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@Aella_Girl -- Mon Sep 27 01:20:51 +0000 2021
imma say it, i think ppl's inability to consider morally charged hypotheticals is a sign that society is bad at thinking.
@vgr -- Mon Sep 27 17:27:46 +0000 2021
another supply chain explainer thingie cc @scrivenix https://t.co/Db86zpZgwg
@vgr -- Mon Sep 27 16:03:37 +0000 2021
Sorry to mislead, gm is good morning, gmi is gonna make it https://t.co/vYODqnzEjY
@vgr -- Mon Sep 27 06:09:26 +0000 2021
If this is the “rose of Jericho” I don’t think I want to meet the other plants from there https://t.co/eP585YIoBC
@vgr -- Sun Sep 26 21:24:08 +0000 2021
In the biggest economic races, money is how you figure out who won second and third place. First place usually goes to the player who redefines the meaning of money. Fourth place onwards is people who console themselves that they’re working for “human values.”
@nickcammarata -- Mon Sep 27 17:47:59 +0000 2021
@SamoBurja It’s the best thing in the world
@nwilliams030 -- Sun Sep 26 21:58:02 +0000 2021
marriage is so sick
@amelapay -- Mon Sep 27 16:45:18 +0000 2021
it's official: My first book - part memoir, part "red state relocation guide" - is forthcoming spring 2022 via Bombadier Books/Post Hill Press. It'll be about New York City, Texas, what it's like to live in a house & drive a car, raising your kids w/"culture," "roots", etc.
@SamoBurja -- Mon Sep 27 11:12:09 +0000 2021
Yeah, uhm, I don't know how to say this politely but: Guys I'm here for sharing my work, do y'all actually like this site?
@RichardMCNgo -- Mon Sep 27 17:51:36 +0000 2021
I bet @visakanv $100 a year ago about whether he'd have more youtube or twitter followers today. And although he's grown his youtube following rapidly since then, it wasn't enough for him to win. Visa, I'd be happy to take payment in the form of consulting time if you'd prefer. https://t.co/SQHxMffqNC
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:26 +0000 2021
actually thinking on it more I am probably weirdly/unusually well-adapted to “how do you broadcast a lot of your inner self online without getting pwned” and there’s probably stuff I take for granted as obvious that would be very useful for some people to hear https://t.co/KYraNRX2rq
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:17 +0000 2021
💰💕 @nicolbrow We hope you can join us! https://t.co/TcAHvOMfAB
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 09:03:49 +0000 2021
magic has nothing to do with violating the laws of physics. it has much to do with violating *expectations*, and we can reflect on what in our society causes us to conflate the two
@Aella_Girl -- Mon Sep 27 15:56:50 +0000 2021
it's weird for so many people who don't know you, to have such strong opinions about you, which they voice not to you but to each other, and are opinions you know would probably be different if they hung out with you IRL. It's just a straight-up bizarre sensation.
@Aella_Girl -- Mon Sep 27 15:58:21 +0000 2021
@BLUNDERBUSSTED It feels like a lot of projection, though? Like, I can only offer a narrow slice of who I am online. I try to offer as wide a slice as I can (tons of vulnerable stuff on my blog). And people take the little they see and run really, really far with it.
@selentelechia -- Mon Sep 27 03:07:11 +0000 2021
lmao my parents weren't wealthy none of the homeschoo kids I knew were from wealthy families either https://t.co/vKeSahkFHf
@kmele -- Sun Sep 26 20:40:55 +0000 2021
Post 30 secs of shaky, poorly lit video + a few hundred characters of garbled context. Pray it goes 'viral.' Objective: Replace some stranger's anonymity w/ enduring + ruinous ignominy. Mob *justice* has distinct, primal qualities; disproportionate, symbolic, incurious, savage. https://t.co/ER8SdBqRnK
@s_r_constantin -- Mon Sep 27 12:57:48 +0000 2021
@SamoBurja Yeah!
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 14:57:32 +0000 2021
@visakanv @eigenrobot "advanced damage" is going to live rent-free in my head
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 14:12:42 +0000 2021
@visakanv @redcar_tenken wack. glad it's not just me at least
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 14:10:01 +0000 2021
thinkin' bout: https://t.co/YrCYtP4ksT
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 14:05:02 +0000 2021
when people say they don't want to be inundated with "negativity" what they mean is that they don't want to feel powerless. it's confusing terminology tho because in this sense the opposite of "negativity" is not "positivity," it's action
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 13:00:26 +0000 2021
@nbouscal @visakanv list of reasons you shouldn't make lists
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 12:57:46 +0000 2021
@visakanv it was good enough for the buddha after all https://t.co/sGStF7i5IG
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 12:00:37 +0000 2021
okay so let's be a little more precise. there's a large vein of contemporary thought that considers "power" a dirty word and overtly spurns it; i see it as a protest against the abuse of power but it conflates that abuse with the power itself https://t.co/fN3yHQ8H9Z
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 11:53:22 +0000 2021
@visakanv sometimes i am like one of those robots where you point out a logical contradiction and they explode only instead of exploding i usually collapse
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 11:46:43 +0000 2021
@visakanv one way i've been conceptualizing it is that i've put myself under a literally contradictory set of constraints, so progress inevitably looks like violating at least one of those constraints
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 11:30:49 +0000 2021
@visakanv ooh hmhmhmhmhm
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 11:20:42 +0000 2021
i also really like to talk as if i know what i'm talking about; if you notice it getting particularly bad please make fun of me for it to snap me out of it
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 11:20:41 +0000 2021
"power" is a word it's worth being very careful with. if it isn't "spiritual" to cultivate power then only "unspiritual" people will have power
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 11:06:46 +0000 2021
@visakanv that's what the tiddies were for 😂 https://t.co/lJ5PiPYzIn
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 10:57:17 +0000 2021
today i learned that when i tweet on acid i should hide everything i'm thinking behind at least one layer of indirection
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 10:53:05 +0000 2021
i like you guys. thanks for hanging out with me at 4 in the morning
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 10:52:20 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot @visakanv hyyype for this
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 10:30:53 +0000 2021
@visakanv appreciate the correction and the reminder 🙏 neil was only a symbol of a voice in my own head here anyway 😬
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 10:27:22 +0000 2021
@visakanv whomst among us i suppose 😂
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 10:23:01 +0000 2021
@visakanv hmm i was actually hoping to QT a tweet i saw from him that was something like "the universe is cold and pitiless and it does not care about you" but i couldn't find it when i searched his tweets so maybe he deleted? that's more the kind of stuff i'm responding to
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 09:58:56 +0000 2021
@visakanv it's good to get a reminder that every person who changed the course of history and culture forever was literally just some guy 😂
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 08:51:16 +0000 2021
@visakanv in like a real stentorian voice, like OAK-KNOWAAAAAAAAAAAH
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 08:49:00 +0000 2021
@visakanv omg i'm reading through it again and it's still so good. oak-knower. i literally just repeated "oak-knower" to myself dozens of times that day
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 08:44:52 +0000 2021
@visakanv speaking of magic and etymology, you probably saw this already but gonna link to it again anyway https://t.co/4pCB1Szx8N
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 08:36:46 +0000 2021
@visakanv that last bit made me think about spellcasting and now i'm thinking about yeeting spells
@QiaochuYuan -- Sun Sep 26 23:13:05 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @visakanv thanks for the reply 🙏 will get back to you after i try some of this out!
@diviacaroline -- Mon Sep 27 13:20:25 +0000 2021
@visakanv Kind of like this? https://t.co/TUYrURhLpw
@sharanvkaur -- Mon Sep 27 05:31:51 +0000 2021
it's really mindnumbingly stupid that the history of UK South Asian x Black solidarity is being buried by American 🇺🇸 and Indian 🇮🇳 fuckery https://t.co/h0SMNTtOWK
@sharanvkaur -- Mon Sep 27 17:54:23 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj hello ziggy!!! 😍
@patio11 -- Tue Sep 28 04:02:12 +0000 2021
@Noahpinion Does this suggest that one could do, for example, pairwise comparisons between several PMs in Japan and e.g. Biden with your comment reliably predicting your thoughts as to who was more moderate, or is that an unfair bar to hold this commentary to?
@patio11 -- Mon Sep 27 22:48:57 +0000 2021
@ByrneHobart *also* Assigned as busywork because I was too good at reading.
@patio11 -- Mon Sep 27 22:48:23 +0000 2021
@ByrneHobart Wait that story was Dahl?! Gave me nightmares for years.
@MWStory -- Mon Sep 27 04:14:35 +0000 2021
Yeah this is right, it gets very confused because of the way people talk about homogeneity and diversity, but the typical model is that unusual people move to cities so they can find the other people like them and build a network within one or two fairly narrow niches https://t.co/LPhMUsqrkT
@IonaItalia -- Mon Sep 27 17:56:49 +0000 2021
OMG. https://t.co/BSNj8h82vS https://t.co/uDU2hADR8K
@IonaItalia -- Mon Sep 27 10:40:46 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @visakanv My arms and legs often ache inexplicably (uncorrelated with exercise) and sometimes, at the end of a long walk or run, my left leg especially will start shaking uncontrollably and I'll have shooting pains in the leg.
@nwilliams030 -- Mon Sep 27 00:58:09 +0000 2021
nyc is making me realize I’m less of an extravert than I thought
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:30:10 +0000 2021
to make sense of this I think we have to start by recognising that the US is ~5 countries in a trenchcoat https://t.co/5GGkdLFAjk
@eigenrobot -- Mon Sep 27 11:02:55 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan often good when not on acid too
@eigenrobot -- Mon Sep 27 10:51:08 +0000 2021
@visakanv yes let's please. need a little time on my side to get settled too.
@eigenrobot -- Mon Sep 27 10:39:45 +0000 2021
@DRMacIver yeah there is that
@eigenrobot -- Mon Sep 27 10:39:32 +0000 2021
@visakanv YES
@eigenrobot -- Mon Sep 27 10:30:33 +0000 2021
ok enough twitter for one night gn kings
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 05:55:26 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot @_epictweetus_ @shriyanevatia https://t.co/xmFNP8pWAe
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 05:54:56 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot @_epictweetus_ @shriyanevatia I tried to warn everyone https://t.co/2MHARhcCOY
@movebetterproj -- Mon Sep 27 03:42:49 +0000 2021
Absolutely incredible day on twitter. Thank you @visakanv for the signal boost! If I missed your request, reply to this with anything that's bothering you from a neuromusculoskeletal perspective, and I will try to help.
@emmaconcepts -- Mon Sep 27 10:40:34 +0000 2021
@visakanv @eigenrobot With great need for rationalisation comes great power for rationalisation. 😛
@emmaconcepts -- Mon Sep 27 08:04:59 +0000 2021
@visakanv I saw this the other day and thought "maybe they should try it" https://t.co/PSaOmD9mbb
@emmaconcepts -- Sun Sep 26 23:02:18 +0000 2021
@visakanv I talk about physical vs digital books. The same considerations about memory and physical embodiment apply to the opposite process. Switching mode to and from writing and thinking on paper and on file is very useful. Each one subtly nudges your mind in different directions.
@yashkaf -- Mon Sep 27 03:52:16 +0000 2021
People assume that if you love people you go to the city and vice versa, but in some ways it's the opposite. If you don't like 99% of people, in NYC you'll still find 80,000 that you do like. But in a village of 100 you may find 0. https://t.co/WtxfLAp4O5
@joemcadam -- Mon Sep 27 05:33:25 +0000 2021
The YouTube search history at this Airbnb is killing me https://t.co/GAHRuqDYFq
@liminal_warmth -- Sun Sep 26 22:54:39 +0000 2021
I do have my locked alt @frozen_warmth for the reasons Visa explains in the thread but it's not as satisfying as baring my soul on main Still need to find the right balance for what this activity offers me versus not hurting the feelings or privacy of others
@liminal_warmth -- Sun Sep 26 22:53:13 +0000 2021
I don't like this dynamic since Twitter was supposed to be the space where I could come talk about whatever I felt like talking about, pseudo-anonymously This is my own fault, ig, for kind of being like "lol whatever" about opsec But I experience it as a loss 😔
@liminal_warmth -- Sun Sep 26 22:52:02 +0000 2021
This thread is interesting on the timing because I've been reflecting lately on how I don't feel like I'm as free to emotional-post about my life as I have in the past lately More people know me socially, and many friends and family read my feed and I don't wanna step on toes https://t.co/RicWrz19cG
@liminal_warmth -- Sun Sep 26 21:07:38 +0000 2021
I will keep banging this drum until I die Retain as much control over your distribution, communication, architecture, and sales channels as possible Don't opt into centralized platforms unless you absolutely have to, and try to diversify away from them when you can https://t.co/PFINUOerrb
@yashkaf -- Mon Sep 27 15:34:58 +0000 2021
@acidshill Just yesterday I sent a single friend of mine in SF the Twitter profile of a mutual who's looking to date, and offered another friend in NYC to do a sexy photoshoot so she has great photos to flirt with. I'm the best grandma you can have.
@yashkaf -- Mon Sep 27 03:55:15 +0000 2021
I love NYC for the 100 people I really spend time with in the course of a year, the 100 people who don't play pricey status games and don't see me as a depersonalized object. What's funny though is that all 100 seem to follow @simonsarris on here...
@DRMacIver -- Mon Sep 27 13:34:34 +0000 2021
The lack of an edit button on Twitter despite the increased use of threads is basically a war crime.
@DRMacIver -- Mon Sep 27 10:54:56 +0000 2021
@visakanv @eigenrobot Yeah. I think a lot of bad Twitter experiences come from people behaving in ways only suitable for high trust environments, which are then visible to people who don't trust them because Twitter is public.
@DRMacIver -- Mon Sep 27 10:38:41 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot Probably more often people don't want to consider morally charged hypotheticals because they distrust the motives of the people asking.
@DRMacIver -- Mon Sep 27 10:38:14 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot I think "inability" is doing a lot of work here. People not wanting to do the thing you're asking them to do is not reliably a sign that they can't do it.
@DRMacIver -- Mon Sep 27 08:36:32 +0000 2021
@ejames_c I shall scribble a furious diatribe against large margins in the margins of this book.
@utotranslucence -- Mon Sep 27 03:49:13 +0000 2021
I am a giant nerd who hates being associated with nerd culture. Petrov Day is a rationalist thing; I’ve never celebrated it before. Well, I have more respect for caution, temperance and doing the right thing when it’s hard than I used to. Happy Petrov Day, everybody.
@utotranslucence -- Mon Sep 27 03:49:12 +0000 2021
Most Petrovs we will never hear of. They perhaps persuaded a political leader away from a rash decision, or advocated for safety features no one else cared about, or got fired for being cautious when their leaders needed a scapegoat during a near-miss.
@utotranslucence -- Mon Sep 27 03:49:11 +0000 2021
This is essentially what happened to Stanislav Petrov. He was in charge of the immediate Soviet response to US missile attacks when on Sept 26 1983 a report came in that five missiles had been fired. He had minutes to react, and the protocol was to launch a full-on retaliation.
@utotranslucence -- Mon Sep 27 03:49:10 +0000 2021
In a world where covid was made in a lab, & someone working in that lab had succeeded in preventing its escape, then we would likely have no pandemic, millions of people who would have died would be alive, & the lab worker would not be celebrated, and might even have been fired.
@djmicrobeads -- Mon Sep 27 17:23:32 +0000 2021
@coladaclan holy shit!!! what a view
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:56:48 +0000 2021
have some stuff going on in your life that you care about that has nothing to do with Internet points. play the guitar, learn to cook. It’s nice to have at least one thing that’s just for you that you refuse to turn into content
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:36:55 +0000 2021
if you get triggered, feel attacked, defensive, want to fight back, etc, it’s generally best to just log out for a day or three, or a week. Most people who say shit just wanna say shit in the moment but don’t really care about you and will forget about you soon enough
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:32:37 +0000 2021
generally speaking, the more touchy, difficult, triggering etc the thought might be, the more I advise that you be really circuitous about it. be long-winded, take many tweets, be verbose, be tedious, illegible. you want to bore the people who are itching for a fight
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:20:59 +0000 2021
avoid affectations of authority. remember, Twitter does not have tone of voice or facial/body language, so people will read your tweets in *their* voice it helps to introduce the textual equivalents of ums and ahs,,, be deliberately sloppy,, even mispelling sometiems https://t.co/GGRXf4rKeE
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:16:32 +0000 2021
before posting a tweet I broadly recommend running it thru a sort of quick adversarial filter: what’s the worst interpretation someone could have of this? you don’t necessarily ~always~ wanna do this all the time, but it’s a skill worth developing https://t.co/t5hzNDLkpl
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:14:42 +0000 2021
my first rec is, if you have more than ~5,000 followers on main, get a locked private alt for your most trusted mutuals. you can use it to quote tweet any of your tweets and ask “hey, did I go too far with this one?” you can also post more intimate/touchy stuff there
@punkarelly -- Mon Sep 27 19:06:45 +0000 2021
omg i may have found my next tatt idea 😻 https://t.co/mIajIkUfDs
@m_ashcroft -- Mon Sep 27 18:54:09 +0000 2021
New note on why I created a limited company for my business instead of remaining as a sole trader (proprietor). It came down to the perspective shift it gave me: I wanted to be encouraged to work *on* the business and not just *in* it. https://t.co/gE9mWw5hl8
@m_ashcroft -- Mon Sep 27 18:27:41 +0000 2021
@merott don't need no weak hands around here https://t.co/FotDlJt5WF
@BellaRudd1 -- Mon Sep 27 06:05:10 +0000 2021
@visakanv she's saying society's sinking in part from the dearth of good thinking. there's visakan's plan to implement FAN, or mine of creation through drinking!
@alt1na1 -- Mon Sep 27 03:53:57 +0000 2021
me & @nwilliams030 in Brooklyn irl in like 5 years https://t.co/JPvho73807
@ejames_c -- Mon Sep 27 08:35:21 +0000 2021
@DRMacIver Clearly the large margins are an invitation for you to scribble and make notes 😉
@AdamSinger -- Mon Sep 27 19:06:28 +0000 2021
Achilles heel for creators isn't monetization, it's discovery. Always has been. Obscurity is far greater threat to writers, musicians, filmmakers than things like making $ or piracy. Solving for that legitimately helps creatives. Once they have attention all the other doors open.
