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@kmele -- Sun Sep 26 20:40:55 +0000 2021
Post 30 secs of shaky, poorly lit video + a few hundred characters of garbled context. Pray it goes 'viral.' Objective: Replace some stranger's anonymity w/ enduring + ruinous ignominy. Mob *justice* has distinct, primal qualities; disproportionate, symbolic, incurious, savage. https://t.co/ER8SdBqRnK
@s8mb -- Mon Sep 27 18:33:39 +0000 2021
@doctorow @bswud @johnrmyers Thanks for mentioning us! Here’s the link to the article in case anyone reading is interested. https://t.co/Y2jEr6qE6A
@s8mb -- Mon Sep 27 08:32:51 +0000 2021
Just subscribed to this, as should literally everyone with even a passing interest in UK econ. https://t.co/zTbbJVbaBc
@s8mb -- Tue Sep 28 11:42:13 +0000 2021
I hadn't realised that nuclear power wasn't on the table at COP 26. Seems really self-defeating for anyone whose goal is actually to combat global warming. https://t.co/lmWWKDHYAn
@s8mb -- Mon Sep 27 18:57:56 +0000 2021
Awesome thread that draws on The Housing Theory of Everything and adds lots of extra analysis, critique and thought as well. Well worth a read. https://t.co/Y2jEr693f2 https://t.co/qLBAhXD8M2
@un434 -- Sun Sep 26 20:48:18 +0000 2021
Seeing a lot of anger on the timeline, which I share. I’m wary of getting locked again for “inciting violence” or whatever so I’ll delete this tweet soon If you’re interested in direct action, not just talk, sign into a VPN or tor browser and click this: https://t.co/a9FX0IR4w1
@patio11 -- Tue Sep 28 04:02:12 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Does this suggest that one could do, for example, pairwise comparisons between several PMs in Japan and e.g. Biden with your comment reliably predicting your thoughts as to who was more moderate, or is that an unfair bar to hold this commentary to?
@patio11 -- Mon Sep 27 22:48:57 +0000 2021
@ByrneHobart *also* Assigned as busywork because I was too good at reading.
@patio11 -- Mon Sep 27 22:48:23 +0000 2021
@ByrneHobart Wait that story was Dahl?! Gave me nightmares for years.
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 21:22:35 +0000 2021
A Critical Analysis of Eggs and Cardiovascular Disease (The Eggscapades) https://t.co/psKpUdDblm
@jasoncrawford -- Sun Sep 26 21:07:51 +0000 2021
@noepernia @KelseyTuoc That quote is from me, not from Ehrlich! Ehrlich is the one who said “Giving society cheap, abundant energy ... would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.”
@jasoncrawford -- Sun Sep 26 21:07:01 +0000 2021
RT @Trent_STEMpunk: This @jasoncrawford interview on progress is a treasure trove from start to finish. One of the most important phenome…
@ActuallyMasonM -- Sun Sep 26 21:10:19 +0000 2021
"...our scientific and material technology has raced ahead of our moral and social technology. We need some catch-up growth in moral and social technology." Tremendously clarifying interview of @jasoncrawford by @voxdotcom https://t.co/NtFFOBy87I
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 10:41:55 +0000 2021
Can someone tell this guy that his capitalist bosses at the Independent set up a paywall to make the infinite scarce and sell it back to us? Next, can someone tell him that web3 may be his best path to independence *from* those capitalist bosses, as it enriches content creators? https://t.co/d3cJiqEUWW
@salonium -- Mon Sep 27 00:27:47 +0000 2021
I of course like the trend of people acknowledging and correcting things they've been wrong about, but more and more I find myself gravitating towards finding ways to prevent myself from making those mistakes in the first place. 🧵
@patio11 -- Mon Sep 27 00:10:25 +0000 2021
Well this went a little far afield from charging more for fantasy artwork.
@patio11 -- Tue Sep 28 02:54:30 +0000 2021
Likewise recommended. https://t.co/69roRT8lGx
@patio11 -- Mon Sep 27 16:58:31 +0000 2021
So Bitfinex/Tether apparently lost about $23 million to an operational error in setting Ethereum fees, which would be terrifying due to low equity cushion if regulated. OTOH, most crypto folks believe that Tether effectively has backup up to full equity value of Bitfinex/Tether. https://t.co/tHG6tPkCc7
@patio11 -- Sun Sep 26 23:41:42 +0000 2021
“Pipeline management = learn to count to two, then stop”, for example, is very poor pipeline management, much like Charge More is poor negotiation advice, but they’re competing against no pipeline / no negotiation respectively.
@patio11 -- Sun Sep 26 23:40:27 +0000 2021
I will observe that some of the advice doesn’t port directly to technologists, partly because B2C vs B2B and partly because I perceive some of it as meeting artists where they are, and where they are is low-sophistication with respect to business management/etc.
@patio11 -- Sun Sep 26 23:39:00 +0000 2021
A good thread about Charge More and other advice for services work, featuring (by context) fantasy-theme commissioned artwork. https://t.co/NKBGoLSbsA
@Birdyword -- Mon Sep 27 08:31:59 +0000 2021
He quit literally as soon as I joined https://t.co/cv9wgw1akj
@benedictevans -- Sun Sep 26 23:37:31 +0000 2021
This reminds me of the time the New York Times ran a big editorial saying that ‘dark patterns’ should be illegal, even though you cannot cancel an online subscription to the New York Times online. https://t.co/4BMeZOY9VC
@kevinakwok -- Mon Sep 27 05:21:55 +0000 2021
if your company had an exec impersonate a Google exec to talk to potential investors. And got caught. And still works at the company. Then the entire board should be fired. https://t.co/NudLP91EGS
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 21:30:19 +0000 2021
I think it was @reihan who first pilled me about this, but @alon_levy’s explanation of why joint federal-state-local financing of transportation infrastructure leads to bloated projects is the clearest I’ve seen. https://t.co/H6NCWaWXVp
@tedgioia -- Sun Sep 26 20:44:49 +0000 2021
A conversation with Donald Fagen (who talks about science fiction, Nabokov, bebop, Judaism, trying to get a job in Bob Dylan's band, and a bunch of other things). https://t.co/AagQICSf02
@Birdyword -- Mon Sep 27 06:50:08 +0000 2021
Me, coming through customs as I arrive in the UK. Sweating heavily. Eyes darting back and forth. Border Force guy: Anything to declare, sir? Me: [petrol sloshing out of my mouth] mno
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 17:57:27 +0000 2021
Pretty awesome! First Senatorial candidate proposing that the US government buy a strategic reserve of Bitcoin. https://t.co/CGW48ZJN43
@Noahpinion -- Sun Sep 26 21:40:04 +0000 2021
Texas is sort of quietly Georgist https://t.co/Zy6JvEbGBW
@Noahpinion -- Sun Sep 26 20:43:02 +0000 2021
@JuanIsidro @AlecStapp It really is unbelievable
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 10:31:20 +0000 2021
You don't own your Twitter account. You don't own your followers. You don't own the network you've built on these platforms. And yet you don't understand the problem web3 solves. https://t.co/O2N1CcnsX9
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 10:35:43 +0000 2021
We aren't introducing digital scarcity here. Access to your social media account is already scarce: you have it and Twitter has it. We are introducing digital property rights. Now only you have the private keys, and Twitter doesn't.
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 07:58:45 +0000 2021
Many years ago a friend of mine wrote a series of memos [1] for Microsoft on the importance of open source. A minority view that eventually became the majority after Satya. Today, looks like a similar memo wouldn't get written at all. Their loss! [1] https://t.co/9hmXZp9ceN https://t.co/1rSFJBkdAo
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 07:46:47 +0000 2021
"Technical Advisor to the CEO at Microsoft", is that like Assistant *to* the Regional Manager? Microsoft was actually early on supporting Ethereum development environments on Azure, btw. https://t.co/otnwoDg9Fh
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 07:44:34 +0000 2021
@satyanadella, come get your boy https://t.co/dEJXfr0ukE
@ahardtospell -- Mon Sep 27 02:33:56 +0000 2021
https://t.co/kdFFc8sRIR
@amelapay -- Mon Sep 27 16:45:18 +0000 2021
it's official: My first book - part memoir, part "red state relocation guide" - is forthcoming spring 2022 via Bombadier Books/Post Hill Press. It'll be about New York City, Texas, what it's like to live in a house & drive a car, raising your kids w/"culture," "roots", etc.
@Meaningness -- Mon Sep 27 14:52:16 +0000 2021
@everytstudies And “being autistic” means that you have noticed this :)
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 12:31:21 +0000 2021
"This is fine" incarnate, the complacency theorist is unmatched as a champion of the establishment. The official explanation is always true: the WMDs are in Iraq, the virus is under control, the Afghans can handle it. And if it's not, well, who coulda known?
@salonium -- Mon Sep 27 00:27:48 +0000 2021
This is often not ideal. Focusing too much on quality can mean other people who are less concerned about it will fill the gap in the discourse. And it's still important to have information even if it's not perfectly accurate.
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 08:39:14 +0000 2021
Cultural essentialists need to grapple with the fact that the former Axis powers now generally have reasonable, moderate governments while the former Allies are generally going bonkers.
@edwest -- Mon Sep 27 09:16:16 +0000 2021
The new Bond film is 2 hours 43 mins https://t.co/sTSl0rzIg8
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 18:59:17 +0000 2021
@udiWertheimer @kevinsekniqi I know you did hfsp [1] but actually don't know who coined ngmi [2]. I'd of course cite it in Markdown format. [1] Wertheimer, Udi. "How nocoiners and journos are enjoying their self-imposed penury" [2] Unknown
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 18:53:51 +0000 2021
@kevinsekniqi My alt is @udiWertheimer https://t.co/3hQWibypqX
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 18:46:04 +0000 2021
First they laugh at you Then they hfsp because they ngmi
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 11:54:45 +0000 2021
Fully centralized is mandatory custody. They can take it. Fully decentralized is mandatory self-custody. You can lose it. So a semi-centralized model where you can *transfer your assets* between custodians may be where most land up. Still a step forward from fully centralized!
@garrytan -- Sun Sep 26 21:35:43 +0000 2021
Supply chain shortages of basic equipment and medical supplies are exposing mass cartel price fixing behavior In this case: basic medical supplies are in short supply because monopolies are being handed out by GPOs We must fix this. Vertical marketplaces are coming to fix this https://t.co/ggDG6amxId
@julien -- Sun Sep 26 22:58:14 +0000 2021
Chris Dixon is basically always right about everything so
@cdixon -- Mon Sep 27 04:20:40 +0000 2021
“Technical advisor to the CEO of Microsoft” https://t.co/cbhV7H8ktm
@KirkegaardEmil -- Tue Sep 28 03:00:05 +0000 2021
Chinese Supremacy, yes, but not a golden age https://t.co/wgLmU92Xbb
@Ned_Donovan -- Mon Sep 27 13:46:05 +0000 2021
Lovely to see @northumbriana’s fantastic book described as the “Geordie Shore Prequel” https://t.co/X7tu7PaYdn
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 01:23:10 +0000 2021
@nwilliams030 @WillManidis I mean he's not wrong
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 01:43:54 +0000 2021
@nwilliams030 @CryptoEthan [In the middle of nowhere, @simonsarris chuckles]
@devonzuegel -- Tue Sep 28 01:43:35 +0000 2021
It's thrilling to see bike docks, outdoor dining, and parklets replace more and more of New York's on-street parking every time I visit 😊 https://t.co/w1yA26bPUu
@MartinBJensen -- Mon Sep 27 14:17:15 +0000 2021
Live tweets from the Next Generation Genomics 2021 conference #nextgengenomics! One of my favorite conferences both for the #scSeq/pooled screens/new methods it covers, and for the format of a single big keynote but otherwise junior presenters. Check out https://t.co/kxp8I0kjrg.
@SCP_Hughes -- Mon Sep 27 11:49:15 +0000 2021
The tennis court at Hampton Court, apparently largely from the early C17. The huge hipped roof, deep eaves, fully glazed clerestory and unvarying bay pattern give it a curiously Japanese or even quasi-modernist appearance. A sort of one-off style, used for only a single building. https://t.co/THNOWAKnpt
@bryan_caplan -- Mon Sep 27 13:38:49 +0000 2021
"Hence, we see hundreds of empirical papers testing whether the minimum wage “really reduces employment,” but near-zero empirical papers that test whether government “really supplies public goods.”" https://t.co/6yJSsdulJk
@brian_armstrong -- Tue Sep 28 04:51:06 +0000 2021
This is pretty amazing - people working 40-50 hours a week in VR https://t.co/7VEcmyWwMp Lots of potential in this new medium.
@mnolangray -- Mon Sep 27 07:38:20 +0000 2021
People overwhelmingly aspire to own a single-family home, and that's okay. https://t.co/XznfG3bXgE
@pedrobeltrao -- Mon Sep 27 06:35:11 +0000 2021
We joined a large community effort to assess diverse applications of AlphaFold 2 in the context of novel structural elements; missense variants; function and ligand binding sites; modelling of interactions and experimental structural data. Some highlights below: https://t.co/h22ogYmLMU
@JackChambersGB -- Mon Sep 27 03:38:24 +0000 2021
Lord Curzon statue, Calcutta, India 🇮🇳 https://t.co/Nm6LLFXBw9
@singareddynm -- Mon Sep 27 19:47:11 +0000 2021
@ArtirKel Yes, it is! Goes all the way back to the 60s and the coverage is incredibly interesting. Puts a lot of today’s corporate magazines to shame imo https://t.co/EHNKItHEhY
@mollyfmielke -- Mon Sep 27 19:19:40 +0000 2021
no steakholders, only vegetable keepers
@cdixon -- Mon Sep 27 05:34:52 +0000 2021
@thethrum I’d be happy to talk to you more on the topic. Here’s a post I wrote on it recently https://t.co/III9SMCHXv
@ArtirKel -- Tue Sep 28 05:36:56 +0000 2021
@valor_zhang @celinehalioua we know this is fake news
@ArtirKel -- Tue Sep 28 05:19:08 +0000 2021
@SilverVVulpes Merely bathing in those waters gets you pregnant, even if male
@ArtirKel -- Tue Sep 28 04:52:17 +0000 2021
RT @brian_armstrong: This is pretty amazing - people working 40-50 hours a week in VR https://t.co/7VEcmyWwMp Lots of potential in this ne…
@ArtirKel -- Tue Sep 28 04:43:00 +0000 2021
@kipperrii Tfw can't fly away out of the US until my greencard comes thru
@ArtirKel -- Tue Sep 28 04:39:24 +0000 2021
@Lola_lmao7 @Lan_Dao_ @jack what are you waiting for
@ArtirKel -- Tue Sep 28 04:29:53 +0000 2021
@OlliPayne It's vibes all the way down
@ArtirKel -- Tue Sep 28 00:52:45 +0000 2021
@nickcammarata Sunday odd-hour regulars https://t.co/f9EGlYPFUE
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 22:49:53 +0000 2021
@LM_Braswell Alt: Going out? You mean getting out of the house to go bouldering? Your climbing shoes I guess.
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 22:49:01 +0000 2021
@LM_Braswell "Going out for the morning coffee? Allbirds and a Patagonis vest at the very least"
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 21:46:25 +0000 2021
@literalbanana Perhaps more widespread use of statins? Wonder what happens if you break it down by treated vs untreated
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 21:35:41 +0000 2021
@kevinakwok It seems to me the best heuristic is "whole foods, fully plant based" as in https://t.co/4fgZGWdB5e but I still eat whatever on the weekends (I do try to do whole foods during the week!)
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 21:29:29 +0000 2021
@kevinakwok I was thinking of writing a nutrition post at Nintil on eggs but fortunately this seems to be roughly what I would write? It may still be wrong, but it seems to go into sufficient depth into the various studies
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 19:42:51 +0000 2021
@singareddynm I'm not sure if I'm more surprised by the cover or the fact that it includes articles on Ethiopian hermit-priests lol. Is this online?
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 19:31:55 +0000 2021
@celinehalioua @sammarkuse !!!!
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 17:48:14 +0000 2021
@Ben_Reinhardt @SamoBurja 4vs5 is not that different!
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 17:11:56 +0000 2021
@Ben_Reinhardt @SamoBurja Yeah, this is a problem. Same for me in longevity, it's not about solving a big social problem, I'm not that altruistic. I want to understand biology and solving aging is solving a big sudoku, very intellectually satisfying.
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 15:22:09 +0000 2021
@clairebookworm1 Autism+a blend of genius and cryptid hah
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 15:20:00 +0000 2021
@clairebookworm1 https://t.co/1sEdiHzL13
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 01:49:20 +0000 2021
@soniajoseph_ Maybe your sample is weird, Laura and I are weird outliers hah
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 01:48:54 +0000 2021
@soniajoseph_ If I had more time I would do a short writeup
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 01:48:38 +0000 2021
@soniajoseph_ I think it's roughly solved, see the book How Not to Die
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 01:40:56 +0000 2021
@soniajoseph_ It's taken for granted. My longevity faq for example basically says "ok assume ideal nutrition and exercise, sleep etc. What else can be done?"
@ArtirKel -- Sun Sep 26 23:57:17 +0000 2021
@mishachellam https://t.co/InyOyKl9fJ
@ArtirKel -- Sun Sep 26 23:44:13 +0000 2021
@j_asminewang Throwback to London's Imperial Jasmine Tea
@ArtirKel -- Sun Sep 26 21:00:34 +0000 2021
@sergeykarayev I've thought about this a couple of times, and waited for someone to start it. Alas, hasn't happened
@z_chiang -- Mon Sep 27 16:30:16 +0000 2021
Insanely cool talk from @XiaoWan38018817 at #nextgengenomics on in situ electro-seq (spatial transcriptomics + electrophysiology)⚡️ https://t.co/BprxqC7FQ8
@Lan_Dao_ -- Mon Sep 27 00:59:59 +0000 2021
@etiennefd @soniajoseph_ Vox Populi milkshake IPA!
@clairebookworm1 -- Mon Sep 27 15:20:58 +0000 2021
@ArtirKel reading this is wonderful omg
@mishachellam -- Tue Sep 28 03:45:29 +0000 2021
New post from @Noahpinion makes sense to me. Curious if there are folks who thoughtfully disagree? cc @saikatc @SeanMcElwee @nataliefoster https://t.co/eDofV3riKS
@OlliPayne -- Tue Sep 28 03:54:11 +0000 2021
had an extremely upsetting day and concluded that i'm just gonna make art in a specific direction and with/for people i'm aligned with heck all this other dumb shit
@doctorow -- Mon Sep 27 18:44:05 +0000 2021
ETA: Unbelievably, I managed to leave out the link to the excellent Works in Progress piece: https://t.co/EsxHtgODSc
@knowwhereIstand -- Mon Sep 27 12:42:21 +0000 2021
Simultaneously sweeping & fine-grained, a great article in @WorksInProgMag by @s8mb, @bswud & @johnrmyers via #NakedCapitalism this a.m. One solution I loved: "radically localized democracy that allows individual streets to opt in to greater density". https://t.co/BJ0KZ5Twl4
@nickcammarata -- Mon Sep 27 17:47:59 +0000 2021
@SamoBurja It’s the best thing in the world
@createstreets -- Mon Sep 27 16:04:23 +0000 2021
Ten storeys. Including three mansards. 🙌 One for ⁦@SCP_Hughes⁩ https://t.co/bFkpGPWChM
@380kmh -- Mon Sep 27 19:07:52 +0000 2021
not *must,* necessarily, just *should,* as in if a transit system can't do so, it's a sign of underlying problems that ought to be addressed
@380kmh -- Mon Sep 27 18:42:42 +0000 2021
transit should cover its operating costs with its fare revenue https://t.co/rcNQQCbzxm
@Steve_Sailer -- Mon Sep 27 09:24:47 +0000 2021
@surplustakes Before VCRs, cities had movie theaters that would play double features of different old movies each night. Santa Monica still has one. Local TV stations played tons of old movies. Howard Hughes bought a Las Vegas TV station to play "Ice Station Zebra" whenever he was in the mood
@theoldbuilding -- Mon Sep 27 09:40:50 +0000 2021
Spotted his new building in Mayfair yesterday https://t.co/HnHBicJirN
@Noahpinion -- Sun Sep 26 21:17:08 +0000 2021
Yep. The constitutional crisis began when Trump denied the election result. It will not end until the GOP forswears election denial as a tactic for gaining power. https://t.co/NH54p90ZiA
@englandcricket -- Mon Sep 27 07:00:16 +0000 2021
6⃣4⃣ Test matches 1⃣9⃣5⃣ wickets 2⃣9⃣1⃣4⃣ runs Countless memories ❤️ #ThankYouMo 👏
@AndrewAPrice -- Mon Sep 27 18:32:38 +0000 2021
Cape May, NJ (pop 3,500) is a charming town. A model to follow for new towns. Naysayers will say it's charming because of the tourists. I would argue it's popular with tourists because it is charming. https://t.co/mV2acImlkq
@doctorow -- Mon Sep 27 18:52:23 +0000 2021
@s8mb @bswud @johnrmyers Thanks! I'm improving rapidly, but also impatient and pushing it with more complex work than I probably should be.
