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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

This is a pretty large effect!TL;DR: People whose work is graded later tend to be graded more harshly.If your grading order is alphabetical, that'll unduly penalize people with alphabetically-later surnames. https://t.co/Af7prAV7rx— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) October 16, 2023

🧵I see a lot of socialists pointing out that Israel "created" Hamas. While there is truth to that, it's reductionist and counterproductive to bring up in most cases when discussing this conflict with people.The rise of religious nationalism within the Palestinian...— Koba ☭ (@RedPrecariat) October 12, 2023

obsessed with this paper that has this many authors because 48 of them did the 350,757 coin flips pic.twitter.com/wO2Qu2makD— “paula” (@paularambles) October 12, 2023

We've officially moved on from retro-style mascots to "weird little guys" pic.twitter.com/WTT0JGK4sT— Elizabeth Goodspeed (@domesticetch) October 12, 2023

Remarkable reporting from @YousefHammash. Had to watch twicepic.twitter.com/IYBicTIk6z— Bruno Maçães (@MacaesBruno) October 11, 2023

X is a fog-of-war machine.

Dating is not meant to last: It either ends in marriage or it ends. Long, conflict-avoidant relationships that are dragged out in lukewarm confusion and kept for the sake of comfort rarely have happy endings. Be decisive, be wise, be serious, don’t rush, and have eyes wide open. https://t.co/MkVax1bGkS— Sherry (@SchrodingrsBrat) October 12, 2023

if u just followed me i mostly post about the gym or food (leftistly ofc). but when i was 7 the first bit of news i really grasped was the idf murdering muhammad al-dura. that and reactions to 9/11 shaped how i understood the world. in times like this i gotta talk about palestine pic.twitter.com/QhBzc3Dn8J— Mohammad (@MargBarAmerica) October 11, 2023

People ask me all the time if I am "pro-Israel" because I am a Jew who has lived in Israel, and my answer is that being "pro-Israel" or being "pro-Palestine" or being a "Zionist" does not properly capture the nuance of thought most people do or should have about this issue. It…

Martin Scorsese on Barbenheimer: “I do think that the combination of Oppenheimer and Barbie was something special. It seemed to be, I hate that word, but the perfect storm. It came about at the right time. And the most important thing is that people went to watch these in a…

If someone tells you they don’t want a relationship you’re not going to change their mind by being beautiful or romanticizing the small gestures you experience. Looking lovingly in someone’s eyes when you Netflix n chill won’t change their mind! This isn’t a movie!

This is my current mental model of where software is heading.

The penultimate paragraph is just right: “We recognize that attacks on civilians by Hamas are neither justifiable nor unprovoked. This has been the deadliest year for Palestinians in decades of occupation and of the stifling blockade of Gaza.”

“He’s not your type, he’s your pattern” 🫢

I told the Arc team (on a feedback call) that one of my biggest barriers to using Arc is their lack of Apple Keychain integration I only ever used Arc for specific situations when I wanted a small window for a website now, I can stay in Safari. long live competition

I like all of the public murals of Michigan I’ve encountered that elevate the state to a mythological height