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Tweets
Whew. If women had had a larger decline, we’d have had a sexism problem to solve. https://t.co/le6ZX9s8kO
The Law of Undignified Failure says that, no matter how sad the failure you imagine, reality will come up with a way to fail that's even less dignified. Before reading this article, try to imagine the stupidest way to fail at making a car's turn signal. https://t.co/W5n0KJWcV8
"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
imma say it, i think ppl's inability to consider morally charged hypotheticals is a sign that society is bad at thinking.
@MarkKoyama @SilverVVulpes ah yes, the Sturdy Windows Fallacy
@johnsperanza @MarkKoyama @SilverVVulpes I declare this thread won
@Benoit03157452 @EliasHasle Minarchist Georgist and above all econoliterate, but you'd have to be a principled libertarian to tell the difference.
RT @diviacaroline: Btw I have frequently heard people (that I respect!) say “but x term clearly isn’t a slur bc it’s only for the members o…
RT @CraigGidney: @PikumaLondon @3blue1brown Another anecdote: my favorite university prof/class covered some quantum computing at the end.…
@mllichti @06rPilot @DogIsABot @caseycapshaw I think you're misunderstanding MS-06R_Pilot. When MS says "employer vaccine mandate" he does not mean "the employer chooses to mandate a vaccine" but "the government has mandated that the employer require a vaccine". Or so I'm inferring from context.
@ESYudkowsky The second tissue box has a million tissues, but only if Omega predicted that you would open only it.
@Mad_Science_Guy @ESYudkowsky The current system doesn’t work. Medical error is the 3rd most common cause of death, even beats covid.
Would like to remind yall I've tweeted thousands of polls, a huge chunk of which try to prod at the grey areas of our moral intuitions. You can see most of the polls in a spreadsheet! https://t.co/q3cfOp9BHo
"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?
@sbkaufman Yep. I'm super nice in person. Not always on Twitter.
@robkhenderson It's interesting how the idea that personality correlates with physical attributes makes people so angry, when pretty much everyone accepts that people are better than chance at figuring out what someone is like based on 1st impressions, largely based on physical characteristics.
My personal conviction- in order to have good relationships we have to cynically understand our motivation and other's motivation to punish. If you believe you are not the kind of person who could ever punish someone- you won't recognize when you do. https://t.co/SQqz3kUKYP
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

@primalpoly According to Redfin: "The average Austin house price was $562,000 last month, up 24.9% since last year."
Why would anyone move from California to Texas?
(Graph shows the percentage of each state's housing stock at each market-value range.) https://t.co/ay83Gwz026

Rufo is the first figure in the anti-Woke movement to get clear results. But I've tweeted before that anti-Wokes do not have a comprehensive long-term strategy other than playing defense and defaulting to "colorblindness," which hasn't (and cannot) create equal outcomes. https://t.co/xYoi2wo6uQ
@IvesParrhesia @primalpoly If you think about the huge variety in the styling and design of cars in the 1950s and 1960s, and then compare that heterogeneity to the homogeneity of cars today, it's easy to understand why young men are no longer fascinated by cars like they used to be back then.
In honour of a new academic year:
Why I find the word 'PROBLEMATIC' problematic:
A Thread
@primalpoly @MissusLaBrie @HenryTarquin @mariootsa @WSJ Punishing *anyone* for a crime THEY DID NOT COMMIT pretty much defines "injustice" everywhere except in The Cult of Social Justice. https://t.co/wQzuLYIrml

just had a frightening thought
what if ethereum was the first cryptocurrency before bitcoin
what would the toxic bitcoin maxis be like then
terrifying
@primalpoly Not me, but, yes, guys under 60 collect these cars. Matt Carriker is a YouTuber who has occasional videos about ‘80s / ‘90s cars he restores. His yt channel is called Off the Ranch.
Listening to my kids watch Godzilla versus Kong in the other room.
“Wheres Kong’s family?”
“They’d be stronger together!”
Me, who teaches multigenerational attachment to foster family estates and preserve generational wealth: https://t.co/dtukJ2wjlA

@primalpoly @KyleKashuv “If you wish to make broccoli from scratch, you must first invent the universe” - Carl Sagan
@philthyluv1989 Anti-male spite, disgust, and revenge aren't compassion or empathy.
@JimHansonDC I thought #1A was supposed to be a formal acknowledgement of a universal human right. not just a right restricted to Americans?
@SigmaLifter She became rich, famous, and widely loved for her acting talent, style, and class?
@margaritaevna95 Or it's mass childcare disguised as formal learning.
@tmbejan 99% of the time in academia, 'problematic' is just a pretentious way of saying 'bad'.
Or 'conservative'.
Or 'male'.
@ThatEricAlper 'NDA' by @billieeilish has been stuck in my head for literally two weeks. Weirdly catchy song.
@MissusLaBrie @HenryTarquin @mariootsa @WSJ If you believe in collective guilt based on sex, do you believe in collective guilt based on religion?
RT @Aella_Girl: Happy Petrov Day! On Sept 26, 1983, Petrov disobeyed orders to report what appeared to be an American nuclear attack (but l…
@a_centrism Austin TX house prices are getting a lot more similar to California though...
Thanks to everybody for the helpful & informative replies, examples, & links!
@HumanMortal1 It only freaks me out a few times a day. ;)
@a_centrism 'Direct contact' = pillaging & plundering?
@MatthewGalanty Nope. 'Diversity' often undermines social trust, cultural cohesion, & coordination efficiency.
Why promote something that is counter-productive as if it's an intrinsic good? Especially if it's being promoted by political enemies who control the narrative?
@philthyluv1989 @primalpoly And the vast, vast majority of males never even saw the outside of a university back then. Hell, most never saw second level education.
@primalpoly When I went on my tour of Australia I bought a 1984 "Olympic Edition" Toyota corona, with digital dashboard and rev counter. Quarter of a million miles on the clock and served me faithfully across huge distances for years, cost 500 dollars. Was almost as old as me, amazing
@primalpoly Much of the attraction to old cars is that you can work on them/tinker with them in your garage using basic tools. Cars from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s require significant knowledge of emissions controls that the average collector would prefer not to deal with.
Announcement: ‘Grace’, the AI robot designed by
@hansonrobotics and @singularity_net to revolutionize care of the elderly, will migrate to Cardano. For a full press release, DM us or email media@iohk.io #CardanoSummit2021 https://t.co/90rOdqAh6H

@primalpoly You know what people actually collect and trade from that time period? F250’s. It’s shocking. They’re in REALLY high demand, especially the early to mid 90’s models.
Hanging out with my crew... We run deep... #Cardano $ADA... https://t.co/CBGWKJkGgr

@primalpoly For more context… https://t.co/InuwbCT7BQ

@primalpoly "It is self-destructive for any society to create a situation where a baby who is born into the world today automatically has pre-existing grievances against another baby born at the same time, because of what their ancestors did centuries ago."
Sowell
@a_centrism @primalpoly That’s not really true. There are plenty of young guys who love modern sports cars. It’s just that the cars from the 90s weren’t of the quality to become collectibles.
@primalpoly The boomers have pretty much priced anything worth having out of reach. The addition of single use parts (airbags, etc) and electronic control systems took a lot of the fun out of working on cars made after the 1970's.
@jimbrady This fact can be found in all of the encyclopedias.
@jimbrady All of us are in the gutter but not everybody is looking at the stars.
@KaiserKuo @jwdwerner @AntheaERoberts Thank you!
To clarify, I am nowhere close to despair. I have just been feeling the loss of this kind of work pretty sharply. Frustrating, yes, very much so, but not fruitless!
Thank you, @BarbaraHallHQ, for having me work on this delightful tv show! It was grand. https://t.co/dW8xyFDuw5
I received verbal abuse on public transport last night for wearing a mask - something I choose to do: (1) to protect others, (2) to try & help public spaces feel less threatening to anyone clinically vulnerable. People are dying of Covid in my hospital. *How* have we got here?
I understand masks have been deliberately weaponised (face nappies for bedwetters etc). But seriously, everyone knows mask-wearing in public is mainly about just trying, in a tiny way, to help vulnerable others. It's the very furthest thing from hateful.
Husband suddenly remembers that he had a terrible dream last night in which he was forced to give one of my lectures... 😂
German election results highlight the many contradictions in its society https://t.co/oEu321pJSM
I know, every Thursday let's clap for HGV drivers. That'll bring them back much better than givng them decent pay and working conditions, and it will save millions that we can hand over to management consultants. Tried and tested.
The Neuroscience of Consciousness - a @five_books interview with @anilkseth, author of Being You https://t.co/OL4IzYyyvS
RT @five_books: “Often in philosophy discussions children inhabit a kind of netherworld, sitting on the fence: they think both yes and no.”…
RT @Raymodraco: I know, every Thursday let's clap for HGV drivers. That'll bring them back much better than givng them decent pay and worki…
@tmbejan Please also problematize ‘problematize’!
Yesterday I visited this green chapel and kept my head https://t.co/M59GiZiUD9

