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Peter Hague PhD on Twitter / X
Peter Hague PhD on Twitter / X
Any politician who wants to make the world better has to reckon with this chart (even if they vehemently disagree with the source). It’s a distillation of all our problems.How can we take the revolution in production that enabled the bottom half of the plot, and apply it to the… pic.twitter.com/IvRcFhg5Un— Peter Hague PhD (@peterrhague) December 20, 2023
#trends#stats#public-life/cost-of-living
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Peter Hague PhD on Twitter / X
gojo's girl on Twitter / X
gojo's girl on Twitter / X
Trend of people drawing arbitrary parallels between Oppenheimer and euphoria / cassia and strauss
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gojo's girl on Twitter / X
Hammam Farah on Twitter / X
Hammam Farah on Twitter / X
This morning Israeli snipers shot and killed my two family friends in an attack on the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza.Nahida (Um Emad Anton) and Samar, mother and daughter, were walking to the Sisters’ Convent to use the only bathroom. One was killed as she tried to… pic.twitter.com/ZtTxgsDrVf— Hammam Farah (@hammam_therapy) December 17, 2023
#israel-palestine
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Hammam Farah on Twitter / 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
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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Mouin Rabbani on Twitter / X
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