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:13:18 +0000 2021
Shut (and I cannot emphasize this enough here) up. https://t.co/5IDA6G4vdv
@johnrmyers -- Mon Sep 27 19:32:55 +0000 2021
@RhysLindmark @bswud @s8mb Thank you so much! We spot checked different cities using indices of construction costs and prices, but we don’t have a consistent process good enough for a chart yet. There are some citations to academic work on the concept here https://t.co/ISMAwJEZ6Q
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 14:32:07 +0000 2021
Thread. Fits my mental model of Xi Jinping's regime as "standard conservatives who happen to have way too much power over their society"... https://t.co/3gsGdCHMom
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 07:24:32 +0000 2021
https://t.co/8HhZ3XZCAs
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 07:35:58 +0000 2021
If China really wants to reunify peacefully with Taiwan, seems like they should just allow the KMT to be a second political party within China. https://t.co/L9HerCTagW
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:37:32 +0000 2021
Now that the public debate has begun to turn against them, the NIMBYs are focusing less on their bad policy arguments and more on attacking YIMBYs. It won't work. https://t.co/HOBSl9dSB6
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:23:59 +0000 2021
PASS THE DAMN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL RIGHT NOW. https://t.co/elVn2haNL8
@JackChambersGB -- Mon Sep 27 20:40:32 +0000 2021
Nikonov Apartments, St. Petersburg, Russia 🇷🇺 https://t.co/fQV8eUJ8ay
@Trad_Arch_Bdays -- Mon Sep 27 19:01:58 +0000 2021
(2/2) https://t.co/IIqejKdy1R
@Trad_Arch_Bdays -- Mon Sep 27 19:01:56 +0000 2021
Happy birthday, Hippolyte Destailleur. September 27, 1822 in Paris, France. https://t.co/VU6yHYeJvt #architecture #traditionalarchitecture #classicalarchitecture #traditionalarchitectbirthdays #tradarchbdays #OTD #OnThisDay (1/2) https://t.co/MlSOLsYsrD
@oldpicposter -- Sun Sep 26 21:23:00 +0000 2021
John Lennon and Cynthia Powell and friends John Hague and Tony Carricker outside Liverpool Art College of Art, Hope Street, 1960 https://t.co/2eAm0mGQWb
@grescoe -- Mon Sep 27 18:42:46 +0000 2021
Now *that's* the way to arrive in a city. 19th-century São Bento train station, Porto, #Portugal, decorated with 20,000 azulejo tiles. https://t.co/7LEM1Kymeu
@PoliticsForAlI -- Sun Sep 26 21:52:18 +0000 2021
🚨💷 | BREAKING: Politics For All is giving away a £50 Amazon voucher to celebrate hitting 300,000 followers: To enter, simply: ✅ RT this tweet ✅ Follow this account 🏆 Good luck https://t.co/7IK5xWjIPC
@bswud -- Mon Sep 27 15:42:08 +0000 2021
@baptrimble @JMuchall @johnrmyers @farnamstreet Smoking is an amazingly effective appetite suppressant. Vaping seems to have similar effects (hopefully without the health costs!)
@Philip_Salter -- Mon Sep 27 14:40:30 +0000 2021
The case for replacing the coin toss with a run auction in cricket https://t.co/Ox6yCBLdyG
@JimDMiller -- Mon Sep 27 18:53:02 +0000 2021
@SoBendito Mowing your lawn is worse, much much worse, than letting your lawn go wild.
@ianvisits -- Mon Sep 27 14:01:03 +0000 2021
1930s photos of Twickenham sewage site unearthed https://t.co/zk5NiPlqiT An archive of photos from the construction of a sewage works in the 1930s has been uncovered and handed to Thames Water's archivists, and they have now been digitised. https://t.co/zlbvtc4THj
@4chanGreentxts -- Sun Sep 26 21:31:00 +0000 2021
anon is a poet https://t.co/lUPbnU8367
@jbarro -- Mon Sep 27 12:00:08 +0000 2021
Who politicized science? It was the scientists, particularly in public health, who increasingly cannot see where expert questions end and questions of values that properly belong to laypersons begin. https://t.co/fK36C5vQns https://t.co/q3AeLDdcSt
@kimmaicutler -- Sun Sep 26 21:19:42 +0000 2021
It’s the housing policy, stupid (California vs. Texas edition). https://t.co/UG0oibzHgE https://t.co/5A6QD19u4D
@nwilliams030 -- Sun Sep 26 21:58:02 +0000 2021
marriage is so sick
@SamoBurja -- Mon Sep 27 11:12:09 +0000 2021
Yeah, uhm, I don't know how to say this politely but: Guys I'm here for sharing my work, do y'all actually like this site?
@RichardMCNgo -- Mon Sep 27 17:51:36 +0000 2021
I bet @visakanv $100 a year ago about whether he'd have more youtube or twitter followers today. And although he's grown his youtube following rapidly since then, it wasn't enough for him to win. Visa, I'd be happy to take payment in the form of consulting time if you'd prefer. https://t.co/SQHxMffqNC
@MichaelShindler -- Mon Sep 27 13:01:27 +0000 2021
Twitter isn't new https://t.co/We5RsYVslH
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:26 +0000 2021
actually thinking on it more I am probably weirdly/unusually well-adapted to “how do you broadcast a lot of your inner self online without getting pwned” and there’s probably stuff I take for granted as obvious that would be very useful for some people to hear https://t.co/KYraNRX2rq
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:17 +0000 2021
💰💕 @nicolbrow We hope you can join us! https://t.co/TcAHvOMfAB
@CaseyNewton -- Mon Sep 27 02:17:57 +0000 2021
@benyt Legend
@s4cett -- Mon Sep 27 07:30:18 +0000 2021
Babe are you okay? You’ve barely played with your Angela Merkel commemorative teddy bear https://t.co/4iSOyqKR7e
@bariweiss -- Mon Sep 27 03:17:38 +0000 2021
https://t.co/D79TRnC5RW
@kmele -- Sun Sep 26 20:40:55 +0000 2021
None of us get this stuff perfect all the time. None of us are our best selves every time we leave the house.
@kmele -- Sun Sep 26 21:12:03 +0000 2021
🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/CoboLgXFWD
@kmele -- Sun Sep 26 20:40:55 +0000 2021
Is your response to a stranger's insult a function of their physical characteristics/gender? Are you inclined to do the same thing if kids are watching? Their kid? Your kid? Is the impulse to deescalate, or even dispense a modicum of grace, a defect or a virtue?
@kmele -- Sun Sep 26 20:40:55 +0000 2021
The above clip left me scratching my head. Swiping thru the replies has me feeling a bit nauseous. Suppose a jaywalker almost causes a pileup. They compound the offense by flipping you off. Do you *tap* them w/ the car? Hop out + chase em’ down w/ your iPhone camera? Drive on?
@Austen -- Tue Sep 28 07:22:04 +0000 2021
1. Create a fake email address 2. Connect potential investors to fake email address 3. Use excuse in order to phone into a Zoom call 4. Impersonate someone during due diligence Feels like we're using pretty liberal interpretations of "mental health issue" here. https://t.co/oAEgwaUPMv
@Austen -- Mon Sep 27 20:13:25 +0000 2021
That the “beautiful walkable city with no cars” idea everyone loves to pine over on Twitter is completely unrealistic for the vast majority of American cities, even if we weren’t completely terrible at building public transport. https://t.co/e0q2bDG8t7
@micsolana -- Mon Sep 27 03:39:33 +0000 2021
twitter propagandists all in on "authoritarianism is normal, actually." lmao case closed i guess, no need to bring this one to the courts. https://t.co/eM00WKhdhv
@micsolana -- Tue Sep 28 00:38:59 +0000 2021
@gbrl_dick ok this is the take
@vgr -- Mon Sep 27 17:27:46 +0000 2021
another supply chain explainer thingie cc @scrivenix https://t.co/Db86zpZgwg
@vgr -- Mon Sep 27 16:03:37 +0000 2021
Sorry to mislead, gm is good morning, gmi is gonna make it https://t.co/vYODqnzEjY
@vgr -- Mon Sep 27 06:09:26 +0000 2021
If this is the “rose of Jericho” I don’t think I want to meet the other plants from there https://t.co/eP585YIoBC
@vgr -- Sun Sep 26 21:24:08 +0000 2021
In the biggest economic races, money is how you figure out who won second and third place. First place usually goes to the player who redefines the meaning of money. Fourth place onwards is people who console themselves that they’re working for “human values.”
@WBMason -- Sun Sep 26 20:56:29 +0000 2021
@sbuss @micsolana Yesterday was so cozy foggy.
@ntaylor963 -- Mon Sep 27 13:53:37 +0000 2021
@ByrneHobart i follow you because you are such an youthful optimist. I mean, 3071 is *possible* I suppose. But it really is a race with heat death of the universe. Hard to know for sure which will come first.
@ModeledBehavior -- Sun Sep 26 22:47:03 +0000 2021
The coin is dumb. The debt ceiling is dumber. Let’s go with dumb over dumber
@AlecStapp -- Mon Sep 27 18:36:20 +0000 2021
Why is South Korea the only country that seems to be able to keep moving down the learning curve for nuclear power? In every other country, it's been getting *more* expensive to build nuclear power plants over time. https://t.co/95prnhtXJI
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 10:45:29 +0000 2021
Then we had some wars which caused Germany to lose all that eastern territory to become parts of Poland and the Soviet exclave of Kaliningrad. Now Berlin is off on the eastern edge of Germany — except Germany is too countries! https://t.co/nwm1isd6nh
@katrosenfield -- Sun Sep 26 22:02:45 +0000 2021
not just that you *shouldn't* annihilate someone's life with a couple of keystrokes as punishment for being rude to you; if you *can* do this, if this option is available to you, it should trigger some introspection as to where the power in that interaction was actually located
@s_r_constantin -- Mon Sep 27 12:57:48 +0000 2021
@SamoBurja Yeah!
@AdamSinger -- Mon Sep 27 19:06:28 +0000 2021
Achilles heel for creators isn't monetization, it's discovery. Always has been. Obscurity is far greater threat to writers, musicians, filmmakers than things like making $ or piracy. Solving for that legitimately helps creatives. Once they have attention all the other doors open.
@antoniogm -- Mon Sep 27 16:26:07 +0000 2021
Interesting how the anti-Semitism frog gets boiled. Bailik shouldn’t be Jeopardy! host because she’s publicly Jewish and pro-Israel. https://t.co/fId2VmeMvF
@JTLonsdale -- Sun Sep 26 21:35:42 +0000 2021
A great indicator at a growth stage tech company is the ratio of those without the right resumes - but strong opinions, high IQ's & intense work ethics - to sr gray-haired "~VPs" in the company. Companies that don't keep entrepreneurial talent around grow more slowly over time.
@Austen -- Mon Sep 27 04:36:18 +0000 2021
The United States in one graph https://t.co/7pg4Je00rJ
@Austen -- Mon Sep 27 00:11:37 +0000 2021
I have to be honest; I care far more about user experience than privacy. You companies can have any data you want if it makes your product better.
@Austen -- Sun Sep 26 22:06:42 +0000 2021
@briannekimmel @m_franceschetti
@kimmaicutler -- Sun Sep 26 21:50:34 +0000 2021
Texas spends slightly less per capita on K-12 to get lower class sizes and higher graduation rates. (Also bet housing policy & cost of living for educational professionals has a lot to do with this.) https://t.co/UCkl3ImLUN
@brian_armstrong -- Sun Sep 26 20:43:37 +0000 2021
A lot of folks don't realize that crypto is really the 3rd generation of the internet, re-decentralizing it. It is Web 3. Fully aligned with the goals of financial inclusion and checking the power of big tech. https://t.co/lICF0HDbdZ
@antoniogm -- Mon Sep 27 14:37:14 +0000 2021
The hysterical left: calling 100 of the last 0 American dictatorships. (The Democrats currently control both houses of Congress and the presidency.) https://t.co/UVvHfwnyxF
@antoniogm -- Sun Sep 26 22:51:16 +0000 2021
Look at barbaric TX vs. civilized CA: more affordable housing, less homelessness, less crime, higher graduation rate, and net positive immigration. https://t.co/rWBgshB9JQ
@amelapay -- Mon Sep 27 18:29:38 +0000 2021
I sometimes tell people that @ByrneHobart and I are "writers" because the "full-time substack" and "philosophical life coaching" are a bit much but now we both have real books forthcoming 😱 #manifesting
@MorlockP -- Mon Sep 27 11:55:28 +0000 2021
saw @ByrneHobart talking about complicated social norms and thought "<tips fedora> just put it on the blockchain" (as a troll, ofc) then, oh Gosh, just had a cursed thought I just KNOW that if I search for "polyamory blockchain" i will find hits
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 00:08:29 +0000 2021
Remote work innovation or no? https://t.co/NC2nQ5z7L3
@emmaconcepts -- Mon Sep 27 10:40:34 +0000 2021
@visakanv @eigenrobot With great need for rationalisation comes great power for rationalisation. 😛
@emmaconcepts -- Mon Sep 27 08:04:59 +0000 2021
@visakanv I saw this the other day and thought "maybe they should try it" https://t.co/PSaOmD9mbb
@emmaconcepts -- Sun Sep 26 23:02:18 +0000 2021
@visakanv I talk about physical vs digital books. The same considerations about memory and physical embodiment apply to the opposite process. Switching mode to and from writing and thinking on paper and on file is very useful. Each one subtly nudges your mind in different directions.
@_alice_evans -- Sun Sep 26 20:35:23 +0000 2021
Did people start domesticating crops in order to brew alcohol? And has communal 🍺🥂🍷 🍾🥃🍸🍹 been key to camaraderie & collaborative creativity? Zoom may be efficient, but would a massive booze-up stimulate more free thinking? A very funny & fascinating book! https://t.co/QkFHOEY2FY
@sagar__dubey -- Mon Sep 27 16:41:09 +0000 2021
@ByrneHobart Hi Byrne - May I present https://t.co/K1LEKmReHy
@MWStory -- Mon Sep 27 04:14:35 +0000 2021
Yeah this is right, it gets very confused because of the way people talk about homogeneity and diversity, but the typical model is that unusual people move to cities so they can find the other people like them and build a network within one or two fairly narrow niches https://t.co/LPhMUsqrkT
@hradzka -- Mon Sep 27 22:57:45 +0000 2021
@ByrneHobart In all seriousness, I would *love* to see them do a TWILIGHT ZONE-esque half-hour anthology series based on Dahl’s adult stories. “Man From the South” would go over great as an episode.
@Nicolas_Colin -- Mon Sep 27 06:16:52 +0000 2021
@ByrneHobart https://t.co/bzXRB7KGTn https://t.co/iAg92USJy6
@ruima -- Mon Sep 27 02:37:37 +0000 2021
@ByrneHobart @John_Hempton The policy is against illegal use of electricity by minters and clearly states that virtual currency mining will pay a higher price. Not wholly illegal nor seized by state. Thus ~30% of hashrate is still in China but trending down. Machine translation of policy below: https://t.co/ZAGh5XvPqh
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 22:52:33 +0000 2021
@patio11 I think Dahl was smart to write so much children's literature, where his love of violence and dark humor just looked quirky. He really likes killing.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 22:46:33 +0000 2021
Dahl's estate will provide some nice, high-class dramas for the grown-ups, but Netflix will have to be very careful that kids who are looking for The BFG don't end up watching a show about a woman who bludgeons her husband with a leg of lamb and then feeds it to the police.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 22:45:20 +0000 2021
The Dahl/Netflix story reminds me of that time in 5th grade or so when a teacher realized I was bored and gave me a random Roald Dahl book to read. It was not a children's book! Most memorable story was this one: https://t.co/CqED5dTRlV but there was plenty of murder, too.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 22:23:53 +0000 2021
If it takes almost a year to apply a policy, and you apply the policy that made sense a year ago, you’ll do ok as long as it’s not a response to some kind of rapidly changing situation, perhaps involving exponential growth.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 18:45:32 +0000 2021
RT @amelapay: it's official: My first book - part memoir, part "red state relocation guide" - is forthcoming spring 2022 via Bombadier Bo…
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 14:44:43 +0000 2021
@LibertyRPF https://t.co/9sA2m6kncE I thought it would happen, but so far no luck. I do think there's a cohort that was constrained by big city housing prices and is no longer held back that way, so we'll see. But when I check Google Trends, "prenatal vitamins" isn't moving.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 13:54:47 +0000 2021
@ntaylor963 Compounding seems to happen faster over time, so the options are either an inconceivably weird future on a shorter timeline than feels natural, or apocalypse. https://t.co/4pZl2Q54ZA
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 13:49:46 +0000 2021
In the year 3071, when the Muskrioshka Brain has successfully captured 100% of the energy emitted by the sun while converting all the solar system's matter into computronium, Twitter will be nearly ready to beta test searching DMs.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 13:48:02 +0000 2021
A post on Twitter from when it had about 1k users: https://t.co/tNBTplhqaB #1 complaint: needs better DMs. (Via @abouelatta_ali)
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 13:42:17 +0000 2021
Today's subscribers-only post: https://t.co/yqFmCRZ3oW ($) https://t.co/oWCGDE7xjd
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 11:47:56 +0000 2021
You *can* have a commons that's shared through complicated social norms, but I don't think a group of several billion strangers can create a coherent set of norms in a single generation, especially with language/cultural gaps.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 11:46:49 +0000 2021
It's an unstable equilibrium to have something valuable but un-owned. Right now the equilibrium is that these assets are subtly privatized by big companies, but that's not the only model, and not necessarily the most efficient one. https://t.co/zJC7rSKdUA
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 03:11:12 +0000 2021
@ruima @John_Hempton Thank you! This is very helpful.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 02:33:42 +0000 2021
Prime Day in February 2022, you heard it here first. https://t.co/oTOjvu6eaj
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 02:20:55 +0000 2021
@John_Hempton Looking at the hashrate, possibilities are some combination of: 1. Some miners are still operating in China (legally? Under state control?) 2. They moved equipment 3. Rest of world installed enough to reduce China's share, also making 51% attack less likely.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 02:20:10 +0000 2021
@John_Hempton I think they moved a lot of it. Hashrate dropped after the May ban but started coming up again: https://t.co/59OA75N2n3 And there's this https://t.co/WuB8VCTcOv
@ByrneHobart -- Sun Sep 26 23:35:59 +0000 2021
@DoodCapital Yes, but that’s true of other assets, too—if you’re an early employee at a company that goes public, the way you ultimately monetize is by converting your stock to fiat.
@ITBeHa -- Mon Sep 27 22:55:24 +0000 2021
@ByrneHobart @patio11 I got into those as a kid learning English. Good times! The violence and dark humor really made the time fly.
@DennisUltor -- Mon Sep 27 22:51:08 +0000 2021
I first read H P Lovecraft in 6th grade, owing to a regrettable act of negligence by the school librarian. About that time I also read Sladek's "Tiktok", which is not at all suitable for children. Different librarian, similar belief that all sci-fi was Heinlein juveniles https://t.co/6HMkAkNFlS
@robinhanson -- Mon Sep 27 02:54:36 +0000 2021
Whew. If women had had a larger decline, we’d have had a sexism problem to solve. https://t.co/le6ZX9s8kO
@utotranslucence -- Mon Sep 27 03:49:13 +0000 2021
I am a giant nerd who hates being associated with nerd culture. Petrov Day is a rationalist thing; I’ve never celebrated it before. Well, I have more respect for caution, temperance and doing the right thing when it’s hard than I used to. Happy Petrov Day, everybody.
@utotranslucence -- Mon Sep 27 03:49:12 +0000 2021
Most Petrovs we will never hear of. They perhaps persuaded a political leader away from a rash decision, or advocated for safety features no one else cared about, or got fired for being cautious when their leaders needed a scapegoat during a near-miss.
@utotranslucence -- Mon Sep 27 03:49:11 +0000 2021
This is essentially what happened to Stanislav Petrov. He was in charge of the immediate Soviet response to US missile attacks when on Sept 26 1983 a report came in that five missiles had been fired. He had minutes to react, and the protocol was to launch a full-on retaliation.
@utotranslucence -- Mon Sep 27 03:49:10 +0000 2021
In a world where covid was made in a lab, & someone working in that lab had succeeded in preventing its escape, then we would likely have no pandemic, millions of people who would have died would be alive, & the lab worker would not be celebrated, and might even have been fired.
@calebwatney -- Mon Sep 27 17:22:50 +0000 2021
I wonder if we'll look back at hospitals that don't use air filtration and UV light disinfection in the same way we now look back at surgeons who didn't wash their hands. https://t.co/1hzinu7JWY
@TurnerNovak -- Sun Sep 26 20:50:01 +0000 2021
if you keep refreshing the a16z team page, eventually your name will show up
@selentelechia -- Mon Sep 27 03:07:11 +0000 2021
lmao my parents weren't wealthy none of the homeschoo kids I knew were from wealthy families either https://t.co/vKeSahkFHf
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 09:03:49 +0000 2021
magic has nothing to do with violating the laws of physics. it has much to do with violating *expectations*, and we can reflect on what in our society causes us to conflate the two
@kimmaicutler -- Sun Sep 26 21:45:46 +0000 2021
The knock on California? 4X the per capita rate of homelessness. (Again, it’s housing policy, stupid.) https://t.co/ykIikKWJFk
@ModeledBehavior -- Mon Sep 27 18:10:55 +0000 2021
https://t.co/Ihq0kn6y7g https://t.co/ZKnu5a5ike
@orenmazor -- Sun Sep 26 23:56:27 +0000 2021
I’m playing Civ on random and god damn it it spawned me as Wilfried Laurier https://t.co/HntbtE3HY7
@brian_armstrong -- Mon Sep 27 18:24:18 +0000 2021
One step closer to crypto payroll... https://t.co/PxPFbHlC2I
@Aella_Girl -- Mon Sep 27 01:20:51 +0000 2021
imma say it, i think ppl's inability to consider morally charged hypotheticals is a sign that society is bad at thinking.
@ModeledBehavior -- Tue Sep 28 02:09:32 +0000 2021
Retweet if this is the dumbest shit you’ve ever heard in your entire life https://t.co/oamU3gzuEK
@nwilliams030 -- Mon Sep 27 00:58:09 +0000 2021
nyc is making me realize I’m less of an extravert than I thought
@tobi -- Sun Sep 26 23:34:02 +0000 2021
RT @cdixon: Why Web 3 matters 🧵
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 12:48:56 +0000 2021
The more you think America is teetering on the brink of collapsing into an authoritarian dictatorship, the *more* you should be urging progressives to trim their sails on left-left cultural politics in order to win. But the revealed preference is the opposite. https://t.co/JyiShP1Imc
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 12:53:02 +0000 2021
My boring take is that the truth is somewhere between these poles, but very few people calibrate their prescriptions to their diagnosis at all.
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 12:51:03 +0000 2021
If Trump is a clownish, inept, floundering figure then sure — swing for the fences, take your shot, and aim for true greatness accepting that you might lose. But if he’s menace, you need to do timid defensive crouch politics.