Everyday Philosophy: on Christo’s posthumous wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe @TheNewEuropean https://t.co/nOOQNKYE5G
RT @anitaleirfall: The American Aristotle | Charles Sanders Peirce was America’s greatest thinker | Aeon Essays
Charles Sanders Peirce was…
RT @JDBakewell: Brilliant! https://t.co/TZPuY4UMdI

Max’s first boat ride was on the Kennebec River yesterday 🥰 https://t.co/LZQfRwgKuy

@everytstudies And “being autistic” means that you have noticed this :)
What even is this? Is this comfortable? https://t.co/QADwHwUUcG

@kampeas @SumitaPahwa I finished the job—with baking soda, my go to cleaner. Good workout.
@kampeas A French friend has agreed to share with me all the insults if I do the same for Yiddish.
@abesilbe @kampeas I want in on this! Can share Arabic insults.
@kampeas There are a very small set of folks on the left who call for elimination of all US engagement in the world, against all foreign aide, & against the existence of all nation-states. Those folks I will disagree with, but at least its a consistent worldview & not anti-Israel per see.
@BurtonJM The “money is fungible” argument ultimately leads to the end of foreign assistance. That’s its logical conclusion because no government is clean enough. It’s an argument that at least makes sense for isolationists who often advance it. I don’t know if folks like the DSA get that.
Not sure what this says but I have a feeling it’s an endorsement so thanks #japan https://t.co/b0QKfTBKrD

@kampeas @BurtonJM For a group so opinionated about what govts in Levant should or shouldn't do, I have to say I've never seen them do the whole fungible calculation thing with cost of Gaza rockets vs Gaza homes, bomb shelters, electricity.
I.e. it's flailing for cudgels, not an actual argument.
RT @TheOnion: Long-Silent Facebook Friend Comes Out Of Woodwork With Post Asking About Insulating Windows https://t.co/vsUCJYIiut https://t…
RT @AP: "Freedom means freedom for everybody." In a "60 Minutes" interview, Rep. Liz Cheney says she was wrong to oppose gay marriage in th…
@roripn @rmneiss I need some kid energy me next time @rmneiss trolls me
@RubyNamdar why is the font so tiny? https://t.co/U1wPrhMWas

RT @LauraBenDavd: You do you… #Jerusalem 2021 https://t.co/QX48E5b2qZ

@deaneckles @johnjhorton Guido is a dear friend and collaborator. And you gotta love his accent and sly smile when he tells these stories, no?
“This is a shocking use of unnecessary police force and wrongful incarceration of a deaf man whom the officers attacked after failing to recognize his disability and misinterpreting his attempts to communicate as challenges.” End #policeimpunity https://t.co/vgbeMAGUH8
@jimgeraghty Biden is getting his booster shot now on national TV, so I guess he does do stuff on Mondays!🤣🤣
@chrismichel Holy Moly!!! How cool is that?
Please mind-meld with them ... for me, ok?
In my view, a lot of young men are simply clueless in the sexual domain, but they genuinely don't mean harm. They just have no idea what women actually like and often spend more time competing with other men than being sensitive and listening to the needs of their partner.
Lancet Journal accused of sexism after calling women ‘bodies with vaginas’ https://t.co/HjX3wiyK5N
For all of his talent, Kyrie brings substantial downside in games missed to injury and World B. Flat team disruption, and fair question if Nets are a stronger team by trading him
The divide is 'old environmentalists', like my age, vs young enviro's.
Young ppl, w/ no long-standing, ingrained, knee-jerk recoil of disgust at the mention of 'nuclear' are onboard. It's the old guard who can't get by it & have prevented decades of developmnt. https://t.co/l5PX3xObDF
Just because I am committed to helping people grow into their full potential doesn't mean I have my own growth sorted out. By helping others grow, I am growing as well. I find my clients endlessly fascinating and the complexities of human existence continually challenge me.
@anita4ri Looks really interesting, should I invite the author be on @psychpodcast?
Look, I think we need to have a more nuanced conversation about this topic that is win-win for all genders and also leaves room for growth potential for all genders to learn and grow and become a better lover.
@sbkaufman 1/2) Most people, regardless of gender, simply have no idea what they’re doing sexually — or even romantically — for years. Most people learn through making mistakes, or others’ mistakes, and private communication about those issues. We have to distinguish malice from “being 20”.
@sbkaufman Men (not just young ones) try to woo women by believing women (and everyone else) finds the same thing attractive. That is the only explanation for the shirtless bathroom selfies and car photos. They are completely myopic.
@EPoe187 @NoahCarl90 And then there are the questions science can’t even begin to answer. Such as, to what degree is someone’s position in the social hierarchy a function of their value in the labor market? And are we okay with living in a society organized in such a manner?
The entire nutrition field should pivot.
Stop trying to figure out WHAT, specifically, people should eat (because we don't have the tools to do it).
Start trying to help people (more) with HOW to change habits to eat the things we already know we should. https://t.co/wyg0gZHcZk
The fact that people can't agree on the food choices, despite decades of work by smart people, probably means that it doesn't matter very much.
If there were large effects, we would know them by now.
Eat a wide variety of whole-ish foods you enjoy. https://t.co/IaYBSAX6Rb
RT @kniggem: 🇩🇪🗳 Wow. In eastern Germany CDU (16.9) comes in as third strongest party behind SPD (24.2) and AfD (19.1) in the German electi…
RT @cjsnowdon: The police are a joke. (From the Sunday Times.) https://t.co/eA6XcL7jCt

RT @RupertDarwall: Why would the @theCCCuk resist FOI for two years if, as Chris says, it's never tried to hide its #NetZero cost estimates?
RT @MonaRahalkar: 1. 4991 was RaTG13: Rossana Segreto
2. Mojiang mine associated with RaTG13 and the six miners getting pneumonia: Mona, R…
Been invited to talk about Homer at some places over the years, so I was surprised at how emotional I got when someone from my high school in Maine reached out and asked me to talk about the Odyssey.... https://t.co/VtrngfSXBo

@EconCharlie @mobolito @LeemourSeymour This is a slander I would never animate a slide deck
Ah, so this is why I am getting so many angry emails right now. Because Fox does not understand the difference between net and gross costs https://t.co/skgUXiQ0v6

How long has this guy been a so-called journalist? And he still doesn't understand how congressional budgeting works? https://t.co/ZR5T3BwusA

@mobolito @marthagimbel @LeemourSeymour You didn’t know Martha was nominated for best live animated slide deck?
this one appears to be from a CPA. Wouldn't recommend taking tax advice from this dude https://t.co/tNAa4QDCEI

Thousands of containers are stuck, but the busiest U.S. ports still shut their gates for hours each day. Cargo is rarely picked up on weekends. ‘We have to move to 24/7 operations.’ https://t.co/TiqcqqjLTA
I'll be moderating a Q&A with NY Fed President John Williams today at noon, after he delivers prepared remarks.
What burning questions do you have for him?
The budget resolution Dems passed last month allows them to add no more than $1.75T to deficits. So bill could theoretically score as costing anywhere from $0 - $1.75T, and still pass the Byrd Rule.
In practice seems Manchin would not vote for a bill at high end of that range
as I’ve written, Dems are getting cold feet on some of their own tax hikes (also questionable whether they can fit all their gross costs into $3.5T-sized box). Most likely, even after budget gimmicks, the bill will score as partly but not fully paid for. https://t.co/RXhIwDDnob
It is actually different. TCJA scored as costing $2T *after* accounting for pay-fors (including addit'l econ growth).
Dems say their spending/taxcuts bill will add up to $3.5T *before* payfors. Biden says payfors will be at least equivalent ($3.5T), producing net cost of 0. But… https://t.co/BPY1WbR7Mp
YES to more Brian Stokes Mitchell. And with Audra too!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Lol thank you, putting this on my business card https://t.co/oKcI6Jto3K
New York may tap National Guard to replace unvaccinated healthcare workers
https://t.co/QmKtI2dzRH
Afghanistan: Taliban ban Helmand barbers from trimming beards https://t.co/vYfUzOxQS5
I would amend this to say that it is possible to go beyond this “target” relationship with movement candidates, to truly conspire and strategize together. That is a whole organizing task beyond getting them into office. And doesn’t necessarily transfer between issue areas https://t.co/YrL2skor6k
I got into thinking about the US-China relationship thru international labor solidarity, which I think provides the best antidote to both anti-China nationalism and pro-CCP apologetics
Unfortunately this work is now mostly impossible. You can tell stories but it's not the same
During my time adjuncting, there was one campus I worked at that had an adjunct lounge, which I experienced as a unique space of desperation, burnout, repression. I don't know if we are ready for a TV show that genuinely represents that life
(We just started watching The Chair)
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
I don’t doubt the Salt Bae restaurant is bad but reading this buzzfeed review from March 2020 makes me think the reviewer might’ve had an early case of covid lol https://t.co/RJ9rl6tvSh