@the_aiju -- Mon Sep 27 06:21:54 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @visakanv i have a lot of tension at the back of my neck, near my shoulder blades and in my stomach, but i’m also just kind of tense everywhere? it’s kind of intense
@mbateman -- Mon Sep 27 10:53:38 +0000 2021
One of the reasons why I don’t like the commonplace that you should never tell smart kids they are smart—(on the grounds that doing so is praising a fixed trait and undermining a growth mindset)—is that being smart comes with distinct risks that need to be managed. https://t.co/6M57pOhIfl
@nibrasibn -- Mon Sep 27 15:50:32 +0000 2021
i notice it takes me 2-3 days to recover from relationship conflicts/emotional activation. i end up feeling tired, foggy-headed, and emotionally flat for a while - the bigger the emotions at the time, the longer the haze lasts. anyone else experience this?
@nibrasibn -- Mon Sep 27 14:21:28 +0000 2021
Tied to all of this is general sucky-ness around expressing desires. Hold yourself back from stating your desires -> get upset when other people don’t do the same -> find it difficult to say no = 🤦🏽‍♀️🧨
@CathyReisenwitz -- Mon Sep 27 16:06:17 +0000 2021
@visakanv Me reading y’all’s tweets https://t.co/HxZhWgEa5d
@CathyReisenwitz -- Mon Sep 27 16:05:40 +0000 2021
Hahaha it would be really funny if 100 people subscribed to my OF and Substack for a year hoo boy a real kneeslapper https://t.co/FvF8gXpCx2
@WilliamAEden -- Mon Sep 27 04:10:51 +0000 2021
@Aella_Girl 🌎 👨‍🚀 🔫 👩‍🚀 always has been
@sagar__dubey -- Mon Sep 27 16:39:49 +0000 2021
It’d be freaking hilarious if I managed to speak the languages I want & read the classical texts I want to & actually make something of it in the next decade https://t.co/ezGOdZkIr4
@sagar__dubey -- Mon Sep 27 10:04:25 +0000 2021
Just got second shot. Happy to be living in a place & as I understand it, this is worldwide that for the most part a large part of humanity is volunteering to still wear masks. The fact that we can show such consideration is really great- bad/malicious actors yes but minority
@sagar__dubey -- Mon Sep 27 08:17:36 +0000 2021
@wholebodyprayer @visakanv I think @fortelabs - but he did a lot of the work himself iiuc
@generativist -- Mon Sep 27 15:08:09 +0000 2021
@visakanv That's the only take away i had from GTD methodology
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 21:22:35 +0000 2021
A Critical Analysis of Eggs and Cardiovascular Disease (The Eggscapades) https://t.co/psKpUdDblm
@qorprate -- Sun Sep 26 22:38:10 +0000 2021
@visakanv the annoying part was that i had to make this connection on my own, and see a sinus doctor, and then take a sleep test (most stressful night of my life) for insurance approval, even though the doctor was like "yeah your left sinus is like completely blocked"
@qorprate -- Sun Sep 26 22:37:01 +0000 2021
@visakanv got surgery a few years ago to realign my septum, could breathe thru both nostrils again, bruxism stopped, toothache disappeared. shit complicated
@qorprate -- Sun Sep 26 22:36:23 +0000 2021
@visakanv turns out my toothache was actually caused by a deviated septum. i couldn't breathe from my left nostril, and ur "open" nostril switches every 2hrs as u sleep (the nasal cycle), so i would stop breathing while asleep & grind my teeth in an unconscious attempt to clear my sinuses
@qorprate -- Sun Sep 26 22:34:19 +0000 2021
@visakanv had a severe toothache in my molar that lasted for years. went to dentists, they said it was caused by bruxism, grinding my teeth, no solution, needed a mouthguard (didn't work, just made all my teeth sore). ...
@VictorPontis -- Mon Sep 27 18:10:08 +0000 2021
This weekend I 🐐 met a goat 🏞 ran a Central Park loop 👨‍🎤 saw my favorite musician 💨 sped up a dev workflow 100x You should move to New York! https://t.co/lBgkld2Zhp
@shreyas -- Mon Sep 27 14:40:21 +0000 2021
It is almost Q4 and that means that annual planning will dominate the lives of many product managers & leaders over the next several weeks (or sadly, months). Here is your annual reminder about doing annual planning effectively without the BS busy-work: https://t.co/i9JfHHSvMX
@avyfain -- Mon Sep 27 16:19:26 +0000 2021
Word of the day: Zeugma https://t.co/rYU1K5wMOb
@avyfain -- Mon Sep 27 16:18:32 +0000 2021
You’re not a _true_ San Franciscan, are you? Where are you _actually_ from? https://t.co/spsegQ2x8f
@NathanpmYoung -- Mon Sep 27 16:34:33 +0000 2021
@briandavidhall @anthrowittering Not getting conquered by agrarian civilisations and watching tv. Why?
@jilliancyork -- Mon Sep 27 14:23:10 +0000 2021
I would just like to say that I told them not to do this THREE YEARS AGO when consulted. https://t.co/NISwpQkKJd
@amasad -- Mon Sep 27 07:13:54 +0000 2021
@visakanv Damn right am murican https://t.co/LyJewT6Hfd
@shabbytigers -- Sun Sep 26 23:06:20 +0000 2021
@visakanv @movebetterproj ok hm, if not too late — achilles tendon (? back of, but also into the outer side of, ankle/leg just above it) on one side only feels tight & hurts to walk on for the first hour or two i’m on it. it’s nuisance level but very grrr because historically long walks are my thing.
@jongold -- Mon Sep 27 03:41:05 +0000 2021
Finally started reading @ceisenstein’s spectacular Sacred Economics Thank you to the 5000 people who told me I needed to read it - this book is the perfect articulation of everything I’ve been trying to point towards for a post-capitalist web3-backed abundance economy
@brianmwang -- Mon Sep 27 16:02:42 +0000 2021
@visakanv I hear what you're saying. In my experience, a lot of this comes down to how important structure is to the participants. People who thrive in ambiguity can do well with the organic approach but others may totally flail.
@brianmwang -- Mon Sep 27 15:38:36 +0000 2021
@visakanv Wouldn't you say that beyond the excitement of talking to each other, we will eventually arrive at a point of "so what are we here to do right now?" I think OP's thread points to the idea that the collective needs to organize around a specific reason beyond interaction.
@mesolude -- Mon Sep 27 05:19:41 +0000 2021
This video by @baalazamon explains everything from the ground floor -what is an NFT -how does the metadata hook up to it anyway -how the pieces of the metadata work etc etc https://t.co/yB4nHWTc8P
@AdamSinger -- Mon Sep 27 19:22:58 +0000 2021
Art is a passion not profession until we get to next stage of capitalism/automation. Then creatives may finally be valued (will be the only thing left we can't automate). I'm here for this world! https://t.co/BQTHWft5MK
@AdamSinger -- Mon Sep 27 19:14:41 +0000 2021
@visakanv YouTube and TikTok are really the only ones who are good at this. They surface completely unknown creatives to me daily which is amazing. Spotify and Soundcloud all out refuse to do this (there's even MORE musicians than video too).
@AdamSinger -- Sun Sep 26 22:39:12 +0000 2021
@ashleydzhang @visakanv just enough to be slightly but not terribly uncomfortable I think
@ShengwuLi -- Mon Sep 27 17:33:59 +0000 2021
Anthony, no. Imagine if everyone else made half-baked tweets hoping for someone else to correct them. https://t.co/qOk1V2Z7JY
@thesravaka -- Mon Sep 27 14:57:33 +0000 2021
@visakanv @selentelechia @eigenrobot intelligence autobahn when?
@thesravaka -- Mon Sep 27 14:42:10 +0000 2021
@visakanv @selentelechia @eigenrobot intelligence is horsepower, not steering.
@fadeke_adegbuyi -- Mon Sep 27 19:14:12 +0000 2021
Today’s my first day at @Shopify! Excited to join the Editorial & Media team to tell stories about entrepreneurs, creators, and builders. 🚀
@maiab -- Mon Sep 27 15:37:01 +0000 2021
sometimes founders think I’m a genius based on my quick answers to their questions but really it’s just that their questions aren’t near as unique as they think 🙃… they’re problems everyone struggles with and I’ve spent a HUGE amount of time thinking about them for 10+ years 😅
@maiab -- Mon Sep 27 12:47:36 +0000 2021
@visakanv [soothing, reassuring noises, identifying and naming feelings because now is not the time to do a root cause analysis and problem solve]
@leaacta -- Mon Sep 27 11:27:44 +0000 2021
TSA agents asking a lot of questions already answered by my "I have a dick" shirt
@twobitidiot -- Mon Sep 27 11:40:51 +0000 2021
Maybe we should be supplementing Twitter by getting our message out on receptive platforms with the biggest followings in the country. 🤷‍♂️ Or we can stay “pure” and lose. https://t.co/KXDcGgN9eN
@AlmostMedia -- Sun Sep 26 23:07:57 +0000 2021
Tactical advice on how to connect on Twitter without getting imploded or main charactered. Best tip? It’s an extreme sport being hyper visible on social and it takes training so don’t attempt the trick shot without practice https://t.co/T9MqlOjffB
@AlmostMedia -- Sun Sep 26 23:03:53 +0000 2021
@visakanv It’s totally an extreme sport. It takes skill and time and if you aren’t a professional you probably shouldn’t attempt that trick shot
@alt1na1 -- Mon Sep 27 14:08:40 +0000 2021
If ur interested in pursuing a lifelong relationship w/ a women I implore you men to spend maybe an hour out of your life learning about the female body. Learn about the regular pain & complications experienced age 12-40, learn about pregnancy, learn about postpartum recovery. https://t.co/WIW9tPfm4W
@alt1na1 -- Mon Sep 27 13:55:03 +0000 2021
Women’s health is still a medieval horror https://t.co/757aTDltdf
@gptbr00ke -- Mon Sep 27 17:49:11 +0000 2021
@visakanv @AbstractFairy YESSS It would be so fun
@SparkNotes -- Mon Sep 27 16:14:18 +0000 2021
A Jane Austen heroine's to-do list: - Reject an unsuitable proposal - Reject an unsuitable proposal - Play the pianoforte - Take a turn about the room - Reject an unsuitable proposal
@doriantaylor -- Mon Sep 27 08:37:36 +0000 2021
lololol yessss https://t.co/imdWqa8VpS
@fvathynevgl -- Mon Sep 27 08:42:57 +0000 2021
a project is a collaboration between the now-you and the future-you therefore, to get better at one-man projects, get better at interpersonal collaboration https://t.co/KIJxWNrCiS
@meekaale -- Mon Sep 27 07:38:03 +0000 2021
@BrainBeastShaun @QiaochuYuan my brain when thinking about the urgent need to learn to build my own floor lamps out of cement: "holy fuck this is going to solve the entire meaning crisis" my brain when thinking about ordering groceries for breakfast tomorrow: "the website is going to be slow, give up now"
@jessicamalonso -- Sun Sep 26 21:11:19 +0000 2021
@AbstractFairy More simply put: “X doesn’t mean to them what it means to you. Tell each other what X means to you.”
@jessicamalonso -- Sun Sep 26 21:10:31 +0000 2021
@AbstractFairy Huge amounts of time & connection are wasted due to unstated differences in interpreted meaning and emotional weight of words, concepts, and behaviors. You can save yourself and others a ton of pain by being willing to slow down and clarify rather than press forward.
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:35:42 +0000 2021
the word "yeet" is so powerful because it's grounded in ancient etymology https://t.co/zU2S7XPScq
@Jeanvaljean689 -- Mon Sep 27 15:59:57 +0000 2021
@visakanv I remember joking once with somebody about how many important lists of things there are in Buddhism (see link) and then it clicked, that making lists was a way to preserve teachings among folks who were pre literate I think it's fundamental to the psyche https://t.co/kdOdVfIcwg
@LingTolls -- Mon Sep 27 19:24:08 +0000 2021
@visakanv Not being like my older family w massive dysfunction and savior complex (and buy love) was a major W on my part
@LingTolls -- Mon Sep 27 07:38:23 +0000 2021
.@visakanv is on a meta narrative warpath
@LingTolls -- Mon Sep 27 07:10:14 +0000 2021
@visakanv Normies know intuitively
@LingTolls -- Mon Sep 27 05:22:37 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @visakanv Visa 💕🇺🇸🇸🇬
@BLUNDERBUSSTED -- Mon Sep 27 16:00:00 +0000 2021
@Aella_Girl It's rorsharch shit absolutely. It's mostly projection, but people approach you from whatever internal turmoil & associative net they've come preloaded with, so they don't have an option Part of the reason you're relentlessly introspective, I assume, is an attempt to escape this
@jon_y_huang -- Mon Sep 27 05:36:13 +0000 2021
@sharanvkaur there also is in the US...also see Chinese and Japanese solidarity with Black Panthers etc The Internet ruins everything
@reddy2go -- Mon Sep 27 13:48:36 +0000 2021
@AnneSelke best decision ever and it's smooth as a baby's bum https://t.co/5rm05SuGZA
@mbateman -- Mon Sep 27 11:20:38 +0000 2021
@krishnanrohit @visakanv I think it likely would have helped me if it was delivered the right way and from a trusted source. Like if someone had told me “this is the theme of Lolita” when I read it in high school and had personal conversations with me about it, that would have helped.
@mbateman -- Mon Sep 27 11:04:19 +0000 2021
@visakanv Hmm. Those two examples feel a little too off center for the point to land but maybe there is some way to do it like that? “You have great speed and fluency with abstractions, which is great, but it also means you are going to be really good at rationalization and rumination.”
@seconds_0 -- Mon Sep 27 09:10:48 +0000 2021
@visakanv This is magnificent thank you
@btohtoh -- Mon Sep 27 05:02:46 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @visakanv You are a god amongst men
@btohtoh -- Sun Sep 26 22:13:24 +0000 2021
Hahahhaha is me im a mf https://t.co/N66squaEhz
@RichardMCNgo -- Mon Sep 27 17:52:31 +0000 2021
As promised, though, I also owe him a surprise gift, so I'll need to think of what that should be. DM me any suggestions! https://t.co/HBodA3xN2H
@KeenDisregard -- Mon Sep 27 06:54:18 +0000 2021
@visakanv https://t.co/Dotwq4s4Qw
@KeenDisregard -- Mon Sep 27 06:48:17 +0000 2021
@wholebodyprayer I know someone and @visakanv RTd ya - dm me!
@v21 -- Mon Sep 27 14:52:13 +0000 2021
i keep trying to explain how i feel about this & can never quite capture it. i'm going to keep trying, though.
@v21 -- Mon Sep 27 14:51:47 +0000 2021
i disagree with this. there's a particular way that videogames can be in love with their worlds, interested in dumping endless details on you, that i find really charming. https://t.co/iBSvHDZEzN
@uberstuber -- Sun Sep 26 21:45:02 +0000 2021
@visakanv This book and a theracane clear up most stuff for me https://t.co/UoMYV1w1EP
@lutherxhughes -- Sun Sep 26 20:47:47 +0000 2021
Writing is hard and if I’m honest, it’s one of the things I love most about it—the labor, the journey, the “click” that happens when you feel the piece fall into place. Thank god I’m a writer.
@kureshii_ -- Mon Sep 27 14:47:15 +0000 2021
@SamoBurja I wasn't having fun on the internet before reviving my Twitter account, but now I am!
@kureshii_ -- Mon Sep 27 13:40:19 +0000 2021
@visakanv Tried this for unwinding again and ... wow, something about watching dirty things get cleaned,, Does a similar thing to your mind? I can see why so many religious rituals are centered around washing and cleansing. This stuff really has an effect on your mind.
@nat_sharpe_ -- Mon Sep 27 14:45:01 +0000 2021
@wholebodyprayer Having a bunch of kids keeps things real!
@nat_sharpe_ -- Mon Sep 27 03:42:10 +0000 2021
@wholebodyprayer Love this quote. So much of my searching as been driven by self-hatred
@nat_sharpe_ -- Mon Sep 27 00:11:43 +0000 2021
That Nat guy. Wish I could delete his account. So overrated https://t.co/xQth7xwkBj
@deepfates -- Mon Sep 27 19:13:40 +0000 2021
@visakanv hahaha
@made_in_cosmos -- Mon Sep 27 18:42:28 +0000 2021
Sometimes I want to be as prolific on Twitter as @visakanv, sometimes I wish my account to be the Twitter equivalent of these paintings Can’t really have both at the same time, unless? https://t.co/B5EkgI1RLl
@AbstractFairy -- Mon Sep 27 18:07:15 +0000 2021
its so weird how introspecting makes me better at understanding and helping others like yo wtf i thought i was being selfish
@AbstractFairy -- Mon Sep 27 14:44:17 +0000 2021
@ricvolpe this is the way. "yes and"
@AbstractFairy -- Sun Sep 26 23:06:36 +0000 2021
cc: @visakanv @sam_havens would you guys know something?
@eshear -- Mon Sep 27 14:11:29 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan My experience is that being exposed to a lot of negative / downer thoughts is like the opposite of gratitude practice. Focus on what you want more of! It’s not the tone, it’s the topic.