@Rainmaker1973 -- Mon Sep 27 12:00:01 +0000 2021
Though it sounds weird, the core of the Earth is about 2.5 years younger than the crust and this is due to gravitational time dilation, a consequence of General Relativity https://t.co/hVqzPxV2I6 [source of the gif: https://t.co/eQ1xJa6G2p] https://t.co/ikPgQ87yWl
@Rainmaker1973 -- Mon Sep 27 08:30:00 +0000 2021
This is how peanuts really grow [source of the gif: https://t.co/RGVN3OODG2] [read more: https://t.co/QNGUbrDtZK] https://t.co/SKIFub42Eg
@kimmaicutler -- Sun Sep 26 21:37:10 +0000 2021
Almost 1/3 of Texas’ housing stock is $100-199K, while almost 1/3 of California’s housing stock is >$750K. https://t.co/iIl0sdsu7J
@kimmaicutler -- Sun Sep 26 21:42:39 +0000 2021
One knock on Texas. Very large numbers of residents with no health insurance —> higher infant mortality & lower life expectancy. https://t.co/jwaRIzt8qh
@mbateman -- Mon Sep 27 10:53:38 +0000 2021
One of the reasons why I don’t like the commonplace that you should never tell smart kids they are smart—(on the grounds that doing so is praising a fixed trait and undermining a growth mindset)—is that being smart comes with distinct risks that need to be managed. https://t.co/6M57pOhIfl
@antonhowes -- Mon Sep 27 17:08:46 +0000 2021
@dkedrosky Cc @timleunig
@ne0liberal -- Mon Sep 27 13:49:03 +0000 2021
Nothing makes America look cooler than Chinese anti-American propaganda. https://t.co/s1ulQdK2TC
@amasad -- Mon Sep 27 07:13:54 +0000 2021
@visakanv Damn right am murican https://t.co/LyJewT6Hfd
@zebulgar -- Tue Sep 28 00:09:35 +0000 2021
new business cards 😍😍😍 https://t.co/gXBdoVQsnk
@zebulgar -- Mon Sep 27 22:31:52 +0000 2021
Just now, 4 days after this tweet, I committed to leading the seed round of a company that is building towards this vision Thanks Twitter!! https://t.co/s47jU5L2yI
@rabois -- Sun Sep 26 22:28:28 +0000 2021
@laserlikemike @shv Invested in 16 new companies in 2021 (lead or sourced), exactly one is in the Bay Area in venture fund, one in FF Growth.
@laserlikemike -- Sun Sep 26 21:59:12 +0000 2021
Until 2019, every company I started or backed was in the SF Bay. I’m in London right now opening @shv Europe, our first office outside Palo Alto since 1962. In Germany this week to work on my first company started outside the SF Bay. The world has changed and we’re adapting. https://t.co/CIVAIS059Y
@laserlikemike -- Sun Sep 26 20:33:16 +0000 2021
Distributed and remote work has turbocharged American federalism. The San Francisco Bay Area is, and will continue to be, the biggest loser in the war for talent. https://t.co/zdZWyTEcK2
@CaseyNewton -- Sun Sep 26 23:05:49 +0000 2021
Stop telling us what’s on the slides and just publish them so we can all read for ourselves https://t.co/VPQsEO9iTu
@kevinakwok -- Mon Sep 27 18:42:20 +0000 2021
I do think I’m getting a lot of credit though. Every time he listens to a podcast and I can say I’m friends with the person “Oh so you’ve met them?” “No we just follow each other on Twitter. It’s like having met but like even closer” “…” “…” Latest is @tomhschmidt 😂
@joemcadam -- Mon Sep 27 05:33:25 +0000 2021
The YouTube search history at this Airbnb is killing me https://t.co/GAHRuqDYFq
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 14:57:32 +0000 2021
@visakanv @eigenrobot "advanced damage" is going to live rent-free in my head
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 14:12:42 +0000 2021
@visakanv @redcar_tenken wack. glad it's not just me at least
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 14:10:01 +0000 2021
thinkin' bout: https://t.co/YrCYtP4ksT
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 14:05:02 +0000 2021
when people say they don't want to be inundated with "negativity" what they mean is that they don't want to feel powerless. it's confusing terminology tho because in this sense the opposite of "negativity" is not "positivity," it's action
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 13:00:26 +0000 2021
@nbouscal @visakanv list of reasons you shouldn't make lists
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 12:57:46 +0000 2021
@visakanv it was good enough for the buddha after all https://t.co/sGStF7i5IG
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 12:00:37 +0000 2021
okay so let's be a little more precise. there's a large vein of contemporary thought that considers "power" a dirty word and overtly spurns it; i see it as a protest against the abuse of power but it conflates that abuse with the power itself https://t.co/fN3yHQ8H9Z
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 11:53:22 +0000 2021
@visakanv sometimes i am like one of those robots where you point out a logical contradiction and they explode only instead of exploding i usually collapse
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 11:46:43 +0000 2021
@visakanv one way i've been conceptualizing it is that i've put myself under a literally contradictory set of constraints, so progress inevitably looks like violating at least one of those constraints
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 11:30:49 +0000 2021
@visakanv ooh hmhmhmhmhm
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 11:20:42 +0000 2021
i also really like to talk as if i know what i'm talking about; if you notice it getting particularly bad please make fun of me for it to snap me out of it
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 11:20:41 +0000 2021
"power" is a word it's worth being very careful with. if it isn't "spiritual" to cultivate power then only "unspiritual" people will have power
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 11:06:46 +0000 2021
@visakanv that's what the tiddies were for 😂 https://t.co/lJ5PiPYzIn
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 10:57:17 +0000 2021
today i learned that when i tweet on acid i should hide everything i'm thinking behind at least one layer of indirection
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 10:53:05 +0000 2021
i like you guys. thanks for hanging out with me at 4 in the morning
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 10:52:20 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot @visakanv hyyype for this
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 10:30:53 +0000 2021
@visakanv appreciate the correction and the reminder 🙏 neil was only a symbol of a voice in my own head here anyway 😬
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 10:27:22 +0000 2021
@visakanv whomst among us i suppose 😂
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 10:23:01 +0000 2021
@visakanv hmm i was actually hoping to QT a tweet i saw from him that was something like "the universe is cold and pitiless and it does not care about you" but i couldn't find it when i searched his tweets so maybe he deleted? that's more the kind of stuff i'm responding to
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 09:58:56 +0000 2021
@visakanv it's good to get a reminder that every person who changed the course of history and culture forever was literally just some guy 😂
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 08:51:16 +0000 2021
@visakanv in like a real stentorian voice, like OAK-KNOWAAAAAAAAAAAH
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 08:49:00 +0000 2021
@visakanv omg i'm reading through it again and it's still so good. oak-knower. i literally just repeated "oak-knower" to myself dozens of times that day
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 08:44:52 +0000 2021
@visakanv speaking of magic and etymology, you probably saw this already but gonna link to it again anyway https://t.co/4pCB1Szx8N
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 08:36:46 +0000 2021
@visakanv that last bit made me think about spellcasting and now i'm thinking about yeeting spells
@QiaochuYuan -- Sun Sep 26 23:13:05 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @visakanv thanks for the reply 🙏 will get back to you after i try some of this out!
@DRMacIver -- Mon Sep 27 13:34:34 +0000 2021
The lack of an edit button on Twitter despite the increased use of threads is basically a war crime.
@DRMacIver -- Mon Sep 27 10:54:56 +0000 2021
@visakanv @eigenrobot Yeah. I think a lot of bad Twitter experiences come from people behaving in ways only suitable for high trust environments, which are then visible to people who don't trust them because Twitter is public.
@DRMacIver -- Mon Sep 27 10:38:41 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot Probably more often people don't want to consider morally charged hypotheticals because they distrust the motives of the people asking.
@DRMacIver -- Mon Sep 27 10:38:14 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot I think "inability" is doing a lot of work here. People not wanting to do the thing you're asking them to do is not reliably a sign that they can't do it.
@DRMacIver -- Mon Sep 27 08:36:32 +0000 2021
@ejames_c I shall scribble a furious diatribe against large margins in the margins of this book.
@mbateman -- Mon Sep 27 11:20:38 +0000 2021
@krishnanrohit @visakanv I think it likely would have helped me if it was delivered the right way and from a trusted source. Like if someone had told me “this is the theme of Lolita” when I read it in high school and had personal conversations with me about it, that would have helped.
@mbateman -- Mon Sep 27 11:04:19 +0000 2021
@visakanv Hmm. Those two examples feel a little too off center for the point to land but maybe there is some way to do it like that? “You have great speed and fluency with abstractions, which is great, but it also means you are going to be really good at rationalization and rumination.”
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 21:34:16 +0000 2021
I walked past this project today and saw a sign indicating something like an 8:1 ratio of federal to local money; you’d be crazy not to featherbed with that amount of other people’s money. https://t.co/Mi8Dr2wRHJ
@shreyas -- Mon Sep 27 14:40:21 +0000 2021
It is almost Q4 and that means that annual planning will dominate the lives of many product managers & leaders over the next several weeks (or sadly, months). Here is your annual reminder about doing annual planning effectively without the BS busy-work: https://t.co/i9JfHHSvMX
@zeynep -- Sun Sep 26 20:52:20 +0000 2021
I left behind the cheap elliptical I’ve had since grad school. I run/bike only in good weather. Gyms near me in NYC are meh. I thought maybe time for a new elliptical or a rowing machine? So hard to find objective, reasonable assessments! The fitness-bs industry drives me nuts.
@nickcammarata -- Mon Sep 27 17:48:29 +0000 2021
@SamoBurja Twitter to change who you know, meditation and psychedelics to change who you are
@zackkanter -- Tue Sep 28 02:14:32 +0000 2021
‘Are you a crypto maximalist?’ At the very least, I’m a moral panic minimalist.
@zackkanter -- Tue Sep 28 02:09:00 +0000 2021
Approaching D&D / video game violence levels of moral panic, except this is isolated to nerd-on-nerd instead of normie-on-nerd panic.
@zackkanter -- Tue Sep 28 02:05:36 +0000 2021
Interesting to watch broader tech attitude towards crypto shift from indifference and skepticism – where it has held steady for the last number of years – to hostility and moralizing (scam, Ponzi scheme, global warming, etc), which typically happens when something gets important.
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 21:36:02 +0000 2021
What we should have is a generic federal credit program to ensure that state governments can access cheap financing for ideas they consider worthwhile (or just countercyclical stabilization), but where they’re still playing with their own money. https://t.co/eVT6JbLl0M
@robkhenderson -- Sun Sep 26 23:09:49 +0000 2021
Schadenfreude: The pleasure when seeing another person’s misfortune Gluckschmerz: The pain upon seeing another person’s good fortune
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:30:10 +0000 2021
to make sense of this I think we have to start by recognising that the US is ~5 countries in a trenchcoat https://t.co/5GGkdLFAjk
@eigenrobot -- Mon Sep 27 11:02:55 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan often good when not on acid too
@eigenrobot -- Mon Sep 27 10:51:08 +0000 2021
@visakanv yes let's please. need a little time on my side to get settled too.
@eigenrobot -- Mon Sep 27 10:39:45 +0000 2021
@DRMacIver yeah there is that
@eigenrobot -- Mon Sep 27 10:39:32 +0000 2021
@visakanv YES
@eigenrobot -- Mon Sep 27 10:30:33 +0000 2021
ok enough twitter for one night gn kings
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 05:55:26 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot @_epictweetus_ @shriyanevatia https://t.co/xmFNP8pWAe
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 05:54:56 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot @_epictweetus_ @shriyanevatia I tried to warn everyone https://t.co/2MHARhcCOY
@movebetterproj -- Mon Sep 27 03:42:49 +0000 2021
Absolutely incredible day on twitter. Thank you @visakanv for the signal boost! If I missed your request, reply to this with anything that's bothering you from a neuromusculoskeletal perspective, and I will try to help.
@nwilliams030 -- Mon Sep 27 14:01:08 +0000 2021
Compound paused our hiring process this summer, but we're looking to expand our team again! https://t.co/oHnT4JemhA
@daphnehk -- Sun Sep 26 22:21:50 +0000 2021
You could write a dissertation on these two news stories alone. NYT covering FB’s efforts to shore up its reputation: https://t.co/25xqn3GVMH NYT making its own efforts to shore up its reputation: https://t.co/dkEmqPrG5Q
@djmicrobeads -- Mon Sep 27 17:23:32 +0000 2021
@coladaclan holy shit!!! what a view
@benthompson -- Tue Sep 28 07:05:36 +0000 2021
The age skew has been the single most important fact about COVID, and we knew about it almost immediately. Yet it’s still ignored or unknown. https://t.co/BTGELlMVbi
@IonaItalia -- Mon Sep 27 17:56:49 +0000 2021
OMG. https://t.co/BSNj8h82vS https://t.co/uDU2hADR8K
@IonaItalia -- Mon Sep 27 10:40:46 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @visakanv My arms and legs often ache inexplicably (uncorrelated with exercise) and sometimes, at the end of a long walk or run, my left leg especially will start shaking uncontrollably and I'll have shooting pains in the leg.
@kevinakwok -- Mon Sep 27 18:30:27 +0000 2021
My dad has onboarded to crypto so hilariously fast He is now insisting we discuss uniswap and sushiswap history
@Aella_Girl -- Mon Sep 27 15:56:50 +0000 2021
it's weird for so many people who don't know you, to have such strong opinions about you, which they voice not to you but to each other, and are opinions you know would probably be different if they hung out with you IRL. It's just a straight-up bizarre sensation.
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:56:48 +0000 2021
have some stuff going on in your life that you care about that has nothing to do with Internet points. play the guitar, learn to cook. It’s nice to have at least one thing that’s just for you that you refuse to turn into content
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:36:55 +0000 2021
if you get triggered, feel attacked, defensive, want to fight back, etc, it’s generally best to just log out for a day or three, or a week. Most people who say shit just wanna say shit in the moment but don’t really care about you and will forget about you soon enough
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:32:37 +0000 2021
generally speaking, the more touchy, difficult, triggering etc the thought might be, the more I advise that you be really circuitous about it. be long-winded, take many tweets, be verbose, be tedious, illegible. you want to bore the people who are itching for a fight
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:20:59 +0000 2021
avoid affectations of authority. remember, Twitter does not have tone of voice or facial/body language, so people will read your tweets in *their* voice it helps to introduce the textual equivalents of ums and ahs,,, be deliberately sloppy,, even mispelling sometiems https://t.co/GGRXf4rKeE
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:16:32 +0000 2021
before posting a tweet I broadly recommend running it thru a sort of quick adversarial filter: what’s the worst interpretation someone could have of this? you don’t necessarily ~always~ wanna do this all the time, but it’s a skill worth developing https://t.co/t5hzNDLkpl
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:14:42 +0000 2021
my first rec is, if you have more than ~5,000 followers on main, get a locked private alt for your most trusted mutuals. you can use it to quote tweet any of your tweets and ask “hey, did I go too far with this one?” you can also post more intimate/touchy stuff there
@antoniogm -- Mon Sep 27 14:49:50 +0000 2021
Many Americans have never experienced how the idealistic politics of a radical revolution are cravenly exploited by the shittiest members of society—falsely denouncing neighbors for personal advantage, say—and thus politics here remains naive in its credulity of accusers.
@antoniogm -- Mon Sep 27 15:01:24 +0000 2021
Ask someone who lived through the Cuban Revolution how the worst in society would gleefully condemn a neighbor to losing a job, jail, or even worse for the merest of rewards, and how instantly such bouts of ideology curdle into revolting displays of human pettiness.
@Aella_Girl -- Mon Sep 27 15:58:21 +0000 2021
@BLUNDERBUSSTED It feels like a lot of projection, though? Like, I can only offer a narrow slice of who I am online. I try to offer as wide a slice as I can (tons of vulnerable stuff on my blog). And people take the little they see and run really, really far with it.
@sarthakgh -- Mon Sep 27 19:12:17 +0000 2021
Holy shit FB is a monopoly! https://t.co/3teYQpUXzV
@ejames_c -- Mon Sep 27 08:35:21 +0000 2021
@DRMacIver Clearly the large margins are an invitation for you to scribble and make notes 😉
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 22:16:40 +0000 2021
The Sopranos is so good that the imperfections (tada! out of nowhere it’s Ralphie Cifaretto!) are grating.
@alt1na1 -- Mon Sep 27 03:53:57 +0000 2021
me & @nwilliams030 in Brooklyn irl in like 5 years https://t.co/JPvho73807
@antoniogm -- Tue Sep 28 05:47:34 +0000 2021
It's both intriguing and tragic that no political faction in the West has anything like a coherent and generative vision for the future. The first time in my life that there isn't at least a pretense of some future vision, even if only as a foil to some ideological adversary.
@antoniogm -- Tue Sep 28 06:35:17 +0000 2021
Yup. In blue cities, find lots of the latter who think anyone religious is the former. https://t.co/mUqTwMYnfZ
@antoniogm -- Mon Sep 27 16:27:06 +0000 2021
Once again, @liel was right! https://t.co/KYMSfjlpLH
@TheStalwart -- Sun Sep 26 23:33:19 +0000 2021
The only things I care about right now are savoring this time with family. And getting that Goddamn coin minted. The rest is all BS. https://t.co/XyDqUdr49e
@AgnesCallard -- Mon Sep 27 12:47:50 +0000 2021
Wearing my new Time and Space pants in honor of the first day of school!!! https://t.co/MgEkxAl9OH
@AgnesCallard -- Sun Sep 26 23:03:47 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat Much more flattering to me this way!
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:55:19 +0000 2021
In my most major Twitter fail this week I failed to notice @AgnesCallard wrote this!!! Now I know why it was so scathing and perfect — will watch it anyway 😋 https://t.co/U9PHnJnHPZ
@AlecStapp -- Tue Sep 28 03:16:26 +0000 2021
90% of phone calls I receive are spam 90% of emails I receive are spam 90% of physical mail I receive is spam There’s gotta be a better way
@AlecStapp -- Mon Sep 27 19:38:39 +0000 2021
@oscredwin @mr_james_c really??
@AlecStapp -- Mon Sep 27 18:44:42 +0000 2021
@mr_james_c quite possibly, still need to learn more
@dwr -- Mon Sep 27 00:05:09 +0000 2021
I think about this quote a lot: “People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” —Alan Kay
@diviacaroline -- Mon Sep 27 13:20:25 +0000 2021
@visakanv Kind of like this? https://t.co/TUYrURhLpw
@elidourado -- Mon Sep 27 15:30:08 +0000 2021
CGO has a fellowship that provides full funding for a master’s degree at USU. We’ll even cover the cost of your fly-out to meet people and see what you think. https://t.co/3MstRbm3fv
@kevinakwok -- Mon Sep 27 21:36:38 +0000 2021
@wongmjane You’re supposed to be ahead of us on product features. Not feature films.
@kevinakwok -- Mon Sep 27 21:36:12 +0000 2021
@wongmjane https://t.co/yp4zz756Ys
@robkhenderson -- Sun Sep 26 21:13:49 +0000 2021
"men with narrower faces were more likely to die from contact violence..men who were wider faced were less likely to die from contact violence...results suggest facial width is a valid indicator of male fighting ability" https://t.co/AkiEvJnFsH https://t.co/EF2JvPjar4
@nibrasibn -- Mon Sep 27 15:50:32 +0000 2021
i notice it takes me 2-3 days to recover from relationship conflicts/emotional activation. i end up feeling tired, foggy-headed, and emotionally flat for a while - the bigger the emotions at the time, the longer the haze lasts. anyone else experience this?
@nibrasibn -- Mon Sep 27 14:21:28 +0000 2021
Tied to all of this is general sucky-ness around expressing desires. Hold yourself back from stating your desires -> get upset when other people don’t do the same -> find it difficult to say no = 🤦🏽‍♀️🧨
@anniefryman -- Mon Sep 27 04:13:36 +0000 2021
@MikeIsaac best/only way to live imo
@generativist -- Mon Sep 27 15:08:09 +0000 2021
@visakanv That's the only take away i had from GTD methodology
@sharanvkaur -- Mon Sep 27 05:31:51 +0000 2021
it's really mindnumbingly stupid that the history of UK South Asian x Black solidarity is being buried by American 🇺🇸 and Indian 🇮🇳 fuckery https://t.co/h0SMNTtOWK
@sharanvkaur -- Mon Sep 27 17:54:23 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj hello ziggy!!! 😍
@AdamSinger -- Mon Sep 27 19:22:58 +0000 2021
Art is a passion not profession until we get to next stage of capitalism/automation. Then creatives may finally be valued (will be the only thing left we can't automate). I'm here for this world! https://t.co/BQTHWft5MK
@AdamSinger -- Mon Sep 27 19:14:41 +0000 2021
@visakanv YouTube and TikTok are really the only ones who are good at this. They surface completely unknown creatives to me daily which is amazing. Spotify and Soundcloud all out refuse to do this (there's even MORE musicians than video too).