New from us:
Trump's Mar-a-Lago buddies -- who were shadow-ruling the VA -- tried to get the govt to sell access to veterans’ medical records.
“Patient data is, in my opinion, the most valuable assets [sic] the VA has,” wrote one dude.
https://t.co/gyXapNSkGE by @iarnsdorf
So, just let the opening line of this email sit with you for a moment.
It's from a consultant to someone given sweeping influence over the VA during the Trump years.
@iarnsdorf @propublica
https://t.co/r7ssyfBGok https://t.co/oJ3raOtEto

lmao my parents weren't wealthy
none of the homeschoo kids I knew were from wealthy families either https://t.co/vKeSahkFHf
Because of the bigotry that permeates our political discourse, you can lie about Iran with impunity. Like the President he’s praising, this liar will not retract his lie & he will never pay a professional price for being a liar. (H/t @AssalRad) https://t.co/uCRyr23gzR
People often explain this kind of thing purely by reference to signalling support of sacred values, etc, but my sense is that another contributing factor is a cognitive failure to understand hypothetical thinking.
If so, intelligence may lead to less signall-y seeming behaviour. https://t.co/5ahuvmIlM8
Another day, another worrisome revelation about Facebook—this time, FB marketplace, used to commit fraud, armed burglaries, and oh, just 13 homicides.
excellent reporting by @propublica
https://t.co/2p8sBWXfjB
“Patient data is, in my opinion, the most valuable assets [sic] the VA has,” a consultant said in a June 2017 email released Monday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. “It can be leveraged into hundreds of millions in revenue” by selling access
https://t.co/rd144jJOCL
Read this @propublica investigation:
Criminals across America have exploited Marketplace to commit armed robberies and homicide. In one high-profile case, a woman was allegedly murdered by a man who was selling a cheap refrigerator on Marketplace.
https://t.co/9JC4dSXVsH
Please follow ProPublica, read their ground breaking investigative journalism work in their website https://t.co/fcskGDAegc
And considering becoming a sponsor for their amazing work.
Oh, and don’t miss their podcast @reveal !!! https://t.co/pvhmz85D45
73%: That's how many people shot at by Jefferson Parish deputies in the past eight years were Black, more than double their share of the population.
In case you missed this @propublica + @WWNO investigation, read it here: https://t.co/Sr6DreUFSw https://t.co/oeUfnbiqyG

RT @hvogell: We are reporting on tenant screening services, so @SmithReports made this handy guide to help you find out what they know abou…
RT @deldeib: When @msanchezMIA revealed in 2018 how tickets harm low-income, Black Chicagoans, I doubt she thought she'd be writing about…
Newly released documents show Trump's Mar-a-Lago pals, including Marvel Entertainment chair Ike Perlmutter, viewed themselves as an official advisory committee & disregarded repeated warnings they needed to comply with a Watergate-era transparency law. https://t.co/cSSAnFn2Qo
Family court often compounded the pain and insult survivors of domestic abuse felt.
One woman was ordered to pay her husband child support while living in a domestic violence shelter.
Another was told to go on double dates with her abusive ex.
https://t.co/iLL49qNit5
“We feel almost at his mercy,” a leader of Jefferson Parish’s black community said of their sheriff.
“I have family members and friends that will not drive in parts of Jefferson Parish. Ever. They just won't do it.”
https://t.co/WF2qCVqEWf
RT @NegarMortazavi: Read this @propublica investigation:
Criminals across America have exploited Marketplace to commit armed robberies and…
In Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish, internal reviews of police violence, misconduct, and in-custody deaths are virtually non-existent.
https://t.co/8NYuoaPMyT
RT @bykenarmstrong: So, just let the opening line of this email sit with you for a moment.
It's from a consultant to someone given sweepin…
RT @schwanksta: “Patient data is, in my opinion, the most valuable assets [sic] the VA has,” a consultant said in a June 2017 email release…
RT @eileenguo: Another day, another worrisome revelation about Facebook—this time, FB marketplace, used to commit fraud, armed burglaries,…
RT @WWNO: 73%: That's how many people shot at by Jefferson Parish deputies in the past eight years were Black, more than double their share…
Citing a June ProPublica report, the committee says there is “credible evidence” of Meadows’ involvement in events leading up to the attack on the Capitol. https://t.co/ZRHaSxztnp
As New Orleans recovers from the aftermath of Ida and the delta variant rampages through the South, it’s important to understand why the city was not better prepared and what, if anything, it has learned from prior disasters. Find out tomorrow: https://t.co/W8Up2KasCE
RT @ericuman: New from us:
Trump's Mar-a-Lago buddies -- who were shadow-ruling the VA -- tried to get the govt to sell access to veterans…
RT @iarnsdorf: NEW docs show Trump’s Mar-a-Lago buddies wanted @DeptVetAffairs to monetize patient data by selling access to major companie…
New: A congressional investigation prompted by ProPublica’s reporting found Trump’s “Mar-a-Lago crowd,” wealthy civilians with no U.S. government or military experience, pursued a plan to monetize veterans’ medical data. https://t.co/OWIEd377KP
中国向海外派出秘密小组将被控经济犯罪的人带回中国,无论这些人受到的指控是否正当。这个全球性的行动让目标人物的家人充当人质,迫使移民成为间谍——本文写的是美国新泽西州一个家庭的经历。 https://t.co/4CDhfjfsC0
Border Patrol agents recorded “hourly welfare checks that had not actually occurred” while 16-year-old Carlos died of the flu in his cell, but DOJ prosecutors who reviewed the case found “no criminal intent” in his death and brought no charges.
https://t.co/MOqbyPb8AQ
In the first year of a new Trump tax break, just 82 ultrawealthy households collectively walked away with more than $1 billion in total savings, an analysis of confidential tax records shows.
https://t.co/I3DFjT6kqm
“There was significant observational evidence that the burning of cane caused respiratory problems,” said Dr. Jean Malecki, who ran the county health department from 1991 to 2009. “I saw firsthand the problems that the people in Belle Glade were facing."
https://t.co/NKN0nHaN2s
Jennifer assumed that the family court in her Wisconsin county would make her safety and that of her son a priority, and that the system would help her cut off contact with her husband.
But it didn’t.
https://t.co/JE6ZSGVD7l
RT @RichardAWebster: 7/ Why is the sheriff so hard to hold accountable?
Under Louisiana’s constitution, the sheriff is unconstrained by o…
In the climate crisis, it’s possible to live in the same place but inhabit different worlds. https://t.co/gkDuSGXGVS
Landlords may use tenant scores to decide whether to rent to you or how much to charge for a security deposit. We've heard from tenants who say their scores resulted in them being denied apartments or being asked to pay double in security deposits.
https://t.co/rINA8Du719
Court professionals handling her case disregarded or downplayed her allegations despite pending criminal charges and 20 pages of notes she took describing 50+ incidents in which she said her husband had physically attacked or threatened her.
https://t.co/DjreKKi2xa
After engineering giant @Bechtel lobbied for changes to Trump's 2017 tax bill, CEO Brendan Bechtel and his two siblings netted deductions of $111 million in a single year.
https://t.co/5Boq5lKlOX
In 2018, ProPublica reported on how vehicle tickets in Chicago disproportionately harm low-income, Black residents. This latest set of reforms proposes lowering ticket costs and providing debt relief for low-income residents. https://t.co/Ay3pE37RhG
“We’re prepared to file hundreds or thousands of arbitration claims if we need to."
https://t.co/AkgSxJR2r8
Footage shows the killing of the 32-year-old Black man in his home by a white officer — over the objections of his Black, more-experienced partner. Both officers are still on duty.
https://t.co/xQVuNWGzYN
RT @propublica: Facebook Marketplace now has 1 billion users buying & selling items worldwide, but if they don't take sensible precautions,…
Stop the Steal leader Ali Alexander has kept a low profile since Jan. 6. But in private, texts show, he has encouraged his allies to prepare for “civil war.”
https://t.co/lqPfGHKmTP
Contrary to the popular understanding that child support is meant to go to kids, more than $1.7B in child support collected from fathers in 2020 was seized by federal and state governments as repayment for mothers & children having been on welfare.
https://t.co/XMtO4etJty
Tami paid for: a computer, headsets, dedicated phone line, background check, training, certification course...all without getting paid. She then spent three weeks fielding calls from AT&T customers, after which she received a single paycheck.
For $96.12.
https://t.co/QCTybtiyAV
RT @RichardAWebster: 17/ When we requested copies of all citizen complaints against its deputies, the sheriff’s office refused, calling it…
An @Entergy exec said the New Orleans power outage after Ida happened because "Mother Nature is the undisputed world champion." @ProPublica and @NPR found that the company failed to take the necessary steps to protect its grid and its customers.
https://t.co/TtslSLYgZU
@KaiserKuo I briefly traversed the other side of Chinese auspicious numbers. https://t.co/HetTUVrwrD