@tasshinfogleman -- Mon Sep 27 01:21:03 +0000 2021
@ricvolpe write a thread similar to this one that you did for @Malcolm_Ocean, but for another account - curating their best/your favorite tweets/threads. feel free to be playful + do it differently, or adapt the scope if that would take longer than 5-10h https://t.co/EG5SSBeamJ
@tasshinfogleman -- Sun Sep 26 21:22:57 +0000 2021
@hormeze @visakanv lacrosse balls have helped me with plantar fasciitis https://t.co/LLlbrgbnPI
@celine_dionysus -- Mon Sep 27 16:14:28 +0000 2021
'clout' is real and it is important. and i'm going to get it
@pepijndevos -- Mon Sep 27 19:07:51 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @visakanv @Caroline30 Oh looks like you did already reply amazing https://t.co/PjOOEGj7VC
@thefudgelist -- Mon Sep 27 11:34:32 +0000 2021
A person with a deeply reflective awareness of the importance of and mastery of *how* they think will generally be far better off than someone who has considerably higher intelligence, but little discipline in how they think. https://t.co/k0VxhiONFK
@misen__ -- Mon Sep 27 07:01:14 +0000 2021
Freud didn’t identify mommy/daddy issues he memed them into existence
@choc_milk -- Mon Sep 27 14:52:57 +0000 2021
So I purchased these planters from a Cash Converters in a small town for R30 each, they looked like a solid mid-century design and had a fancy gold sticker at the bottom. Found them online, just one is worth $49! https://t.co/gCSHunpgUl
@ouranometrian -- Mon Sep 27 16:24:26 +0000 2021
Bad news everybody I'm already tired of doing laundry 😫
@cfbundy2 -- Mon Sep 27 12:44:02 +0000 2021
@visakanv [grumpy whining about the state of my mental environment after creatinf my mental environment]
@workingjubilee -- Mon Sep 27 06:57:04 +0000 2021
@visakanv @nbouscal @amasad ah but the infection is likely complete, and he is one of Us now, for better or worse *nod*
@genna_buck -- Mon Sep 27 15:37:10 +0000 2021
Do we think I’m on tiktok too much? I just said “teacher fit check!” to myself in the mirror
@prerationalist -- Mon Sep 27 19:09:11 +0000 2021
@visakanv but i love hawkeye https://t.co/8Iw6l2CANI
@prerationalist -- Mon Sep 27 18:18:28 +0000 2021
@visakanv also there are many uncurious people who mainly ask questions for "gotcha" social attack purposes, and if too many of them do this, you can end up with norms about not asking "irrelevant questions" (& a curious person who actually wants to know is mistakenly perceived as hostile)
@LACTAlD -- Mon Sep 27 17:52:54 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj Thank you so much for what you do! Now a loyal follower. Hope Ziggy has a great fetch session!!
@LACTAlD -- Mon Sep 27 17:48:59 +0000 2021
@visakanv https://t.co/WqH4tPz7fC
@LACTAlD -- Mon Sep 27 17:48:48 +0000 2021
For reference I previously went to doctor + urgent care after developing a fever, chills, and blacking out while sitting down. They just gave me antibiotics + scrip for 600mg ibuprofen. Pain went away for a few days then came back. No more pain today. Can't believe it. 😢❤️
@LACTAlD -- Mon Sep 27 17:42:21 +0000 2021
I'm less than halfway through this playlist. After completing a set of isometric lunges my constant lower back pain is gone. Gonna cry 🥺 Follow @movebetterproj!!! Dr. Martin seriously changed my life!!! Also tysm @visakanv for rec! https://t.co/60ZvxjWKOc
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 19:25:52 +0000 2021
@fadeke_adegbuyi @Shopify oh nice! great team, enjoy!
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 19:24:29 +0000 2021
@LingTolls hell yea ❤️💪🏾🔥
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 19:23:47 +0000 2021
@AdamSinger @sftechbr0 clarifying further still, a lot of the people hoping to catch a lucky break still don't quite properly understand the nature of audience-building, and so you get a lot of flash-in-the-pan types
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 19:22:21 +0000 2021
@AdamSinger @sftechbr0 if we were to get precise about it I would say, there's a subset of people who are obsessed with exposure, and they are of course overrepresented but the majority of creators I talk to, founders, ppl running platforms, etc don't quite *properly* appreciate distribution
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 19:16:51 +0000 2021
@made_in_cosmos https://t.co/v57BHvrGiM
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 19:13:34 +0000 2021
@tomcritchlow bright red jars a little weird with the background color instinctively i'd pick the top one... but not a very significant difference overall i think
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 19:11:26 +0000 2021
@AdamSinger yep. distribution is continually disrespected, underestimated, and yet the primary multiplier of value
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 19:09:53 +0000 2021
41. https://t.co/PnFcHbRFQK
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 18:49:05 +0000 2021
this still feels like "the best avengers are captain america, iron man and hawkeye" 😅 https://t.co/ubFlQCadmV
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 18:26:59 +0000 2021
@m_ashcroft always good to shake off the half-hearted
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 18:24:42 +0000 2021
@WeftOfSoul i like taking deep slow breaths because it calms me down and makes me feel more lucid and alert, ppl make too big a deal out of "meditation" imo
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 18:15:46 +0000 2021
@dcanosa I agree with LOTR, tho maybe Star Wars is on the same level
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 18:09:39 +0000 2021
@cronokirby sometimes, sorta!
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 18:09:21 +0000 2021
@AbstractFairy https://t.co/VMsz3w74cI
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 18:08:52 +0000 2021
ok i have to call it a night working on my book is physically exhausting I can tweet 20 hours straight but I can't do more than 4 hours of bookwork
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 17:58:44 +0000 2021
@nickcammarata @SamoBurja +1, it's my favorite thing I indirectly just helped like a dozen people fix chronic pain issues by introducing them to a super physio who was hanging out in my mentions https://t.co/bQU19Am1yJ
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 17:53:16 +0000 2021
@RichardMCNgo haha yea I was expecting to get my ebook done much, much earlier I'm cool with either option, up to you
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 17:43:45 +0000 2021
https://t.co/jZAPB5KQfH
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 17:30:31 +0000 2021
stating this a little more strongly than I usually state things but I've been thinking about this for hours and I think I stand by it
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 17:29:36 +0000 2021
curiosity is socially regulated because people are afraid of its power
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 17:20:43 +0000 2021
my blessing and my curse is that i am very good at arguing with myself and persuading myself of opposite things simultaneously. it upsets me to have to "disagree and commit" but alas otherwise i will be stuck here forever
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 17:11:38 +0000 2021
@shabbytigers the history lol. was thinking about dante
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 16:24:20 +0000 2021
I must say, that’s a pretty good-lookin’ slide https://t.co/zSur7mTfIV
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 16:06:15 +0000 2021
@briandavidhall @anthrowittering still true of !kung bushmen today I think, or recently-ish https://t.co/uTykrFpHzT
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 16:03:49 +0000 2021
@brianmwang yea part of the challenge in talking about community in the abstract is the sheer range of possible ideals for different types of people. some people love being in a military bootcamp type situation and thrive in that, others like the chaos of an early stage startup, etc
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:59:34 +0000 2021
@Aella_Girl i've dealt with this before, it's spooky i've also had people who project about me, and then I meet and talk with them and it feels human and normal, and then they go right back to projecting about me when I'm not around my current model is, these people are prob "unintegrated"
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:55:27 +0000 2021
@gambleluke1 ❤️
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:54:03 +0000 2021
@kylascan ❤️💪🏾🔥 we shall be heralds of the dawn of a new age!!
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:46:01 +0000 2021
joke about the outcomes you want https://t.co/SGzNLgGpvU
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:43:28 +0000 2021
@IanVanagas scans to be broadly true, although I think it's possible to do/manage exceptions to the rule (but you need exceptional people)
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:41:47 +0000 2021
@brianmwang I suppose I come from the background of, "what are we here to do" is something that we can figure out organically via conversation and experiment, and also that there's this whole 'nother failure mode of being premature about the organizing principle, and/or overly explicit
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:39:19 +0000 2021
@maiab always funny to rediscover: https://t.co/tvh6a0HatF
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:34:37 +0000 2021
aw man. X' Ho was a rare example of an irreverent, chaotic Singaporean who dared to speak his mind. stomach cancer... musicians just keep dying too young 😔 https://t.co/lJLHWkVWBy
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:33:09 +0000 2021
@Shivanksscarves yup that's a good division of labor
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:26:56 +0000 2021
idk if I did a good job of talking about this here (kind of half-braining it in between book editing) but I have a lot of notes about community building and community management you may find helpful: https://t.co/K4rNLCG578
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:26:15 +0000 2021
people get too excited about the idea of having several dozen people in the room, it's like wanting thousands of followers or subscribers. that's kind of shallow, hollow. what you want is deep engagement. vlogbrothers is the model to follow IMO. 2 people who commit and don't quit
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:24:57 +0000 2021
I suppose you could say that's a lack of clarity of purpose, or purpose/community fit. that... doesn't really feel correct to me though, in my experience. I would say the most critical thing is you need like at least 2-3 core members who are talking regularly to each other
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:23:28 +0000 2021
but I think what OP was talking about was things like, let's start a design club, let's start a book club, usually things where somebody is excited about some idea, everyone is kind of excited about the idea, but it's actually a little too much work and nobody really cares enough
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:22:33 +0000 2021
there are cases where it doesn't matter. if your community is a group of, say, middle age historians who are doing middle age historian shit, then they can entertain each other indefinitely by talking about middle age history. lots of nice groups like this in stable equilibrium
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:17:51 +0000 2021
some communities are overly static, where it's just the same 50-100 people in there, and everyone gets bored of everyone after a while. you do need fresh/young/new blood, new perspectives, newbies asking questions. but not too many all at once!
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:16:51 +0000 2021
there are lots of little things that people screw up with communities in general a big one is that people invite too many people too quickly whatever community you're trying to build, I almost always recommend growing it slowly, a few new people at a time
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:13:21 +0000 2021
well there are layers to this, because there are many different kinds of communities at different scales with different norms, expectations, structures, etc and we kinda make it harder to understand them if we smush them all together
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 15:11:09 +0000 2021
saw a thread that argues that the reason online communities die is a lack of clarity of purpose paaartially true, but I don't think it's that simple/straightforward. these things aren't monocausal, if they were, people wouldn't keep screwing them up. they're multi-part equations
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 14:57:04 +0000 2021
@kterade love to hear it! ❤️💪🏾🔥
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 14:56:48 +0000 2021
@thesravaka @selentelechia @eigenrobot yup, and at higher speeds the accidents are more grotesque
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 14:55:13 +0000 2021
RT @chanamuu: Went down a brief Marcus Aurelius rabbit hole via Maria Popova (@brainpicker)’s inimitable newsletter & still thinking about…
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 14:54:11 +0000 2021
@v21 as a casual/earnest gamer I would say that, sure while lore might not necessarily be INHERENTLY good, it can be very very good! and it can sometimes even be the best part of the game. I enjoyed so much of the Outer Worlds' worldbuilding https://t.co/n9TD4HTQVc
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 14:14:44 +0000 2021
@deepfates @GSto albion's seed?
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 14:12:13 +0000 2021
@redcar_tenken @QiaochuYuan still breaking, but i now need to search twice instead of like 5-7 times
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 14:07:17 +0000 2021
@DRMacIver aside: baldassare castiglione was a classy mf, he would've been great on twitter https://t.co/1DeGhFncku
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 13:48:38 +0000 2021
@Treehouseriots I think i'm progressing towards it bit by bit, still in the stumbling stage
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 13:48:03 +0000 2021
@DRMacIver me if I could restitch threads by moving tweets around: https://t.co/0Dc3WaCwmf https://t.co/ZSGx2j5D35
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 13:44:17 +0000 2021
idk how long I spent on this couple of paragraphs, and for what, but i'm deleting the whole thing https://t.co/hyNb1fCPJC
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 13:43:55 +0000 2021
@kureshii_ ya shiok man
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 13:31:36 +0000 2021
@nbouscal in my book I semi-cheekily frame this as more like, "refusing to obey your inner authoritarian is a radical act", which I like to think is an evocative way of conveying the idea
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 13:22:59 +0000 2021
@diviacaroline related to it what you're saying is correct what i did wrong was be too aggressive about ideas with people in general, without taking enough time and effort to really clarify that that's what they were receptive to i was projecting, treating people the way I wanted to be treated
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 13:20:48 +0000 2021
@Coscorrodrift 1,921
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 13:19:31 +0000 2021
editing a book is an exercise in merciless brutality
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:58:36 +0000 2021
@Snooze001 ❤️💪🏾🔥!!!
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:55:57 +0000 2021
it's my solution to so many things "how do I know what I want" make a list of things you have wanted in the past and you'll see patterns "how do I know what I'm curious about" make a list of questions you'd like answered off the top of your head make 100 lists
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:53:09 +0000 2021
@maiab ❤️🥰🙏🏾
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:52:35 +0000 2021
the cool thing about making a list is, once you've started it, and if you revisit it now and then, it becomes "active". you start keeping an eye out for things that go in it. if you do this publicly, people will even support you by contributing to your lists. it's very powerful
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:52:01 +0000 2021
a thing i'm learning, or making conscious in the process of writing my book, is how "make lists" is a critical load-bearing pillar of the way I make sense of things. I hardly talk ~about~ it, but you can see me doing it all the time; a lot of my threads are just lists of things
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:39:55 +0000 2021
@redcar_tenken realistically i must be honest it is too far down my list of priorities for me to ever do anything with it
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:38:05 +0000 2021
[grumpy whining at problems I made and chose for myself]
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:32:10 +0000 2021
@AshtearLucca it's a very good face, congrats!! very... cinematic? theatrical? you look like a video game protagonist, a lady of intrigue
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:28:26 +0000 2021
@alinekaeri @nvpkp hell yea prolific gang
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:25:55 +0000 2021
(the novel is an autobiographical-ish thing about a bunch of misfit musicians in early 2000s singapore, finding family in each other, and then experiencing painful conflict as they discover differences in their values, etc. I'll release it once i've sold maybe 50,000 ebooks)
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:23:36 +0000 2021
@muddletoes I appreciate you voicing your feeling!
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:22:58 +0000 2021
wait shit I am sitting on a draft of a whole novel I wrote in 2017, I can use that to talk about all of this!! 💡💡💡💡💡 oh yea hngh
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:18:06 +0000 2021
@samhbarton hell yea https://t.co/Mrvz507i0E
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:16:45 +0000 2021
@mahhnav not really sure how to answer this question the general thing is to focus on what you want to see more of
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:13:43 +0000 2021
some people are ghosts by default, never contribute anything, maybe they feel like nobody cares about them, they don't really matter... see it's hard to talk abt these things bc there are many different & opposite variants. might have to write multi-char fiction to cover it lol
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:11:50 +0000 2021
and that extra space you get, that extra peace of mind, will allow you to make interventions from a place of clarity, rather than frazzled desperation and anxiety. you'll find that people value you more as a consequence some people do have the opposite problem of all of this
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:11:02 +0000 2021
if you're always tied up in other people's business, always soothing and placating other people's feelings, experiment with taking a month to like, not do that. you can kinda almost "ghost" your entire life for a month and see what happens. spoiler: you'll be fine, happier even
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:08:21 +0000 2021
this doesn't mean you have to become a selfish asshole who doesn't care for others!!!! (although for people who are overly pliant and subservient etc, a month of "being a selfish asshole" might do you good.) there's a huge spectrum of perceptions here re: what is acceptable
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:06:57 +0000 2021
A thing you will def hear from like, wise elders, especially older women, is the utter relief of realizing, "your poor planning does not constitute my emergency". not every single person or entity who makes demands of you, your time, your attention, etc is entitled to it
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:05:05 +0000 2021
but like the lesson I had to learn was, if you're too afraid to assert yourself, too afraid to have priorities, then the world around you will nudge and kick and push you into a life that you didn't choose. and it's rarely a good life. you can def learn to do better than random
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:04:09 +0000 2021
I know it's tricky, and I would be very wary of anyone who says "oh this is very simple! just do exactly as I say..." 🚨🚨🚨 I *cannot* tell you what exactly to do. you gotta figure that one out yourself. you have to figure out your own values, your own boundaries, priorities
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:02:10 +0000 2021
to be clear I'm not saying like, "disengage from the world entirely and become a selfish hermit". i hope that's clear from the way I conduct myself, how I spend my own time, etc. it's more like, you can serve others better by being/becoming a nourishing presence yourself
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 12:00:28 +0000 2021
I think people find it easier to think about this when you frame it in terms of 3rd parties. maybe this isn't universal, but IME, it's often easier for someone to speak up to protect their friend's time and attention from stupid bullshit, than their own
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:59:09 +0000 2021
yes! articulate for yourself what you care about, and focus your time and energy on the things that you can influence – and this actually will *expand* what you can influence. you have to be quite protective of your time, headspace, energy, resources https://t.co/WYa5TZ5NUj https://t.co/yViFMKwHG8
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:53:25 +0000 2021
why oversimplistic? I guess when I didn't have as much life experience I didn't yet feel confident in my convictions about what I wanted, and I felt obliged to pay attention to everything else that's going on, engage with everything else that's going on
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:52:00 +0000 2021
ultimately the really elegant simple thing is to be very clear about what you care about and then derive everything from those core principles. but I do still remember what it was like when this would've seemed oversimplistic to me https://t.co/tFaWtEZM1p
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:50:54 +0000 2021
but also sometimes some people will demand "seriousness" from you when they haven't demonstrated that they have earned that right to demand that from you young people I think especially struggle with this, i've noticed late teens early 20s seem extra susceptible to pushiness
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:49:30 +0000 2021
i speak from exp as someone who spent many years of my life trying to take everybody around me as seriously as I possibly could, thinking that that was "full contact engagement" with life. in a way, I pushed too hard and forced people into seriousness they didnt always want
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:48:40 +0000 2021
there are a few examples of something that I've seen that got me thinking about this again, which is "people (1) who are screaming at people (2) who are screaming into the void". in a way, (1) "respects" (2) "too much". language is tricky here
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:47:49 +0000 2021
so maybe this is more about like, trying to precisely articulate for yourself what your boundaries are, what you care about, what you will be moved by, and so on. and all of this is work-in-progress, all of this is negotiated, and renegotiated...