@AdamSinger -- Sun Sep 26 22:39:12 +0000 2021
@ashleydzhang @visakanv just enough to be slightly but not terribly uncomfortable I think
@liminal_warmth -- Sun Sep 26 22:54:39 +0000 2021
I do have my locked alt @frozen_warmth for the reasons Visa explains in the thread but it's not as satisfying as baring my soul on main Still need to find the right balance for what this activity offers me versus not hurting the feelings or privacy of others
@liminal_warmth -- Sun Sep 26 22:53:13 +0000 2021
I don't like this dynamic since Twitter was supposed to be the space where I could come talk about whatever I felt like talking about, pseudo-anonymously This is my own fault, ig, for kind of being like "lol whatever" about opsec But I experience it as a loss 😔
@liminal_warmth -- Sun Sep 26 22:52:02 +0000 2021
This thread is interesting on the timing because I've been reflecting lately on how I don't feel like I'm as free to emotional-post about my life as I have in the past lately More people know me socially, and many friends and family read my feed and I don't wanna step on toes https://t.co/RicWrz19cG
@liminal_warmth -- Sun Sep 26 21:07:38 +0000 2021
I will keep banging this drum until I die Retain as much control over your distribution, communication, architecture, and sales channels as possible Don't opt into centralized platforms unless you absolutely have to, and try to diversify away from them when you can https://t.co/PFINUOerrb
@VictorPontis -- Mon Sep 27 18:10:08 +0000 2021
This weekend I 🐐 met a goat 🏞 ran a Central Park loop 👨‍🎤 saw my favorite musician 💨 sped up a dev workflow 100x You should move to New York! https://t.co/lBgkld2Zhp
@WilliamAEden -- Mon Sep 27 04:10:51 +0000 2021
@Aella_Girl 🌎 👨‍🚀 🔫 👩‍🚀 always has been
@fadeke_adegbuyi -- Mon Sep 27 19:14:12 +0000 2021
Today’s my first day at @Shopify! Excited to join the Editorial & Media team to tell stories about entrepreneurs, creators, and builders. 🚀
@nat_sharpe_ -- Mon Sep 27 14:45:01 +0000 2021
@wholebodyprayer Having a bunch of kids keeps things real!
@nat_sharpe_ -- Mon Sep 27 03:42:10 +0000 2021
@wholebodyprayer Love this quote. So much of my searching as been driven by self-hatred
@nat_sharpe_ -- Mon Sep 27 00:11:43 +0000 2021
That Nat guy. Wish I could delete his account. So overrated https://t.co/xQth7xwkBj
@m_ashcroft -- Mon Sep 27 18:54:09 +0000 2021
New note on why I created a limited company for my business instead of remaining as a sole trader (proprietor). It came down to the perspective shift it gave me: I wanted to be encouraged to work *on* the business and not just *in* it. https://t.co/gE9mWw5hl8
@m_ashcroft -- Mon Sep 27 18:27:41 +0000 2021
@merott don't need no weak hands around here https://t.co/FotDlJt5WF
@ShengwuLi -- Mon Sep 27 17:33:59 +0000 2021
Anthony, no. Imagine if everyone else made half-baked tweets hoping for someone else to correct them. https://t.co/qOk1V2Z7JY
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:35:42 +0000 2021
the word "yeet" is so powerful because it's grounded in ancient etymology https://t.co/zU2S7XPScq
@shabbytigers -- Sun Sep 26 23:06:20 +0000 2021
@visakanv @movebetterproj ok hm, if not too late — achilles tendon (? back of, but also into the outer side of, ankle/leg just above it) on one side only feels tight & hurts to walk on for the first hour or two i’m on it. it’s nuisance level but very grrr because historically long walks are my thing.
@sagar__dubey -- Mon Sep 27 16:39:49 +0000 2021
It’d be freaking hilarious if I managed to speak the languages I want & read the classical texts I want to & actually make something of it in the next decade https://t.co/ezGOdZkIr4
@sagar__dubey -- Mon Sep 27 10:04:25 +0000 2021
Just got second shot. Happy to be living in a place & as I understand it, this is worldwide that for the most part a large part of humanity is volunteering to still wear masks. The fact that we can show such consideration is really great- bad/malicious actors yes but minority
@sagar__dubey -- Mon Sep 27 08:17:36 +0000 2021
@wholebodyprayer @visakanv I think @fortelabs - but he did a lot of the work himself iiuc
@thesravaka -- Mon Sep 27 14:57:33 +0000 2021
@visakanv @selentelechia @eigenrobot intelligence autobahn when?
@thesravaka -- Mon Sep 27 14:42:10 +0000 2021
@visakanv @selentelechia @eigenrobot intelligence is horsepower, not steering.
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 23:10:22 +0000 2021
Mood. https://t.co/ZcDCGzMCV4
@alt1na1 -- Mon Sep 27 14:08:40 +0000 2021
If ur interested in pursuing a lifelong relationship w/ a women I implore you men to spend maybe an hour out of your life learning about the female body. Learn about the regular pain & complications experienced age 12-40, learn about pregnancy, learn about postpartum recovery. https://t.co/WIW9tPfm4W
@alt1na1 -- Mon Sep 27 13:55:03 +0000 2021
Women’s health is still a medieval horror https://t.co/757aTDltdf
@reddy2go -- Mon Sep 27 13:48:36 +0000 2021
@AnneSelke best decision ever and it's smooth as a baby's bum https://t.co/5rm05SuGZA
@john_henry -- Mon Sep 27 17:43:53 +0000 2021
@visakanv ooooh
@avyfain -- Mon Sep 27 16:19:26 +0000 2021
Word of the day: Zeugma https://t.co/rYU1K5wMOb
@avyfain -- Mon Sep 27 16:18:32 +0000 2021
You’re not a _true_ San Franciscan, are you? Where are you _actually_ from? https://t.co/spsegQ2x8f
@qorprate -- Sun Sep 26 22:38:10 +0000 2021
@visakanv the annoying part was that i had to make this connection on my own, and see a sinus doctor, and then take a sleep test (most stressful night of my life) for insurance approval, even though the doctor was like "yeah your left sinus is like completely blocked"
@qorprate -- Sun Sep 26 22:37:01 +0000 2021
@visakanv got surgery a few years ago to realign my septum, could breathe thru both nostrils again, bruxism stopped, toothache disappeared. shit complicated
@qorprate -- Sun Sep 26 22:36:23 +0000 2021
@visakanv turns out my toothache was actually caused by a deviated septum. i couldn't breathe from my left nostril, and ur "open" nostril switches every 2hrs as u sleep (the nasal cycle), so i would stop breathing while asleep & grind my teeth in an unconscious attempt to clear my sinuses
@qorprate -- Sun Sep 26 22:34:19 +0000 2021
@visakanv had a severe toothache in my molar that lasted for years. went to dentists, they said it was caused by bruxism, grinding my teeth, no solution, needed a mouthguard (didn't work, just made all my teeth sore). ...
@the_aiju -- Mon Sep 27 06:21:54 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @visakanv i have a lot of tension at the back of my neck, near my shoulder blades and in my stomach, but i’m also just kind of tense everywhere? it’s kind of intense
@thefudgelist -- Mon Sep 27 11:34:32 +0000 2021
A person with a deeply reflective awareness of the importance of and mastery of *how* they think will generally be far better off than someone who has considerably higher intelligence, but little discipline in how they think. https://t.co/k0VxhiONFK
@maiab -- Mon Sep 27 15:37:01 +0000 2021
sometimes founders think I’m a genius based on my quick answers to their questions but really it’s just that their questions aren’t near as unique as they think 🙃… they’re problems everyone struggles with and I’ve spent a HUGE amount of time thinking about them for 10+ years 😅
@maiab -- Mon Sep 27 12:47:36 +0000 2021
@visakanv [soothing, reassuring noises, identifying and naming feelings because now is not the time to do a root cause analysis and problem solve]
@RichardMCNgo -- Mon Sep 27 17:52:31 +0000 2021
As promised, though, I also owe him a surprise gift, so I'll need to think of what that should be. DM me any suggestions! https://t.co/HBodA3xN2H
@leaacta -- Mon Sep 27 11:27:44 +0000 2021
TSA agents asking a lot of questions already answered by my "I have a dick" shirt
@Jeanvaljean689 -- Mon Sep 27 15:59:57 +0000 2021
@visakanv I remember joking once with somebody about how many important lists of things there are in Buddhism (see link) and then it clicked, that making lists was a way to preserve teachings among folks who were pre literate I think it's fundamental to the psyche https://t.co/kdOdVfIcwg
@CaseyNewton -- Mon Sep 27 02:03:50 +0000 2021
Absolutely bananas story about the mysterious media company Ozy from @benyt https://t.co/WAtrJxS2QV https://t.co/IboD26dFhb
@AlmostMedia -- Sun Sep 26 23:07:57 +0000 2021
Tactical advice on how to connect on Twitter without getting imploded or main charactered. Best tip? It’s an extreme sport being hyper visible on social and it takes training so don’t attempt the trick shot without practice https://t.co/T9MqlOjffB
@AlmostMedia -- Sun Sep 26 23:03:53 +0000 2021
@visakanv It’s totally an extreme sport. It takes skill and time and if you aren’t a professional you probably shouldn’t attempt that trick shot
@yashkaf -- Mon Sep 27 03:52:16 +0000 2021
People assume that if you love people you go to the city and vice versa, but in some ways it's the opposite. If you don't like 99% of people, in NYC you'll still find 80,000 that you do like. But in a village of 100 you may find 0. https://t.co/WtxfLAp4O5
@yashkaf -- Mon Sep 27 15:34:58 +0000 2021
@acidshill Just yesterday I sent a single friend of mine in SF the Twitter profile of a mutual who's looking to date, and offered another friend in NYC to do a sexy photoshoot so she has great photos to flirt with. I'm the best grandma you can have.
@yashkaf -- Mon Sep 27 03:55:15 +0000 2021
I love NYC for the 100 people I really spend time with in the course of a year, the 100 people who don't play pricey status games and don't see me as a depersonalized object. What's funny though is that all 100 seem to follow @simonsarris on here...
@made_in_cosmos -- Mon Sep 27 18:42:28 +0000 2021
Sometimes I want to be as prolific on Twitter as @visakanv, sometimes I wish my account to be the Twitter equivalent of these paintings Can’t really have both at the same time, unless? https://t.co/B5EkgI1RLl
@eshear -- Mon Sep 27 14:11:29 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan My experience is that being exposed to a lot of negative / downer thoughts is like the opposite of gratitude practice. Focus on what you want more of! It’s not the tone, it’s the topic.
@jongold -- Mon Sep 27 03:41:05 +0000 2021
Finally started reading @ceisenstein’s spectacular Sacred Economics Thank you to the 5000 people who told me I needed to read it - this book is the perfect articulation of everything I’ve been trying to point towards for a post-capitalist web3-backed abundance economy
@jilliancyork -- Mon Sep 27 14:23:10 +0000 2021
I would just like to say that I told them not to do this THREE YEARS AGO when consulted. https://t.co/NISwpQkKJd
@uberstuber -- Sun Sep 26 21:45:02 +0000 2021
@visakanv This book and a theracane clear up most stuff for me https://t.co/UoMYV1w1EP
@NathanpmYoung -- Mon Sep 27 16:34:33 +0000 2021
@briandavidhall @anthrowittering Not getting conquered by agrarian civilisations and watching tv. Why?
@twobitidiot -- Mon Sep 27 11:40:51 +0000 2021
Maybe we should be supplementing Twitter by getting our message out on receptive platforms with the biggest followings in the country. 🤷‍♂️ Or we can stay “pure” and lose. https://t.co/KXDcGgN9eN
@CathyReisenwitz -- Mon Sep 27 16:06:17 +0000 2021
@visakanv Me reading y’all’s tweets https://t.co/HxZhWgEa5d
@CathyReisenwitz -- Mon Sep 27 16:05:40 +0000 2021
Hahaha it would be really funny if 100 people subscribed to my OF and Substack for a year hoo boy a real kneeslapper https://t.co/FvF8gXpCx2
@gptbr00ke -- Mon Sep 27 17:49:11 +0000 2021
@visakanv @AbstractFairy YESSS It would be so fun
@SparkNotes -- Mon Sep 27 16:14:18 +0000 2021
A Jane Austen heroine's to-do list: - Reject an unsuitable proposal - Reject an unsuitable proposal - Play the pianoforte - Take a turn about the room - Reject an unsuitable proposal
@BellaRudd1 -- Mon Sep 27 06:05:10 +0000 2021
@visakanv she's saying society's sinking in part from the dearth of good thinking. there's visakan's plan to implement FAN, or mine of creation through drinking!
@doriantaylor -- Mon Sep 27 08:37:36 +0000 2021
lololol yessss https://t.co/imdWqa8VpS
@punkarelly -- Mon Sep 27 19:06:45 +0000 2021
omg i may have found my next tatt idea 😻 https://t.co/mIajIkUfDs
@fvathynevgl -- Mon Sep 27 08:42:57 +0000 2021
a project is a collaboration between the now-you and the future-you therefore, to get better at one-man projects, get better at interpersonal collaboration https://t.co/KIJxWNrCiS
@meekaale -- Mon Sep 27 07:38:03 +0000 2021
@BrainBeastShaun @QiaochuYuan my brain when thinking about the urgent need to learn to build my own floor lamps out of cement: "holy fuck this is going to solve the entire meaning crisis" my brain when thinking about ordering groceries for breakfast tomorrow: "the website is going to be slow, give up now"
@jessicamalonso -- Sun Sep 26 21:11:19 +0000 2021
@AbstractFairy More simply put: “X doesn’t mean to them what it means to you. Tell each other what X means to you.”
@jessicamalonso -- Sun Sep 26 21:10:31 +0000 2021
@AbstractFairy Huge amounts of time & connection are wasted due to unstated differences in interpreted meaning and emotional weight of words, concepts, and behaviors. You can save yourself and others a ton of pain by being willing to slow down and clarify rather than press forward.
@LingTolls -- Mon Sep 27 19:24:08 +0000 2021
@visakanv Not being like my older family w massive dysfunction and savior complex (and buy love) was a major W on my part
@LingTolls -- Mon Sep 27 07:38:23 +0000 2021
.@visakanv is on a meta narrative warpath
@LingTolls -- Mon Sep 27 07:10:14 +0000 2021
@visakanv Normies know intuitively
@LingTolls -- Mon Sep 27 05:22:37 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @visakanv Visa 💕🇺🇸🇸🇬
@BLUNDERBUSSTED -- Mon Sep 27 16:00:00 +0000 2021
@Aella_Girl It's rorsharch shit absolutely. It's mostly projection, but people approach you from whatever internal turmoil & associative net they've come preloaded with, so they don't have an option Part of the reason you're relentlessly introspective, I assume, is an attempt to escape this
@jon_y_huang -- Mon Sep 27 05:36:13 +0000 2021
@sharanvkaur there also is in the US...also see Chinese and Japanese solidarity with Black Panthers etc The Internet ruins everything
@seconds_0 -- Mon Sep 27 09:10:48 +0000 2021
@visakanv This is magnificent thank you
@btohtoh -- Mon Sep 27 05:02:46 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @visakanv You are a god amongst men
@btohtoh -- Sun Sep 26 22:13:24 +0000 2021
Hahahhaha is me im a mf https://t.co/N66squaEhz
@KeenDisregard -- Mon Sep 27 06:54:18 +0000 2021
@visakanv https://t.co/Dotwq4s4Qw
@KeenDisregard -- Mon Sep 27 06:48:17 +0000 2021
@wholebodyprayer I know someone and @visakanv RTd ya - dm me!
@brianmwang -- Mon Sep 27 16:02:42 +0000 2021
@visakanv I hear what you're saying. In my experience, a lot of this comes down to how important structure is to the participants. People who thrive in ambiguity can do well with the organic approach but others may totally flail.
@brianmwang -- Mon Sep 27 15:38:36 +0000 2021
@visakanv Wouldn't you say that beyond the excitement of talking to each other, we will eventually arrive at a point of "so what are we here to do right now?" I think OP's thread points to the idea that the collective needs to organize around a specific reason beyond interaction.
@v21 -- Mon Sep 27 14:52:13 +0000 2021
i keep trying to explain how i feel about this & can never quite capture it. i'm going to keep trying, though.
@v21 -- Mon Sep 27 14:51:47 +0000 2021
i disagree with this. there's a particular way that videogames can be in love with their worlds, interested in dumping endless details on you, that i find really charming. https://t.co/iBSvHDZEzN
@lutherxhughes -- Sun Sep 26 20:47:47 +0000 2021
Writing is hard and if I’m honest, it’s one of the things I love most about it—the labor, the journey, the “click” that happens when you feel the piece fall into place. Thank god I’m a writer.
@kureshii_ -- Mon Sep 27 14:47:15 +0000 2021
@SamoBurja I wasn't having fun on the internet before reviving my Twitter account, but now I am!
@kureshii_ -- Mon Sep 27 13:40:19 +0000 2021
@visakanv Tried this for unwinding again and ... wow, something about watching dirty things get cleaned,, Does a similar thing to your mind? I can see why so many religious rituals are centered around washing and cleansing. This stuff really has an effect on your mind.
@deepfates -- Mon Sep 27 19:13:40 +0000 2021
@visakanv hahaha
@AbstractFairy -- Mon Sep 27 18:07:15 +0000 2021
its so weird how introspecting makes me better at understanding and helping others like yo wtf i thought i was being selfish
@AbstractFairy -- Mon Sep 27 14:44:17 +0000 2021
@ricvolpe this is the way. "yes and"
@AbstractFairy -- Sun Sep 26 23:06:36 +0000 2021
cc: @visakanv @sam_havens would you guys know something?
@tasshinfogleman -- Mon Sep 27 01:21:03 +0000 2021
@ricvolpe write a thread similar to this one that you did for @Malcolm_Ocean, but for another account - curating their best/your favorite tweets/threads. feel free to be playful + do it differently, or adapt the scope if that would take longer than 5-10h https://t.co/EG5SSBeamJ
@tasshinfogleman -- Sun Sep 26 21:22:57 +0000 2021
@hormeze @visakanv lacrosse balls have helped me with plantar fasciitis https://t.co/LLlbrgbnPI
@mesolude -- Mon Sep 27 05:19:41 +0000 2021
This video by @baalazamon explains everything from the ground floor -what is an NFT -how does the metadata hook up to it anyway -how the pieces of the metadata work etc etc https://t.co/yB4nHWTc8P
@celine_dionysus -- Mon Sep 27 16:14:28 +0000 2021
'clout' is real and it is important. and i'm going to get it
@pepijndevos -- Mon Sep 27 19:07:51 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @visakanv @Caroline30 Oh looks like you did already reply amazing https://t.co/PjOOEGj7VC
@misen__ -- Mon Sep 27 07:01:14 +0000 2021
Freud didn’t identify mommy/daddy issues he memed them into existence
@choc_milk -- Mon Sep 27 14:52:57 +0000 2021
So I purchased these planters from a Cash Converters in a small town for R30 each, they looked like a solid mid-century design and had a fancy gold sticker at the bottom. Found them online, just one is worth $49! https://t.co/gCSHunpgUl
@ouranometrian -- Mon Sep 27 16:24:26 +0000 2021
Bad news everybody I'm already tired of doing laundry 😫
@cfbundy2 -- Mon Sep 27 12:44:02 +0000 2021
@visakanv [grumpy whining about the state of my mental environment after creatinf my mental environment]
@workingjubilee -- Mon Sep 27 06:57:04 +0000 2021
@visakanv @nbouscal @amasad ah but the infection is likely complete, and he is one of Us now, for better or worse *nod*
@genna_buck -- Mon Sep 27 15:37:10 +0000 2021
Do we think I’m on tiktok too much? I just said “teacher fit check!” to myself in the mirror
@prerationalist -- Mon Sep 27 19:09:11 +0000 2021
@visakanv but i love hawkeye https://t.co/8Iw6l2CANI
@prerationalist -- Mon Sep 27 18:18:28 +0000 2021
@visakanv also there are many uncurious people who mainly ask questions for "gotcha" social attack purposes, and if too many of them do this, you can end up with norms about not asking "irrelevant questions" (& a curious person who actually wants to know is mistakenly perceived as hostile)
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 19:25:52 +0000 2021
@fadeke_adegbuyi @Shopify oh nice! great team, enjoy!
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 19:24:29 +0000 2021
@LingTolls hell yea ❤️💪🏾🔥
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 19:23:47 +0000 2021
@AdamSinger @sftechbr0 clarifying further still, a lot of the people hoping to catch a lucky break still don't quite properly understand the nature of audience-building, and so you get a lot of flash-in-the-pan types
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 19:22:21 +0000 2021
@AdamSinger @sftechbr0 if we were to get precise about it I would say, there's a subset of people who are obsessed with exposure, and they are of course overrepresented but the majority of creators I talk to, founders, ppl running platforms, etc don't quite *properly* appreciate distribution
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 19:16:51 +0000 2021
@made_in_cosmos https://t.co/v57BHvrGiM
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 19:13:34 +0000 2021
@tomcritchlow bright red jars a little weird with the background color instinctively i'd pick the top one... but not a very significant difference overall i think
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 19:11:26 +0000 2021
@AdamSinger yep. distribution is continually disrespected, underestimated, and yet the primary multiplier of value
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 19:09:53 +0000 2021
41. https://t.co/PnFcHbRFQK
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 18:49:05 +0000 2021
this still feels like "the best avengers are captain america, iron man and hawkeye" 😅 https://t.co/ubFlQCadmV
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 18:26:59 +0000 2021
@m_ashcroft always good to shake off the half-hearted
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 18:24:42 +0000 2021
@WeftOfSoul i like taking deep slow breaths because it calms me down and makes me feel more lucid and alert, ppl make too big a deal out of "meditation" imo
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 18:15:46 +0000 2021
@dcanosa I agree with LOTR, tho maybe Star Wars is on the same level
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 18:09:39 +0000 2021
@cronokirby sometimes, sorta!