This is not great statistical reasoning in my view. The life saved would much more likely be a stranger than a member of the church. https://t.co/xgZksjEteD

1/Been thinking further on journalistic lessons to be taken from the lab-leak fiasco since yesterday's thread.
The TL:DR of that one is that when a group of sources arguing a controversial take doesn't change/persuade over time, and the counter-arguers do, there's a problem... https://t.co/ruJAxhS8Wj
The news is out!! Today is my first day as @Wikimedia’s Vice President for Global Advocacy!!! Working with a wonderful group of colleagues in service of an incredible global free knowledge community. https://t.co/kWdz3IJwe6
even for me the cost of a whole year of masking feels like more than $10.
I don't find masks burdensome, and I wear them indoors even when not required to do so; but
The 600 congregants could also chip in $10 each to buy mosquito nets and save a life that way. https://t.co/le7oFnbPuK
Start showing MKE skyline shots during Packers national broadcasts, you cowards https://t.co/TIvZUiGzSY
RT @metaAnnelies: @JSEllenberg just started Shape - you got me with "Geometry is the cilantro of math" 😍
@josh_levin @stefanfatsis also learned from Fatsis's article that Mark Moseley isn't in the HoF, I had no idea
@josh_levin @stefanfatsis I was listening to HuaL today and couldn't stop thinking about how much I needed the Fatsis take on that FG.
Man Man @manmanbandband opening for Girl Talk. So good I left 10 mins into Girl Talk because it wasn’t as good as the afterbuzz of Man Man. https://t.co/ecqrun34jG
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane?
Me: Yes, but I'm not that kind of …
Flight attendant: The pilots are wondering if the plane can still fly in characteristic 2.
Me: Oh shit, I hope Brian Conrad's on this plane https://t.co/fRBKncgoYO
@JSEllenberg just started Shape - you got me with "Geometry is the cilantro of math" 😍
@friscojosh 🚨🚨 @JSEllenberg 🚨🚨 Negative proportion alert! Negative proportion alert!
Aww this immigrant and inveterate word nerd (as well as obsessive user of @Dictionarycom !) is sheepishly proud of being used as an example sentence of “perfidy”….below good ol’ Jefferson no less 😂 https://t.co/E6t7rumN7t

How odd that they would put this out on the very day that the State Council announced intentions to restrict "medically unnecessary" abortions. Did CGTN not get the memo? https://t.co/xAwlqsPPjT
@KaiserKuo Yup, you’re done. Suggest culling as more arrive.
The stellar panel consisted of:
Chan Heng Chee – Singapore Ambassador-at-Large;
Kishore Mahbubani – Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute NUS
Chin-Hao Huang – Ass. Professor of Social Sciences Yale-NUS College
Arne Westad – Elihu Professor of History, Yale University
Okay nobody follow or unfollow me: I've reached a most auspicious number (in a Chinese cultural context).
@KaiserKuo @GlennLuk I see all of your tweets in someone else's retweets anyway! OK, pushing you back to 88.9...
The point is so obvious that it should not require a good thread like this to remind, but the sad reality is some ppl do need such a reminder. https://t.co/OaDD3audZA
“I see all the things that are not going right. I’ve seen a few good things, but it’s limited. This is the biggest for sure,” said @NCUSCR President @sorlins on the recent release of Meng Wanzhou. “I hope this drives positive momentum,” he told the @WSJ. https://t.co/sI6zBa6CYh
@GlennLuk No no no! You I must keep!! @RianThum will I hope come back now that he’s made the joke.
RT @NCUSCR: “I see all the things that are not going right. I’ve seen a few good things, but it’s limited. This is the biggest for sure,” s…
@gwbstr You're definitely onto something here. A very disturbing trend, because it's not done out of humility (i.e. a recognition that US ≠ global) but out of a darker impulse.
GODDAMMIT, people followed me and now it's 88.9K. Was good while it lasted!
Or maybe it's in the spirit of, "Once more, China proudly swims against the tide!"
@NeysunM @donaldcclarke I sold my soul for rock 'n roll. Struck a shit deal. At least I could have gotten some better chops in the bargain. Who sells their soul for guitar mediocrity?
@NeysunM @donaldcclarke I'mma take it up to 6666 and keep it there forever. Hail Satan!
@rkmosser It's not that granular, but yeah basically. 88.8K.
@tobitac @jwdwerner @AntheaERoberts You guys are such an important voice in this whole conversation because your values are rooted in the right place. Long live progressive internationalism!!
@tobitac @jwdwerner The people who've embraced your approach end up in a place where they can see the baneful impact of ethnonationalisms on both sides, can see the pros and cons of globalization — it's really useful just to up the integrative complexity, as @AntheaERoberts would say!
@tobitac As fruitless and frustrating as you might think it is, the lens and the approach are still valid and valuable. What you and @jwdwerner have been advocating still produces much more enlightened perspectives. It still forces us to think about issues from the POV of Chinese workers!
@bcamcrane @roger_garside @ChinaFile There's an amusing interview he did with @wstv_lizzi on her YT show in which after his whole time-for-a-coup schtick he's asked about his pref btwn Trump & Biden China policies. Suddenly he's all "It would be wholly inappropriate as a foreigner to interfere in domestic affairs"
@KaiserKuo @rkmosser Six more and you've hit the jackpot. https://t.co/ChwPolX02s

@KaiserKuo @kevtellier Excellent thread. Thank you for the recommendation, Kaiser. BTW, love Sinica podcast
And I would search everywhere just to hear your call... for now I've lost everything... I gave to you my soul...
#Afterglow
#WindAndWuthering
#Genesis
#BritishProgRock https://t.co/MGbzpavezr

@gonglei89 @KaiserKuo Ouch.
Greetings from the lucky side :) https://t.co/GkFX8mpeHz

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.
"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

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.
another supply chain explainer thingie cc @scrivenix https://t.co/Db86zpZgwg
Sorry to mislead, gm is good morning, gmi is gonna make it https://t.co/vYODqnzEjY
If this is the “rose of Jericho” I don’t think I want to meet the other plants from there https://t.co/eP585YIoBC
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.”
Absolutely crazy what Red State Americans have done to themselves, and what Blue State Americans have done to their children and mental health. Truly, a pox on both your houses. https://t.co/mi4g6cthbl

@mattyglesias “Harvard (presumably not deliberately) is selecting students whose political views are way to the left of the U.S. national average.” Seems a pretty unjustified assumption given they fight tooth and nail for a more subjective admissions process.
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.
@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.
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?
They don’t make Adam Smiths like they used to. https://t.co/fmj03PHFgb
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
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
The Sopranos is so good that the imperfections (tada! out of nowhere it’s Ralphie Cifaretto!) are grating.
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
Isn’t it strange how Republican politicians are always introducing legislation and announcing it on Twitter but never discussing whether to get rid of the filibuster, even when they’re in power?
What should a young person who wants to go into academia but is afraid of the political climate do? "it’s an agonizing question... wait until you have tenure before you express your most outrageous opinions." https://t.co/O6Kr1XPRNM