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:46:52 +0000 2021
but the thing i'm trying to piece together is like what the narcissistic asshole does to everybody all the time, is sth that good people may sometimes need to learn to do selectively in the right moment. i'm talking about like, keeping your cool when someone is yelling at you
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:45:52 +0000 2021
at the extreme end, this is what narcissistic sociopaths do full-time. they have no respect for other people whatsoever. they disregard your mood, disregard your feelings, separate themselves from social reality. they might have something they like, like ratings or $$, etc
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:44:26 +0000 2021
[workshopping this riff] one of the most elegantly powerful things a sort of anxious, conflicted, overwhelmed, over-engaged person can do, which can seem scary and wrong, is to experiment with deciding "not to respect" certain things. some people "respect too many things"
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:38:52 +0000 2021
@DarbraDawn recents: https://t.co/CR5FKq06dB
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:34:33 +0000 2021
@darpyu https://t.co/LEDbSkcBrG
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:33:46 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan a lot of it would have to do with the sort of responses you'd invite treat your thoughts as if they are powerful and consequential and they become more so, and people interact with them with more reverence, virtuous cycle https://t.co/tHyDKg2qtd
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:30:08 +0000 2021
@leaacta powerful
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:28:11 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan I'd actually instead invite you to consider that if you took a bit more effort to be a little more precise about your claims, you would become more powerful as a consequence
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:25:39 +0000 2021
@krishnanrohit @mbateman yup, that's definitely huge too. I still think a lot about one older friend that I met from a video game forum back when I was about 16 or 17. I don't even have his contact anymore but he would've been about 30 at the time and he took me very seriously
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:20:44 +0000 2021
@krishnanrohit @mbateman this allows for a much quicker "recovery" because there's much less shock and confusion
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:20:03 +0000 2021
@krishnanrohit @mbateman you don't take different action in the moment as a consequence, but it sticks with you when you're in a situation where it makes sense. i've had a few other things like this, where something happens and I'm like, oh yea, someone told me to expect this
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:19:03 +0000 2021
@DanielCJonas saw this when doing a filter:follows search! nice
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:07:16 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan hell yea ❤️💪🏾🔥
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:05:48 +0000 2021
@mbateman yep you get it
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:05:14 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan you cannot sort this out by thinking, you can only sort this out by doing https://t.co/PGGQhIksya
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 11:03:37 +0000 2021
this is Sperello Serego Alighieri, Dante's direct descendant. he's an astronomer! seems like a good dude https://t.co/fGX8vTuqqv https://t.co/j6LG5C4phJ
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:58:31 +0000 2021
@mbateman to be fair you can kinda do both you can say things like, "you ask great questions, you have a wonderful curiosity," etc etc, and then tell them "not everyone knows how to manage that"
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:57:21 +0000 2021
couple of more fun facts Dante was exiled from Florence, the city of his birth, and it seems that city officials only formally apologized in 2008, almost 700 years later oh, there was a symbolic re-trial this year! and they had to do it via zoom because of covid 😂😅 https://t.co/EruzsjobN8
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:51:05 +0000 2021
@DRMacIver @eigenrobot yup, IME if you want people to seriously consider morally charged hypotheticals you have to do a lot of work to earn their trust first, bc otherwise you pattern match to "threatening to the social order" https://t.co/zskY0IszbU
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:48:42 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot I can go on about this for hours lol i'm writing a book about it. maybe topic of our next podcast chat once i'm done
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:46:31 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot in case above tweet unclear https://t.co/jZuQSJ7uFW https://t.co/9iXOJu9G0w
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:41:58 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot usually the problem is smart people are cowards, and they are looking for their keys under the streetlights of their intelligence, instead of in the bushes of their fear where they dropped them https://t.co/wDKS62i5dG
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:40:57 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot if you're dumb you can only do mild damage to yourself and others before you run out of juice/steam. random shouting and thrashing about if you're smart you can do advanced damage to yourself and others. invent ideology, send millions of people to hell
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:38:26 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot many intelligent people are *advanced* bad at thinking
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:29:54 +0000 2021
@GSto neat!
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:29:07 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan we have to try and do better ig
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:25:22 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan to be fair to your pov, tyson DOES post absolute shitfuckery, which kondo doesn't tyson is very "duality of man", at his best he is sensitive and thoughtful but he can also be snarky and dismissive etc https://t.co/quVBbFurCc
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:22:26 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan full text i'm happy to dunk on tyson for being annoying when he's annoying, but he also gets it, he doesn't not get it mostly I think he uses twitter for raw shitposting / triggering people for maximal outrage, but his sincereposts are legit imo https://t.co/6f3xPzlciv
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:19:20 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan [half-heartedly] tyson's "most astounding fact" talking point is that we *are* the universe, that the matter in our bodies comes from the scattered enriched guts of supernova, there is no distinction between far away and near because we are it and it is us
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:16:16 +0000 2021
@redcar_tenken this is the way
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:15:49 +0000 2021
gamers will know of Dante as the cheeky quippy demon-hunting protagonist from Devil May Cry, who is himself half-demon, and whose brother is named Vergil – so clearly a direct nod to Aligheri's Comedy. This creates some funny search results https://t.co/AcMznd8sq9 https://t.co/zEPGVAbZkt
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:05:17 +0000 2021
@ricvolpe interesting, makes sense! thanks for sharing
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 10:04:12 +0000 2021
doing some min_faves:5000 searching, it seems like most of the most popular tweets about Dante are in Spanish. Here's a thread illustrating his circles of hell. Interesting reminder that the non-english internets (plural) have distinct, different vibes https://t.co/HQ6aAxPeWN
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:59:59 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan history, mostly just a bunch of dudes https://t.co/qweyOzjEY8
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:57:38 +0000 2021
> "I'm going to get tasked by God to traverse Hell, Purgatory and Heaven and I'll get to do it with my favourite historical writer and also that woman I had a crush on who isn't my actual wife, oh also the popes are all in Hell." https://t.co/FzcJbEUN57
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:51:00 +0000 2021
> Dante's depictions of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven provided inspiration for the larger body of Western art and literature > He influenced Chaucer, Milton, Tennyson and others >In Italy he is often referred to as il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet") https://t.co/mFrxsH7OnZ
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:46:20 +0000 2021
@nan_ban01 powerful
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:45:47 +0000 2021
Engels praising Dante when trying to appeal to Italians to make communism happen ("post" should be "poet", oops) https://t.co/3LpdrvVVtQ
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:43:20 +0000 2021
@wholebodyprayer indeed https://t.co/WjZ59NJUkq
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:41:40 +0000 2021
@zammydraws ye
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:41:19 +0000 2021
Dante's Divine Comedy is widely regarded the greatest literary work in the Italian language, which he kind of pioneered. You could think maybe of him as the "Italian Shakespeare". Perhaps Italian speakers think of Shakespeare as the "English Dante" https://t.co/EwNmZFWE1O
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:36:22 +0000 2021
Dante was born in Florence his mother died when he was 9 father (was probably a moneylender) remarried Dante fell in love with a girl (Beatrice) when he was 9, but was promised to another (Gemma), who he married and had 4 kids with Beatrice features in his work, Gemma doesn't https://t.co/xCldLOIDoi
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:17:47 +0000 2021
Dante (c. 1265 – 1321) https://t.co/M66gxs0h8e
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:07:48 +0000 2021
👀 https://t.co/E57rnJ4OLS
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:04:24 +0000 2021
@SekiiSent ❤️💪🏾🔥
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 09:03:35 +0000 2021
@emmaconcepts why stop there https://t.co/OoAhxqdsZ4
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:48:18 +0000 2021
https://t.co/om0EZtIBuJ
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:47:02 +0000 2021
-fin.) to do anything substantial requires collaboration – even if it's "only" with yourself. you have to show up repeatedly, and it's a slightly different you every time. you find a path through the fog because it's lit up by with beacons laid out by your past selves https://t.co/DQA0y3Ubq4
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:45:26 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan yea I remember! excellent stuff
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:41:47 +0000 2021
you are the city, the planner, and its people. you are the holy scripture in the temple and you are the graffiti on the walls. you are the benevolent deity and you are the homeless in the streets. you are the melody and the mistakes. you are the dipshit and the divine
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:40:01 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan yeet this imagery into my veins
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:38:46 +0000 2021
What is a project? (pro- forward, -ject, act, throw, to cast forward) you are the story, its characters, its narrator. you are the dance, the dancer, the choreographer. you are the cathedral, the architect, the bricks. the symphony, the composer, the conductor and the strings...
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:33:55 +0000 2021
this might sound like something kinda boring, technical or trivial, but to me it is actually quite profound. one way of framing Introspect is "the project management of the soul". I shall now wax lyrical and get indulgently poetic for a bit, ahem...
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:32:46 +0000 2021
@sagar__dubey @wholebodyprayer @fortelabs cc @espacewalk https://t.co/OpetWtjQOs
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 08:31:32 +0000 2021
I would like to propose that the most important part of the definition of a "project" is, it should be something that cannot be easily accomplished by a single individual in a single sitting which is to say, a project is something that requires *collaboration* across states https://t.co/CeOZRRBanD
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 07:44:19 +0000 2021
@nvpkp gm!
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 07:40:36 +0000 2021
@LingTolls 🙏🏾👑💪🏾❤️🔥🌌
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 07:27:39 +0000 2021
RT @nat_sharpe_: That Nat guy. Wish I could delete his account. So overrated
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 07:25:19 +0000 2021
@tjrwriting @sama @HarveyMultani most people don’t think very far ahead and aren’t very good at advocating for themselves especially if there’s conflict involved
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 07:23:07 +0000 2021
no no I haven’t started yet I’ll start now I need to get coffee first
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 07:22:25 +0000 2021
even this is still just the beginning it’s going to get worse, and worse, and worse individual private citizens do not feel powerful and so they do not feel obliged to conduct themselves with grace https://t.co/zTIMDg9AJm
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 07:17:24 +0000 2021
@amasad 👑
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 07:01:03 +0000 2021
going to Log Off to work on my book for at least 4 hours
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:54:09 +0000 2021
strikes me as maybe roughly similar as to how non-Americans could probably have told you that Biden was going to win the democratic primary “Why is Biden doing so well?” Because everyone recognises the VP. And similarly everyone recognises NYC 🗽 https://t.co/2mMSaell25
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:50:33 +0000 2021
@nbouscal @amasad yea we met when I was in SF! he does amazing steaks
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:47:24 +0000 2021
wait @amasad are you even American 😂😂 have you been there too long or what
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:46:29 +0000 2021
only Americans are ever confused about why humans want to go to the global schelling point https://t.co/7RBfsXdfdK
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:42:47 +0000 2021
@AbstractFairy Yup. We would immediately start specialising
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:42:02 +0000 2021
RT @wholebodyprayer: Has anyone here successfully commissioned/produced a documentary, and would have time to chat for an hour ? We are sit…
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:41:26 +0000 2021
@sonyasupposedly I dig it! Bubblegum cotton candy vibes
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:40:03 +0000 2021
there are ~17 countries that have a GDP of over US$1T, and California, New York and Texas would each qualify on their own https://t.co/G85dMbG7nJ
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:33:00 +0000 2021
https://t.co/R08sAEcClf
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:05:55 +0000 2021
@BellaRudd1 drinking is definitely an important part of the equation
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 06:03:52 +0000 2021
we are *so* much more powerful together than in conflict there is nothing the cultural arms manufacturers of the world would like more than for us to hate and vilify each other do not buy into that bullshit solidarity and kinship ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 https://t.co/alCOqgvons
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 05:59:05 +0000 2021
we can appreciate each other’s culture and have a great time https://t.co/6sJsXaeNOU
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 05:57:12 +0000 2021
Indians and black folks can absolutely get along. We do not have to let the worst of our idiots represent us https://t.co/4t7lB7U43W
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 05:49:24 +0000 2021
Friendly Ambitious Nerd fixes this 😏 thinking (asking questions, being a nerd) is historically contrary to human culture. Most human creativity was expended suppressing creativity, bc perceived threat to the social order. Society is broadly anti-thinking, always has been https://t.co/o3wSiTjHdD
@visakanv -- Mon Sep 27 05:32:16 +0000 2021
RT @movebetterproj: Absolutely incredible day on twitter. Thank you @visakanv for the signal boost! If I missed your request, reply to this…
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:39:29 +0000 2021
@LightningShade0 @Aella_Girl in this case I thought about what I would have wanted as a 13yo
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:37:22 +0000 2021
@CarstenStolz yes this is where I think I’m headed too! Thanks
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:34:13 +0000 2021
look through these folks’ followings and you should be able to find lots! https://t.co/NJzrojy94k
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:30:56 +0000 2021
https://t.co/X4SPaYh9q1
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:30:14 +0000 2021
https://t.co/b04LRDj4DG
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:28:44 +0000 2021
@gptbrooke oh there’s a whole microfiction/poetry community on Twitter, I don’t know the specific @‘s… @ctrlcreep is the first that comes to mind but there are dozens and dozens!
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:16:12 +0000 2021
anyway I am just some guy who tweets a lot, if you found this stuff helpful, cool! If not, o well, it wasn’t for you I guess. It’s not a big deal
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:14:40 +0000 2021
I guess I’ll close with: try to be an account you respect. If you respect yourself, everything else tends to fall into place. If you don’t respect yourself things can get very ugly bc your internal conflicts will play out viciously with other people (this isn’t just abt twitter) https://t.co/R7hqDvWkTL
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:08:10 +0000 2021
@AbstractFairy @sam_havens unsure 🤔
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:07:20 +0000 2021
if people are being dickish or abusive to other people in your mentions, block them. Think of it as asking them to leave your house. It’s worth it to create a warm and pleasant environment for everyone else who knows how to play nice
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:05:36 +0000 2021
if you’re drawn into a disagreement, generally the smart thing to do is to try and ask genuine questions. sometimes people warm up and you can even become friends. if they’re hostile about it you can graciously just stop replying and move on https://t.co/p3FcArCgRF
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:02:29 +0000 2021
if you use quote tweets primarily to celebrate and uplift people you like, this leads to a positive spiral of good things happening https://t.co/tFaWtEZM1p
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 23:00:41 +0000 2021
encourage and celebrate the replies that you like. generally best to disregard/ignore the ones that you don’t (at this stage sometimes I don’t notice some replies, it’s not personal!)
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:58:23 +0000 2021
@azsamad ❤️💪🏾🔥
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:57:48 +0000 2021
meditate on death and the impermanence of all things I’m serious lol
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:54:12 +0000 2021
try to periodically switch up your posting style so you don’t get pigeonholed into playing a tediously predictable role for a tediously predictable “target audience” try to surprise and entertain yourself and seek genuine novelty https://t.co/YsF6RSbOCA
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:52:30 +0000 2021
past like 20k followers, or once it starts to annoy you, turn off all the notifications
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:51:41 +0000 2021
also yeah: disregard the follower count as a measure of self-worth or meaning or anything like that. instead focus your time and attention on the people you respect and admire. there are like a dozen people here whose opinions I’d trust/value over 30,000 other people
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:50:20 +0000 2021
also sometimes there’s just no avoiding that you will get your ass kicked for making mistakes and the challenge is to accept it as graciously as you can cool thing is, while it’s painful as heck, good people recognize when you’re being gracious and will value you more for it https://t.co/Djg6VIND1W
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:47:04 +0000 2021
it’s probably not too bad an oversimplification to say that if you make a conscientious effort to always be thoughtful, sensitive and kind, then you’ll basically be fine. The challenge is to be humane while people try to goad you into drama. Extreme sport https://t.co/8qCNhLmbQ1
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:44:53 +0000 2021
(once you demonstrate that you’re someone who is respectful of other people’s boundaries, and that you will honor their secrets and their stories, people start opening up to you about all sorts of wild, crazy shit. This is a life-changing before/after transition. Different world)
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:43:24 +0000 2021
@qorprate holy shiet
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:42:41 +0000 2021
the thing to figure out is, what’s my story to tell, and what isn’t? I try to respect other people’s stories and not speak on their behalf, not share details that they might not be comfortable having shared. a lot of nuance here, it’s about sensitivity and tact https://t.co/HqhIGXT9IW
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:40:09 +0000 2021
I try pretty hard to avoid talking about things that implicate other people I don’t mind stuff about me circulating, being screenshot and reposted etc, but my family for eg didn’t sign up for that also more broadly I try not to be cruel or mean to people 99% of the time https://t.co/nXUpHEnBBk
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:28:53 +0000 2021
I’ve said a few times that being extremely online can be a psychological extreme sport things you say can trigger people to say things that in turn trigger trauma responses in you some people lean into this as a form of self-harm you wanna be mindful/aware of this pattern
@visakanv -- Sun Sep 26 22:23:36 +0000 2021
generally speaking you wanna learn the skills of diffusion and deescalation. it can seem like a lot of work, and… well, it is, but I’ve learned from experience that it spares you a lot of grief as your audience gets larger https://t.co/J0g2yF0s1V
@muddletoes -- Mon Sep 27 12:22:31 +0000 2021
@visakanv Aella tweets make me so irritable. This (your) topic would be worthy either of a lengthy meditation on why such might be so, or perhaps actual, like, research of existing scholarship. However all my responses deeply irritable.
@ricvolpe -- Mon Sep 27 10:11:04 +0000 2021
@visakanv Roberto Benigni (the director/protagonist of Life is Beutiful) s famous in Italy for being perhaps the best Dante's performer and commentator. His shows are *really* good but I wonder how much a foreign audience could appreciate them. https://t.co/GmlI2GJmXo
@adikandari -- Mon Sep 27 06:02:06 +0000 2021
@visakanv & when it comes to dancing, we absolutely share the same levels of energy..love this
@gibodean -- Mon Sep 27 15:41:40 +0000 2021
@danbarker @CableKent @ChloeAngyal tldr; No, they didn't know each other at all before the proposal.
@mikewavsz -- Mon Sep 27 15:05:36 +0000 2021
I’ve seen many of the best minds of my generation ruined by theory. https://t.co/MvMtbJWzLW
@mdaviswilson -- Mon Sep 27 15:57:38 +0000 2021
@visakanv Look, it's not our fault, there's been an infowar campaign aimed at convincing us that New York is terrible literally my entire life.
@DanielCJonas -- Mon Sep 27 11:16:21 +0000 2021
@visakanv fun fact, his burial monument is a cenotaph (empty honorary tomb) & is quite impressive https://t.co/JZl80Hzb1i
@sasadb -- Sun Sep 26 22:33:05 +0000 2021
@visakanv Via negativa question for you: what category of things do you decide to never to put online? how do you decide the criteria for that?
@IanVanagas -- Mon Sep 27 16:03:32 +0000 2021
@visakanv Yeah, I think it is tough for the average member to deal with dunbar's number, but exceptional members or managers could handle it in creative ways.
@LillianKodi -- Mon Sep 27 13:30:21 +0000 2021
@nbouscal I had to shatter my ego to recognise this truth https://t.co/qxK1yr5nNf
@briandavidhall -- Mon Sep 27 17:50:45 +0000 2021
"no bystanders" https://t.co/pIw5iBcMP8
@john_henry -- Mon Sep 27 17:43:53 +0000 2021
@visakanv ooooh
@muddletoes -- Mon Sep 27 13:04:52 +0000 2021
@visakanv The transnational aspect of this particular relationship (global racial identities with a historic status relationship within Empire and local political consequences) makes it fairly unique.
