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In honour of Christine McVie, here is the perfect Fleetwood Mac joke from Flight of the Conchords. pic.twitter.com/j2FUvv4k32— Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) November 30, 2022

Alex Jones desperately tries to get Kanye West to clarify that he doesn't actually love Hitler ... but nope. Ye: "There's a lot of things that I love about Hitler. A lot of things." pic.twitter.com/QI87RNcx8A— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) December 1, 2022

🙌 THE 4 DAY WORK WEEK HAS HIT IRELAND WITH ASTONISHING RESULTS. 🙌The Irish Findings are as follows:• 100% of the companies involved are continuing with the 4-Day work week ➡• 85% of companies which reported data on revenue reported growth in revenue 📈 (1/X)— Dr Dale Whelehan (@Daleyfurter) November 30, 2022

Libs of TikTok is a bad faith viral rage conduit. You know this. I know this. They know it. But she and her followers spin it like they have no idea what they're doing and how dangerous it is. They'll say things like "she's just reposting what other people say! How is that bad?"— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge) November 28, 2022

1/20 Dear friends, I need to draw your attention to something super bad and super important (and it doesn’t originate from Russia for once). Last week the EU has taken a shockingly stupid and damaging decision to close down national corporate registers of beneficial owners 🧵🧵🧵 pic.twitter.com/DA3kO7Enlh— Maria Pevchikh (@pevchikh) November 29, 2022

My students are going through job interviews & folks are still being asked dumb brainteaser questions. Stop!🚩Google found brainteasers were in no way predictive of job performance🚩Worse: "Narcissism & sadism explained the likelihood of using brainteasers in an interview.” 1/ pic.twitter.com/ZK0zT3YMLW— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) November 28, 2022

“I don’t think I’ve fully internalized how frankly bizarre the world of suburban mega churches are. And I’m saying that as somebody who attended one as a kid”

pic.twitter.com/O9zAzRE2LE— 💽 (@dirtybird0_o) November 26, 2022

It still blows my mind every time I randomly look at the price of a TV nowadays. pic.twitter.com/FbwV6HnqWo— Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi) November 26, 2022

I think about how much of culture came from physical limitations. Serifs came from calligraphy. The Leslie effect and plate reverb came from physical devices.What limitations will generate the stylistic flourishes of the future? Diffusion models creating too many fingers?— Sho Kuwamoto (@skuwamoto@mastodon.social) (@skuwamoto) November 26, 2022

I’m often searching for new & interesting instrumental & ambient music, probably because that’s the music I spend a lot of time with as I write. If you’re the same, you might like these 20 albums from 2022 🧵— Jordan Tannahill (@TannahillJordan) November 25, 2022

There are ongoing debates about the merits––or lack thereof––of antidepressants. The question shouldn't be just whether they "work" or not but rather when, for whom, in what context, and what––when they fail––is needed instead?A thread about antidepressants and politics: 1/— Eric Reinhart (@_Eric_Reinhart) November 24, 2022

If anyone is teaching them to cold message others and ask for their time without even talking to them first and building a relationship, they're teaching the wrong thingProfessionals will want to help if they at least feel like you're not looking at them in a transactional way— lara mendonça O HEXA VEM 🇧🇷 (@laraisuncool) November 25, 2022

Experts can't seem to agree on the best way to decarbonize the grid.Is the answer in renewables? Nuclear? Or do we need a new breakthrough technology?Here's what you need to know 🧶👇— Matt Loszak (@MattLoszak) September 23, 2022

Week 1: 50% of their colleagues were fired - and some of these people as well.Week 2: Some of them were called back. RTO mandated: https://t.co/0op7COalb7Week 3: all of them clicked “yes” to longer hours, all while the majority of devs resigned.Week 4: now.So, so cruel.— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 24, 2022

“Bryan Johnson sold his company to PayPal for $800 million in 2013. Since then, he's been investing millions to reduce aging. In 2021, he reduced his epigenetic age by 5.1 years in 7 months (World Record) Here’s a breakdown of his “Blueprint” and my own experience with it: 🧵”

how I edit an iPhone photo pic.twitter.com/c7c11E8wwn— Kyler Steele (@kyler_steele) November 23, 2022

Web development is a book of 10 chapters👇Chapter 1: HTML 🧱Chapter 2: CSS 🎨Chapter 3: CSS frameworks 🧮Chapter 4: Git and GitHub 📲Chapter 5: JavaSript ⚙️Chapter 6: DOM 📃Chapter 7: React/Svelte/Vue⚛️Chapter 8: Node 🔙Chapter 9: API and Database 🗄️Chapter 10: Job 🏢— WebDeveloperMentor (@MentorWebDev) November 21, 2022

“She’s correct tho. Franchise have always been around but recently Disney and Universal IP has killed the mid budget film which is traditionally what a rom com was. You either have indies or Marvel/StarWars/Jurassic Park/Godzilla now.”

If you've got a great spec, treat it that way. Get it to the person or people who are closest to producers and execs and agents and managers––ideally people who like you and want to help get your great script the attention it deserves. 14/18— Jonathon E. Stewart (@JEStew3) November 21, 2022

Absolutely. In my old job I was emailing a lot of high-up people and we were taught a very specific formula:1. Why are you emailing them2. What do they NEED to know3. What specific answers do you need from themAnd if you can fit #1 in the subject line, even better.— Elmo Henderson (@venmohenderson) November 21, 2022

The way we can love people so much but not know how to show it in a healthy way is the most tragic thing to me— Angela Li (@hiangelali) November 20, 2022

First page of the screenplay TÁR (2022) by Todd Fieldvs.First page of the screenplay ROADHOUSE (1989) by Hilary Henkin pic.twitter.com/LuMsM36WId— Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) November 20, 2022

Lydia Tár...the spiritual aspects of the film starring Cate Blanchett...This thread contains spoilers! pic.twitter.com/TCzeS87L7Q— ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕖𝔹𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕥𝕥𝔸ℂ (@CateStan4Ever) November 20, 2022

(2/5) Today, I got to publish what I see as the big picture around that story. 🖼️ It's about an entire movement quietly taking off in tech & VC circles of people who believe it is their DUTY to fill the earth with their genius children... to save humanity.https://t.co/fty0lhW6f9— Julia Black (@mjnblack) November 17, 2022

One of the most magnificent architectural achievements of the Islamic world is the Comares Hall of the Alhambra palace in Andalusia, Spain.With a ceiling designed to evoke the Seven Heavens, it has captivated viewers for centuries.Below we walk through this mesmerising hall… pic.twitter.com/rZGlor8PyK— Takhayyul (@QuwwatTakhayyul) November 15, 2022

With Descript's announcement of a $50 million raise from OpenAI yesterday and with accurate speech-to-text models like Whisper, the AI audio space is hot right now 🚀Here is a detailed list of startups, some brand new, in the AI audio/video space:— Ramsri Goutham Golla (@ramsri_goutham) November 16, 2022

Toggle your theme using clip-path pic.twitter.com/WfH9V5nIIk— Emil Kowalski (@emilkowalski_) November 16, 2022

Curious how I managed to animate it? Here is a timelapse of about 1 hour animation work in Rive!https://t.co/ynCHrOrJe3— David Svezhintsev 🌸 (@daveranan) November 15, 2022

“Tiny design detail: nested border radii look really funky if they're the same. To maintain the same curvature, the outer radius = inner radius + padding.”