I interviewed @sapinker about his new book for the @CSPICenterOrg podcast. A brief thread with some highlights. https://t.co/M4tbtt0W3x
Sort of crazy how we never talk about the fact that educated urbanites in Egypt took to the streets for democracy, overthrew the government, lost one election, and then two years later successfully protested to get rid of democracy. A lot of things are like this.
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
Texas is sort of quietly Georgist https://t.co/Zy6JvEbGBW
Kudos to anyone who forecast that supply chains would hold up just fine during a severe pandemic but then become a total mess once the pandemic wasn't an issue any more.
Did anyone predict that?
https://t.co/qHWULK50J1
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
💰💕 @nicolbrow
We hope you can join us!
https://t.co/TcAHvOMfAB
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
@visakanv yes let's please. need a little time on my side to get settled too.
@eigenrobot @_epictweetus_ @shriyanevatia https://t.co/xmFNP8pWAe
@eigenrobot @_epictweetus_ @shriyanevatia I tried to warn everyone https://t.co/2MHARhcCOY
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.
nyc is making me realize I’m less of an extravert than I thought
Happy Petrov Day! On Sept 26, 1983, Petrov disobeyed orders to report what appeared to be an American nuclear attack (but later turned out to be a false alarm), thus probably averting full fledged nuclear war.
Petrov Day celebrations are some of my favorite:
@visakanv @eigenrobot "advanced damage" is going to live rent-free in my head
@visakanv @redcar_tenken wack. glad it's not just me at least
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
@nbouscal @visakanv list of reasons you shouldn't make lists
@visakanv it was good enough for the buddha after all
https://t.co/sGStF7i5IG
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
@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
@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
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
"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
@visakanv that's what the tiddies were for 😂
https://t.co/lJ5PiPYzIn
today i learned that when i tweet on acid i should hide everything i'm thinking behind at least one layer of indirection
i like you guys. thanks for hanging out with me at 4 in the morning
@visakanv appreciate the correction and the reminder 🙏
neil was only a symbol of a voice in my own head here anyway 😬
@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
@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 😂
@visakanv in like a real stentorian voice, like OAK-KNOWAAAAAAAAAAAH
@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
@visakanv speaking of magic and etymology, you probably saw this already but gonna link to it again anyway
https://t.co/4pCB1Szx8N
@visakanv that last bit made me think about spellcasting and now i'm thinking about yeeting spells
@movebetterproj @visakanv thanks for the reply 🙏 will get back to you after i try some of this out!
A Critical Analysis of Eggs and Cardiovascular Disease (The Eggscapades)
https://t.co/psKpUdDblm
Great article about @FedericoArdila and how he builds community in his classrooms. https://t.co/ooXKpPueau https://t.co/ZbpCe9tfJY

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
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
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
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
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
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
@visakanv Kind of like this? https://t.co/TUYrURhLpw
@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?
@ByrneHobart *also* Assigned as busywork because I was too good at reading.
@ByrneHobart Wait that story was Dahl?! Gave me nightmares for years.
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
@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.
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...
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
The lack of an edit button on Twitter despite the increased use of threads is basically a war crime.
@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.
@eigenrobot Probably more often people don't want to consider morally charged hypotheticals because they distrust the motives of the people asking.
@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.
@ejames_c I shall scribble a furious diatribe against large margins in the margins of this book.
What’s normal has nothing to do with what you should be ashamed of. It’s extremely okay to be sexually weird. It’s perfectly fine to fall outside the averages when it comes to anything around sex. All adult, consensual sex is inherently morally neutral regardless of popularity https://t.co/3g5eCVzuqn
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
Esoteric truth?: Taiwan is strategically a lot less important to the U.S. than foreign policy experts are willing to say. And the smart ones know it.
@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.
Wallace Shawn is Ian Fleming’s James Bond in…When Death Is On the Line https://t.co/bB6qjMtKu4
Watching a college football documentary w/bro-in-law that shows backdrop of a coach’s glorious home. Suddenly reminded of a famous 1940 cartoon about financial advisors. It featured the caption: “Yes, but where are the **customers’** yachts?”
I’ll have more to say about it later, but @samuelmoyn’s Humane is superb and you should read it.
me: I love david byrne :)
men, immediately: did you know he was in a band? google talking heads :) thank me later :) :) :)
The original hawkish argument against the deal was that Iran would cheat. Then when Iran fully complied for more than 3 years, they switched to saying that they had to no need to cheat because the deal was so good for them. Trump reneged because he wanted to kill the deal. https://t.co/chAUi7Wfr1
@Bowl_of_Worcel no! but neither am i! we have so much in common
RT @CasMudde: 🚨 #GermanElection2021 🚨
Much clearer lead for #SPD now, while AfD falls to fifth! This is closer to last polls! #btw21 http…
RT @elgindy_: Josh Mandel is an unrepentant bigot and supremacist.
RT @MarkTFitz: @GordonGChang Gordon, with respect, your assertion is factually incorrect. As attested to by a dozen IAEA reports, Iran was…
RT @BrewerEricM: People often forget that Trump didn’t withdraw because of Iranian non-compliance. Indeed, in leaving the deal, he cited th…
Is there any subject that Chang isn’t wrong about? Not that I’ve seen https://t.co/gNAofkEdyH

@JustinTLogan @SWGoldman Since their main function seems to be bailing out the incompetent local government, I’m not sure this is an improvement.
Lately I’ve been forgiving a lot of people who hurt me, and forgiving myself for the time I spent caring what those same people thought about me. Highly recommend.
Feel sorry for the long-running "Jeopardy!" champion who has to keep coming up with autobiographical bits for the small-talk segment.
RT @corymassimino: paleos: not letting me refuse service to black people is totalitarianism
also paleos: letting people refuse service to…
RT @archpundit: What's weird about this there is a significant rate of myocarditis and periocarditis for younger people after having COVID-…
NYT story on Texans going to Oklahoma for abortions doesn’t address what happens if someone sues OK clinics under the Texas law.
The St. Louis Cardinals have won 16 games in a row.
Biden embraces a new strategy to curb overdose deaths. The latest from @SteveChapman13. https://t.co/7Qt2zGcX2q https://t.co/kBsVNl78fl

I wrote FIVE. Five helps, right? https://t.co/pfHTCShpY9
In recent years, the concept of threat inflation has rightly become common in U.S. foreign policy debates. I would nominate the related concept of "threat misdirection," for threats that are real but are treated as threats to the United States when they actually affect others.
RT @CatoFP: . @stephenwertheim joined @jwcglaser on #PowerProblems to discuss 20 years of failed post‐9/11 national security policies, th…
Delighted to see my article on the Bullwinkle statue made the cut. https://t.co/w8AFhi9zSi
So proud of this new podcast with @davidsirota @JigsawProds and the great team from @transmitterpods https://t.co/INliZ4vCJk
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
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 😔
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
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
All hail the miracle zero-calorie BBQ pulled chicken with spicy cole slaw sandwich. https://t.co/bz3Lb5pUJV

@visakanv @eigenrobot With great need for rationalisation comes great power for rationalisation. 😛
@visakanv I saw this the other day and thought "maybe they should try it"
https://t.co/PSaOmD9mbb
@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.
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.
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
@merott don't need no weak hands around here
https://t.co/FotDlJt5WF
The YouTube search history at this Airbnb is killing me https://t.co/GAHRuqDYFq

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
Shut
(and I cannot emphasize this enough here)
up.
https://t.co/5IDA6G4vdv
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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!
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
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
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
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
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
PASS THE DAMN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL RIGHT NOW.
https://t.co/elVn2haNL8
Anthony, no. Imagine if everyone else made half-baked tweets hoping for someone else to correct them. https://t.co/qOk1V2Z7JY
@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
omg i may have found my next tatt idea 😻 https://t.co/mIajIkUfDs

me & @nwilliams030 in Brooklyn irl in like 5 years https://t.co/JPvho73807
@DRMacIver Clearly the large margins are an invitation for you to scribble and make notes 😉
@sentientist Yeah, I think the concern some have is that people might use rough and somewhat accurate guesses to then treat people unfairly because they happen to have characteristics they didn't choose
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?
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 = 🤦🏽♀️🧨
@visakanv Me reading y’all’s tweets https://t.co/HxZhWgEa5d

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
@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"
@visakanv got surgery a few years ago to realign my septum, could breathe thru both nostrils again, bruxism stopped, toothache disappeared. shit complicated
@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
@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). ...
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
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
@wholebodyprayer @visakanv I think @fortelabs - but he did a lot of the work himself iiuc
@visakanv That's the only take away i had from GTD methodology
@briandavidhall @anthrowittering Not getting conquered by agrarian civilisations and watching tv. Why?
@visakanv @selentelechia @eigenrobot intelligence autobahn when?
@visakanv @selentelechia @eigenrobot intelligence is horsepower, not steering.
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

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
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
the word "yeet" is so powerful because it's grounded in ancient etymology https://t.co/zU2S7XPScq

You’re not a _true_ San Franciscan, are you? Where are you _actually_ from? https://t.co/spsegQ2x8f

@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.
I would just like to say that I told them not to do this THREE YEARS AGO when consulted. https://t.co/NISwpQkKJd
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
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
@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.
@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.
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
@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).
@ashleydzhang @visakanv just enough to be slightly but not terribly uncomfortable I think
@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"
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
Women’s health is still a medieval horror https://t.co/757aTDltdf
Freud didn’t identify mommy/daddy issues he memed them into existence
TSA agents asking a lot of questions already answered by my "I have a dick" shirt
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 😅
@visakanv [soothing, reassuring noises, identifying and naming feelings because now is not the time to do a root cause analysis and problem solve]
@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
@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
@sharanvkaur there also is in the US...also see Chinese and Japanese solidarity with Black Panthers etc
The Internet ruins everything
@visakanv This book and a theracane clear up most stuff for me https://t.co/UoMYV1w1EP