@redcar_tenken -- Mon Sep 27 12:10:43 +0000 2021
@visakanv Reminds me of something I was taught in Sunday school: there’s always a current in the world around you. Inaction doesn’t mean you’ll remain still, it means you’ll get swept away.
@ricvolpe -- Mon Sep 27 10:04:44 +0000 2021
@visakanv Never heard an Italian referring to Shakespeare as the "English Dante". I think Italians hold Dante to a very special status of artist-philosopher-architect-prophet and don't really compare him to anyone else
@laundryandry -- Mon Sep 27 09:10:20 +0000 2021
hypothesis it’s easier to battle than it is to love
@laviniaalexoiu -- Sun Sep 26 21:30:15 +0000 2021
I am officially allergic to the words “digital transformation”.
@ricvolpe -- Mon Sep 27 09:59:35 +0000 2021
@visakanv In Italian high schools, we read the whole Divine Comedy from the 3rd to the 5th year of high school. Inferno, purgatorio and paradiso, one year at the time. I think is one of the few neat features of our high schools.
@AshtearLucca -- Mon Sep 27 05:42:30 +0000 2021
@visakanv helped a lot, but it was still bad enough today that I felt like my arm was gonna explode like something out of Akira. Just kinda babied it and tried to load weights right-handed 😅 Seeing a PT on Thu
@brianduffytweet -- Mon Sep 27 02:49:15 +0000 2021
@wholebodyprayer For years, I was possessed by a need to peek behind the veil of reality. It worked! Funny thing was, the stage hands behind the veil gave a tired sympathetic look and said “ok you found us, but now you see how hard we work to maintain the regular life you get to take for granted”
@redcar_tenken -- Sun Sep 26 23:08:45 +0000 2021
@visakanv https://t.co/X87xF0cdBh
@azsamad -- Sun Sep 26 22:56:46 +0000 2021
@visakanv Thanks for this thread, this is really helpful and insightful Visa
@azsamad -- Sun Sep 26 22:58:42 +0000 2021
Be careful of how you describe yourself, it shapes your self image
@redcar_tenken -- Mon Sep 27 18:09:52 +0000 2021
@IonaItalia I am torn about this. The original was so good! I don’t want anything of it to be lost. But I also know it could have been better without Executive Meddling… So, with JMS at the helm, I’m hopeful.
@PrincesssNaj_ -- Mon Sep 27 19:05:41 +0000 2021
This one ethical solution to this wild ass hypothetical https://t.co/IakRJXIbW0
@gambleluke1 -- Mon Sep 27 15:44:15 +0000 2021
Thank god of this and you. I’ve lost so many friends by asking too many questions. You’re helping me understand why. https://t.co/WgXsSZfyFo
@shamanicky -- Mon Sep 27 14:36:42 +0000 2021
THOSE GOLD LEAF STEAKS COALLESCE AFTER INGESTION TO FORM RECEIVER ANTENNAE IN YOUR DUMB HUMAN BOWELS THAT AMPLIFY MY DREAD SIGNALS AND MAKE YOU SHIT YOURSELVES IN FEAR. EAT UP, DUMMIES.
@laundryandry -- Mon Sep 27 12:17:53 +0000 2021
i need to become a whole lot smarter a whole lot faster if i’m gonna keep talking with u lot
@movebetterproj -- Mon Sep 27 19:04:38 +0000 2021
@the_aiju @visakanv Working on a vid later today to help w neck stuff. For now, do the first 3 videos on this playlist: https://t.co/r3WTgUhvWM plus this exercise: https://t.co/oxUpN8656c
@miseryroute -- Mon Sep 27 16:14:37 +0000 2021
paramore: “of all the weapons you fight with, your silence is the most violent” me: https://t.co/GqWNvNAPOP
@AshtearLucca -- Mon Sep 27 12:34:49 +0000 2021
@visakanv Thank you, Visa! I aspire to intrigue and living like there's a save file, so I'm glad that comes across
@muddletoes -- Sun Sep 26 22:35:06 +0000 2021
@visakanv I hate to suggest it to you but this is a cash money ebook
@movebetterproj -- Mon Sep 27 17:49:52 +0000 2021
Just woke up to ~50 notifications! This is new territory for me lol. I will try to get to everyone today, but first, Ziggy must have his fetch game. https://t.co/o2DwLMPXil
@Caroline30 -- Mon Sep 27 05:54:19 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @visakanv Thank you. This is so kind!
@movebetterproj -- Sun Sep 26 21:15:22 +0000 2021
@briandavidhall @visakanv "IT band syndrome"--working on a whole program for this. DM me and I can send you the soon-to-be paywalled stuff to try. Basic approach: 1. smash TFL: https://t.co/0yPoHW1tfG 2. strengthen/activate gluteus medius: https://t.co/RQM7Ca4KPE
@gambleluke1 -- Mon Sep 27 15:45:36 +0000 2021
Something to do with coming across as aggressive. Questions can be mistaken for a form of attack.Twitter keeps the upside but allows anyone to just scroll on. Friendly has always been Lindy, but now friendly +ambitious can be Lindy.
@ricvolpe -- Mon Sep 27 10:52:01 +0000 2021
@tasshinfogleman @Malcolm_Ocean Sounds great, excited for it! Thanks Tasshin
@hosalind -- Mon Sep 27 09:35:14 +0000 2021
Words are slippery arent they
@Caroline30 -- Mon Sep 27 03:47:42 +0000 2021
All of you are so smart. In addition you are really good at at least one thing @Lithros plays the cello @havorz is a soul chef extraordinaire I have decided that I too must step up and become a Renaissance woman. What should be my ‘oh she’s so cool’ niche?
@gambleluke1 -- Mon Sep 27 15:45:49 +0000 2021
To love and curiosity—here here!
@chanamuu -- Mon Sep 27 14:54:12 +0000 2021
Went down a brief Marcus Aurelius rabbit hole via Maria Popova (@brainpicker)’s inimitable newsletter & still thinking about this https://t.co/gyZM0FREci https://t.co/zNAJVqfcyW
@quotidiania -- Mon Sep 27 14:08:39 +0000 2021
Pretty sure I've experienced this. The way out of a lot of "impossible problems" is a sideways move that's often really hard to see Doesn't resolve the problem usually but reconfigures it to be more approachable https://t.co/kIR6DYLNuG
@ashleydzhang -- Mon Sep 27 09:02:53 +0000 2021
so much of the pervasive pessimism today can be ameliorated just by better publicizing and celebrating the people working on revolutionary solutions to the greatest problems of our time, so more people would realize that they, too, can create a radically different world
@hosalind -- Mon Sep 27 05:08:53 +0000 2021
@nat_sharpe_ I love seeing your thriving joyful family life. Full of love = full of spirit
@briandavidhall -- Mon Sep 27 18:01:10 +0000 2021
@NathanpmYoung @anthrowittering Agreed, hunter gatherers never really stood a chance Idk anything about the Amish but good shout, now I'm curious about their work week. I hear they are less depressed than the rest of us https://t.co/NSvFvxTxy5
@productnerd -- Mon Sep 27 16:16:00 +0000 2021
“If you want to be a philosopher king first become a king then become a philosopher. Not the opposite.” ― Naval Ravikant
@OliviaParamour -- Mon Sep 27 15:17:29 +0000 2021
@visakanv ooo I can answer this. Communities die either due to bad or incompetent moderators, or if their reason for existence no longer becomes relevant to the demographic that would join them.
@laundryandry -- Mon Sep 27 10:41:01 +0000 2021
consider also https://t.co/PACU9aRcHh
@redcar_tenken -- Mon Sep 27 10:12:48 +0000 2021
@visakanv https://t.co/CyhLGjq3vw
@movebetterproj -- Mon Sep 27 04:09:58 +0000 2021
@LACTAlD That is class extension-based pain. This whole playlist is for you, kethi: https://t.co/zTX0d9QRTg
@katrinadlc -- Mon Sep 27 16:42:46 +0000 2021
also though me to myself - an important reminder: https://t.co/v1rQMlQ8Df
@kylascan -- Mon Sep 27 15:49:35 +0000 2021
@visakanv the opposite of self-deprecating humor is self-manifesting humor, or something like that
@MasterTimBlais -- Mon Sep 27 05:02:15 +0000 2021
one of the big keys to impressing people is quitting while you're ahead https://t.co/zODTpSjjSl
@DanielCJonas -- Mon Sep 27 13:07:50 +0000 2021
@QiaochuYuan @visakanv astute observation https://t.co/wJRPcYWorq
@nbouscal -- Mon Sep 27 13:41:17 +0000 2021
@visakanv this seems like an overlapping but not identical idea, which may help as a bridge toward the idea i’m thinking of? disobeying your inner authoritarian can be an act of self-love but won’t necessarily be. i agree it sounds like it might be able to get across a bit better though.
@hosalind -- Mon Sep 27 05:17:06 +0000 2021
https://t.co/o0YZEWIhxO
@hosalind -- Mon Sep 27 05:11:34 +0000 2021
@brianduffytweet This is a fully formed short story !
@krishnanrohit -- Mon Sep 27 11:27:38 +0000 2021
@visakanv @mbateman This is our strategy with our 4yo, and personally it's been amazing because we have highly unexpected conversations. And we try praise only specifics (observations, hypotheses, theories) not general (you're so smart). But they overlap and we're trying to teach coping skills.
@nbouscal -- Mon Sep 27 06:49:50 +0000 2021
@visakanv @amasad haha he is not. he’s been there about a decade iirc. (worked with him briefly at codecademy)
@sasadb -- Sun Sep 26 23:15:41 +0000 2021
@visakanv thanks, this is giving me much to think about!
@ultimape -- Sun Sep 26 22:27:26 +0000 2021
@selentelechia @visakanv @movebetterproj @meditationstuff I did some hip flexor stretches back in 2011 after I learned about from 4 hour body. Didn't directly improve my focus, but did improve my ability to walk long distances without hip pain, which ended up helping me at the time.
@briandavidhall -- Mon Sep 27 15:51:43 +0000 2021
I'm reading Work by @anthrowittering and it's already pissing me off Hunter-gatherers "rarely worked more than fifteen hours a week ... and spent the bulk of their time at rest and leisure" Y'all what are we doing
@IanVanagas -- Mon Sep 27 15:37:28 +0000 2021
@tjrwriting @visakanv I think this is the one: https://t.co/zMhSBcbgzV
@quotidiania -- Mon Sep 27 13:41:32 +0000 2021
Visa just reached straight into my brain and articulated something I've never said out loud but known for a very long time https://t.co/5ncGnPsgD9
@dackerman -- Mon Sep 27 14:51:02 +0000 2021
This is so important. It's easy to beat yourself up for not taking a huge step when you could just take smaller ones. Powering through fear can be useful, but can also give you PTSD that prevents you from keeping at it https://t.co/MurjEeZC1C
@AlyBlenkin -- Mon Sep 27 14:14:55 +0000 2021
I'm a bit nervous about putting this out there, but I've been thinking a lot about new beginnings and navigating change https://t.co/CI6qmv3O0u
@AshtearLucca -- Mon Sep 27 07:10:23 +0000 2021
Felt cute, might delete later, idk tho https://t.co/BxYeGGE7qN
@Josh412 -- Mon Sep 27 01:34:19 +0000 2021
Me spending the weekend stretching - https://t.co/oOv2L9R6Zh
@ThunderingNina -- Mon Sep 27 17:21:46 +0000 2021
On Mondays we draw the skyline with continuous lines and brush pens 🎠 https://t.co/7RTrBysFY0
@AshtearLucca -- Mon Sep 27 05:39:07 +0000 2021
@visakanv I fucked up my elbow and shoulder, prolly from practicing aerial silks too long after not regularly training for a year. What's weird is that the pain wasn't really in my face until the next day... after doing squats? Someone here gave me a tip on how to hold the barbell that
@movebetterproj -- Sun Sep 26 20:41:53 +0000 2021
@wminshew @selentelechia @visakanv Going to record something for this today or tomorrow. Hard to describe, but the exercise is a head nod/chin tuck over a foam roller
@krishnanrohit -- Mon Sep 27 11:23:54 +0000 2021
@visakanv @mbateman That's fair. I feel I got there only later on. The aspect of supprotiveness inherent in that interaction I feel would've been way more valuable than the observation itself. The fact that someone sees and values you.
@GSto -- Mon Sep 27 07:19:38 +0000 2021
@visakanv ex: New Netherlands was founded by traders looking to expand commerce, now home of the NYC & NYSE
@hosalind -- Mon Sep 27 05:13:51 +0000 2021
Ego looooves critiquing itself Loves the idea of heroic struggle, return, perfection, infallibility, completeness, no suffering, no pain Loves sharpening its self-hatred with absurd spiritual goals But look at how that assumption scorns everything that is you & me here right now.
@reedkavner -- Mon Sep 27 16:23:14 +0000 2021
Next Slide Please is back October 12 with new PowerPoints from: • @depthsofwiki's Annie Rauwerda • @jnicolon • @christress • @DylanAdler6 • @cartoonsbyhil Tix → https://t.co/IAKluSnQUl https://t.co/maskT6mIuZ
@ashleydzhang -- Sun Sep 26 20:44:00 +0000 2021
@visakanv still haven’t figured out what is a healthy level of inner self/personal life to broadcast online! 😖
@reedkavner -- Mon Sep 27 16:31:59 +0000 2021
@visakanv Thanks, Visa! 🖥✨
@movebetterproj -- Mon Sep 27 19:13:45 +0000 2021
@not__false @visakanv https://t.co/nJoy5xqezp
@nbouscal -- Mon Sep 27 12:54:47 +0000 2021
@visakanv pretty much all of the most effective adhders i know make a lot of lists all the time not me though 😣 i have some kind of list block
@nbouscal -- Mon Sep 27 12:53:33 +0000 2021
@maiab @visakanv [sporadic “mmmhm”s in support of this response]
@triztrooper -- Mon Sep 27 16:26:10 +0000 2021
@visakanv @gambleluke1 When I stumble over anyone struggling to ask sincere questions in the face of hostile reactions, I offer my attempt to explain why this may occur. What you identify as an interesting contradiction others may interpret as an accusation of hypocrisy. https://t.co/3imiSrk74L
@redcar_tenken -- Mon Sep 27 12:41:04 +0000 2021
@visakanv Heck I'd love to get you and him and a few others on discord for an hour or so of conversation just to brainstorm it, and I might be able to go from there. :P
@movebetterproj -- Sun Sep 26 23:11:44 +0000 2021
@shabbytigers @visakanv https://t.co/whIn5hQ70W
@TomKealy2 -- Mon Sep 27 13:15:28 +0000 2021
@visakanv it's like we're the same person
@JosephKChoi -- Mon Sep 27 07:21:19 +0000 2021
@visakanv i’m also this mf https://t.co/wcf3kvH8tm
@davidhmarsh -- Mon Sep 27 08:08:36 +0000 2021
@visakanv 50. At least it's supposed to be 50.
@GSto -- Mon Sep 27 07:16:56 +0000 2021
@visakanv I like this model, of US as 11 countries in a trench coat. different countries / groups colonized different regions for different reasons that still shapes those places today https://t.co/8Fb58mQdeH
@hosalind -- Mon Sep 27 02:01:08 +0000 2021
“Sex and survival is enough to build a life upon” - UG Krishnamurti Please dont waste your life trying to get enlightened. We are all already made of light. The search is insanity. Ive watched people waste away trying to purge their non-existent ego. Its the new “original sin”
@hosalind -- Mon Sep 27 00:03:33 +0000 2021
Has anyone here successfully commissioned/produced a documentary, and would have time to chat for an hour ? We are sitting on a ton of footage and a story and stuck what to do next with it.
@wminshew -- Sun Sep 26 22:05:16 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @selentelechia @visakanv been playing around with it a bit, think i figured it out. Remarkable relief thank you again
@redcar_tenken -- Mon Sep 27 12:24:58 +0000 2021
@visakanv Or maybe we could turn it into an Aristotelian anime. 🤔
@LifespanDevelop -- Mon Sep 27 13:25:59 +0000 2021
@visakanv I was feeling like that yesterday! Back to writing today!
@redcar_tenken -- Mon Sep 27 12:32:02 +0000 2021
@visakanv btw I am 100% on board for character designing and helping with plot if you and curzi want to pursue that. My brain is just a little too full of my own stories to focus on basic concept for someone else's right now.
@cybercat85 -- Mon Sep 27 11:34:46 +0000 2021
🪄 yeet all obstacles in my way https://t.co/9u2ct234YA
@hosalind -- Mon Sep 27 06:59:56 +0000 2021
@keendisregard @visakanv He’s a kind guy 🥰
@BillSeitz -- Mon Sep 27 15:08:31 +0000 2021
@chanamuu @brainpicker https://t.co/etxigiwVK6
@briandavidhall -- Mon Sep 27 14:41:12 +0000 2021
@movebetterproj @visakanv 🙏 ty
@ricvolpe -- Mon Sep 27 10:06:32 +0000 2021
@visakanv Perhaps the closest artist to him (from the above perspective) would be Homer
@MattSmithTweets -- Mon Sep 27 09:05:02 +0000 2021
@visakanv Yes 👏 Every project needs phases and roles, even a personal project. Each role requires a different skill sets and ways of thinking. Each phase is a different mindset, a different place in the project for each role.
@honeyvonbunny -- Mon Sep 27 07:05:56 +0000 2021
@scantypop Its like A fault in our stars but extremely inappropriate
@devonzuegel -- Tue Sep 28 01:43:35 +0000 2021
It's thrilling to see bike docks, outdoor dining, and parklets replace more and more of New York's on-street parking every time I visit 😊 https://t.co/w1yA26bPUu
@Aella_Girl -- Sun Sep 26 22:34:06 +0000 2021
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
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 21:30:19 +0000 2021
I think it was @reihan who first pilled me about this, but @alon_levy’s explanation of why joint federal-state-local financing of transportation infrastructure leads to bloated projects is the clearest I’ve seen. https://t.co/H6NCWaWXVp
@primalpoly -- Sun Sep 26 23:53:35 +0000 2021
@KyleKashuv No you need soil, fertilizer, and water
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 10:41:55 +0000 2021
Can someone tell this guy that his capitalist bosses at the Independent set up a paywall to make the infinite scarce and sell it back to us? Next, can someone tell him that web3 may be his best path to independence *from* those capitalist bosses, as it enriches content creators? https://t.co/d3cJiqEUWW
@patio11 -- Mon Sep 27 00:10:25 +0000 2021
Well this went a little far afield from charging more for fantasy artwork.