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 18:09:21 +0000 2021
@AbstractFairy https://t.co/VMsz3w74cI
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 18:08:52 +0000 2021
ok i have to call it a night working on my book is physically exhausting I can tweet 20 hours straight but I can't do more than 4 hours of bookwork
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 17:58:44 +0000 2021
@nickcammarata @SamoBurja +1, it's my favorite thing I indirectly just helped like a dozen people fix chronic pain issues by introducing them to a super physio who was hanging out in my mentions https://t.co/bQU19Am1yJ
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 17:53:16 +0000 2021
@RichardMCNgo haha yea I was expecting to get my ebook done much, much earlier I'm cool with either option, up to you
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 17:43:45 +0000 2021
https://t.co/jZAPB5KQfH
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 17:30:31 +0000 2021
stating this a little more strongly than I usually state things but I've been thinking about this for hours and I think I stand by it
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 17:29:36 +0000 2021
curiosity is socially regulated because people are afraid of its power
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 17:20:43 +0000 2021
my blessing and my curse is that i am very good at arguing with myself and persuading myself of opposite things simultaneously. it upsets me to have to "disagree and commit" but alas otherwise i will be stuck here forever
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 17:11:38 +0000 2021
@shabbytigers the history lol. was thinking about dante
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 16:24:20 +0000 2021
I must say, that’s a pretty good-lookin’ slide https://t.co/zSur7mTfIV
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 16:06:15 +0000 2021
@briandavidhall @anthrowittering still true of !kung bushmen today I think, or recently-ish https://t.co/uTykrFpHzT
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 16:03:49 +0000 2021
@brianmwang yea part of the challenge in talking about community in the abstract is the sheer range of possible ideals for different types of people. some people love being in a military bootcamp type situation and thrive in that, others like the chaos of an early stage startup, etc
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:59:34 +0000 2021
@Aella_Girl i've dealt with this before, it's spooky i've also had people who project about me, and then I meet and talk with them and it feels human and normal, and then they go right back to projecting about me when I'm not around my current model is, these people are prob "unintegrated"
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:55:27 +0000 2021
@gambleluke1 ❤️
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:54:03 +0000 2021
@kylascan ❤️💪🏾🔥 we shall be heralds of the dawn of a new age!!
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:46:01 +0000 2021
joke about the outcomes you want https://t.co/SGzNLgGpvU
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:43:28 +0000 2021
@IanVanagas scans to be broadly true, although I think it's possible to do/manage exceptions to the rule (but you need exceptional people)
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:41:47 +0000 2021
@brianmwang I suppose I come from the background of, "what are we here to do" is something that we can figure out organically via conversation and experiment, and also that there's this whole 'nother failure mode of being premature about the organizing principle, and/or overly explicit
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:39:19 +0000 2021
@maiab always funny to rediscover: https://t.co/tvh6a0HatF
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:34:37 +0000 2021
aw man. X' Ho was a rare example of an irreverent, chaotic Singaporean who dared to speak his mind. stomach cancer... musicians just keep dying too young 😔 https://t.co/lJLHWkVWBy
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:33:09 +0000 2021
@Shivanksscarves yup that's a good division of labor
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:26:56 +0000 2021
idk if I did a good job of talking about this here (kind of half-braining it in between book editing) but I have a lot of notes about community building and community management you may find helpful: https://t.co/K4rNLCG578
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:26:15 +0000 2021
people get too excited about the idea of having several dozen people in the room, it's like wanting thousands of followers or subscribers. that's kind of shallow, hollow. what you want is deep engagement. vlogbrothers is the model to follow IMO. 2 people who commit and don't quit
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:24:57 +0000 2021
I suppose you could say that's a lack of clarity of purpose, or purpose/community fit. that... doesn't really feel correct to me though, in my experience. I would say the most critical thing is you need like at least 2-3 core members who are talking regularly to each other
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:23:28 +0000 2021
but I think what OP was talking about was things like, let's start a design club, let's start a book club, usually things where somebody is excited about some idea, everyone is kind of excited about the idea, but it's actually a little too much work and nobody really cares enough
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:22:33 +0000 2021
there are cases where it doesn't matter. if your community is a group of, say, middle age historians who are doing middle age historian shit, then they can entertain each other indefinitely by talking about middle age history. lots of nice groups like this in stable equilibrium
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:17:51 +0000 2021
some communities are overly static, where it's just the same 50-100 people in there, and everyone gets bored of everyone after a while. you do need fresh/young/new blood, new perspectives, newbies asking questions. but not too many all at once!
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:16:51 +0000 2021
there are lots of little things that people screw up with communities in general a big one is that people invite too many people too quickly whatever community you're trying to build, I almost always recommend growing it slowly, a few new people at a time
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:13:21 +0000 2021
well there are layers to this, because there are many different kinds of communities at different scales with different norms, expectations, structures, etc and we kinda make it harder to understand them if we smush them all together
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:11:09 +0000 2021
saw a thread that argues that the reason online communities die is a lack of clarity of purpose paaartially true, but I don't think it's that simple/straightforward. these things aren't monocausal, if they were, people wouldn't keep screwing them up. they're multi-part equations
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 14:57:04 +0000 2021
@kterade love to hear it! ❤️💪🏾🔥
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 14:56:48 +0000 2021
@thesravaka @selentelechia @eigenrobot yup, and at higher speeds the accidents are more grotesque
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 14:55:13 +0000 2021
RT @chanamuu: Went down a brief Marcus Aurelius rabbit hole via Maria Popova (@brainpicker)’s inimitable newsletter & still thinking about…
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 14:54:11 +0000 2021
@v21 as a casual/earnest gamer I would say that, sure while lore might not necessarily be INHERENTLY good, it can be very very good! and it can sometimes even be the best part of the game. I enjoyed so much of the Outer Worlds' worldbuilding https://t.co/n9TD4HTQVc
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 14:14:44 +0000 2021
@deepfates @GSto albion's seed?
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 14:12:13 +0000 2021
@redcar_tenken @QiaochuYuan still breaking, but i now need to search twice instead of like 5-7 times
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 14:07:17 +0000 2021
@DRMacIver aside: baldassare castiglione was a classy mf, he would've been great on twitter https://t.co/1DeGhFncku
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 13:48:38 +0000 2021
@Treehouseriots I think i'm progressing towards it bit by bit, still in the stumbling stage
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 13:48:03 +0000 2021
@DRMacIver me if I could restitch threads by moving tweets around: https://t.co/0Dc3WaCwmf https://t.co/ZSGx2j5D35
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 13:44:17 +0000 2021
idk how long I spent on this couple of paragraphs, and for what, but i'm deleting the whole thing https://t.co/hyNb1fCPJC
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 13:43:55 +0000 2021
@kureshii_ ya shiok man
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 13:31:36 +0000 2021
@nbouscal in my book I semi-cheekily frame this as more like, "refusing to obey your inner authoritarian is a radical act", which I like to think is an evocative way of conveying the idea
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 13:22:59 +0000 2021
@diviacaroline related to it what you're saying is correct what i did wrong was be too aggressive about ideas with people in general, without taking enough time and effort to really clarify that that's what they were receptive to i was projecting, treating people the way I wanted to be treated
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 13:20:48 +0000 2021
@Coscorrodrift 1,921
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 13:19:31 +0000 2021
editing a book is an exercise in merciless brutality
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:58:36 +0000 2021
@Snooze001 ❤️💪🏾🔥!!!
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:55:57 +0000 2021
it's my solution to so many things "how do I know what I want" make a list of things you have wanted in the past and you'll see patterns "how do I know what I'm curious about" make a list of questions you'd like answered off the top of your head make 100 lists
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:53:09 +0000 2021
@maiab ❤️🥰🙏🏾
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:52:35 +0000 2021
the cool thing about making a list is, once you've started it, and if you revisit it now and then, it becomes "active". you start keeping an eye out for things that go in it. if you do this publicly, people will even support you by contributing to your lists. it's very powerful
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:52:01 +0000 2021
a thing i'm learning, or making conscious in the process of writing my book, is how "make lists" is a critical load-bearing pillar of the way I make sense of things. I hardly talk ~about~ it, but you can see me doing it all the time; a lot of my threads are just lists of things
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:39:55 +0000 2021
@redcar_tenken realistically i must be honest it is too far down my list of priorities for me to ever do anything with it
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:38:05 +0000 2021
[grumpy whining at problems I made and chose for myself]
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:32:10 +0000 2021
@AshtearLucca it's a very good face, congrats!! very... cinematic? theatrical? you look like a video game protagonist, a lady of intrigue
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:28:26 +0000 2021
@alinekaeri @nvpkp hell yea prolific gang
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:25:55 +0000 2021
(the novel is an autobiographical-ish thing about a bunch of misfit musicians in early 2000s singapore, finding family in each other, and then experiencing painful conflict as they discover differences in their values, etc. I'll release it once i've sold maybe 50,000 ebooks)
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:23:36 +0000 2021
@muddletoes I appreciate you voicing your feeling!
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:22:58 +0000 2021
wait shit I am sitting on a draft of a whole novel I wrote in 2017, I can use that to talk about all of this!! 💡💡💡💡💡 oh yea hngh
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:18:06 +0000 2021
@samhbarton hell yea https://t.co/Mrvz507i0E
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:16:45 +0000 2021
@mahhnav not really sure how to answer this question the general thing is to focus on what you want to see more of
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:13:43 +0000 2021
some people are ghosts by default, never contribute anything, maybe they feel like nobody cares about them, they don't really matter... see it's hard to talk abt these things bc there are many different & opposite variants. might have to write multi-char fiction to cover it lol
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:11:50 +0000 2021
and that extra space you get, that extra peace of mind, will allow you to make interventions from a place of clarity, rather than frazzled desperation and anxiety. you'll find that people value you more as a consequence some people do have the opposite problem of all of this
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:11:02 +0000 2021
if you're always tied up in other people's business, always soothing and placating other people's feelings, experiment with taking a month to like, not do that. you can kinda almost "ghost" your entire life for a month and see what happens. spoiler: you'll be fine, happier even
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:08:21 +0000 2021
this doesn't mean you have to become a selfish asshole who doesn't care for others!!!! (although for people who are overly pliant and subservient etc, a month of "being a selfish asshole" might do you good.) there's a huge spectrum of perceptions here re: what is acceptable
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:06:57 +0000 2021
A thing you will def hear from like, wise elders, especially older women, is the utter relief of realizing, "your poor planning does not constitute my emergency". not every single person or entity who makes demands of you, your time, your attention, etc is entitled to it
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:05:05 +0000 2021
but like the lesson I had to learn was, if you're too afraid to assert yourself, too afraid to have priorities, then the world around you will nudge and kick and push you into a life that you didn't choose. and it's rarely a good life. you can def learn to do better than random
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:04:09 +0000 2021
I know it's tricky, and I would be very wary of anyone who says "oh this is very simple! just do exactly as I say..." 🚨🚨🚨 I *cannot* tell you what exactly to do. you gotta figure that one out yourself. you have to figure out your own values, your own boundaries, priorities
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:02:10 +0000 2021
to be clear I'm not saying like, "disengage from the world entirely and become a selfish hermit". i hope that's clear from the way I conduct myself, how I spend my own time, etc. it's more like, you can serve others better by being/becoming a nourishing presence yourself
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:00:28 +0000 2021
I think people find it easier to think about this when you frame it in terms of 3rd parties. maybe this isn't universal, but IME, it's often easier for someone to speak up to protect their friend's time and attention from stupid bullshit, than their own
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:59:09 +0000 2021
yes! articulate for yourself what you care about, and focus your time and energy on the things that you can influence – and this actually will *expand* what you can influence. you have to be quite protective of your time, headspace, energy, resources https://t.co/WYa5TZ5NUj https://t.co/yViFMKwHG8
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:53:25 +0000 2021
why oversimplistic? I guess when I didn't have as much life experience I didn't yet feel confident in my convictions about what I wanted, and I felt obliged to pay attention to everything else that's going on, engage with everything else that's going on
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:52:00 +0000 2021
ultimately the really elegant simple thing is to be very clear about what you care about and then derive everything from those core principles. but I do still remember what it was like when this would've seemed oversimplistic to me https://t.co/tFaWtEZM1p
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:50:54 +0000 2021
but also sometimes some people will demand "seriousness" from you when they haven't demonstrated that they have earned that right to demand that from you young people I think especially struggle with this, i've noticed late teens early 20s seem extra susceptible to pushiness
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:49:30 +0000 2021
i speak from exp as someone who spent many years of my life trying to take everybody around me as seriously as I possibly could, thinking that that was "full contact engagement" with life. in a way, I pushed too hard and forced people into seriousness they didnt always want
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:48:40 +0000 2021
there are a few examples of something that I've seen that got me thinking about this again, which is "people (1) who are screaming at people (2) who are screaming into the void". in a way, (1) "respects" (2) "too much". language is tricky here
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:47:49 +0000 2021
so maybe this is more about like, trying to precisely articulate for yourself what your boundaries are, what you care about, what you will be moved by, and so on. and all of this is work-in-progress, all of this is negotiated, and renegotiated...
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:46:52 +0000 2021
but the thing i'm trying to piece together is like what the narcissistic asshole does to everybody all the time, is sth that good people may sometimes need to learn to do selectively in the right moment. i'm talking about like, keeping your cool when someone is yelling at you
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:45:52 +0000 2021
at the extreme end, this is what narcissistic sociopaths do full-time. they have no respect for other people whatsoever. they disregard your mood, disregard your feelings, separate themselves from social reality. they might have something they like, like ratings or $$, etc
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:44:26 +0000 2021
[workshopping this riff] one of the most elegantly powerful things a sort of anxious, conflicted, overwhelmed, over-engaged person can do, which can seem scary and wrong, is to experiment with deciding "not to respect" certain things. some people "respect too many things"
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:38:52 +0000 2021
@DarbraDawn recents: https://t.co/CR5FKq06dB
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:34:33 +0000 2021
@darpyu https://t.co/LEDbSkcBrG
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:33:46 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan a lot of it would have to do with the sort of responses you'd invite treat your thoughts as if they are powerful and consequential and they become more so, and people interact with them with more reverence, virtuous cycle https://t.co/tHyDKg2qtd
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:30:08 +0000 2021
@leaacta powerful
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:28:11 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan I'd actually instead invite you to consider that if you took a bit more effort to be a little more precise about your claims, you would become more powerful as a consequence
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:25:39 +0000 2021
@krishnanrohit @mbateman yup, that's definitely huge too. I still think a lot about one older friend that I met from a video game forum back when I was about 16 or 17. I don't even have his contact anymore but he would've been about 30 at the time and he took me very seriously
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:20:44 +0000 2021
@krishnanrohit @mbateman this allows for a much quicker "recovery" because there's much less shock and confusion
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:20:03 +0000 2021
@krishnanrohit @mbateman you don't take different action in the moment as a consequence, but it sticks with you when you're in a situation where it makes sense. i've had a few other things like this, where something happens and I'm like, oh yea, someone told me to expect this
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:19:03 +0000 2021
@DanielCJonas saw this when doing a filter:follows search! nice
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:07:16 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan hell yea ❤️💪🏾🔥
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:05:48 +0000 2021
@mbateman yep you get it
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:05:14 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan you cannot sort this out by thinking, you can only sort this out by doing https://t.co/PGGQhIksya
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:03:37 +0000 2021
this is Sperello Serego Alighieri, Dante's direct descendant. he's an astronomer! seems like a good dude https://t.co/fGX8vTuqqv https://t.co/j6LG5C4phJ
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:58:31 +0000 2021
@mbateman to be fair you can kinda do both you can say things like, "you ask great questions, you have a wonderful curiosity," etc etc, and then tell them "not everyone knows how to manage that"
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:57:21 +0000 2021
couple of more fun facts Dante was exiled from Florence, the city of his birth, and it seems that city officials only formally apologized in 2008, almost 700 years later oh, there was a symbolic re-trial this year! and they had to do it via zoom because of covid 😂😅 https://t.co/EruzsjobN8
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:51:05 +0000 2021
@DRMacIver @eigenrobot yup, IME if you want people to seriously consider morally charged hypotheticals you have to do a lot of work to earn their trust first, bc otherwise you pattern match to "threatening to the social order" https://t.co/zskY0IszbU
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:48:42 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot I can go on about this for hours lol i'm writing a book about it. maybe topic of our next podcast chat once i'm done
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:46:31 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot in case above tweet unclear https://t.co/jZuQSJ7uFW https://t.co/9iXOJu9G0w
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:41:58 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot usually the problem is smart people are cowards, and they are looking for their keys under the streetlights of their intelligence, instead of in the bushes of their fear where they dropped them https://t.co/wDKS62i5dG
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:40:57 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot if you're dumb you can only do mild damage to yourself and others before you run out of juice/steam. random shouting and thrashing about if you're smart you can do advanced damage to yourself and others. invent ideology, send millions of people to hell
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:38:26 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot many intelligent people are *advanced* bad at thinking
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:29:54 +0000 2021
@GSto neat!
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:29:07 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan we have to try and do better ig
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:25:22 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan to be fair to your pov, tyson DOES post absolute shitfuckery, which kondo doesn't tyson is very "duality of man", at his best he is sensitive and thoughtful but he can also be snarky and dismissive etc https://t.co/quVBbFurCc
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:22:26 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan full text i'm happy to dunk on tyson for being annoying when he's annoying, but he also gets it, he doesn't not get it mostly I think he uses twitter for raw shitposting / triggering people for maximal outrage, but his sincereposts are legit imo https://t.co/6f3xPzlciv
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:19:20 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan [half-heartedly] tyson's "most astounding fact" talking point is that we *are* the universe, that the matter in our bodies comes from the scattered enriched guts of supernova, there is no distinction between far away and near because we are it and it is us
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:16:16 +0000 2021
@redcar_tenken this is the way
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:15:49 +0000 2021
gamers will know of Dante as the cheeky quippy demon-hunting protagonist from Devil May Cry, who is himself half-demon, and whose brother is named Vergil – so clearly a direct nod to Aligheri's Comedy. This creates some funny search results https://t.co/AcMznd8sq9 https://t.co/zEPGVAbZkt
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:05:17 +0000 2021
@ricvolpe interesting, makes sense! thanks for sharing
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:04:12 +0000 2021
doing some min_faves:5000 searching, it seems like most of the most popular tweets about Dante are in Spanish. Here's a thread illustrating his circles of hell. Interesting reminder that the non-english internets (plural) have distinct, different vibes https://t.co/HQ6aAxPeWN
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:59:59 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan history, mostly just a bunch of dudes https://t.co/qweyOzjEY8
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:57:38 +0000 2021
> "I'm going to get tasked by God to traverse Hell, Purgatory and Heaven and I'll get to do it with my favourite historical writer and also that woman I had a crush on who isn't my actual wife, oh also the popes are all in Hell." https://t.co/FzcJbEUN57
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:51:00 +0000 2021
> Dante's depictions of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven provided inspiration for the larger body of Western art and literature > He influenced Chaucer, Milton, Tennyson and others >In Italy he is often referred to as il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet") https://t.co/mFrxsH7OnZ
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:46:20 +0000 2021
@nan_ban01 powerful
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:45:47 +0000 2021
Engels praising Dante when trying to appeal to Italians to make communism happen ("post" should be "poet", oops) https://t.co/3LpdrvVVtQ
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:43:20 +0000 2021
@wholebodyprayer indeed https://t.co/WjZ59NJUkq
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:41:40 +0000 2021
@zammydraws ye
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:41:19 +0000 2021
Dante's Divine Comedy is widely regarded the greatest literary work in the Italian language, which he kind of pioneered. You could think maybe of him as the "Italian Shakespeare". Perhaps Italian speakers think of Shakespeare as the "English Dante" https://t.co/EwNmZFWE1O
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:36:22 +0000 2021
Dante was born in Florence his mother died when he was 9 father (was probably a moneylender) remarried Dante fell in love with a girl (Beatrice) when he was 9, but was promised to another (Gemma), who he married and had 4 kids with Beatrice features in his work, Gemma doesn't https://t.co/xCldLOIDoi
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:17:47 +0000 2021
Dante (c. 1265 – 1321) https://t.co/M66gxs0h8e
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:07:48 +0000 2021
👀 https://t.co/E57rnJ4OLS
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:04:24 +0000 2021
@SekiiSent ❤️💪🏾🔥
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:03:35 +0000 2021
@emmaconcepts why stop there https://t.co/OoAhxqdsZ4
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:48:18 +0000 2021
https://t.co/om0EZtIBuJ
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:47:02 +0000 2021
-fin.) to do anything substantial requires collaboration – even if it's "only" with yourself. you have to show up repeatedly, and it's a slightly different you every time. you find a path through the fog because it's lit up by with beacons laid out by your past selves https://t.co/DQA0y3Ubq4
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:45:26 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan yea I remember! excellent stuff
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:41:47 +0000 2021
you are the city, the planner, and its people. you are the holy scripture in the temple and you are the graffiti on the walls. you are the benevolent deity and you are the homeless in the streets. you are the melody and the mistakes. you are the dipshit and the divine
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:40:01 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan yeet this imagery into my veins
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:38:46 +0000 2021
What is a project? (pro- forward, -ject, act, throw, to cast forward) you are the story, its characters, its narrator. you are the dance, the dancer, the choreographer. you are the cathedral, the architect, the bricks. the symphony, the composer, the conductor and the strings...
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:33:55 +0000 2021
this might sound like something kinda boring, technical or trivial, but to me it is actually quite profound. one way of framing Introspect is "the project management of the soul". I shall now wax lyrical and get indulgently poetic for a bit, ahem...
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:32:46 +0000 2021
@sagar__dubey @wholebodyprayer @fortelabs cc @espacewalk https://t.co/OpetWtjQOs
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:31:32 +0000 2021
I would like to propose that the most important part of the definition of a "project" is, it should be something that cannot be easily accomplished by a single individual in a single sitting which is to say, a project is something that requires *collaboration* across states https://t.co/CeOZRRBanD
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 07:44:19 +0000 2021
@nvpkp gm!