Today’s my first day at @Shopify!
Excited to join the Editorial & Media team to tell stories about entrepreneurs, creators, and builders. 🚀
@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.
@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.”
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

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
@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
Bad news everybody
I'm already tired of doing laundry 😫
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
@AbstractFairy More simply put: “X doesn’t mean to them what it means to you. Tell each other what X means to you.”
@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.
@visakanv Not being like my older family w massive dysfunction and savior complex (and buy love) was a major W on my part
@AnneSelke best decision ever and it's smooth as a baby's bum https://t.co/5rm05SuGZA

I’ve seen many of the best minds of my generation ruined by theory. https://t.co/MvMtbJWzLW
@wholebodyprayer I know someone and @visakanv RTd ya - dm me!
i keep trying to explain how i feel about this & can never quite capture it. i'm going to keep trying, though.
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
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.
@SamoBurja I wasn't having fun on the internet before reviving my Twitter account, but now I am!
@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.
@wholebodyprayer Having a bunch of kids keeps things real!
@wholebodyprayer Love this quote. So much of my searching as been driven by self-hatred
That Nat guy. Wish I could delete his account. So overrated https://t.co/xQth7xwkBj
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
its so weird how introspecting makes me better at understanding and helping others
like yo wtf i thought i was being selfish
cc: @visakanv @sam_havens would you guys know something?
@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.
@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
@hormeze @visakanv lacrosse balls have helped me with plantar fasciitis
https://t.co/LLlbrgbnPI
'clout' is real and it is important. and i'm going to get it
@movebetterproj @visakanv @Caroline30 Oh looks like you did already reply amazing https://t.co/PjOOEGj7VC
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
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

@visakanv [grumpy whining about the state of my mental environment after creatinf my mental environment]
@visakanv @nbouscal @amasad ah but the infection is likely complete, and he is one of Us now, for better or worse *nod*
Do we think I’m on tiktok too much? I just said “teacher fit check!” to myself in the mirror
@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
@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
@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
@AdamSinger yep. distribution is continually disrespected, underestimated, and yet the primary multiplier of value
this still feels like "the best avengers are captain america, iron man and hawkeye" 😅 https://t.co/ubFlQCadmV
@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
@dcanosa I agree with LOTR, tho maybe Star Wars is on the same level
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
@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
@RichardMCNgo haha yea I was expecting to get my ebook done much, much earlier
I'm cool with either option, up to you
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
curiosity is socially regulated because people are afraid of its power
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
I must say, that’s a pretty good-lookin’ slide https://t.co/zSur7mTfIV
@briandavidhall @anthrowittering still true of !kung bushmen today I think, or recently-ish https://t.co/uTykrFpHzT
@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
@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"
@kylascan ❤️💪🏾🔥 we shall be heralds of the dawn of a new age!!
joke about the outcomes you want https://t.co/SGzNLgGpvU
@IanVanagas scans to be broadly true, although I think it's possible to do/manage exceptions to the rule (but you need exceptional people)
@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
@maiab always funny to rediscover: https://t.co/tvh6a0HatF
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
@thesravaka @selentelechia @eigenrobot yup, and at higher speeds the accidents are more grotesque
RT @chanamuu: Went down a brief Marcus Aurelius rabbit hole via Maria Popova (@brainpicker)’s inimitable newsletter & still thinking about…
@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
@redcar_tenken @QiaochuYuan still breaking, but i now need to search twice instead of like 5-7 times
@DRMacIver aside: baldassare castiglione was a classy mf, he would've been great on twitter https://t.co/1DeGhFncku

@Treehouseriots I think i'm progressing towards it bit by bit, still in the stumbling stage
@DRMacIver me if I could restitch threads by moving tweets around: https://t.co/0Dc3WaCwmf https://t.co/ZSGx2j5D35

idk how long I spent on this couple of paragraphs, and for what, but i'm deleting the whole thing https://t.co/hyNb1fCPJC

@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
@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
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
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
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
@redcar_tenken realistically i must be honest it is too far down my list of priorities for me to ever do anything with it
[grumpy whining at problems I made and chose for myself]
@AshtearLucca it's a very good face, congrats!! very... cinematic? theatrical? you look like a video game protagonist, a lady of intrigue
(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)
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
@mahhnav not really sure how to answer this question
the general thing is to focus on what you want to see more of
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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
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
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
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
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
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...
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
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
[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"
@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
@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
@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
@krishnanrohit @mbateman this allows for a much quicker "recovery" because there's much less shock and confusion
@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
@DanielCJonas saw this when doing a filter:follows search! nice
@QiaochuYuan you cannot sort this out by thinking, you can only sort this out by doing https://t.co/PGGQhIksya
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

@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"
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

@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
@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
@eigenrobot in case above tweet unclear https://t.co/jZuQSJ7uFW https://t.co/9iXOJu9G0w

@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
@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
@eigenrobot many intelligent people are *advanced* bad at thinking
@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
@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

@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
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

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
@QiaochuYuan history, mostly just a bunch of dudes https://t.co/qweyOzjEY8
> "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
> 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
Engels praising Dante when trying to appeal to Italians to make communism happen
("post" should be "poet", oops)
https://t.co/3LpdrvVVtQ
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
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

-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

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
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...
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...
@sagar__dubey @wholebodyprayer @fortelabs cc @espacewalk https://t.co/OpetWtjQOs
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

RT @nat_sharpe_: That Nat guy. Wish I could delete his account. So overrated
@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
no no I haven’t started yet I’ll start now I need to get coffee first
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
going to Log Off to work on my book for at least 4 hours
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
@nbouscal @amasad yea we met when I was in SF! he does amazing steaks
wait @amasad are you even American 😂😂 have you been there too long or what
only Americans are ever confused about why humans want to go to the global schelling point https://t.co/7RBfsXdfdK
@AbstractFairy Yup. We would immediately start specialising
RT @wholebodyprayer: Has anyone here successfully commissioned/produced a documentary, and would have time to chat for an hour ? We are sit…
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

@BellaRudd1 drinking is definitely an important part of the equation
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
we can appreciate each other’s culture and have a great time https://t.co/6sJsXaeNOU
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
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
RT @movebetterproj: Absolutely incredible day on twitter. Thank you @visakanv for the signal boost! If I missed your request, reply to this…
@LightningShade0 @Aella_Girl in this case I thought about what I would have wanted as a 13yo
@CarstenStolz yes this is where I think I’m headed too! Thanks
look through these folks’ followings and you should be able to find lots! https://t.co/NJzrojy94k
@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!
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
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
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
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
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
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!)
meditate on death and the impermanence of all things
I’m serious lol
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
past like 20k followers, or once it starts to annoy you, turn off all the notifications
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
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
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
(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)
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
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
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
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
@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.
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
@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
@visakanv & when it comes to dancing, we absolutely share the same levels of energy..love this
@danbarker @CableKent @ChloeAngyal tldr; No, they didn't know each other at all before the proposal.
@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.
@visakanv fun fact, his burial monument is a cenotaph (empty honorary tomb) & is quite impressive
https://t.co/JZl80Hzb1i
@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?
@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.
@nbouscal I had to shatter my ego to recognise this truth
https://t.co/qxK1yr5nNf
@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.
@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.
@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
@movebetterproj Thank you so much for what you do! Now a loyal follower. Hope Ziggy has a great fetch session!!
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. 😢❤️
I am officially allergic to the words “digital transformation”.
@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.
@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
@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”
@visakanv Thanks for this thread, this is really helpful and insightful Visa
Be careful of how you describe yourself, it shapes your self image
@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)
@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.
This one ethical solution to this wild ass hypothetical https://t.co/IakRJXIbW0
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
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.
i need to become a whole lot smarter a whole lot faster if i’m gonna keep talking with u lot
@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
paramore: “of all the weapons you fight with, your silence is the most violent”
me: https://t.co/GqWNvNAPOP

@visakanv Thank you, Visa! I aspire to intrigue and living like there's a save file, so I'm glad that comes across
@visakanv I hate to suggest it to you but this is a cash money ebook
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

@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
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.
@tasshinfogleman @Malcolm_Ocean Sounds great, excited for it! Thanks Tasshin
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?
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