@kevinakwok -- Mon Sep 27 05:21:55 +0000 2021
if your company had an exec impersonate a Google exec to talk to potential investors. And got caught. And still works at the company. Then the entire board should be fired. https://t.co/NudLP91EGS
@patio11 -- Tue Sep 28 02:54:30 +0000 2021
Likewise recommended. https://t.co/69roRT8lGx
@patio11 -- Mon Sep 27 16:58:31 +0000 2021
So Bitfinex/Tether apparently lost about $23 million to an operational error in setting Ethereum fees, which would be terrifying due to low equity cushion if regulated. OTOH, most crypto folks believe that Tether effectively has backup up to full equity value of Bitfinex/Tether. https://t.co/tHG6tPkCc7
@patio11 -- Sun Sep 26 23:41:42 +0000 2021
“Pipeline management = learn to count to two, then stop”, for example, is very poor pipeline management, much like Charge More is poor negotiation advice, but they’re competing against no pipeline / no negotiation respectively.
@patio11 -- Sun Sep 26 23:40:27 +0000 2021
I will observe that some of the advice doesn’t port directly to technologists, partly because B2C vs B2B and partly because I perceive some of it as meeting artists where they are, and where they are is low-sophistication with respect to business management/etc.
@patio11 -- Sun Sep 26 23:39:00 +0000 2021
A good thread about Charge More and other advice for services work, featuring (by context) fantasy-theme commissioned artwork. https://t.co/NKBGoLSbsA
@Noahpinion -- Sun Sep 26 21:40:04 +0000 2021
Texas is sort of quietly Georgist https://t.co/Zy6JvEbGBW
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 08:39:14 +0000 2021
Cultural essentialists need to grapple with the fact that the former Axis powers now generally have reasonable, moderate governments while the former Allies are generally going bonkers.
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 12:31:21 +0000 2021
"This is fine" incarnate, the complacency theorist is unmatched as a champion of the establishment. The official explanation is always true: the WMDs are in Iraq, the virus is under control, the Afghans can handle it. And if it's not, well, who coulda known?
@Noahpinion -- Sun Sep 26 20:43:02 +0000 2021
@JuanIsidro @AlecStapp It really is unbelievable
@kmele -- Sun Sep 26 20:40:55 +0000 2021
None of us get this stuff perfect all the time. None of us are our best selves every time we leave the house.
@kmele -- Sun Sep 26 21:12:03 +0000 2021
🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/CoboLgXFWD
@kmele -- Sun Sep 26 20:40:55 +0000 2021
Is your response to a stranger's insult a function of their physical characteristics/gender? Are you inclined to do the same thing if kids are watching? Their kid? Your kid? Is the impulse to deescalate, or even dispense a modicum of grace, a defect or a virtue?
@kmele -- Sun Sep 26 20:40:55 +0000 2021
The above clip left me scratching my head. Swiping thru the replies has me feeling a bit nauseous. Suppose a jaywalker almost causes a pileup. They compound the offense by flipping you off. Do you *tap* them w/ the car? Hop out + chase em’ down w/ your iPhone camera? Drive on?
@bariweiss -- Mon Sep 27 03:17:38 +0000 2021
https://t.co/D79TRnC5RW
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 20:13:18 +0000 2021
Shut (and I cannot emphasize this enough here) up. https://t.co/5IDA6G4vdv
@Noahpinion -- Sun Sep 26 21:17:08 +0000 2021
Yep. The constitutional crisis began when Trump denied the election result. It will not end until the GOP forswears election denial as a tactic for gaining power. https://t.co/NH54p90ZiA
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 14:32:07 +0000 2021
Thread. Fits my mental model of Xi Jinping's regime as "standard conservatives who happen to have way too much power over their society"... https://t.co/3gsGdCHMom
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 07:24:32 +0000 2021
https://t.co/8HhZ3XZCAs
@Noahpinion -- Mon Sep 27 07:35:58 +0000 2021
If China really wants to reunify peacefully with Taiwan, seems like they should just allow the KMT to be a second political party within China. https://t.co/L9HerCTagW
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 00:37:32 +0000 2021
Now that the public debate has begun to turn against them, the NIMBYs are focusing less on their bad policy arguments and more on attacking YIMBYs. It won't work. https://t.co/HOBSl9dSB6
@Noahpinion -- Tue Sep 28 03:23:59 +0000 2021
PASS THE DAMN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL RIGHT NOW. https://t.co/elVn2haNL8
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 10:45:29 +0000 2021
Then we had some wars which caused Germany to lose all that eastern territory to become parts of Poland and the Soviet exclave of Kaliningrad. Now Berlin is off on the eastern edge of Germany — except Germany is too countries! https://t.co/nwm1isd6nh
@micsolana -- Tue Sep 28 00:38:59 +0000 2021
@gbrl_dick ok this is the take
@micsolana -- Mon Sep 27 03:39:33 +0000 2021
twitter propagandists all in on "authoritarianism is normal, actually." lmao case closed i guess, no need to bring this one to the courts. https://t.co/eM00WKhdhv
@WBMason -- Sun Sep 26 20:56:29 +0000 2021
@sbuss @micsolana Yesterday was so cozy foggy.
@Meaningness -- Mon Sep 27 14:52:16 +0000 2021
@everytstudies And “being autistic” means that you have noticed this :)
@normative -- Sun Sep 26 21:34:06 +0000 2021
As @janecoaston noted, you don’t put this sort of “Hi, I’m obviously unconstitutional” language in a bill you actually expect to pass & survive review. Rubio has no intention of this ever becoming law; he just thinks the rubes are too dumb to recognize empty pandering. https://t.co/SMtceCXmhl
@normative -- Sun Sep 26 20:55:22 +0000 2021
RT @walterolson: Another problem: once the in-car surveillance data needed is available, someone is going to want to get their hands on it…
@benedictevans -- Sun Sep 26 23:37:31 +0000 2021
This reminds me of the time the New York Times ran a big editorial saying that ‘dark patterns’ should be illegal, even though you cannot cancel an online subscription to the New York Times online. https://t.co/4BMeZOY9VC
@KirkegaardEmil -- Tue Sep 28 03:00:05 +0000 2021
Chinese Supremacy, yes, but not a golden age https://t.co/wgLmU92Xbb
@ESYudkowsky -- Sun Sep 26 21:28:07 +0000 2021
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
@jbarro -- Mon Sep 27 12:00:08 +0000 2021
Who politicized science? It was the scientists, particularly in public health, who increasingly cannot see where expert questions end and questions of values that properly belong to laypersons begin. https://t.co/fK36C5vQns https://t.co/q3AeLDdcSt
@bryan_caplan -- Mon Sep 27 13:38:49 +0000 2021
"Hence, we see hundreds of empirical papers testing whether the minimum wage “really reduces employment,” but near-zero empirical papers that test whether government “really supplies public goods.”" https://t.co/6yJSsdulJk
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 01:23:10 +0000 2021
@nwilliams030 @WillManidis I mean he's not wrong
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 01:43:54 +0000 2021
@nwilliams030 @CryptoEthan [In the middle of nowhere, @simonsarris chuckles]
@primalpoly -- Tue Sep 28 00:07:06 +0000 2021
@sbkaufman Yep. I'm super nice in person. Not always on Twitter.
@sentientist -- Sun Sep 26 21:46:08 +0000 2021
@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.
@sentientist -- Sun Sep 26 20:58:55 +0000 2021
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
@robinhanson -- Mon Sep 27 02:54:36 +0000 2021
Whew. If women had had a larger decline, we’d have had a sexism problem to solve. https://t.co/le6ZX9s8kO
@robertwiblin -- Mon Sep 27 20:04:23 +0000 2021
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
@vgr -- Mon Sep 27 16:48:17 +0000 2021
@amelapay 🥳
@MartinBJensen -- Mon Sep 27 14:17:15 +0000 2021
Live tweets from the Next Generation Genomics 2021 conference #nextgengenomics! One of my favorite conferences both for the #scSeq/pooled screens/new methods it covers, and for the format of a single big keynote but otherwise junior presenters. Check out https://t.co/kxp8I0kjrg.
@garrytan -- Sun Sep 26 21:35:43 +0000 2021
Supply chain shortages of basic equipment and medical supplies are exposing mass cartel price fixing behavior In this case: basic medical supplies are in short supply because monopolies are being handed out by GPOs We must fix this. Vertical marketplaces are coming to fix this https://t.co/ggDG6amxId
@singareddynm -- Mon Sep 27 19:47:11 +0000 2021
@ArtirKel Yes, it is! Goes all the way back to the 60s and the coverage is incredibly interesting. Puts a lot of today’s corporate magazines to shame imo https://t.co/EHNKItHEhY
@pedrobeltrao -- Mon Sep 27 06:35:11 +0000 2021
We joined a large community effort to assess diverse applications of AlphaFold 2 in the context of novel structural elements; missense variants; function and ligand binding sites; modelling of interactions and experimental structural data. Some highlights below: https://t.co/h22ogYmLMU
@brian_armstrong -- Tue Sep 28 04:51:06 +0000 2021
This is pretty amazing - people working 40-50 hours a week in VR https://t.co/7VEcmyWwMp Lots of potential in this new medium.
@mollyfmielke -- Mon Sep 27 19:19:40 +0000 2021
no steakholders, only vegetable keepers
@cdixon -- Mon Sep 27 05:34:52 +0000 2021
@thethrum I’d be happy to talk to you more on the topic. Here’s a post I wrote on it recently https://t.co/III9SMCHXv
@ArtirKel -- Tue Sep 28 05:36:56 +0000 2021
@valor_zhang @celinehalioua we know this is fake news
@ArtirKel -- Tue Sep 28 05:19:08 +0000 2021
@SilverVVulpes Merely bathing in those waters gets you pregnant, even if male
@ArtirKel -- Tue Sep 28 04:52:17 +0000 2021
RT @brian_armstrong: This is pretty amazing - people working 40-50 hours a week in VR https://t.co/7VEcmyWwMp Lots of potential in this ne…
@ArtirKel -- Tue Sep 28 04:43:00 +0000 2021
@kipperrii Tfw can't fly away out of the US until my greencard comes thru
@ArtirKel -- Tue Sep 28 04:39:24 +0000 2021
@Lola_lmao7 @Lan_Dao_ @jack what are you waiting for
@ArtirKel -- Tue Sep 28 04:29:53 +0000 2021
@OlliPayne It's vibes all the way down
@ArtirKel -- Tue Sep 28 00:52:45 +0000 2021
@nickcammarata Sunday odd-hour regulars https://t.co/f9EGlYPFUE
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 22:49:53 +0000 2021
@LM_Braswell Alt: Going out? You mean getting out of the house to go bouldering? Your climbing shoes I guess.
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 22:49:01 +0000 2021
@LM_Braswell "Going out for the morning coffee? Allbirds and a Patagonis vest at the very least"
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 21:46:25 +0000 2021
@literalbanana Perhaps more widespread use of statins? Wonder what happens if you break it down by treated vs untreated
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 21:35:41 +0000 2021
@kevinakwok It seems to me the best heuristic is "whole foods, fully plant based" as in https://t.co/4fgZGWdB5e but I still eat whatever on the weekends (I do try to do whole foods during the week!)
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 21:29:29 +0000 2021
@kevinakwok I was thinking of writing a nutrition post at Nintil on eggs but fortunately this seems to be roughly what I would write? It may still be wrong, but it seems to go into sufficient depth into the various studies
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 19:42:51 +0000 2021
@singareddynm I'm not sure if I'm more surprised by the cover or the fact that it includes articles on Ethiopian hermit-priests lol. Is this online?
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 19:31:55 +0000 2021
@celinehalioua @sammarkuse !!!!
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 17:48:14 +0000 2021
@Ben_Reinhardt @SamoBurja 4vs5 is not that different!
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 17:11:56 +0000 2021
@Ben_Reinhardt @SamoBurja Yeah, this is a problem. Same for me in longevity, it's not about solving a big social problem, I'm not that altruistic. I want to understand biology and solving aging is solving a big sudoku, very intellectually satisfying.
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 15:22:09 +0000 2021
@clairebookworm1 Autism+a blend of genius and cryptid hah
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 15:20:00 +0000 2021
@clairebookworm1 https://t.co/1sEdiHzL13
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 01:49:20 +0000 2021
@soniajoseph_ Maybe your sample is weird, Laura and I are weird outliers hah
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 01:48:54 +0000 2021
@soniajoseph_ If I had more time I would do a short writeup
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 01:48:38 +0000 2021
@soniajoseph_ I think it's roughly solved, see the book How Not to Die
@ArtirKel -- Mon Sep 27 01:40:56 +0000 2021
@soniajoseph_ It's taken for granted. My longevity faq for example basically says "ok assume ideal nutrition and exercise, sleep etc. What else can be done?"
@ArtirKel -- Sun Sep 26 23:57:17 +0000 2021
@mishachellam https://t.co/InyOyKl9fJ
@ArtirKel -- Sun Sep 26 23:44:13 +0000 2021
@j_asminewang Throwback to London's Imperial Jasmine Tea
@ArtirKel -- Sun Sep 26 21:00:34 +0000 2021
@sergeykarayev I've thought about this a couple of times, and waited for someone to start it. Alas, hasn't happened
@z_chiang -- Mon Sep 27 16:30:16 +0000 2021
Insanely cool talk from @XiaoWan38018817 at #nextgengenomics on in situ electro-seq (spatial transcriptomics + electrophysiology)⚡️ https://t.co/BprxqC7FQ8
@Lan_Dao_ -- Mon Sep 27 00:59:59 +0000 2021
@etiennefd @soniajoseph_ Vox Populi milkshake IPA!
@clairebookworm1 -- Mon Sep 27 15:20:58 +0000 2021
@ArtirKel reading this is wonderful omg
@mishachellam -- Tue Sep 28 03:45:29 +0000 2021
New post from @Noahpinion makes sense to me. Curious if there are folks who thoughtfully disagree? cc @saikatc @SeanMcElwee @nataliefoster https://t.co/eDofV3riKS
@OlliPayne -- Tue Sep 28 03:54:11 +0000 2021
had an extremely upsetting day and concluded that i'm just gonna make art in a specific direction and with/for people i'm aligned with heck all this other dumb shit
@cdixon -- Mon Sep 27 04:20:40 +0000 2021
“Technical advisor to the CEO of Microsoft” https://t.co/cbhV7H8ktm
@cFidd -- Mon Sep 27 17:35:46 +0000 2021
"These dread-inducing headlines and anecdotal stories about health care workers quitting are concealing what is actually the far more important story: Vaccine mandates work." https://t.co/guUxbLD4ts
@cFidd -- Mon Sep 27 14:04:11 +0000 2021
Worth reupping after the Arizona "audit" "report" dropped Friday, every bit of this holds up https://t.co/qMmX42mRr6
@johnsperanza -- Sun Sep 26 20:35:15 +0000 2021
@MarkKoyama @SilverVVulpes ah yes, the Sturdy Windows Fallacy
@ESYudkowsky -- Mon Sep 27 01:18:17 +0000 2021
@johnsperanza @MarkKoyama @SilverVVulpes I declare this thread won
@vgr -- Sun Sep 26 20:52:01 +0000 2021
Might have to start paying attention again. Kinda tuned out of crypto in this last cycle. Got too complicated for me, but maybe time to out in the effort now. https://t.co/xT9AeSKc7Q
@vgr -- Mon Sep 27 03:11:46 +0000 2021
🙄 https://t.co/pQsPsJdpha
@vgr -- Mon Sep 27 00:53:03 +0000 2021
🤔 a script that replaces all occurrences of ‘expert’ with ‘elite’ As in “experts say xyz” is rendered as “elites say xyz” Would capture big mood very well and also supply lulz I’m not actually in this expert-bashing camp but I find the idea funny.
@vgr -- Mon Sep 27 19:59:02 +0000 2021
This is why I'm not a public figure, though I have significant reach. Any allyship from me can at best amplify momentum in an existing direction a bit, not materially change the course of significant events. And on enmity... I can't finish any significant fight I can start
@vgr -- Mon Sep 27 16:59:56 +0000 2021
👀 👀 https://t.co/pXFXq0EXhS
@vgr -- Sun Sep 26 21:36:45 +0000 2021
“Consumer” internet tech is a bit like psychohistory. The game is not to sell but predict and govern. Ads are the go-to way to make money because making money is almost a misaligned afterthought.
@ESYudkowsky -- Mon Sep 27 04:49:22 +0000 2021
@Benoit03157452 @EliasHasle Minarchist Georgist and above all econoliterate, but you'd have to be a principled libertarian to tell the difference.
@ESYudkowsky -- Mon Sep 27 02:28:55 +0000 2021
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…
@ESYudkowsky -- Mon Sep 27 01:21:38 +0000 2021
RT @CraigGidney: @PikumaLondon @3blue1brown Another anecdote: my favorite university prof/class covered some quantum computing at the end.…
@ESYudkowsky -- Sun Sep 26 22:05:38 +0000 2021
@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.
@Nichlemn -- Sun Sep 26 20:37:47 +0000 2021
@ESYudkowsky The second tissue box has a million tissues, but only if Omega predicted that you would open only it.
@__TheBaron__ -- Mon Sep 27 00:27:57 +0000 2021
@Mad_Science_Guy @ESYudkowsky The current system doesn’t work. Medical error is the 3rd most common cause of death, even beats covid.
@selentelechia -- Mon Sep 27 04:07:42 +0000 2021
@MaryKayUltra yeah I'm the oldest of 7
@rsnous -- Mon Sep 27 20:43:39 +0000 2021
@tophtucker @djmicrobeads
@rsnous -- Mon Sep 27 01:04:48 +0000 2021
@PhilBennett3D @tophtucker
@nickcammarata -- Mon Sep 27 17:48:29 +0000 2021
@SamoBurja Twitter to change who you know, meditation and psychedelics to change who you are
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 22:16:40 +0000 2021
The Sopranos is so good that the imperfections (tada! out of nowhere it’s Ralphie Cifaretto!) are grating.