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 07:40:36 +0000 2021
@LingTolls 🙏🏾👑💪🏾❤️🔥🌌
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 07:27:39 +0000 2021
RT @nat_sharpe_: That Nat guy. Wish I could delete his account. So overrated
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 07:25:19 +0000 2021
@tjrwriting @sama @HarveyMultani most people don’t think very far ahead and aren’t very good at advocating for themselves especially if there’s conflict involved
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 07:23:07 +0000 2021
no no I haven’t started yet I’ll start now I need to get coffee first
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 07:22:25 +0000 2021
even this is still just the beginning it’s going to get worse, and worse, and worse individual private citizens do not feel powerful and so they do not feel obliged to conduct themselves with grace https://t.co/zTIMDg9AJm
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 07:17:24 +0000 2021
@amasad 👑
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 07:01:03 +0000 2021
going to Log Off to work on my book for at least 4 hours
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:54:09 +0000 2021
strikes me as maybe roughly similar as to how non-Americans could probably have told you that Biden was going to win the democratic primary “Why is Biden doing so well?” Because everyone recognises the VP. And similarly everyone recognises NYC 🗽 https://t.co/2mMSaell25
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:50:33 +0000 2021
@nbouscal @amasad yea we met when I was in SF! he does amazing steaks
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:47:24 +0000 2021
wait @amasad are you even American 😂😂 have you been there too long or what
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:46:29 +0000 2021
only Americans are ever confused about why humans want to go to the global schelling point https://t.co/7RBfsXdfdK
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:42:47 +0000 2021
@AbstractFairy Yup. We would immediately start specialising
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:42:02 +0000 2021
RT @wholebodyprayer: Has anyone here successfully commissioned/produced a documentary, and would have time to chat for an hour ? We are sit…
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:41:26 +0000 2021
@sonyasupposedly I dig it! Bubblegum cotton candy vibes
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:40:03 +0000 2021
there are ~17 countries that have a GDP of over US$1T, and California, New York and Texas would each qualify on their own https://t.co/G85dMbG7nJ
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:33:00 +0000 2021
https://t.co/R08sAEcClf
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:05:55 +0000 2021
@BellaRudd1 drinking is definitely an important part of the equation
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:03:52 +0000 2021
we are *so* much more powerful together than in conflict there is nothing the cultural arms manufacturers of the world would like more than for us to hate and vilify each other do not buy into that bullshit solidarity and kinship ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 https://t.co/alCOqgvons
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 05:59:05 +0000 2021
we can appreciate each other’s culture and have a great time https://t.co/6sJsXaeNOU
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 05:57:12 +0000 2021
Indians and black folks can absolutely get along. We do not have to let the worst of our idiots represent us https://t.co/4t7lB7U43W
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 05:49:24 +0000 2021
Friendly Ambitious Nerd fixes this 😏 thinking (asking questions, being a nerd) is historically contrary to human culture. Most human creativity was expended suppressing creativity, bc perceived threat to the social order. Society is broadly anti-thinking, always has been https://t.co/o3wSiTjHdD
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 05:32:16 +0000 2021
RT @movebetterproj: Absolutely incredible day on twitter. Thank you @visakanv for the signal boost! If I missed your request, reply to this…
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:39:29 +0000 2021
@LightningShade0 @Aella_Girl in this case I thought about what I would have wanted as a 13yo
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:37:22 +0000 2021
@CarstenStolz yes this is where I think I’m headed too! Thanks
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:34:13 +0000 2021
look through these folks’ followings and you should be able to find lots! https://t.co/NJzrojy94k
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:30:56 +0000 2021
https://t.co/X4SPaYh9q1
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:30:14 +0000 2021
https://t.co/b04LRDj4DG
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:28:44 +0000 2021
@gptbrooke oh there’s a whole microfiction/poetry community on Twitter, I don’t know the specific @‘s… @ctrlcreep is the first that comes to mind but there are dozens and dozens!
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:16:12 +0000 2021
anyway I am just some guy who tweets a lot, if you found this stuff helpful, cool! If not, o well, it wasn’t for you I guess. It’s not a big deal
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:14:40 +0000 2021
I guess I’ll close with: try to be an account you respect. If you respect yourself, everything else tends to fall into place. If you don’t respect yourself things can get very ugly bc your internal conflicts will play out viciously with other people (this isn’t just abt twitter) https://t.co/R7hqDvWkTL
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:08:10 +0000 2021
@AbstractFairy @sam_havens unsure 🤔
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:07:20 +0000 2021
if people are being dickish or abusive to other people in your mentions, block them. Think of it as asking them to leave your house. It’s worth it to create a warm and pleasant environment for everyone else who knows how to play nice
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:05:36 +0000 2021
if you’re drawn into a disagreement, generally the smart thing to do is to try and ask genuine questions. sometimes people warm up and you can even become friends. if they’re hostile about it you can graciously just stop replying and move on https://t.co/p3FcArCgRF
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:02:29 +0000 2021
if you use quote tweets primarily to celebrate and uplift people you like, this leads to a positive spiral of good things happening https://t.co/tFaWtEZM1p
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:00:41 +0000 2021
encourage and celebrate the replies that you like. generally best to disregard/ignore the ones that you don’t (at this stage sometimes I don’t notice some replies, it’s not personal!)
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:58:23 +0000 2021
@azsamad ❤️💪🏾🔥
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:57:48 +0000 2021
meditate on death and the impermanence of all things I’m serious lol
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:54:12 +0000 2021
try to periodically switch up your posting style so you don’t get pigeonholed into playing a tediously predictable role for a tediously predictable “target audience” try to surprise and entertain yourself and seek genuine novelty https://t.co/YsF6RSbOCA
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:52:30 +0000 2021
past like 20k followers, or once it starts to annoy you, turn off all the notifications
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:51:41 +0000 2021
also yeah: disregard the follower count as a measure of self-worth or meaning or anything like that. instead focus your time and attention on the people you respect and admire. there are like a dozen people here whose opinions I’d trust/value over 30,000 other people
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:50:20 +0000 2021
also sometimes there’s just no avoiding that you will get your ass kicked for making mistakes and the challenge is to accept it as graciously as you can cool thing is, while it’s painful as heck, good people recognize when you’re being gracious and will value you more for it https://t.co/Djg6VIND1W
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:47:04 +0000 2021
it’s probably not too bad an oversimplification to say that if you make a conscientious effort to always be thoughtful, sensitive and kind, then you’ll basically be fine. The challenge is to be humane while people try to goad you into drama. Extreme sport https://t.co/8qCNhLmbQ1
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:44:53 +0000 2021
(once you demonstrate that you’re someone who is respectful of other people’s boundaries, and that you will honor their secrets and their stories, people start opening up to you about all sorts of wild, crazy shit. This is a life-changing before/after transition. Different world)
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:43:24 +0000 2021
@qorprate holy shiet
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:42:41 +0000 2021
the thing to figure out is, what’s my story to tell, and what isn’t? I try to respect other people’s stories and not speak on their behalf, not share details that they might not be comfortable having shared. a lot of nuance here, it’s about sensitivity and tact https://t.co/HqhIGXT9IW
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:40:09 +0000 2021
I try pretty hard to avoid talking about things that implicate other people I don’t mind stuff about me circulating, being screenshot and reposted etc, but my family for eg didn’t sign up for that also more broadly I try not to be cruel or mean to people 99% of the time https://t.co/nXUpHEnBBk
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:28:53 +0000 2021
I’ve said a few times that being extremely online can be a psychological extreme sport things you say can trigger people to say things that in turn trigger trauma responses in you some people lean into this as a form of self-harm you wanna be mindful/aware of this pattern
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:23:36 +0000 2021
generally speaking you wanna learn the skills of diffusion and deescalation. it can seem like a lot of work, and… well, it is, but I’ve learned from experience that it spares you a lot of grief as your audience gets larger https://t.co/J0g2yF0s1V
@muddletoes -- Mon Sep 27 12:22:31 +0000 2021
@visakanv Aella tweets make me so irritable. This (your) topic would be worthy either of a lengthy meditation on why such might be so, or perhaps actual, like, research of existing scholarship. However all my responses deeply irritable.
@LACTAlD -- Mon Sep 27 17:42:21 +0000 2021
I'm less than halfway through this playlist. After completing a set of isometric lunges my constant lower back pain is gone. Gonna cry 🥺 Follow @movebetterproj!!! Dr. Martin seriously changed my life!!! Also tysm @visakanv for rec! https://t.co/60ZvxjWKOc
@ricvolpe -- Mon Sep 27 10:11:04 +0000 2021
@visakanv Roberto Benigni (the director/protagonist of Life is Beutiful) s famous in Italy for being perhaps the best Dante's performer and commentator. His shows are *really* good but I wonder how much a foreign audience could appreciate them. https://t.co/GmlI2GJmXo
@adikandari -- Mon Sep 27 06:02:06 +0000 2021
@visakanv & when it comes to dancing, we absolutely share the same levels of energy..love this
@gibodean -- Mon Sep 27 15:41:40 +0000 2021
@danbarker @CableKent @ChloeAngyal tldr; No, they didn't know each other at all before the proposal.
@mikewavsz -- Mon Sep 27 15:05:36 +0000 2021
I’ve seen many of the best minds of my generation ruined by theory. https://t.co/MvMtbJWzLW
@mdaviswilson -- Mon Sep 27 15:57:38 +0000 2021
@visakanv Look, it's not our fault, there's been an infowar campaign aimed at convincing us that New York is terrible literally my entire life.
@DanielCJonas -- Mon Sep 27 11:16:21 +0000 2021
@visakanv fun fact, his burial monument is a cenotaph (empty honorary tomb) & is quite impressive https://t.co/JZl80Hzb1i
@sasadb -- Sun Sep 26 22:33:05 +0000 2021
@visakanv Via negativa question for you: what category of things do you decide to never to put online? how do you decide the criteria for that?
@IanVanagas -- Mon Sep 27 16:03:32 +0000 2021
@visakanv Yeah, I think it is tough for the average member to deal with dunbar's number, but exceptional members or managers could handle it in creative ways.
@LillianKodi -- Mon Sep 27 13:30:21 +0000 2021
@nbouscal I had to shatter my ego to recognise this truth https://t.co/qxK1yr5nNf
@briandavidhall -- Mon Sep 27 17:50:45 +0000 2021
"no bystanders" https://t.co/pIw5iBcMP8
@muddletoes -- Mon Sep 27 13:04:52 +0000 2021
@visakanv The transnational aspect of this particular relationship (global racial identities with a historic status relationship within Empire and local political consequences) makes it fairly unique.
@redcar_tenken -- Mon Sep 27 12:10:43 +0000 2021
@visakanv Reminds me of something I was taught in Sunday school: there’s always a current in the world around you. Inaction doesn’t mean you’ll remain still, it means you’ll get swept away.
@ricvolpe -- Mon Sep 27 10:04:44 +0000 2021
@visakanv Never heard an Italian referring to Shakespeare as the "English Dante". I think Italians hold Dante to a very special status of artist-philosopher-architect-prophet and don't really compare him to anyone else
@LACTAlD -- Mon Sep 27 17:52:54 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj Thank you so much for what you do! Now a loyal follower. Hope Ziggy has a great fetch session!!
@LACTAlD -- Mon Sep 27 17:48:48 +0000 2021
For reference I previously went to doctor + urgent care after developing a fever, chills, and blacking out while sitting down. They just gave me antibiotics + scrip for 600mg ibuprofen. Pain went away for a few days then came back. No more pain today. Can't believe it. 😢❤️
@laundryandry -- Mon Sep 27 09:10:20 +0000 2021
hypothesis it’s easier to battle than it is to love
@laviniaalexoiu -- Sun Sep 26 21:30:15 +0000 2021
I am officially allergic to the words “digital transformation”.
@LACTAlD -- Mon Sep 27 17:48:59 +0000 2021
@visakanv https://t.co/WqH4tPz7fC
@ricvolpe -- Mon Sep 27 09:59:35 +0000 2021
@visakanv In Italian high schools, we read the whole Divine Comedy from the 3rd to the 5th year of high school. Inferno, purgatorio and paradiso, one year at the time. I think is one of the few neat features of our high schools.
@AshtearLucca -- Mon Sep 27 05:42:30 +0000 2021
@visakanv helped a lot, but it was still bad enough today that I felt like my arm was gonna explode like something out of Akira. Just kinda babied it and tried to load weights right-handed 😅 Seeing a PT on Thu
@brianduffytweet -- Mon Sep 27 02:49:15 +0000 2021
@wholebodyprayer For years, I was possessed by a need to peek behind the veil of reality. It worked! Funny thing was, the stage hands behind the veil gave a tired sympathetic look and said “ok you found us, but now you see how hard we work to maintain the regular life you get to take for granted”
@redcar_tenken -- Sun Sep 26 23:08:45 +0000 2021
@visakanv https://t.co/X87xF0cdBh
@azsamad -- Sun Sep 26 22:56:46 +0000 2021
@visakanv Thanks for this thread, this is really helpful and insightful Visa
@azsamad -- Sun Sep 26 22:58:42 +0000 2021
Be careful of how you describe yourself, it shapes your self image
@redcar_tenken -- Mon Sep 27 18:09:52 +0000 2021
@IonaItalia I am torn about this. The original was so good! I don’t want anything of it to be lost. But I also know it could have been better without Executive Meddling… So, with JMS at the helm, I’m hopeful.
@PrincesssNaj_ -- Mon Sep 27 19:05:41 +0000 2021
This one ethical solution to this wild ass hypothetical https://t.co/IakRJXIbW0
@gambleluke1 -- Mon Sep 27 15:44:15 +0000 2021
Thank god of this and you. I’ve lost so many friends by asking too many questions. You’re helping me understand why. https://t.co/WgXsSZfyFo
@shamanicky -- Mon Sep 27 14:36:42 +0000 2021
THOSE GOLD LEAF STEAKS COALLESCE AFTER INGESTION TO FORM RECEIVER ANTENNAE IN YOUR DUMB HUMAN BOWELS THAT AMPLIFY MY DREAD SIGNALS AND MAKE YOU SHIT YOURSELVES IN FEAR. EAT UP, DUMMIES.
@laundryandry -- Mon Sep 27 12:17:53 +0000 2021
i need to become a whole lot smarter a whole lot faster if i’m gonna keep talking with u lot
@movebetterproj -- Mon Sep 27 19:04:38 +0000 2021
@the_aiju @visakanv Working on a vid later today to help w neck stuff. For now, do the first 3 videos on this playlist: https://t.co/r3WTgUhvWM plus this exercise: https://t.co/oxUpN8656c
@miseryroute -- Mon Sep 27 16:14:37 +0000 2021
paramore: “of all the weapons you fight with, your silence is the most violent” me: https://t.co/GqWNvNAPOP
@AshtearLucca -- Mon Sep 27 12:34:49 +0000 2021
@visakanv Thank you, Visa! I aspire to intrigue and living like there's a save file, so I'm glad that comes across
@muddletoes -- Sun Sep 26 22:35:06 +0000 2021
@visakanv I hate to suggest it to you but this is a cash money ebook
@movebetterproj -- Mon Sep 27 17:49:52 +0000 2021
Just woke up to ~50 notifications! This is new territory for me lol. I will try to get to everyone today, but first, Ziggy must have his fetch game. https://t.co/o2DwLMPXil
@Caroline30 -- Mon Sep 27 05:54:19 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @visakanv Thank you. This is so kind!
@movebetterproj -- Sun Sep 26 21:15:22 +0000 2021
@briandavidhall @visakanv "IT band syndrome"--working on a whole program for this. DM me and I can send you the soon-to-be paywalled stuff to try. Basic approach: 1. smash TFL: https://t.co/0yPoHW1tfG 2. strengthen/activate gluteus medius: https://t.co/RQM7Ca4KPE
@gambleluke1 -- Mon Sep 27 15:45:36 +0000 2021
Something to do with coming across as aggressive. Questions can be mistaken for a form of attack.Twitter keeps the upside but allows anyone to just scroll on. Friendly has always been Lindy, but now friendly +ambitious can be Lindy.
@ricvolpe -- Mon Sep 27 10:52:01 +0000 2021
@tasshinfogleman @Malcolm_Ocean Sounds great, excited for it! Thanks Tasshin
@hosalind -- Mon Sep 27 09:35:14 +0000 2021
Words are slippery arent they
@Caroline30 -- Mon Sep 27 03:47:42 +0000 2021
All of you are so smart. In addition you are really good at at least one thing @Lithros plays the cello @havorz is a soul chef extraordinaire I have decided that I too must step up and become a Renaissance woman. What should be my ‘oh she’s so cool’ niche?
@gambleluke1 -- Mon Sep 27 15:45:49 +0000 2021
To love and curiosity—here here!
@chanamuu -- Mon Sep 27 14:54:12 +0000 2021
Went down a brief Marcus Aurelius rabbit hole via Maria Popova (@brainpicker)’s inimitable newsletter & still thinking about this https://t.co/gyZM0FREci https://t.co/zNAJVqfcyW
@quotidiania -- Mon Sep 27 14:08:39 +0000 2021
Pretty sure I've experienced this. The way out of a lot of "impossible problems" is a sideways move that's often really hard to see Doesn't resolve the problem usually but reconfigures it to be more approachable https://t.co/kIR6DYLNuG
@ashleydzhang -- Mon Sep 27 09:02:53 +0000 2021
so much of the pervasive pessimism today can be ameliorated just by better publicizing and celebrating the people working on revolutionary solutions to the greatest problems of our time, so more people would realize that they, too, can create a radically different world
@hosalind -- Mon Sep 27 05:08:53 +0000 2021
@nat_sharpe_ I love seeing your thriving joyful family life. Full of love = full of spirit
@briandavidhall -- Mon Sep 27 18:01:10 +0000 2021
@NathanpmYoung @anthrowittering Agreed, hunter gatherers never really stood a chance Idk anything about the Amish but good shout, now I'm curious about their work week. I hear they are less depressed than the rest of us https://t.co/NSvFvxTxy5
@productnerd -- Mon Sep 27 16:16:00 +0000 2021
“If you want to be a philosopher king first become a king then become a philosopher. Not the opposite.” ― Naval Ravikant
@OliviaParamour -- Mon Sep 27 15:17:29 +0000 2021
@visakanv ooo I can answer this. Communities die either due to bad or incompetent moderators, or if their reason for existence no longer becomes relevant to the demographic that would join them.
@laundryandry -- Mon Sep 27 10:41:01 +0000 2021
consider also https://t.co/PACU9aRcHh
@redcar_tenken -- Mon Sep 27 10:12:48 +0000 2021
@visakanv https://t.co/CyhLGjq3vw
@movebetterproj -- Mon Sep 27 04:09:58 +0000 2021
@LACTAlD That is class extension-based pain. This whole playlist is for you, kethi: https://t.co/zTX0d9QRTg
@katrinadlc -- Mon Sep 27 16:42:46 +0000 2021
also though me to myself - an important reminder: https://t.co/v1rQMlQ8Df
@kylascan -- Mon Sep 27 15:49:35 +0000 2021
@visakanv the opposite of self-deprecating humor is self-manifesting humor, or something like that
@MasterTimBlais -- Mon Sep 27 05:02:15 +0000 2021
one of the big keys to impressing people is quitting while you're ahead https://t.co/zODTpSjjSl
@DanielCJonas -- Mon Sep 27 13:07:50 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan @visakanv astute observation https://t.co/wJRPcYWorq
@nbouscal -- Mon Sep 27 13:41:17 +0000 2021
@visakanv this seems like an overlapping but not identical idea, which may help as a bridge toward the idea i’m thinking of? disobeying your inner authoritarian can be an act of self-love but won’t necessarily be. i agree it sounds like it might be able to get across a bit better though.
@hosalind -- Mon Sep 27 05:17:06 +0000 2021
https://t.co/o0YZEWIhxO
@hosalind -- Mon Sep 27 05:11:34 +0000 2021
@brianduffytweet This is a fully formed short story !
@krishnanrohit -- Mon Sep 27 11:27:38 +0000 2021
@visakanv @mbateman This is our strategy with our 4yo, and personally it's been amazing because we have highly unexpected conversations. And we try praise only specifics (observations, hypotheses, theories) not general (you're so smart). But they overlap and we're trying to teach coping skills.
@nbouscal -- Mon Sep 27 06:49:50 +0000 2021
@visakanv @amasad haha he is not. he’s been there about a decade iirc. (worked with him briefly at codecademy)
@sasadb -- Sun Sep 26 23:15:41 +0000 2021
@visakanv thanks, this is giving me much to think about!
@ultimape -- Sun Sep 26 22:27:26 +0000 2021
@selentelechia @visakanv @movebetterproj @meditationstuff I did some hip flexor stretches back in 2011 after I learned about from 4 hour body. Didn't directly improve my focus, but did improve my ability to walk long distances without hip pain, which ended up helping me at the time.
@briandavidhall -- Mon Sep 27 15:51:43 +0000 2021
I'm reading Work by @anthrowittering and it's already pissing me off Hunter-gatherers "rarely worked more than fifteen hours a week ... and spent the bulk of their time at rest and leisure" Y'all what are we doing
@IanVanagas -- Mon Sep 27 15:37:28 +0000 2021
@tjrwriting @visakanv I think this is the one: https://t.co/zMhSBcbgzV
@quotidiania -- Mon Sep 27 13:41:32 +0000 2021
Visa just reached straight into my brain and articulated something I've never said out loud but known for a very long time https://t.co/5ncGnPsgD9
@dackerman -- Mon Sep 27 14:51:02 +0000 2021
This is so important. It's easy to beat yourself up for not taking a huge step when you could just take smaller ones. Powering through fear can be useful, but can also give you PTSD that prevents you from keeping at it https://t.co/MurjEeZC1C
@AlyBlenkin -- Mon Sep 27 14:14:55 +0000 2021
I'm a bit nervous about putting this out there, but I've been thinking a lot about new beginnings and navigating change https://t.co/CI6qmv3O0u
@AshtearLucca -- Mon Sep 27 07:10:23 +0000 2021
Felt cute, might delete later, idk tho https://t.co/BxYeGGE7qN
@Josh412 -- Mon Sep 27 01:34:19 +0000 2021
Me spending the weekend stretching - https://t.co/oOv2L9R6Zh
@ThunderingNina -- Mon Sep 27 17:21:46 +0000 2021
On Mondays we draw the skyline with continuous lines and brush pens 🎠 https://t.co/7RTrBysFY0
@AshtearLucca -- Mon Sep 27 05:39:07 +0000 2021
@visakanv I fucked up my elbow and shoulder, prolly from practicing aerial silks too long after not regularly training for a year. What's weird is that the pain wasn't really in my face until the next day... after doing squats? Someone here gave me a tip on how to hold the barbell that
@movebetterproj -- Sun Sep 26 20:41:53 +0000 2021
@wminshew @selentelechia @visakanv Going to record something for this today or tomorrow. Hard to describe, but the exercise is a head nod/chin tuck over a foam roller
@krishnanrohit -- Mon Sep 27 11:23:54 +0000 2021
@visakanv @mbateman That's fair. I feel I got there only later on. The aspect of supprotiveness inherent in that interaction I feel would've been way more valuable than the observation itself. The fact that someone sees and values you.
