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My insanely talented friends are undervalued by modern institutions and scattered all over the world. So I dreamt of building a "campus" where friends could live & work near each otherThat's finally happening with the launch of Fractal University 🏵️1/ pic.twitter.com/wnnJEKWW18— Tyler Alterman (@TylerAlterman) October 20, 2023

One misunderstanding is that this way of working leads to some tech debt: I don't think it does, if the designers/engineers know what they are doing. No-one is going to create a new button component because it's 1px larger than what exists in the code. So we have components,… https://t.co/BDsEtodDsV pic.twitter.com/OAA2ceSRyt— Karri Saarinen (@karrisaarinen) October 20, 2023

A paper that really illustrates both the unexpected power, and unexpected risks, that come from LLMs.Given text of anonymous posts on Reddit, GPT-4 can infer things like income, gender & location with 85%+ accuracy at 1% of the cost required by humans. https://t.co/qcrodZsgUQ pic.twitter.com/at8NfwLxjr— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) October 20, 2023

forget look gaps or iq gaps can we talk about interestingness gaps in relationships— Ava (@noampomsky) October 20, 2023

BREAKING: 🇮🇱 Netanyahu's government approves regulations that allow temporary shutdown of foreign news channels on grounds of national security, as Communications Minister seeks to shut down Al Jazeera's bureau.— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) October 20, 2023

it can be helpful to discuss with your friends which energies specifically are being exchanged in relationship, what you each are giving and receiving, how that feels, and what, if anything, wants to be shifted— Love Pilgrim (@tasshinfogleman) October 15, 2023

"We, as the government of Spain, need to suspend diplomatic relations with Israel..."The Spanish Minister of Social Rights speaks out against Israel's "planned genocide" in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/PhWNeBAUUQ— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) October 18, 2023

This week, I called Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a physician from Gaza who now lives in Canada, to check in on him. During Israel’s 2008-9 war on Gaza, three of his daughters were killed when an Israeli tank struck their home. This time, I had to offer my condolences again, when he…— איימן עודה أيمن عودة Ayman Odeh (@AyOdeh) October 19, 2023

i think it’s important to note that Gaza would not be able to build water infrastructure because Israeli Military Order 158 explicitly prevents that https://t.co/CRUFgZqJVM— abram (@abram_facts) October 19, 2023

Russia had no human rights norms during its Afghan campaign and still lost. This 4chan worldview doesn’t map onto the world. https://t.co/5M2xYmPjC6— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) October 19, 2023

I watched Barbie thrice to come up with this idea: What stops most people from living out their true selves is not ignorance of their own mortality but an inability to distinguish between wants and oughts. Most are too busy going through the motions (ie. planned choreography):

About the #Gaza #hospital blast, The version saying it would have been caused by Palestinian rocket (mis)fire is gaining traction online and among #OSINT communities. A thread showing weaknesses in this version, and why an Israeli bombing is highly more plausible.⬇️ 1/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— Yehuda Shaul (@YehudaShaul) October 17, 2023

wish studios would take notes. posters can be subtle works of real art they dont need to be obnoxious https://t.co/M80XL6v6eF— laura 🦠 (@ecto_fun) October 17, 2023

New look at the live-action ‘AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER’ series.Coming to Netflix in 2024. pic.twitter.com/eKzmfJeaaA— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) October 17, 2023

Powerful take on Killers from the guy who taught Lily Gladstone to speak Osage. https://t.co/f84K3r2SMb— Radheyan Simonpillai (@JustSayRad) October 17, 2023

Who gives a fuck is some of the best advice you can receive— swag (@chillextremist) October 16, 2023

Tell us your favorite female horror performance.My pick (always): https://t.co/SvaPqDuwSj pic.twitter.com/fJMpSEGhmY— DepressedBergman (@DannyDrinksWine) October 17, 2023

so very much appreciate these words from Ilana Glazer pic.twitter.com/XWn9gz2IkI— Franchesca Ramsey (@chescaleigh) October 17, 2023

This is the first @threejs based implementation of Gaussian Splats that I'm aware of.Incoming official example me thinks... 🤓 https://t.co/bMVg2eAv1E— mrdoob (@mrdoob) October 16, 2023

The absolute gall of banishing any books mentioning gay people or racism to an optional bundle called "Share Every Story" specifically to allow customers to opt out of sharing those stories https://t.co/mIoencmPBK pic.twitter.com/be7rB82y35— Jenny Nicholson (@JennyENicholson) October 16, 2023

Millie Bobby Brown talks about frequent criticism on her while promoting Stranger Things:“We’re kids—we talk over each other I was just penalized for overtalking and oversharing and being too loud. (...) In interviews I couldn’t help but think of all the comments. So I just… pic.twitter.com/Z1Zfj19hhc— Pop Base (@PopBase) October 16, 2023

Feels so broken that we've created an ecosystem where the few people left with staff jobs are just waiting for them to disappear; the freelancers are struggling to get by on roughly $10k a year; and yet there are endless publicists in my inbox who largely seem to be living stably— Ted Davis (@tddvsss) October 16, 2023