@diviacaroline -- Mon Sep 27 01:42:58 +0000 2021
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 of the demographic group that are behaving in ways that aren’t prosocial according to me.” …pretty sure this is how slurs work in general though! https://t.co/wMIWBaxyDv
@salonium -- Mon Sep 27 00:27:47 +0000 2021
I of course like the trend of people acknowledging and correcting things they've been wrong about, but more and more I find myself gravitating towards finding ways to prevent myself from making those mistakes in the first place. 🧵
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 10:31:20 +0000 2021
You don't own your Twitter account. You don't own your followers. You don't own the network you've built on these platforms. And yet you don't understand the problem web3 solves. https://t.co/O2N1CcnsX9
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 17:57:27 +0000 2021
Pretty awesome! First Senatorial candidate proposing that the US government buy a strategic reserve of Bitcoin. https://t.co/CGW48ZJN43
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 10:35:43 +0000 2021
We aren't introducing digital scarcity here. Access to your social media account is already scarce: you have it and Twitter has it. We are introducing digital property rights. Now only you have the private keys, and Twitter doesn't.
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 07:58:45 +0000 2021
Many years ago a friend of mine wrote a series of memos [1] for Microsoft on the importance of open source. A minority view that eventually became the majority after Satya. Today, looks like a similar memo wouldn't get written at all. Their loss! [1] https://t.co/9hmXZp9ceN https://t.co/1rSFJBkdAo
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 07:46:47 +0000 2021
"Technical Advisor to the CEO at Microsoft", is that like Assistant *to* the Regional Manager? Microsoft was actually early on supporting Ethereum development environments on Azure, btw. https://t.co/otnwoDg9Fh
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 07:44:34 +0000 2021
@satyanadella, come get your boy https://t.co/dEJXfr0ukE
@hardsci -- Sun Sep 26 21:15:29 +0000 2021
I'm teaching structural equation modeling this fall. If any SEM nerds (or anyone else) have ideas or suggestions for readings, topics, etc. I'd love to hear your feedback https://t.co/BdjUoJ7fXZ
@hardsci -- Mon Sep 27 00:19:11 +0000 2021
@katiecorker Good ideas! I've lost track of how many times in my lab we've counted df and figured out that we weren't running the model we thought we were (often because of poorly documented defaults). Definitely something to emphasize in class as a practical thing you actually want to do
@AgnesCallard -- Mon Sep 27 12:47:50 +0000 2021
Wearing my new Time and Space pants in honor of the first day of school!!! https://t.co/MgEkxAl9OH
@AgnesCallard -- Sun Sep 26 23:03:47 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat Much more flattering to me this way!
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:55:19 +0000 2021
In my most major Twitter fail this week I failed to notice @AgnesCallard wrote this!!! Now I know why it was so scathing and perfect — will watch it anyway 😋 https://t.co/U9PHnJnHPZ
@Aella_Girl -- Sun Sep 26 21:46:43 +0000 2021
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:
@nwilliams030 -- Mon Sep 27 14:01:08 +0000 2021
Compound paused our hiring process this summer, but we're looking to expand our team again! https://t.co/oHnT4JemhA
@Klonick -- Sun Sep 26 23:44:42 +0000 2021
I quite literally said exactly this in a panel on Wednesday. https://t.co/HVCJRjwJOG
@MichaelShindler -- Mon Sep 27 13:01:27 +0000 2021
Twitter isn't new https://t.co/We5RsYVslH
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 18:59:17 +0000 2021
@udiWertheimer @kevinsekniqi I know you did hfsp [1] but actually don't know who coined ngmi [2]. I'd of course cite it in Markdown format. [1] Wertheimer, Udi. "How nocoiners and journos are enjoying their self-imposed penury" [2] Unknown
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 18:53:51 +0000 2021
@kevinsekniqi My alt is @udiWertheimer https://t.co/3hQWibypqX
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 18:46:04 +0000 2021
First they laugh at you Then they hfsp because they ngmi
@balajis -- Mon Sep 27 11:54:45 +0000 2021
Fully centralized is mandatory custody. They can take it. Fully decentralized is mandatory self-custody. You can lose it. So a semi-centralized model where you can *transfer your assets* between custodians may be where most land up. Still a step forward from fully centralized!
@StefanFSchubert -- Mon Sep 27 21:34:24 +0000 2021
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
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 14:17:13 +0000 2021
Guys, it’s not easy for me to say this, but I think I’m at a stage of my life when I need a bean bag chair.
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 23:10:22 +0000 2021
Mood. https://t.co/ZcDCGzMCV4
@CaseyNewton -- Mon Sep 27 02:17:57 +0000 2021
@benyt Legend
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 12:48:56 +0000 2021
The more you think America is teetering on the brink of collapsing into an authoritarian dictatorship, the *more* you should be urging progressives to trim their sails on left-left cultural politics in order to win. But the revealed preference is the opposite. https://t.co/JyiShP1Imc
@generativist -- Mon Sep 27 00:28:53 +0000 2021
@liminal_warmth solid avi
@telmudic -- Sun Sep 26 22:55:27 +0000 2021
“I didn’t like my tiny penis until I realized…it was my ancestors’ legacy.” *shows a bunch of pics of European statues* https://t.co/1P7rRtzOzI
@hunterwalk -- Mon Sep 27 02:36:22 +0000 2021
@benyt aaaaaand kicker "two months after Goldman Sachs walked away, the company raised another round of financing"
@amelapay -- Mon Sep 27 18:29:38 +0000 2021
I sometimes tell people that @ByrneHobart and I are "writers" because the "full-time substack" and "philosophical life coaching" are a bit much but now we both have real books forthcoming 😱 #manifesting
@hardsci -- Mon Sep 27 15:26:52 +0000 2021
First mandatory pants in 18 months https://t.co/bGNqKmJUn9
@seanphughes99 -- Mon Sep 27 01:07:41 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat I mean…if it’s Caro I’ll get at least a page on the size of my head and or how poorly my suits fit me. And that’s all anyone really should get…
@seanphughes99 -- Sun Sep 26 23:11:06 +0000 2021
@AgnesCallard @TheAnnaGat Really wonderful
@orpheaskk -- Sun Sep 26 21:57:07 +0000 2021
@TheAlexYao FLYING HORSES
@julien -- Sun Sep 26 22:58:14 +0000 2021
Chris Dixon is basically always right about everything so
@robkhenderson -- Sun Sep 26 21:13:49 +0000 2021
"men with narrower faces were more likely to die from contact violence..men who were wider faced were less likely to die from contact violence...results suggest facial width is a valid indicator of male fighting ability" https://t.co/AkiEvJnFsH https://t.co/EF2JvPjar4
@sagar__dubey -- Mon Sep 27 16:41:09 +0000 2021
@ByrneHobart Hi Byrne - May I present https://t.co/K1LEKmReHy
@zstorok -- Sun Sep 26 23:49:17 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat Proud to represent! 🙌🧭
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 12:53:02 +0000 2021
My boring take is that the truth is somewhere between these poles, but very few people calibrate their prescriptions to their diagnosis at all.
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 12:51:03 +0000 2021
If Trump is a clownish, inept, floundering figure then sure — swing for the fences, take your shot, and aim for true greatness accepting that you might lose. But if he’s menace, you need to do timid defensive crouch politics.
@sashachapin -- Mon Sep 27 09:29:08 +0000 2021
I put the micro in microcelebrity
@selentelechia -- Mon Sep 27 00:14:02 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot @oscredwin @orthonormalist "If everyone would just" but they don't realize that everyone will not just
@selentelechia -- Mon Sep 27 00:13:10 +0000 2021
@eigenrobot @oscredwin @orthonormalist wtf this is bonkers
@siminevazire -- Tue Sep 28 09:56:02 +0000 2021
USA science Twitter is once again talking about limiting meetings to 9-5 (very reasonable, don’t get me wrong) while over in the rest of the world, if we have US-based meetings or collabs we’re like “I won’t meet between 1am & 4am - that’s a hard limit!!”
@APompliano -- Mon Sep 27 11:12:01 +0000 2021
Good morning! It's Monday. Let's get after it relentlessly today 🔥
@jposhaughnessy -- Mon Sep 27 12:23:16 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat https://t.co/F3IrbXgnVB
@NoahShachtman -- Mon Sep 27 11:09:34 +0000 2021
Ben exposes a truly wild grift here. Great stuff. https://t.co/HXhAKhStJ6
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:15 +0000 2021
📚🏛️ @philosophybites https://t.co/WW1iQ8HLf6
@drnelk -- Sun Sep 26 23:09:04 +0000 2021
Ecclesiastes isn't just a mood. It's the reading for the middle of the happiest holiday on Jewish calendar.
@bronwynwilliams -- Mon Sep 27 10:44:37 +0000 2021
@AdrianSaville @ValueSituations @pietviljoen @Delphine_DG @keithmclachlan @JMihaljevic @Richards_Karin Love this. Skin in the game is one of my favourite topics.
@jtannady -- Mon Sep 27 00:27:31 +0000 2021
https://t.co/kjDWY5a4Q4
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:24:26 +0000 2021
😍 https://t.co/j4mJNgL7Pe
@samatlounge -- Mon Sep 27 10:31:00 +0000 2021
Think I’ve nailed the posh village lady look. What a surprise they’ll have when I open my mouth. #TakeTheGirlOutOfBristol https://t.co/2ZQuxNx43I
@TheEricAnderson -- Mon Sep 27 15:41:11 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat I had the MUJI bean bag chair for a while and it is soooo good. It reminded me that as an adult your furniture can both be functional AND fun.
@TheEricAnderson -- Mon Sep 27 14:20:02 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat The biggest lie we’ve ever been told is that there is a stage of life where bean bag chairs aren’t needed.
@sebkrier -- Mon Sep 27 10:08:34 +0000 2021
@azeem I'm not sure but the 'ea' in 'tea' is silent.
@sebkrier -- Mon Sep 27 08:26:28 +0000 2021
Some interesting commitments in the Joint Statement from Quad Leaders https://t.co/5PGwisvHzy https://t.co/qaqCM5bU2I
@nickducoff -- Mon Sep 27 10:45:31 +0000 2021
Yep! https://t.co/hlqXwb4dAL
@russellmaxsimon -- Mon Sep 27 16:34:24 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat Available for pre-order, but shipping bean bags to Europe not yet available ;)
@typecasezine -- Mon Sep 27 14:35:32 +0000 2021
basketball themed nfts today in honor of media day
@SharpeMartha -- Mon Sep 27 16:58:29 +0000 2021
View from my “home office” right now I’ve dreamed of living on the beach and now we’re here. Even if it’s just for a day The fam’s out playing. I’ll join them after work. https://t.co/78A6rBkFPh
@kevinschawinski -- Mon Sep 27 09:11:54 +0000 2021
I really hope there will be an extended director's cut of #DUNE
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 18:29:12 +0000 2021
RT @interintellect_: ❤️✨
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 18:28:22 +0000 2021
RT @JuditPetho: What are you doing next week Thursday evening? 7 Oct If you fancy a chilled, inspiring, exciting chat with interesting peop…
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 18:25:48 +0000 2021
RT @interintellect_: Writers, thinkers, readers! Are you not a member of Interintellect yet? 🤗 Come join our buzzing community of minds,…
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 18:19:01 +0000 2021
@pedrobnsilva 💗
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 18:18:48 +0000 2021
I'll sign up so fast!!! https://t.co/yRIkr94F3I
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:23:19 +0000 2021
@packyM 🥰
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:10:39 +0000 2021
. @packyM’s newsletter is 🔥🔥🔥
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:09:01 +0000 2021
RT @wanderuminating: Oh, and you get a free copy of the book too! :)
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:08:54 +0000 2021
RT @reddy2go: the @interintellect_ effect
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:08:44 +0000 2021
RT @jposhaughnessy: Should not come as a surprise that I will be playing the role of the 🤡 at my Salon while @bronwynwilliams gets to be th…
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:08:38 +0000 2021
RT @bsgallagher: Mine, on the myth of our “lizard brain,” is this coming Thursday! 🦎🧠
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:08:11 +0000 2021
RT @lucia_asanache: 🤔What's it like working in #Community? 💭What is the best/hardest thing about it? 🧨What makes a great Community creator…
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 17:07:59 +0000 2021
RT @interintellect_: Wow 😍🤗⚡️
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 16:01:12 +0000 2021
@russellmaxsimon How can I buy one!
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 15:15:39 +0000 2021
RT @JimmyRis: “Many things are possible, Sergeant, but not economically feasible. Of course, that all depends on how you calculate costs.”
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 15:11:18 +0000 2021
RT @timhwang: for sale: two takes, never problematized
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 15:11:03 +0000 2021
RT @schlagetown: Big fan of this stance! (& of Matt's ideas, which are consistently creative, intriguing, generative…)
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 14:20:30 +0000 2021
@TheEricAnderson So true OMG
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 14:19:43 +0000 2021
Life — https://t.co/bkjf5SPUwg
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 11:56:24 +0000 2021
@hcndashwood @interintellect_ I need to leave at 4:30pm but I’m sure the party will continue!
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 11:41:46 +0000 2021
Dear Londoners and London @interintellect_ ❤️🥰 As promised, on Wednesday I’ll be hosting an informal coffee / tea gathering on the terrace of The Harrison near King’s Cross ☕️✨ Starts at 2:30pm — come and join me!
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 11:26:58 +0000 2021
@Loster You should check us out! 🚀 https://t.co/c1m4LB9BEH
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 10:44:42 +0000 2021
@balajis Also can somebody tell Adam Smith about Adam Smith
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 10:38:24 +0000 2021
I’ve now been out of lockdown for nearly 4 months and I still feel like I’m auditioning for human.
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 10:15:53 +0000 2021
RT @sugden_rebecca: The world: owning a lot of books doesn’t count as a personality Academics: https://t.co/k2L78cF7Vz
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 10:15:17 +0000 2021
@chwoodiwiss Ahahahhaa 🥰🥰🥰🥰
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 10:10:44 +0000 2021
RT @robertwiblin: How many doses have been donated by each country? Gotta vaccinate the whole world including the poorest countries to slo…
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 10:08:43 +0000 2021
RT @reddy2go: they're all insanely cool salons cuz the people in them are 🤗
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 10:04:59 +0000 2021
A very meta @interintellect_ salon tomorrow evening (UK time) by @lucia_asanache -- For anyone interested in community building as a growing movement! https://t.co/FeIIDeFuav
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 00:31:12 +0000 2021
Which living author should write your biography one day?
@TheAnnaGat -- Mon Sep 27 00:29:28 +0000 2021
@generativist @liminal_warmth +1!!!
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 23:54:28 +0000 2021
@etiennefd What it looks like / how it looks => I'll surely say "how it looks like" -- Other than that a whole bunch of stuff I use the wrong way!!
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 23:52:04 +0000 2021
@webdevMason Great new piece on this actually: https://t.co/ODAGZ9v13w
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 23:51:09 +0000 2021
@webdevMason OMG
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 23:50:33 +0000 2021
Interintellects are 🤗🥺 https://t.co/q23WPBLYGC
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 23:06:39 +0000 2021
@AgnesCallard 💗💗💗💗
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:58:52 +0000 2021
@anitaleirfall @aharonfriedman @AgnesCallard Mea maxima….
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:58:39 +0000 2021
@anitaleirfall @aharonfriedman @AgnesCallard https://t.co/a21bFLwSEX
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:57:59 +0000 2021
@aharonfriedman @anitaleirfall @AgnesCallard I am blind 🤦🏼‍♀️
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:40:07 +0000 2021
Revisiting this fantastic piece, recommended by @bryankam (bought the book too, but haven't read it yet!) https://t.co/89qJrfsNjs
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:23:35 +0000 2021
Thank you!
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:22:27 +0000 2021
More and more people have @interintellect_ in their Twitter bios 💗🥺 This is the most beautiful feeling! https://t.co/hZZqvfd5hX
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:16 +0000 2021
🌳🤗 @EyalShay2 @reddy2go https://t.co/v1R2dM69EO
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:15 +0000 2021
🏙️🗺️ @JuditPetho https://t.co/6dO2ZIddTn
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:14 +0000 2021
🔧📢 @roybahat https://t.co/kzUJaYhNsT
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:13 +0000 2021
🎸🤘🏽 @okelpp https://t.co/K1imPdUcAF
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:13 +0000 2021
🎻🎹 @Linus_Lu https://t.co/hsFtW6wjB3
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:12 +0000 2021
🧠🐊 @bsgallagher https://t.co/FN8MoxQSgD
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:11 +0000 2021
🫂🧘🏽‍♂️ @jstanotherview https://t.co/75LMH5UiQy
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:12:09 +0000 2021
Some insanely cool salons coming up at @interintellect_! If you've never been: imagine if Zoom gatherings were good 🧡🥰 Bring a notebook, a glass of wine (optional!) and an inquisitive mind! Brace for laughter, kindness, big questions. 🖼️🔍 @PHurducas: https://t.co/db89lnut4y
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 22:00:42 +0000 2021
@nikillinit cc @danielgolliher 😁
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 20:51:22 +0000 2021
RT @semimetic: He must, so to speak, throw away the lobster. https://t.co/KfdDR2WpTx
@TheAnnaGat -- Sun Sep 26 20:51:05 +0000 2021
@semimetic Heavy is the head…
@ashleydzhang -- Mon Sep 27 07:13:05 +0000 2021
@snigdhar0y eternally grateful for your counsel ❤️
@etiennefd -- Sun Sep 26 23:59:37 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat oh god I'm confused from just trying to distinguish those phrases 😄
@chwoodiwiss -- Mon Sep 27 02:07:28 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat Solnit if my life goes one way Tolentino if it goes another Brodesser-Akner if it really goes off 😜
@pedrobnsilva -- Mon Sep 27 18:17:36 +0000 2021
finally reunited, missed it so much! https://t.co/mxOgS3Y23d
@Trent_STEMpunk -- Mon Sep 27 14:56:32 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat I've always wondered what it would be like for a person in their 30's to go to college for the first time! Maybe make a reality show out of it.