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
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
@nat_sharpe_ I love seeing your thriving joyful family life. Full of love = full of spirit
@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
“If you want to be a philosopher king first become a king then become a philosopher. Not the opposite.” ― Naval Ravikant
@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.
@LACTAlD That is class extension-based pain. This whole playlist is for you, kethi: https://t.co/zTX0d9QRTg
also though me to myself - an important reminder:
https://t.co/v1rQMlQ8Df
@visakanv the opposite of self-deprecating humor is self-manifesting humor, or something like that
one of the big keys to impressing people is quitting while you're ahead https://t.co/zODTpSjjSl
@QiaochuYuan @visakanv astute observation https://t.co/wJRPcYWorq
@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.
@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.
@visakanv @amasad haha he is not. he’s been there about a decade iirc. (worked with him briefly at codecademy)
@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.
@visakanv but i love hawkeye
https://t.co/8Iw6l2CANI
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
@tjrwriting @visakanv I think this is the one: https://t.co/zMhSBcbgzV
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
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
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
Felt cute, might delete later, idk tho https://t.co/BxYeGGE7qN

Me spending the weekend stretching - https://t.co/oOv2L9R6Zh
On Mondays we draw the skyline with continuous lines and brush pens 🎠 https://t.co/7RTrBysFY0

@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
@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
@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.
@visakanv ex: New Netherlands was founded by traders looking to expand commerce, now home of the NYC & NYSE
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.
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

@visakanv still haven’t figured out what is a healthy level of inner self/personal life to broadcast online! 😖
@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
@maiab @visakanv [sporadic “mmmhm”s in support of this response]
@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
@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
@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

“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”
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.
@movebetterproj @selentelechia @visakanv been playing around with it a bit, think i figured it out. Remarkable relief thank you again
@visakanv Or maybe we could turn it into an Aristotelian anime. 🤔
@visakanv I was feeling like that yesterday! Back to writing today!
@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.
🪄 yeet all obstacles in my way https://t.co/9u2ct234YA
@visakanv Perhaps the closest artist to him (from the above perspective) would be Homer
@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.
@scantypop Its like A fault in our stars but extremely inappropriate
Pretty awesome! First Senatorial candidate proposing that the US government buy a strategic reserve of Bitcoin. https://t.co/CGW48ZJN43
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
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.
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

"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
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
@evinism @ZachWeiner *scratches out “STONKS” and writes “hidden layers”*
@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
@kevinsekniqi My alt is @udiWertheimer
https://t.co/3hQWibypqX
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!
It was pretty cool to close out the Transcendental Analytic with a solid endorsement of Kripke's line on the possibility of unicorns
RT @evinism: @ZachWeiner this is an absolute classic, and i love it so much. https://t.co/FQEjnV8wEL

@ZachWeiner @IrisVanRooij @_katemckay @callynfarrell @matildagordon23 this reminds me of the amygdala from the talk in Friday lol
@KeithNHumphreys I pointed this out once to a Harvard student, it was not well received
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!
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
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

@KDbyProxy @JoyceWhiteVance My view of gerrymandering is sort of like my view of nuclear weapons. It would be nice to have mutual disarmament. Unless that happens I am in favor of the Democrats gerrymandering.
But, what if the corporation has sincerely held religious belief the abortion should be legal and that all people should be able to vote? https://t.co/4cqJnGnvvT
Nothing to worry about, just a member of Congress passing a law to make clear (in case anyone had any doubts) that the rights granted corporations under Citizens United were only supposed to be used to benefit the GOP. https://t.co/zlv34fArvf
Well this went a little far afield from charging more for fantasy artwork.
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

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

This is how peanuts really grow [source of the gif: https://t.co/RGVN3OODG2] [read more: https://t.co/QNGUbrDtZK] https://t.co/SKIFub42Eg

Chinese Supremacy, yes, but not a golden age
https://t.co/wgLmU92Xbb
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
@curiouswavefn The terse "every word in its place" makes me wonder how the translation was achieved.
@Robben4days There is a tight link between energy, temperature and entropy that those creatures would have to obey. (sneaking past it requires very unusual initial conditions contrived to allow it, but these are not generic states) https://t.co/5dbJYkurLg
@Robben4days In a high dimensional space there are many more directions that don't go in a positive direction than do, but the same is true for negative. "Easier to mess up than to create" is likely due to entropy rather than complexity. We often care about sensitive systems.
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
@eigenrobot @oscredwin @orthonormalist "If everyone would just" but they don't realize that everyone will not just
@eigenrobot @oscredwin @orthonormalist wtf this is bonkers
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
“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.
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.
A good thread about Charge More and other advice for services work, featuring (by context) fantasy-theme commissioned artwork. https://t.co/NKBGoLSbsA
None of us get this stuff perfect all the time. None of us are our best selves every time we leave the house.
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?
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?
We have given each other trust and freedom, with the belief that everybody has to find their own way," he said. "And marriage for us can't be a prison.” (Isn’t this like the sixth time this has been “revealed”?) https://t.co/WraIB73Iri
In foreign policy it’s highly likely that the next 🇩🇪government will have a somewhat sharper tone on both 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳.
Schadenfreude: The pleasure when seeing another person’s misfortune
Gluckschmerz: The pain upon seeing another person’s good fortune
@mattyglesias A problem with art - it has to be near-perfect so as to not break the spell
@MatthewJBar It's arguably evidence of concern. I'm not saying that it's evidence that such concern will translate into animal welfare. But we might have other reasons to believe that.
@MatthewJBar Another interpretation is that growth leads to increased concern for animals, which you might think is likely to lead to more animal welfare, in the long run.
@Kirsten3531 @ChanaMessinger @sullyj3 I'm not a fan either
NU DÅ? Kan vi göra något åt detta elände nu? Det är, som många många har påpekat, livsfarligt.
Bort med dem!! :-( https://t.co/PleYtwI0gu
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
"If men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier generation, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle.”
- Fukuyama
The only self help book I ever really loved was how to win friends and influence people. It advised listening to people, learning their names, and learning what was important to them. I think Dale Carnegie was probably good at those things!
But most self help folks not so much
Big Five related to immune function measures... https://t.co/5d5fsjqN4k https://t.co/NRDYDJvgwm

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.
Lesson: No one knows anything...and it doesn’t matter. https://t.co/PzYai8aP7P

The data on age and COVID is very striking.
https://t.co/K1r26yC75R
Shows how important the framing here is:
- Chinese people will get wealthier 😃
- China will increase global inequality 😡
What exactly does the latter metric contribute? https://t.co/OCI9nLFaC4
"Ashkenazi Jewish genetics: a match made in the Mediterranean - How and when did the Ashkenazim come to be" https://t.co/8A2eFrPR79 https://t.co/kJKq9p8s7a

Accurate depiction? I'd say so. https://t.co/h1iVyhTkee

@thomasj89592431 Your professor would get rich by inventing an IQ test on which blacks do better ... if it had the same predictive validity: aye, there's the rub.
This is good news. I am hoping Universities will also lead on considering off-ramps for indoor masking. https://t.co/2wxx5Kn48z
@sentientist you know asimov wrote a book in which he appears as a character and does transgressions
https://t.co/Pg9R1oOFAj
@sentientist Depends: have the duck-sized horses been treated with ivermectin?
People are reading a lot more into this than there is. People can find psychological treatment worse than physical treatment sometimes- it's interesting to find out when. https://t.co/kdFd1ts3g8
@razibkhan @sbkaufman Yes, I think you both get more combative about (what you think are) wrong ideas and are pretty friendly with people even if they endorse (what you think are) wrong ideas.
Yesterday, a cow called me a TERF
https://t.co/jQePU71qNA
RT @sentientist: I polled men on Twitter about if they would prefer to be slapped or to get silent treatment, get yelled at, have a long di…
A word hasn't been this confusing since people started calling tall good looking women "stallions"
So the verdict from the comments is that now you can be called a TERF (transexclusionary radical feminist) if you believe in sex differences or binary sex regardless of whether or not you are a feminist or radical of any kind.
so... most humans are TERFS now. https://t.co/kUk3JYK9Go
@SarahTheHaider My following has basically the same sex ratio, and I don't even post nudes.
This poll making fun of me is actually pretty funny. https://t.co/upHLFSRUhS
So... is everyone objectionable on trans issues called a TERF now regardless of whether or not they are actually a feminist?
RT @heuristicism: would you rather fight:
A) one woman who slaps her boyfriend instead of giving him the silent treatment
B) three termi…
@mongreloutsider he tried to grope women without permission- the old school English term for is "a masher"
RT @sapinker: Most talk of eugenics is muddled (confusing heritability, an empirical fact, w a political policy) & historically ignorant (…
@natalia__coelho So true- why didn't we include saving these beautiful creatures as an option
This disparity in treatment, plus things that other public figures have gotten in trouble for (e.g. Cuomo) have made me think that since #MeToo we've elevated sexual harrassment or sexual assault to the level of murder or criminal negligence that results in death.
"Would you rather fight one horse sized duck or 100 duck sized h..."
"How dare you imply I would hurt an animal!!"
RT @TomChivers: On the bipartisan nature of bullshit https://t.co/DJJdCxr63e
@PsychdOnScience @JeffGassen @EmilyCorrigan10 @sarahehillphd Awesome
I've seen a lot of tweets about the transgressions of Isaac Asimov now that The Foundation series has premiered. But, I don't remember seeing anyone talk about how Philip K Dick tried to kill two of his wives when Bladerunner came out.
Moral artists or Abundant art- pick one
@rebeccarightnow @IonaItalia Sometimes I'll tell my partner exactly what I want to hear & how I want to hear it about our disagreement/argument. They can choose what they agree with and respond with that. It feels less good than if they say something conciliatory without a crib sheet, but this is faster.
Starting tomorrow! I'm part of a 6 day love and relationships forum including talks, online mingling and breakout sessions. Me and @primalpoly are giving talks on the 29th.
https://t.co/EIYfYFzH12 https://t.co/PxzRRjXMVZ