@GSto -- Mon Sep 27 07:19:38 +0000 2021
@visakanv ex: New Netherlands was founded by traders looking to expand commerce, now home of the NYC & NYSE
@hosalind -- Mon Sep 27 05:13:51 +0000 2021
Ego looooves critiquing itself Loves the idea of heroic struggle, return, perfection, infallibility, completeness, no suffering, no pain Loves sharpening its self-hatred with absurd spiritual goals But look at how that assumption scorns everything that is you & me here right now.
@reedkavner -- Mon Sep 27 16:23:14 +0000 2021
Next Slide Please is back October 12 with new PowerPoints from: • @depthsofwiki's Annie Rauwerda • @jnicolon • @christress • @DylanAdler6 • @cartoonsbyhil Tix → https://t.co/IAKluSnQUl https://t.co/maskT6mIuZ
@ashleydzhang -- Sun Sep 26 20:44:00 +0000 2021
@visakanv still haven’t figured out what is a healthy level of inner self/personal life to broadcast online! 😖
@reedkavner -- Mon Sep 27 16:31:59 +0000 2021
@visakanv Thanks, Visa! 🖥✨
@movebetterproj -- Mon Sep 27 19:13:45 +0000 2021
@not__false @visakanv https://t.co/nJoy5xqezp
@nbouscal -- Mon Sep 27 12:54:47 +0000 2021
@visakanv pretty much all of the most effective adhders i know make a lot of lists all the time not me though 😣 i have some kind of list block
@nbouscal -- Mon Sep 27 12:53:33 +0000 2021
@maiab @visakanv [sporadic “mmmhm”s in support of this response]
@triztrooper -- Mon Sep 27 16:26:10 +0000 2021
@visakanv @gambleluke1 When I stumble over anyone struggling to ask sincere questions in the face of hostile reactions, I offer my attempt to explain why this may occur. What you identify as an interesting contradiction others may interpret as an accusation of hypocrisy. https://t.co/3imiSrk74L
@redcar_tenken -- Mon Sep 27 12:41:04 +0000 2021
@visakanv Heck I'd love to get you and him and a few others on discord for an hour or so of conversation just to brainstorm it, and I might be able to go from there. :P
@movebetterproj -- Sun Sep 26 23:11:44 +0000 2021
@shabbytigers @visakanv https://t.co/whIn5hQ70W
@TomKealy2 -- Mon Sep 27 13:15:28 +0000 2021
@visakanv it's like we're the same person
@JosephKChoi -- Mon Sep 27 07:21:19 +0000 2021
@visakanv i’m also this mf https://t.co/wcf3kvH8tm
@davidhmarsh -- Mon Sep 27 08:08:36 +0000 2021
@visakanv 50. At least it's supposed to be 50.
@GSto -- Mon Sep 27 07:16:56 +0000 2021
@visakanv I like this model, of US as 11 countries in a trench coat. different countries / groups colonized different regions for different reasons that still shapes those places today https://t.co/8Fb58mQdeH
@hosalind -- Mon Sep 27 02:01:08 +0000 2021
“Sex and survival is enough to build a life upon” - UG Krishnamurti Please dont waste your life trying to get enlightened. We are all already made of light. The search is insanity. Ive watched people waste away trying to purge their non-existent ego. Its the new “original sin”
@hosalind -- Mon Sep 27 00:03:33 +0000 2021
Has anyone here successfully commissioned/produced a documentary, and would have time to chat for an hour ? We are sitting on a ton of footage and a story and stuck what to do next with it.
@wminshew -- Sun Sep 26 22:05:16 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @selentelechia @visakanv been playing around with it a bit, think i figured it out. Remarkable relief thank you again
@redcar_tenken -- Mon Sep 27 12:24:58 +0000 2021
@visakanv Or maybe we could turn it into an Aristotelian anime. 🤔
@LifespanDevelop -- Mon Sep 27 13:25:59 +0000 2021
@visakanv I was feeling like that yesterday! Back to writing today!
@redcar_tenken -- Mon Sep 27 12:32:02 +0000 2021
@visakanv btw I am 100% on board for character designing and helping with plot if you and curzi want to pursue that. My brain is just a little too full of my own stories to focus on basic concept for someone else's right now.
@cybercat85 -- Mon Sep 27 11:34:46 +0000 2021
🪄 yeet all obstacles in my way https://t.co/9u2ct234YA
@hosalind -- Mon Sep 27 06:59:56 +0000 2021
@keendisregard @visakanv He’s a kind guy 🥰
@BillSeitz -- Mon Sep 27 15:08:31 +0000 2021
@chanamuu @brainpicker https://t.co/etxigiwVK6
@briandavidhall -- Mon Sep 27 14:41:12 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @visakanv 🙏 ty
@ricvolpe -- Mon Sep 27 10:06:32 +0000 2021
@visakanv Perhaps the closest artist to him (from the above perspective) would be Homer
@MattSmithTweets -- Mon Sep 27 09:05:02 +0000 2021
@visakanv Yes 👏 Every project needs phases and roles, even a personal project. Each role requires a different skill sets and ways of thinking. Each phase is a different mindset, a different place in the project for each role.
@honeyvonbunny -- Mon Sep 27 07:05:56 +0000 2021
@scantypop Its like A fault in our stars but extremely inappropriate
@AlecStapp -- Mon Sep 27 12:37:29 +0000 2021
@DuncanWeldon Perfect name, very jealous
@eladgil -- Mon Sep 27 14:43:02 +0000 2021
Seems like the US government would benefit from reading this book. Step 1: don't live outside of your means all the time Step 2: save for the future etc https://t.co/A8NBplXx1X
@primalpoly -- Sun Sep 26 23:53:35 +0000 2021
@KyleKashuv No you need soil, fertilizer, and water
@CaseyNewton -- Mon Sep 27 15:28:33 +0000 2021
At the Beverly Hilton for the Code Conference and worrying that this year ⁦@karaswisher⁩ has gone TOO far https://t.co/nT2mfnpCiF
@CaseyNewton -- Sun Sep 26 23:17:22 +0000 2021
@Danielsand I think the larger issue is that they are just not going to win this one via blog post. Show the data or 🤐
@hunterwalk -- Mon Sep 27 02:36:22 +0000 2021
@benyt aaaaaand kicker "two months after Goldman Sachs walked away, the company raised another round of financing"
@MaxCRoser -- Mon Sep 27 08:15:16 +0000 2021
The big loser are the conservatives (CDU or Union). 7.5 million people who voted for them 4 years ago did not vote for them this time. This shows who they voted for instead: mostly the social democrats, also the liberals (FDP) and the greens. (And a million died since then). https://t.co/KfRheBkoR1
@MaxCRoser -- Mon Sep 27 08:15:11 +0000 2021
This is the 'preliminary endresult' of Germany's big election yesterday. The social democrats (SPD) of Scholz beat Laschet's Union, who lost 8.8 points since last time (when Merkel ran) and had their worst result in their history. I'll share some more data in this thread. https://t.co/OaH4eeoRag
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 11:18:58 +0000 2021
At the top schools at least, education polarization starts *before* the students arrive on campus. https://t.co/SiubMXPsMD https://t.co/ibwXZkgWRo
@robkhenderson -- Mon Sep 27 12:09:50 +0000 2021
If witches were as powerful and malevolent as the legends claim, then nobody would spend their time hunting them. The weaker the witches become, the more people become witch hunters https://t.co/9MCE9BCMXt
@jsidman -- Mon Sep 27 11:35:55 +0000 2021
Throwback to an essay I wrote in 2013 about DC foodie defensiveness. Time is a flat circle! https://t.co/1PTRQahnO0
@marthagimbel -- Sun Sep 26 22:20:59 +0000 2021
Tony nominee and date https://t.co/1iXNfS3y8M
@auren -- Mon Sep 27 15:35:44 +0000 2021
when a CEO says “this is my #1 priority” it means it is almost definitely in the top ten priorities
@telmudic -- Sun Sep 26 22:55:27 +0000 2021
“I didn’t like my tiny penis until I realized…it was my ancestors’ legacy.” *shows a bunch of pics of European statues* https://t.co/1P7rRtzOzI
@kimmaicutler -- Sun Sep 26 21:55:36 +0000 2021
Very curious how we arrived at a similar share of renewables in our energy mix despite our very different politics. https://t.co/KPLvvumROP
@kimmaicutler -- Sun Sep 26 21:34:46 +0000 2021
If you want the detailed version from @stanford’s @siepr program, it’s here: https://t.co/id0wDNX7Rt
@EricTopol -- Mon Sep 27 21:30:51 +0000 2021
Trust in scientists has changed during the pandemic, which varies considerably in the 12 countries studied, and has affected compliance with mitigation measures and vaccination uptake https://t.co/7W35wkCQKm @PNASNews https://t.co/8zdi95obFk
@benedictevans -- Sun Sep 26 23:28:54 +0000 2021
It might be a good idea for Facebook to post the full reports that it says the WSJ misinterpreted, with annotations to explain all the shorthand and caveats. Then we could make our own minds up.
@mattyglesias -- Tue Sep 28 10:36:28 +0000 2021
Amazing stuff https://t.co/vpCL1uhuxI
@kimmaicutler -- Tue Sep 28 04:33:47 +0000 2021
Going to get totally normal, responsible federal legislators out of this re-districting process, aren’t we? https://t.co/ENaNWT40bh
@kimmaicutler -- Sun Sep 26 23:20:25 +0000 2021
Wow, uh, this was not the update to this thread that I was expecting. (Californian teenagers save endangered California teenaged salmon): https://t.co/oaRkiYBrDy
@kimmaicutler -- Tue Sep 28 01:32:34 +0000 2021
🙏 https://t.co/ni01531gnB
@kimmaicutler -- Tue Sep 28 04:03:13 +0000 2021
See, there is an upside to all the Californians invading Portland…. https://t.co/5qZpZR9BjG
@simonsarris -- Mon Sep 27 03:04:20 +0000 2021
CITY: * You become depersonalized object to others * Pricey, endless status games * Another human always 30ft away or less when pooping * Eat bugs VILLAGE: * Say good morning to people on your walk * Build things outside in spare time * Closest pooper is a bear * Bugs eat you
@Rhetors_of_York -- Mon Sep 27 03:01:42 +0000 2021
Accurate depiction? I'd say so. https://t.co/h1iVyhTkee
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 14:17:13 +0000 2021
Guys, it’s not easy for me to say this, but I think I’m at a stage of my life when I need a bean bag chair.
@generativist -- Mon Sep 27 00:28:53 +0000 2021
@liminal_warmth solid avi
@sujayjaswa -- Mon Sep 27 20:27:41 +0000 2021
Wild. CEO gives fake email address to Goldman Sachs for a reference during fundraise. COO then provides the fake reference to GS. Board is comfortable this was a "one time thing" and both execs remain in place. https://t.co/Y4kJdVEnkT
@jposhaughnessy -- Mon Sep 27 12:23:16 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat https://t.co/F3IrbXgnVB
@Birdyword -- Mon Sep 27 17:24:05 +0000 2021
It is amazing how much some people just inhale everything from the US, all politics and culture. It's a good job Japan isn't part of the English-speaking world because you can't live on ¥15 per hour. https://t.co/gms8B1qFjf
@elvin_not_11 -- Mon Sep 27 00:19:40 +0000 2021
Another weekend of making croissants 🥐 https://t.co/a9ZDADAuXx
@lpolovets -- Sun Sep 26 20:36:15 +0000 2021
@hunterwalk Excellent post. My love has always been for non-concensus. Way less personal satisfaction from funding something that will have tons of money thrown at it no matter what. BUT consensus has been crushing. Win a seed allocation, get marked up 5x-10x in months, look like a genius.
@Klonick -- Sun Sep 26 23:44:42 +0000 2021
I quite literally said exactly this in a panel on Wednesday. https://t.co/HVCJRjwJOG
@EricTopol -- Mon Sep 27 13:22:12 +0000 2021
Our covid times :-) https://t.co/hCdfC5s3oe
@EricTopol -- Mon Sep 27 03:42:56 +0000 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the largest loss of life expectancy since World War II, worst among American men https://t.co/7eNCkwBuJA @jm_aburto @UniofOxford @OxfordDemSci @ridhikash07 @melindacmills https://t.co/ckRIDD9G4m
@EricTopol -- Tue Sep 28 00:41:31 +0000 2021
The 2 FDA scientists knew the @NEJM data for >1.1 million Israelis age 60+ w/booster restoration of vaccine effectiveness, but wrote "currently available evidence does not show the need for widespread use of booster vaccination " @TheLancet There are 70 million Americans age ≥60
@EricTopol -- Mon Sep 27 23:46:03 +0000 2021
The lung microbiome contributes to an individual's susceptibility to getting severe Covid. https://t.co/ePHeRBcRN8 Other key factors include inadequate adaptive alveolar immune response and viral burden @NatureMicrobiol
@Birdyword -- Mon Sep 27 06:23:23 +0000 2021
Need to get out of here so I can start filling plastic bags with petrol and exporting it to the UK
@Birdyword -- Mon Sep 27 04:53:58 +0000 2021
@hassankhan Congrats to your dad, please tell him it's based.
@Birdyword -- Mon Sep 27 02:56:11 +0000 2021
Australia will surpass the US on vaccination this week. New South Wales already there. https://t.co/GmAjBPwBL0
@seanphughes99 -- Mon Sep 27 01:07:41 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat I mean…if it’s Caro I’ll get at least a page on the size of my head and or how poorly my suits fit me. And that’s all anyone really should get…
@seanphughes99 -- Sun Sep 26 23:11:06 +0000 2021
@AgnesCallard @TheAnnaGat Really wonderful
@lenazun -- Mon Sep 27 19:09:59 +0000 2021
a lot of my conversations these days are about how to transfer money to a certain country without it getting intercepted by the government and if someone mentions cryptocoins they are getting a flipflop to the face
@Birdyword -- Mon Sep 27 05:19:16 +0000 2021
35 hours left https://t.co/bz4P1FFlXM
@Birdyword -- Tue Sep 28 00:25:40 +0000 2021
Over the past six months, the MSCI China Index has underperformed global equities by the greatest margin in over 20 years. The rapid and unpredictable stream of recent policy changes could usher in a new and long-lasting risk premium to Chinese assets. https://t.co/LblA7GpQC9
@Birdyword -- Mon Sep 27 05:05:52 +0000 2021
Best film soundtrack
@analytical_paul -- Mon Sep 27 13:04:32 +0000 2021
"🚨🏆 | BREAKING: Congratulations to the lucky winner @simonelhanna - please get in touch to arrange receiving your prize!" https://t.co/lfMtzT2vxb
@orpheaskk -- Sun Sep 26 21:57:07 +0000 2021
@TheAlexYao FLYING HORSES
@APompliano -- Mon Sep 27 11:12:01 +0000 2021
Good morning! It's Monday. Let's get after it relentlessly today 🔥
@benedictevans -- Mon Sep 27 19:37:55 +0000 2021
People are spending $3 for an app to get rid of Google AMP https://t.co/ocWUnn6las
@benedictevans -- Mon Sep 27 11:43:09 +0000 2021
The term 'cryptocurrency' always reminds me of the Voltaire joke "This body which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."
@zstorok -- Sun Sep 26 23:49:17 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat Proud to represent! 🙌🧭
@benedictevans -- Sun Sep 26 22:23:46 +0000 2021
@kocienda It’s like sending a ‘wire’ to buy a house, and checking the account numbers over and over.
@benedictevans -- Mon Sep 27 19:44:59 +0000 2021
@LeimrothScott It’s an indie app on the iOS App Store
@benedictevans -- Sun Sep 26 23:27:18 +0000 2021
@CaseyNewton @MsHannahMurphy They published some of the slides that the journal quoted but they didn’t publish the whole presentation - it might be a good idea for them to post them with annotations to explain all the shorthand and caveats
@benedictevans -- Sun Sep 26 23:35:24 +0000 2021
RT @daphnehk: You could write a dissertation on these two news stories alone. NYT covering FB’s efforts to shore up its reputation: https…
@benedictevans -- Sun Sep 26 23:24:55 +0000 2021
Coming out punching. It would be interesting to see the full reports - FB says selective quotation and shows the actual slides, but not the full PDF… https://t.co/dm4h6i6j0Y
@benedictevans -- Sun Sep 26 21:10:38 +0000 2021
@0Sal9000 iPhone and iPod chargers were always separate before that
@benedictevans -- Sun Sep 26 21:06:42 +0000 2021
@bagder @mpawlo @cdixon @bhorowitz Agreed!
@benedictevans -- Sun Sep 26 21:04:01 +0000 2021
@bagder @mpawlo @cdixon @bhorowitz OSS was a huge success - in some areas. It didn’t destroy Windows or Photoshop, and tended not to be good at polished consumer-facing products.
@ikirigin -- Sun Sep 26 22:47:10 +0000 2021
@mattturck It's weird that you see weed trucks everywhere but almost no food trucks.
@sebkrier -- Mon Sep 27 10:08:34 +0000 2021
@azeem I'm not sure but the 'ea' in 'tea' is silent.
@sebkrier -- Mon Sep 27 08:26:28 +0000 2021
Some interesting commitments in the Joint Statement from Quad Leaders https://t.co/5PGwisvHzy https://t.co/qaqCM5bU2I
@nickducoff -- Mon Sep 27 10:45:31 +0000 2021
Yep! https://t.co/hlqXwb4dAL
@hamandcheese -- Tue Sep 28 03:22:58 +0000 2021
Ancient Sumer had IPA snobs 🤯 https://t.co/6MVjyx9hEL
@pegobry -- Mon Sep 27 04:50:51 +0000 2021
We already have a carbon-capture technology. It’s called trees.
@AndySwan -- Mon Sep 27 02:17:26 +0000 2021
How big would the GoFundMe have to be for us to airdrop a million AR-15s into Australia and help these people live again
@rivatez -- Mon Sep 27 14:33:40 +0000 2021
i hate how much technology they put in hotel rooms now. there's always like 2 televisons, a couple of fake ipad things and a huge digital clock by the bed counting your day away. sometimes i ask them to remove it but recently i've found joy in just creepily hiding it all
@jsidman -- Mon Sep 27 11:20:20 +0000 2021
How to get ratioed in DC, step one: https://t.co/YITyJ7hsde
@NoahShachtman -- Mon Sep 27 11:09:34 +0000 2021
Ben exposes a truly wild grift here. Great stuff. https://t.co/HXhAKhStJ6
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:15 +0000 2021
📚🏛️ @philosophybites https://t.co/WW1iQ8HLf6
@drnelk -- Sun Sep 26 23:09:04 +0000 2021
Ecclesiastes isn't just a mood. It's the reading for the middle of the happiest holiday on Jewish calendar.
@bronwynwilliams -- Mon Sep 27 10:44:37 +0000 2021
@AdrianSaville @ValueSituations @pietviljoen @Delphine_DG @keithmclachlan @JMihaljevic @Richards_Karin Love this. Skin in the game is one of my favourite topics.
@jtannady -- Mon Sep 27 00:27:31 +0000 2021
https://t.co/kjDWY5a4Q4
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:24:26 +0000 2021
😍 https://t.co/j4mJNgL7Pe
@sashachapin -- Mon Sep 27 09:29:08 +0000 2021
I put the micro in microcelebrity
@samatlounge -- Mon Sep 27 10:31:00 +0000 2021
Think I’ve nailed the posh village lady look. What a surprise they’ll have when I open my mouth. #TakeTheGirlOutOfBristol https://t.co/2ZQuxNx43I
@TheEricAnderson -- Mon Sep 27 15:41:11 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat I had the MUJI bean bag chair for a while and it is soooo good. It reminded me that as an adult your furniture can both be functional AND fun.
@TheEricAnderson -- Mon Sep 27 14:20:02 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat The biggest lie we’ve ever been told is that there is a stage of life where bean bag chairs aren’t needed.
@russellmaxsimon -- Mon Sep 27 16:34:24 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat Available for pre-order, but shipping bean bags to Europe not yet available ;)
@typecasezine -- Mon Sep 27 14:35:32 +0000 2021
basketball themed nfts today in honor of media day
@SharpeMartha -- Mon Sep 27 16:58:29 +0000 2021
View from my “home office” right now I’ve dreamed of living on the beach and now we’re here. Even if it’s just for a day The fam’s out playing. I’ll join them after work. https://t.co/78A6rBkFPh
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 18:29:12 +0000 2021
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@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 18:28:22 +0000 2021
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@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:10:39 +0000 2021
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@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:09:01 +0000 2021
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@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:08:54 +0000 2021
RT @reddy2go: the @interintellect_ effect
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:08:44 +0000 2021
RT @jposhaughnessy: Should not come as a surprise that I will be playing the role of the 🤡 at my Salon while @bronwynwilliams gets to be th…
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:08:38 +0000 2021
RT @bsgallagher: Mine, on the myth of our “lizard brain,” is this coming Thursday! 🦎🧠
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:08:11 +0000 2021
RT @lucia_asanache: 🤔What's it like working in #Community? 💭What is the best/hardest thing about it? 🧨What makes a great Community creator…
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:07:59 +0000 2021
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@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 16:01:12 +0000 2021
@russellmaxsimon How can I buy one!
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 15:15:39 +0000 2021
RT @JimmyRis: “Many things are possible, Sergeant, but not economically feasible. Of course, that all depends on how you calculate costs.”
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 15:11:18 +0000 2021
RT @timhwang: for sale: two takes, never problematized
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 15:11:03 +0000 2021
RT @schlagetown: Big fan of this stance! (& of Matt's ideas, which are consistently creative, intriguing, generative…)
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 14:20:30 +0000 2021
@TheEricAnderson So true OMG
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 14:19:43 +0000 2021
Life — https://t.co/bkjf5SPUwg
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 11:56:24 +0000 2021
@hcndashwood @interintellect_ I need to leave at 4:30pm but I’m sure the party will continue!
