ryan Broderick on Twitter / X
Ryan Broderick on Twitter / X
The emphasis on altering how our memories work with AI is probably the most dangerous and insidious thing I've ever seen. Luckily, no one involved with any of these projects has any real concept of what people might actually want from AI, so, at least for now, we're safe. https://t.co/9NrovtGazc— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) December 6, 2023
#see-replies#future#discourse#critique#ai#startups
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Visakan Veerasamy on X: "a snippet from a conversation with a friend that’s still ringing with me: when you’re young, say 14-22, it’s hard to properly imagine how your existing social reality is going to change. you may feel a sense of loyalty to your friends, such that the idea going out and seeking new…" / X
Visakan Veerasamy on X: "a snippet from a conversation with a friend that’s still ringing with me: when you’re young, say 14-22, it’s hard to properly imagine how your existing social reality is going to change. you may feel a sense of loyalty to your friends, such that the idea going out and seeking new…" / X
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Visakan Veerasamy on X: "a snippet from a conversation with a friend that’s still ringing with me: when you’re young, say 14-22, it’s hard to properly imagine how your existing social reality is going to change. you may feel a sense of loyalty to your friends, such that the idea going out and seeking new…" / X