Posting hot takes- not so intermittently reinforced- more like a rat at random intervals that presses a lever and gets cocaine or an electric shock.
People generally aren't punished for skewering hot takes like toddlers generally aren't punished having tantrums in public.
Intermittent reinforcement schedules, where a reward is given a random interval, especially when the reward is large, produce the most compulsive behavior
Like:
Slot machines
Toddler throwing a tantrum in public
Posting screenshots of people's hot takes on Twitter https://t.co/4iSQH7WtBe

@razibkhan This is the problem with the high unemployment rate both here and in Europe. It used to be that on Monday morning people had something better to do than write angry tweets at strangers.
@josilenepower Unfortunately my Portuguese, at its best, was only good enough for me to talk to my Mom about my day. But thanks :)
RT @RichardHanania: Groups most in favor of using technology to make babies more intelligent: men, Hispanics, and liberals. https://t.co/Jf…
Also:
-these are just hypotheticals on Twitter
-I can't make hundreds of people answer the way that I want
-so, get a grip
https://t.co/6cqDleQ1JY
Basically, men/women often have different ideas of "punishment". My personal view is that by understanding that manipulation is part of our natures can consider how we relate intentionally, whether that involves trying to change another person or not.
https://t.co/XX6kZxRVsl
"Why didn't you include people rationally talking things out?" Looks like men strongly prefer to be slapped than go to couple's counseling and slightly prefer a long conversation that includes no verbal abuse to being slapped https://t.co/Wh730ezAMx https://t.co/5R4loiBzMH

Men strongly preferred a slap to being yelled at for half an hour. In general, I think women might underestimate how, for men, a moment of aggressively inflicted physical pain might be less aversive than even a relatively short period of verbal anger. https://t.co/CgZKaWfBWD https://t.co/vCBCFHYbaO

The only way that we can know if someone considers a behavior painful/punishing is to ask- in this case I silent treatment to a slap, which most people agree is abusive. In this poll people were surprised men slightly preferred a slap to silent treatment. https://t.co/EldZn2rbq8 https://t.co/hcFO0OZKha

We have ideas about what is abuse or acceptable behavior in relationships. But we really don't know how painful a behavior is *to the person we are doing it to* unless we ask. For instance, many people would prefer corporal punishment to prison.
https://t.co/E6GlaMSzV0
Lots of my mentions said that silent treatment was abuse. Most men do not think it is abuse and women, even though the above says they're more likely to use silent treatment as a tactic, were also more likely to also say silent treatment *is* abuse. https://t.co/7XljLr31HT https://t.co/2nmhpkaMsE

When I asked, silent treatment also wasn't uncommon (although my hunch is that we often forget arguments completely and the tactics we use when we are angry). About half of women and 1/3 of men admitted to engaging in silent treatment at some point. https://t.co/7XljLr31HT https://t.co/VF4ZhGcylm

"Silent treatment" is a very common tactic of manipulation- present in most relationships. Some evidence that social ostracism, like silent treatment, actually shows similar physiological response as physical pain. https://t.co/cfV3TzXDXy

Do people often manipulate each other in relationships including punishment? You might think it's dysfunctional, unhealthy, or even abusive but you can't say that interpersonal manipulation isn't common. Psychologists have been thinking about this for decades. https://t.co/5zQaAZQZBy

I polled men on Twitter about if they would prefer to be slapped or to get silent treatment, get yelled at, have a long discussion or go to couple's counseling. A thread about punishment, silent treatment and romantic manipulation 🧵
RT @Peter_Nimitz: Sex divide in support for nuclear power https://t.co/pxn6K8aSwK

RT @Aella_Girl: imma say it, i think ppl's inability to consider morally charged hypotheticals is a sign that society is bad at thinking.
I know a few people personally whose partners have died which is why I was curious- I'm not currently dying. Well not faster than usual, anyway.
Most people thought it would be bad or weird to help their partner find someone new *before* they died. But more people than I would have predicted thought it would be good and kind. https://t.co/hIL7nu1rBo https://t.co/JKqiM29YMB

How long would you want your partner to wait after you died to date again?
Majority of people wanted their partner to wait 6months - 1 year. Almost 1/3 said "as little time as possible" and 6.5% wanted their partner to wait forever and never date again.
https://t.co/JGP4jWtgAK https://t.co/MqtgDR84ld

How much grief would you hope your partner would experience after you die?
21% of people wanted their partner to experience "no grief". Some people in the comments said they wanted their partner to experience intense grief for a short time.
https://t.co/3TP4zrO5HI https://t.co/JSmqttwCsU

Summary of polls I ran asking people to take perspective of person dying & asking how much grief they'd hope their partner would experience, how long they would want their partner to wait after they died to date again and whether they would help their partner find someone new 🧵 https://t.co/3TP4zrO5HI
To clarify- the argument that eugenics was a "leftist cause" is not one I actually make in my article. https://t.co/hgRUlydAxW https://t.co/aLBClQIIoV
RT @Aella_Girl: Happy Petrov Day! On Sept 26, 1983, Petrov disobeyed orders to report what appeared to be an American nuclear attack (but l…
RT @Aella_Girl: Which sexual relationship pair has the greatest power imbalance?
While y'all are thinking about personality, check out my first, first author empirical paper, which explores links between Big 5 personality traits and markers of immune function! With @JeffGassen @EmilyCorrigan10 & @sarahehillphd
https://t.co/8WFsMAlcoU
@a_centrism This looks like apartment buildings in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Probably an unpopular opinion but I think they’re cool looking. The building density in Hong Kong is an incredible sight to see
@sentientist @SarahTheHaider This makes it sound like Ms. Haider does lol
@sentientist Why does it matter that an artist, especially a dead one, was "problematic"? Anyone who chooses their taste in art based on the behavior of the artist is going to be limited to virtually nothing. I don't care that Picasso was a womanizer or that Van Gogh was mad, I love their art
this is now a topic that has come up enough i want to ask here -
how important is intellectual and conversational compatibility to falling in love? is it your primary draw?
"It is not sufficient for the malignant narcissist to feel important and special; it is necessary for someone else to be demeaned and vanquished...Other people are used and discarded without remorse...disastrous outcomes are always someone else's fault" https://t.co/GKYpfOQV8g https://t.co/afzZ05XCzl

“Technical advisor to the CEO of Microsoft” https://t.co/cbhV7H8ktm
@nwilliams030 @CryptoEthan [In the middle of nowhere, @simonsarris chuckles]
At the top schools at least, education polarization starts *before* the students arrive on campus.
https://t.co/SiubMXPsMD https://t.co/ibwXZkgWRo

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
Unfair the Orioles have to play in the AL East when they would be in first in the Central.
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
Tonight, the Colosseum in Rome was illuminated with a gold ribbon for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. https://t.co/py9I7PtFSB

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.
Sometimes when people are watching a live sport event I want to tweet like “wow! Unbelievable.” Because people might think I’m watching some sort of stream that’s like a few seconds ahead.
Went to the COVID memorial after CureFest. It is so powerful. https://t.co/PHzfplWUwM

@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
@jmasseypoet Imagine thinking that you're oppressed when you're a communications executive with a MBA from NYU and a "Humanitarian of the Year" award from Comic-Con and a NYT best-selling book. (All true in this guy's case.)
https://t.co/co5FNdzix2
@EPoe187 A great review. Every paragraph communicates clearly and eloquently. I like the comparison of science and capitalism.
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
This is pretty amazing - people working 40-50 hours a week in VR https://t.co/7VEcmyWwMp
Lots of potential in this new medium.
@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
@SilverVVulpes Merely bathing in those waters gets you pregnant, even if male
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…
@kipperrii Tfw can't fly away out of the US until my greencard comes thru
@nickcammarata Sunday odd-hour regulars https://t.co/f9EGlYPFUE