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 11:41:46 +0000 2021
Dear Londoners and London @interintellect_ ❤️🥰 As promised, on Wednesday I’ll be hosting an informal coffee / tea gathering on the terrace of The Harrison near King’s Cross ☕️✨ Starts at 2:30pm — come and join me!
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 11:26:58 +0000 2021
@Loster You should check us out! 🚀 https://t.co/c1m4LB9BEH
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 10:44:42 +0000 2021
@balajis Also can somebody tell Adam Smith about Adam Smith
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 10:38:24 +0000 2021
I’ve now been out of lockdown for nearly 4 months and I still feel like I’m auditioning for human.
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 10:15:53 +0000 2021
RT @sugden_rebecca: The world: owning a lot of books doesn’t count as a personality Academics: https://t.co/k2L78cF7Vz
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 10:15:17 +0000 2021
@chwoodiwiss Ahahahhaa 🥰🥰🥰🥰
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 10:10:44 +0000 2021
RT @robertwiblin: How many doses have been donated by each country? Gotta vaccinate the whole world including the poorest countries to slo…
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 10:08:43 +0000 2021
RT @reddy2go: they're all insanely cool salons cuz the people in them are 🤗
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 10:04:59 +0000 2021
A very meta @interintellect_ salon tomorrow evening (UK time) by @lucia_asanache -- For anyone interested in community building as a growing movement! https://t.co/FeIIDeFuav
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 00:31:12 +0000 2021
Which living author should write your biography one day?
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 00:29:28 +0000 2021
@generativist @liminal_warmth +1!!!
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 23:54:28 +0000 2021
@etiennefd What it looks like / how it looks => I'll surely say "how it looks like" -- Other than that a whole bunch of stuff I use the wrong way!!
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 23:52:04 +0000 2021
@webdevMason Great new piece on this actually: https://t.co/ODAGZ9v13w
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 23:51:09 +0000 2021
@webdevMason OMG
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 23:50:33 +0000 2021
Interintellects are 🤗🥺 https://t.co/q23WPBLYGC
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 23:06:39 +0000 2021
@AgnesCallard 💗💗💗💗
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:58:52 +0000 2021
@anitaleirfall @aharonfriedman @AgnesCallard Mea maxima….
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:58:39 +0000 2021
@anitaleirfall @aharonfriedman @AgnesCallard https://t.co/a21bFLwSEX
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:57:59 +0000 2021
@aharonfriedman @anitaleirfall @AgnesCallard I am blind 🤦🏼‍♀️
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:40:07 +0000 2021
Revisiting this fantastic piece, recommended by @bryankam (bought the book too, but haven't read it yet!) https://t.co/89qJrfsNjs
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:23:35 +0000 2021
Thank you!
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:22:27 +0000 2021
More and more people have @interintellect_ in their Twitter bios 💗🥺 This is the most beautiful feeling! https://t.co/hZZqvfd5hX
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:16 +0000 2021
🌳🤗 @EyalShay2 @reddy2go https://t.co/v1R2dM69EO
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:15 +0000 2021
🏙️🗺️ @JuditPetho https://t.co/6dO2ZIddTn
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:14 +0000 2021
🔧📢 @roybahat https://t.co/kzUJaYhNsT
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:13 +0000 2021
🎸🤘🏽 @okelpp https://t.co/K1imPdUcAF
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:13 +0000 2021
🎻🎹 @Linus_Lu https://t.co/hsFtW6wjB3
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:12 +0000 2021
🧠🐊 @bsgallagher https://t.co/FN8MoxQSgD
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:11 +0000 2021
🫂🧘🏽‍♂️ @jstanotherview https://t.co/75LMH5UiQy
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:09 +0000 2021
Some insanely cool salons coming up at @interintellect_! If you've never been: imagine if Zoom gatherings were good 🧡🥰 Bring a notebook, a glass of wine (optional!) and an inquisitive mind! Brace for laughter, kindness, big questions. 🖼️🔍 @PHurducas: https://t.co/db89lnut4y
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:00:42 +0000 2021
@nikillinit cc @danielgolliher 😁
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 20:51:22 +0000 2021
RT @semimetic: He must, so to speak, throw away the lobster. https://t.co/KfdDR2WpTx
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 20:51:05 +0000 2021
@semimetic Heavy is the head…
@ashleydzhang -- Mon Sep 27 07:13:05 +0000 2021
@snigdhar0y eternally grateful for your counsel ❤️
@etiennefd -- Sun Sep 26 23:59:37 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat oh god I'm confused from just trying to distinguish those phrases 😄
@chwoodiwiss -- Mon Sep 27 02:07:28 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat Solnit if my life goes one way Tolentino if it goes another Brodesser-Akner if it really goes off 😜
@pedrobnsilva -- Mon Sep 27 18:17:36 +0000 2021
finally reunited, missed it so much! https://t.co/mxOgS3Y23d
@Trent_STEMpunk -- Mon Sep 27 14:56:32 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat I've always wondered what it would be like for a person in their 30's to go to college for the first time! Maybe make a reality show out of it.
@daveparke -- Mon Sep 27 00:38:28 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat Karl Ove Knausgård 
@TheAlexYao -- Sun Sep 26 21:56:44 +0000 2021
@orpheaskk im more of an airship maximalist
@kevinschawinski -- Mon Sep 27 09:11:54 +0000 2021
I really hope there will be an extended director's cut of #DUNE
@neurofoo -- Mon Sep 27 18:21:35 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat ⛱️+📚=❤️‍🔥
@neurofoo -- Mon Sep 27 18:15:39 +0000 2021
https://t.co/oT6URNq1dj https://t.co/Y8SBUaPAhy
@XavierHelgesen -- Mon Sep 27 00:35:30 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat Thomas Pynchon please
@Josh412 -- Mon Sep 27 17:52:07 +0000 2021
This is a good introduction to using block patterns in WordPress. https://t.co/LvusfW3X62
@punk4156 -- Sun Sep 26 23:15:26 +0000 2021
i don’t own enough xcopy
@ThinkingUSD -- Mon Sep 27 02:27:01 +0000 2021
girls get taken to nobu one time and catch an ego
@AlecStapp -- Sun Sep 26 21:43:15 +0000 2021
Their convictions were overturned on appeal in 2014, but still wild that the case got that far at all: https://t.co/BLmERBpx4z
@AlecStapp -- Sun Sep 26 21:42:26 +0000 2021
Not the Onion: Six Italian scientists were convicted of manslaughter in 2012 for failing to predict an earthquake that killed more than 300 people. https://t.co/8gMXFBK4vj
@LJAkaar67 -- Sun Sep 26 21:16:51 +0000 2021
@antoniogm @calacademy I absolutely agree, in large part because their prices are absurdly high, a real soak the poor, soak the family, pricing scheme
@GurdeepPandher -- Mon Sep 27 02:45:55 +0000 2021
Just loving nature around my cabin in the woods. https://t.co/QPRHTk0qqs
@argyris -- Mon Sep 27 00:44:50 +0000 2021
@antoniogm Also: so much plastic trash 😢
@antoniogm -- Mon Sep 27 02:14:30 +0000 2021
@juliajassey @TuckerCarlson Link?
@antoniogm -- Sun Sep 26 23:27:46 +0000 2021
Some brave parent-commenter must do the definitive etiology of this bizarre LOL doll phenomenon that seems to have spread among children of a certain age like the plague.
@antoniogm -- Sun Sep 26 23:06:49 +0000 2021
@AeonCoin The delta there is just staggering.
@antoniogm -- Sun Sep 26 23:04:32 +0000 2021
@AeonCoin The people fleeing one state and flooding another would seem to disagree with you about the overall picture.
@antoniogm -- Sun Sep 26 22:52:09 +0000 2021
@JAU_ATL_21 Wow. What sort of biking do you do? Was thinking of taking it up myself.
@antoniogm -- Sun Sep 26 22:45:18 +0000 2021
@LJAkaar67 @calacademy Get a membership!
@antoniogm -- Sun Sep 26 21:08:24 +0000 2021
Every child born in SF should be issued a @calacademy membership, as a benefit to the parents. Kids never tire of this place, and it’s actually interesting to visit. https://t.co/4o93jNyPY6
@ashleydzhang -- Sun Sep 26 21:14:06 +0000 2021
@antoniogm @calacademy Claude the albino alligator was my favorite!
@rivatez -- Mon Sep 27 02:30:17 +0000 2021
@AndySwan community ghost gunners
@AlecStapp -- Tue Sep 28 01:11:44 +0000 2021
The y-axis here is a chart crime https://t.co/3tOSphxJDB
@KevinWGlass -- Sun Sep 26 20:40:54 +0000 2021
@AlecStapp in this tweet, don't like it
@AlecStapp -- Sun Sep 26 20:46:09 +0000 2021
@KevinWGlass think of all the tax cuts we could do tho
@the_yushi -- Sun Sep 26 20:34:35 +0000 2021
@AlecStapp I am going to do a reading of this in front of my French family
@JuanIsidro -- Sun Sep 26 20:40:06 +0000 2021
@AlecStapp @Noahpinion i asked my girlfriend to read it for me and holy crap. https://t.co/I0VfIc7GqI
@km -- Sun Sep 26 21:56:41 +0000 2021
holy smokes. https://t.co/LykIyw5JfI
@zackkanter -- Mon Sep 27 00:39:55 +0000 2021
Mark Zuckerberg: Satan for non-religious people. https://t.co/RWQeUzj1qA
@isosteph -- Mon Sep 27 19:32:39 +0000 2021
losing my mind at the 1 click ui transition between the home and login pages here https://t.co/BrjH1DR2SG
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 19:40:31 +0000 2021
Every large American city is a "good food city." What are these cities you're visiting where it's somehow impossible to come up with a good restaurant to go eat at? The hard part is getting a babysitter!
@cjsnowdon -- Tue Sep 28 06:57:02 +0000 2021
The petrol panic could have been avoided. https://t.co/2eQsaH3Wid
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 20:53:53 +0000 2021
I think “secular, but strongly nationalistic with mushy views on economics” is probably a decent model of the typical person who’d vote for Obama twice and then for Trump twice. https://t.co/aI8f75UVX6
@jmover -- Mon Sep 27 17:53:01 +0000 2021
Once a company scales post PMF & things start to "work," it becomes very clear if founders have that killer instinct vs complacency/lack of urgency - velocity across every facet (hiring, product ships, GTM etc) increases. bars are raised and it all germinates out of the culture
@vgr -- Mon Sep 27 16:48:17 +0000 2021
@amelapay 🥳
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 21:32:09 +0000 2021
America is just awash in joint programs which should be mostly federalized (Medicaid, UI) or genuinely devolved (transportation).
@hamandcheese -- Mon Sep 27 01:05:26 +0000 2021
"In the last year, he said, seven people have died in the L Street encampments alone, three of them homicides." https://t.co/svTAmG6ApW
@DKThomp -- Mon Sep 27 15:28:44 +0000 2021
The Global Supply Chain is a &#$*ing Mess—in 4 JPM graphs 1. Dozens of containerships stacked up outside LA 2. Shipping rates to the moon 3. Global delivery times at 25-yr highs 4. Our surging demand for WFH and home improvements imports —> wild surge in eastbound freight rates https://t.co/feeEzZKz7U
@sarahcat21 -- Sun Sep 26 22:32:33 +0000 2021
@dbeyer123 Sincerely, Miami.
@adereth -- Mon Sep 27 01:29:57 +0000 2021
My 10yo just said “haha… lol… noobs” while playing Fortnite and I told him we do *not* use that kind of language in this house.
@JorgeO -- Tue Sep 28 02:09:59 +0000 2021
The fight scenes in Shang-Chi were so unrealistic. I’ve been on an SF MUNI bus when a knife fight broke out. The driver stopped the bus, whip-yelled all participants out of her bus, and continued the route. Not even supervillains fuck with a MUNI driver.
@JorgeO -- Mon Sep 27 17:46:52 +0000 2021
RT @Chelsea_Fagan: it’s been about four months since we started our four-day workweek experiment and i can honestly say that the idea of a…
@dwr -- Mon Sep 27 16:24:03 +0000 2021
https://t.co/FRgD0Tm4jP
@ATabarrok -- Mon Sep 27 17:52:11 +0000 2021
@imbernomics Agree.
@ATabarrok -- Tue Sep 28 00:39:43 +0000 2021
@joshgans Here’s another even more apropos example https://t.co/KgqiaHfTGr
@womensart1 -- Tue Sep 28 05:37:14 +0000 2021
Rana Ramlawi, a 23-year-old Palestinian woman from the Gaza Strip, who creates sand sculptures to reflect the plight of Palestinians #WomensArt https://t.co/9OHKifOaSe
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 12:41:58 +0000 2021
Me to a Wall Street guy: You guys should panic more about the debt ceiling. Guy: Eh, they’ll work it out Me: Yes, but only if you panic first. Guy: But they’ll work it out!
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 21:00:09 +0000 2021
To me the play is to articulate *pride* in the United States as a multi-ethnic success story and heap scorn on the racists so alarmed by demographic change that they’d trade this great land of ours for a pot of goulash. https://t.co/FLOpn1NaTR
@rsnous -- Mon Sep 27 20:43:39 +0000 2021
@tophtucker @djmicrobeads
@rsnous -- Mon Sep 27 01:04:48 +0000 2021
@PhilBennett3D @tophtucker
@ZaidJilani -- Sun Sep 26 21:41:13 +0000 2021
Chronicle of Higher Education becomes the latest institution to drop this one https://t.co/7ulXQhodUM https://t.co/rQ1yACX8Po
@wesyang -- Mon Sep 27 07:42:56 +0000 2021
Also coordinated https://t.co/PB3mBH0jEf
@AdamSinger -- Mon Sep 27 12:31:22 +0000 2021
Me as kid: I really want that model R/C plane, more than anything in the world, but it's $200, our family has no income & I need to save for college Me as adult: I can afford basically anything I want, but will spend 2 months considering why it's indulgent, then not buy it
@dwr -- Mon Sep 27 15:57:33 +0000 2021
@blakeir 👀
@ConorDougherty -- Mon Sep 27 16:04:59 +0000 2021
Suddenly all I want to read about is the LA Mayor's race.
@vgr -- Mon Sep 27 19:59:02 +0000 2021
This is why I'm not a public figure, though I have significant reach. Any allyship from me can at best amplify momentum in an existing direction a bit, not materially change the course of significant events. And on enmity... I can't finish any significant fight I can start
@gruber -- Mon Sep 27 15:41:41 +0000 2021
The New York Times: “The Most Incremental Upgrade Ever” https://t.co/msQcFOp9uh
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 11:02:17 +0000 2021
My six year old’s argument that he should be allowed to watch cartoons this morning because “sometimes it’s a three-day weekend” is largely nonsensical. But he’s already succeeded in turning this talking point into a nightmare for dads seeking peace & quiet to drink coffee.
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 01:07:03 +0000 2021
Is a wave of nostalgia for the panic-buying toilet paper phase of the pandemic really overtaking us? https://t.co/9XHl6KJtnk
@WillManidis -- Mon Sep 27 01:18:42 +0000 2021
the catholic church is just The Creator's economy
@semil -- Mon Sep 27 23:51:21 +0000 2021
I just spent 3 hours sitting in South Patk SF taking Zooms and calls. The area feels completely hollowed out, a stark contrast to a few years ago when it became the central SF meeting spot.
@cjsnowdon -- Mon Sep 27 13:26:52 +0000 2021
People would rather die four years early than give up alcohol. https://t.co/7IQAdxFLZS
@vgr -- Sun Sep 26 20:52:01 +0000 2021
Might have to start paying attention again. Kinda tuned out of crypto in this last cycle. Got too complicated for me, but maybe time to out in the effort now. https://t.co/xT9AeSKc7Q
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 19:49:44 +0000 2021
My relationship to academia is after I did my senior thesis defense, Prof. Korsgaard asked what my plans were for after graduation. I said I had a job lined up at a magazine in DC and she said "that seems to be about your speed."
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 22:48:14 +0000 2021
If Democrats’ current course were causing them to gain Black and Latin vote share rather than lose it, I would feel a lot more comfortable with it. https://t.co/oT9S1x7Ne9
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 22:44:26 +0000 2021
“Don’t ever ask tactical questions or people on the internet will yell at you that you’re a racist” is not an approach that is going to create a strong and successful political movement, https://t.co/R0Q2BsQq5u
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 14:42:49 +0000 2021
New Dallas-area gerrymander just dropped. https://t.co/PaAxahiAbD
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 12:02:04 +0000 2021
@jbarro I would say that both sides carry a fair amount of blame here — back to the tobacco controversies in the 90s and then climate change, conservatives have a bad habit of just rejecting any scientific evidence that implies we need any regulation of anything.
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 20:56:02 +0000 2021
A take I’ve been meaning to do at full length but will just toss off half-assed here for now is that some of what progressives conceptualize as a debate about race and racism plays to a lot of people as a debate about patriotism.
@vgr -- Mon Sep 27 03:11:46 +0000 2021
🙄 https://t.co/pQsPsJdpha
@vgr -- Mon Sep 27 00:53:03 +0000 2021
🤔 a script that replaces all occurrences of ‘expert’ with ‘elite’ As in “experts say xyz” is rendered as “elites say xyz” Would capture big mood very well and also supply lulz I’m not actually in this expert-bashing camp but I find the idea funny.
@vgr -- Mon Sep 27 16:59:56 +0000 2021
👀 👀 https://t.co/pXFXq0EXhS
@vgr -- Sun Sep 26 21:36:45 +0000 2021
“Consumer” internet tech is a bit like psychohistory. The game is not to sell but predict and govern. Ads are the go-to way to make money because making money is almost a misaligned afterthought.
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 10:33:16 +0000 2021
You see in 1618, the Hohenzollern prince-elector of Brandenburg inherited the Duchy of Prussia and…. https://t.co/paE971lbxB
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 12:00:29 +0000 2021
This sounds pretty good, but can we start working after dropoff rather than after pickup? https://t.co/j6N8wmTUit
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 17:49:01 +0000 2021
Conservatives are somehow simultaneously both against executive branch discretion and also long, detailed bills. https://t.co/FtHdsWJiIr
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 10:59:13 +0000 2021
But what if the journalists who know McConnell’s arguments are nonsensical didn’t do this? https://t.co/jlRkJXWfgF
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 12:38:01 +0000 2021
@jimsciutto What @crampell is saying is the bill doesn’t run up debt, it finances new spending by taxing rich people and businesses.
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 19:47:12 +0000 2021
Why would I want to be a political scientist? https://t.co/SHjrDJrXUf
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 18:00:08 +0000 2021
Either “big houses are good, actually” or “there is overwhelming evidence that visible police presence is an effective crime reduction strategy.” https://t.co/tdHXe5V7QH
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 17:52:50 +0000 2021
@Birdyword Fight for ¥1,500!
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 23:13:22 +0000 2021
Uh oh … someone wants to revisit the Schleswig-Holstein controversy https://t.co/oBuMhtZKCz
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 22:53:18 +0000 2021
@DrNoah_MTBC Conveniently, it does not include that.
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 23:06:36 +0000 2021
What is Ozy?
@wafoli -- Mon Sep 27 01:56:43 +0000 2021
Nice little sunset beneath the marine layer https://t.co/qbkLfqqsbD
@TrungTPhan -- Mon Sep 27 06:15:03 +0000 2021
Lesson: No one knows anything...and it doesn’t matter. https://t.co/PzYai8aP7P
@stewartbrand -- Sun Sep 26 23:52:36 +0000 2021
@chrismichel @BWJones The composition!
@sullydish -- Mon Sep 27 21:20:54 +0000 2021
This is what they mean by “diversity”: everyone has the same politics and ideology. https://t.co/xtDQlQ5NQK
@cjsnowdon -- Mon Sep 27 13:31:54 +0000 2021
@btharris93 Just substitute whatever weird thing you like doing instead.
@simonsarris -- Mon Sep 27 01:46:58 +0000 2021
new york city is 4(?) hours away and I have never been https://t.co/fAXRQqMfZ1
@arampell -- Mon Sep 27 18:46:55 +0000 2021
9/ So Target *did* switch 20% of people over, which is impressive — but would those people stick if the 5% rebate went away? Maybe…but probably not? (NB: Target made $172M last quarter in a profit sharing agreement with TD for the Target Credit Card)
@arampell -- Mon Sep 27 18:46:55 +0000 2021
8/ Look at Target. ~$25B in sales, if this were all credit @ ~2% (it’s not) that would be $500M in fees, or a 20% bump to operating income if they eliminated it. Target has something called their RedCard, which now accounts for >20% of sales by…providing 5% (!!) discounts https://t.co/1e9RWAHfw0
@arampell -- Mon Sep 27 18:46:53 +0000 2021
5/ A good rule of thumb: a new technology will take off “automatically” if it’s 10x better and 1/10th the cost. Payments offline just work, hard to make them 10x better (vs online, where many opportunities since people don’t memorize their credentials…lots of abandoned carts)
@arampell -- Mon Sep 27 14:52:50 +0000 2021
“There is no inflation” https://t.co/CG2AIgrpw6
@skupor -- Mon Sep 27 18:50:32 +0000 2021
“Mainstream economics is replete with ideas that ‘everyone knows’ to be true, but that are actually arrant nonsense.” https://t.co/tNQ6GdFSFE
@_captainscience -- Sun Sep 26 21:46:44 +0000 2021
Dinner https://t.co/pQSpK4Ps5V
@K_Niemietz -- Sun Sep 26 20:50:32 +0000 2021
The liberal Chad vs the commie Soyjak https://t.co/S7vOnGj4rP
@ben_mathes -- Mon Sep 27 15:52:00 +0000 2021
@anniefryman time that feels stolen is magical, yes
@MrVinceRocha -- Mon Sep 27 15:41:55 +0000 2021
Checking out the tiny home on display at the Assembly Housing Working Group statewide listening tour hosted by @AsmGrayson with @anunata . https://t.co/SKyqcH5MwY
@WillManidis -- Mon Sep 27 12:44:31 +0000 2021
at some point we’ll realize our elites view America as a special economic zone and not a community of which they are citizens