@daveparke -- Mon Sep 27 00:38:28 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat Karl Ove Knausgård 
@TheAlexYao -- Sun Sep 26 21:56:44 +0000 2021
@orpheaskk im more of an airship maximalist
@neurofoo -- Mon Sep 27 18:21:35 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat ⛱️+📚=❤️‍🔥
@neurofoo -- Mon Sep 27 18:15:39 +0000 2021
https://t.co/oT6URNq1dj https://t.co/Y8SBUaPAhy
@XavierHelgesen -- Mon Sep 27 00:35:30 +0000 2021
@TheAnnaGat Thomas Pynchon please
@Josh412 -- Mon Sep 27 17:52:07 +0000 2021
This is a good introduction to using block patterns in WordPress. https://t.co/LvusfW3X62
@kevinakwok -- Mon Sep 27 21:36:38 +0000 2021
@wongmjane You’re supposed to be ahead of us on product features. Not feature films.
@kevinakwok -- Mon Sep 27 21:36:12 +0000 2021
@wongmjane https://t.co/yp4zz756Ys
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 11:18:58 +0000 2021
At the top schools at least, education polarization starts *before* the students arrive on campus. https://t.co/SiubMXPsMD https://t.co/ibwXZkgWRo
@ntaylor963 -- Mon Sep 27 13:53:37 +0000 2021
@ByrneHobart i follow you because you are such an youthful optimist. I mean, 3071 is *possible* I suppose. But it really is a race with heat death of the universe. Hard to know for sure which will come first.
@MattZeitlin -- Sun Sep 26 22:51:33 +0000 2021
you cut, i choose https://t.co/WM76eTMu2H
@ruima -- Mon Sep 27 02:37:37 +0000 2021
@ByrneHobart @John_Hempton The policy is against illegal use of electricity by minters and clearly states that virtual currency mining will pay a higher price. Not wholly illegal nor seized by state. Thus ~30% of hashrate is still in China but trending down. Machine translation of policy below: https://t.co/ZAGh5XvPqh
@Nicolas_Colin -- Mon Sep 27 06:16:52 +0000 2021
@ByrneHobart https://t.co/bzXRB7KGTn https://t.co/iAg92USJy6
@MorlockP -- Mon Sep 27 11:55:28 +0000 2021
saw @ByrneHobart talking about complicated social norms and thought "<tips fedora> just put it on the blockchain" (as a troll, ofc) then, oh Gosh, just had a cursed thought I just KNOW that if I search for "polyamory blockchain" i will find hits
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 05:35:54 +0000 2021
@nickcammarata @RomeoStevens76 @eigenrobot ah it was @TRULY_RELAXED https://t.co/2qkoyXEfwz
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 05:35:03 +0000 2021
@nickcammarata @RomeoStevens76 i definitely feel like i stole it from someone, probably @eigenrobot ?
@hradzka -- Mon Sep 27 22:57:45 +0000 2021
@ByrneHobart In all seriousness, I would *love* to see them do a TWILIGHT ZONE-esque half-hour anthology series based on Dahl’s adult stories. “Man From the South” would go over great as an episode.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 22:52:33 +0000 2021
@patio11 I think Dahl was smart to write so much children's literature, where his love of violence and dark humor just looked quirky. He really likes killing.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 22:46:33 +0000 2021
Dahl's estate will provide some nice, high-class dramas for the grown-ups, but Netflix will have to be very careful that kids who are looking for The BFG don't end up watching a show about a woman who bludgeons her husband with a leg of lamb and then feeds it to the police.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 22:45:20 +0000 2021
The Dahl/Netflix story reminds me of that time in 5th grade or so when a teacher realized I was bored and gave me a random Roald Dahl book to read. It was not a children's book! Most memorable story was this one: https://t.co/CqED5dTRlV but there was plenty of murder, too.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 22:23:53 +0000 2021
If it takes almost a year to apply a policy, and you apply the policy that made sense a year ago, you’ll do ok as long as it’s not a response to some kind of rapidly changing situation, perhaps involving exponential growth.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 18:45:32 +0000 2021
RT @amelapay: it's official: My first book - part memoir, part "red state relocation guide" - is forthcoming spring 2022 via Bombadier Bo…
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 14:44:43 +0000 2021
@LibertyRPF https://t.co/9sA2m6kncE I thought it would happen, but so far no luck. I do think there's a cohort that was constrained by big city housing prices and is no longer held back that way, so we'll see. But when I check Google Trends, "prenatal vitamins" isn't moving.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 13:54:47 +0000 2021
@ntaylor963 Compounding seems to happen faster over time, so the options are either an inconceivably weird future on a shorter timeline than feels natural, or apocalypse. https://t.co/4pZl2Q54ZA
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 13:49:46 +0000 2021
In the year 3071, when the Muskrioshka Brain has successfully captured 100% of the energy emitted by the sun while converting all the solar system's matter into computronium, Twitter will be nearly ready to beta test searching DMs.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 13:48:02 +0000 2021
A post on Twitter from when it had about 1k users: https://t.co/tNBTplhqaB #1 complaint: needs better DMs. (Via @abouelatta_ali)
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 13:42:17 +0000 2021
Today's subscribers-only post: https://t.co/yqFmCRZ3oW ($) https://t.co/oWCGDE7xjd
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 11:47:56 +0000 2021
You *can* have a commons that's shared through complicated social norms, but I don't think a group of several billion strangers can create a coherent set of norms in a single generation, especially with language/cultural gaps.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 11:46:49 +0000 2021
It's an unstable equilibrium to have something valuable but un-owned. Right now the equilibrium is that these assets are subtly privatized by big companies, but that's not the only model, and not necessarily the most efficient one. https://t.co/zJC7rSKdUA
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 03:11:12 +0000 2021
@ruima @John_Hempton Thank you! This is very helpful.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 02:33:42 +0000 2021
Prime Day in February 2022, you heard it here first. https://t.co/oTOjvu6eaj
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 02:20:55 +0000 2021
@John_Hempton Looking at the hashrate, possibilities are some combination of: 1. Some miners are still operating in China (legally? Under state control?) 2. They moved equipment 3. Rest of world installed enough to reduce China's share, also making 51% attack less likely.
@ByrneHobart -- Mon Sep 27 02:20:10 +0000 2021
@John_Hempton I think they moved a lot of it. Hashrate dropped after the May ban but started coming up again: https://t.co/59OA75N2n3 And there's this https://t.co/WuB8VCTcOv
@ByrneHobart -- Sun Sep 26 23:35:59 +0000 2021
@DoodCapital Yes, but that’s true of other assets, too—if you’re an early employee at a company that goes public, the way you ultimately monetize is by converting your stock to fiat.
@ITBeHa -- Mon Sep 27 22:55:24 +0000 2021
@ByrneHobart @patio11 I got into those as a kid learning English. Good times! The violence and dark humor really made the time fly.
@DennisUltor -- Mon Sep 27 22:51:08 +0000 2021
I first read H P Lovecraft in 6th grade, owing to a regrettable act of negligence by the school librarian. About that time I also read Sladek's "Tiktok", which is not at all suitable for children. Different librarian, similar belief that all sci-fi was Heinlein juveniles https://t.co/6HMkAkNFlS
@benjaminwittes -- Sun Sep 26 23:31:43 +0000 2021
Ok all you spy-film people out there, a conversation with @jsbalek has raised an important question: Is there a more perfect espionage movie than the old Richard Burton/Clare Bloom "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"? What is even close? @john_sipher @Mpolymer @petestrzok
@sonyasupposedly -- Mon Sep 27 19:31:22 +0000 2021
the Apple Store fills me with frustration because it's a deeply stupid experience ON PURPOSE
@nayafia -- Mon Sep 27 17:27:13 +0000 2021
@amelapay congrats!!
@kimmaicutler -- Sun Sep 26 21:19:42 +0000 2021
It’s the housing policy, stupid (California vs. Texas edition). https://t.co/UG0oibzHgE https://t.co/5A6QD19u4D
@katrosenfield -- Sun Sep 26 22:02:45 +0000 2021
not just that you *shouldn't* annihilate someone's life with a couple of keystrokes as punishment for being rude to you; if you *can* do this, if this option is available to you, it should trigger some introspection as to where the power in that interaction was actually located
@kevinakwok -- Mon Sep 27 18:30:27 +0000 2021
My dad has onboarded to crypto so hilariously fast He is now insisting we discuss uniswap and sushiswap history
@brian_armstrong -- Sun Sep 26 20:43:37 +0000 2021
A lot of folks don't realize that crypto is really the 3rd generation of the internet, re-decentralizing it. It is Web 3. Fully aligned with the goals of financial inclusion and checking the power of big tech. https://t.co/lICF0HDbdZ
@kevinakwok -- Mon Sep 27 18:42:20 +0000 2021
I do think I’m getting a lot of credit though. Every time he listens to a podcast and I can say I’m friends with the person “Oh so you’ve met them?” “No we just follow each other on Twitter. It’s like having met but like even closer” “…” “…” Latest is @tomhschmidt 😂
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 19:49:44 +0000 2021
My relationship to academia is after I did my senior thesis defense, Prof. Korsgaard asked what my plans were for after graduation. I said I had a job lined up at a magazine in DC and she said "that seems to be about your speed."
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 14:42:49 +0000 2021
New Dallas-area gerrymander just dropped. https://t.co/PaAxahiAbD
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 12:02:04 +0000 2021
@jbarro I would say that both sides carry a fair amount of blame here — back to the tobacco controversies in the 90s and then climate change, conservatives have a bad habit of just rejecting any scientific evidence that implies we need any regulation of anything.
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 21:36:02 +0000 2021
What we should have is a generic federal credit program to ensure that state governments can access cheap financing for ideas they consider worthwhile (or just countercyclical stabilization), but where they’re still playing with their own money. https://t.co/eVT6JbLl0M
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 21:34:16 +0000 2021
I walked past this project today and saw a sign indicating something like an 8:1 ratio of federal to local money; you’d be crazy not to featherbed with that amount of other people’s money. https://t.co/Mi8Dr2wRHJ
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 19:40:31 +0000 2021
Every large American city is a "good food city." What are these cities you're visiting where it's somehow impossible to come up with a good restaurant to go eat at? The hard part is getting a babysitter!
@2irl4u -- Sun Sep 26 22:32:37 +0000 2021
Everyday I visit twitter dot com to see ppl with disposable income argue over which city is better… for them to work on their macbooks from.
@TheStalwart -- Sun Sep 26 23:33:19 +0000 2021
The only things I care about right now are savoring this time with family. And getting that Goddamn coin minted. The rest is all BS. https://t.co/XyDqUdr49e
@Austen -- Tue Sep 28 07:22:04 +0000 2021
1. Create a fake email address 2. Connect potential investors to fake email address 3. Use excuse in order to phone into a Zoom call 4. Impersonate someone during due diligence Feels like we're using pretty liberal interpretations of "mental health issue" here. https://t.co/oAEgwaUPMv
@Austen -- Mon Sep 27 20:13:25 +0000 2021
That the “beautiful walkable city with no cars” idea everyone loves to pine over on Twitter is completely unrealistic for the vast majority of American cities, even if we weren’t completely terrible at building public transport. https://t.co/e0q2bDG8t7
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 20:53:53 +0000 2021
I think “secular, but strongly nationalistic with mushy views on economics” is probably a decent model of the typical person who’d vote for Obama twice and then for Trump twice. https://t.co/aI8f75UVX6
@daphnehk -- Sun Sep 26 22:21:50 +0000 2021
You could write a dissertation on these two news stories alone. NYT covering FB’s efforts to shore up its reputation: https://t.co/25xqn3GVMH NYT making its own efforts to shore up its reputation: https://t.co/dkEmqPrG5Q
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 20:56:02 +0000 2021
A take I’ve been meaning to do at full length but will just toss off half-assed here for now is that some of what progressives conceptualize as a debate about race and racism plays to a lot of people as a debate about patriotism.
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 01:07:03 +0000 2021
Is a wave of nostalgia for the panic-buying toilet paper phase of the pandemic really overtaking us? https://t.co/9XHl6KJtnk
@mattyglesias -- Tue Sep 28 10:36:28 +0000 2021
Amazing stuff https://t.co/vpCL1uhuxI
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 10:33:16 +0000 2021
You see in 1618, the Hohenzollern prince-elector of Brandenburg inherited the Duchy of Prussia and…. https://t.co/paE971lbxB
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 11:02:17 +0000 2021
My six year old’s argument that he should be allowed to watch cartoons this morning because “sometimes it’s a three-day weekend” is largely nonsensical. But he’s already succeeded in turning this talking point into a nightmare for dads seeking peace & quiet to drink coffee.
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 12:41:58 +0000 2021
Me to a Wall Street guy: You guys should panic more about the debt ceiling. Guy: Eh, they’ll work it out Me: Yes, but only if you panic first. Guy: But they’ll work it out!
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 12:00:29 +0000 2021
This sounds pretty good, but can we start working after dropoff rather than after pickup? https://t.co/j6N8wmTUit
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 17:49:01 +0000 2021
Conservatives are somehow simultaneously both against executive branch discretion and also long, detailed bills. https://t.co/FtHdsWJiIr
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 21:32:09 +0000 2021
America is just awash in joint programs which should be mostly federalized (Medicaid, UI) or genuinely devolved (transportation).
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 21:00:09 +0000 2021
To me the play is to articulate *pride* in the United States as a multi-ethnic success story and heap scorn on the racists so alarmed by demographic change that they’d trade this great land of ours for a pot of goulash. https://t.co/FLOpn1NaTR
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 10:59:13 +0000 2021
But what if the journalists who know McConnell’s arguments are nonsensical didn’t do this? https://t.co/jlRkJXWfgF
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 12:38:01 +0000 2021
@jimsciutto What @crampell is saying is the bill doesn’t run up debt, it finances new spending by taxing rich people and businesses.
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 19:47:12 +0000 2021
Why would I want to be a political scientist? https://t.co/SHjrDJrXUf
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 18:00:08 +0000 2021
Either “big houses are good, actually” or “there is overwhelming evidence that visible police presence is an effective crime reduction strategy.” https://t.co/tdHXe5V7QH
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 17:52:50 +0000 2021
@Birdyword Fight for ¥1,500!
@mattyglesias -- Sun Sep 26 23:13:22 +0000 2021
Uh oh … someone wants to revisit the Schleswig-Holstein controversy https://t.co/oBuMhtZKCz
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 22:48:14 +0000 2021
If Democrats’ current course were causing them to gain Black and Latin vote share rather than lose it, I would feel a lot more comfortable with it. https://t.co/oT9S1x7Ne9
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 22:44:26 +0000 2021
“Don’t ever ask tactical questions or people on the internet will yell at you that you’re a racist” is not an approach that is going to create a strong and successful political movement, https://t.co/R0Q2BsQq5u
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 22:53:18 +0000 2021
@DrNoah_MTBC Conveniently, it does not include that.
@mattyglesias -- Mon Sep 27 23:06:36 +0000 2021
What is Ozy?
@a_centrism -- Sun Sep 26 22:10:33 +0000 2021
@primalpoly According to Redfin: "The average Austin house price was $562,000 last month, up 24.9% since last year."
@a_centrism -- Sun Sep 26 21:51:52 +0000 2021
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
@a_centrism -- Sun Sep 26 20:48:25 +0000 2021
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
@a_centrism -- Sun Sep 26 20:30:49 +0000 2021
@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.
@TomChivers -- Tue Sep 28 09:00:01 +0000 2021
A lot of pisstaking over the “Britain will launch rockets next year” story, but British industry’s small-satellite launch programme is quite advanced and space ports were designated years ago https://t.co/gIzbll07pN
@TomChivers -- Tue Sep 28 06:26:18 +0000 2021
In defence of price-gouging in emergencies https://t.co/HPmTX8yr0v
@tmbejan -- Mon Sep 27 09:04:46 +0000 2021
In honour of a new academic year: Why I find the word 'PROBLEMATIC' problematic: A Thread
@friedmandave -- Sun Sep 26 21:35:11 +0000 2021
@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.
@punk4156 -- Sun Sep 26 23:15:26 +0000 2021
i don’t own enough xcopy
@udiWertheimer -- Sun Sep 26 21:31:50 +0000 2021
just had a frightening thought what if ethereum was the first cryptocurrency before bitcoin what would the toxic bitcoin maxis be like then terrifying
@AlmostMedia -- Mon Sep 27 01:47:14 +0000 2021
No show does fan service better than @SHO_Billions
@PsychRabble -- Mon Sep 27 01:58:46 +0000 2021
@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
@TheBrometheus -- Sun Sep 26 20:48:04 +0000 2021
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
@dentintheworld -- Sun Sep 26 23:59:13 +0000 2021
@primalpoly @KyleKashuv “If you wish to make broccoli from scratch, you must first invent the universe” - Carl Sagan
@primalpoly -- Mon Sep 27 12:46:40 +0000 2021
@philthyluv1989 Anti-male spite, disgust, and revenge aren't compassion or empathy.
@primalpoly -- Mon Sep 27 12:40:45 +0000 2021
@JimHansonDC I thought #1A was supposed to be a formal acknowledgement of a universal human right. not just a right restricted to Americans?
@primalpoly -- Mon Sep 27 12:35:54 +0000 2021
@SigmaLifter She became rich, famous, and widely loved for her acting talent, style, and class?
@primalpoly -- Mon Sep 27 12:10:29 +0000 2021
@margaritaevna95 Or it's mass childcare disguised as formal learning.
@primalpoly -- Mon Sep 27 12:09:29 +0000 2021
@tmbejan 99% of the time in academia, 'problematic' is just a pretentious way of saying 'bad'. Or 'conservative'. Or 'male'.
@primalpoly -- Mon Sep 27 03:16:42 +0000 2021
@ThatEricAlper 'NDA' by @billieeilish has been stuck in my head for literally two weeks. Weirdly catchy song.
@primalpoly -- Mon Sep 27 00:03:58 +0000 2021
@MissusLaBrie @HenryTarquin @mariootsa @WSJ If you believe in collective guilt based on sex, do you believe in collective guilt based on religion?
@primalpoly -- Sun Sep 26 22:03:40 +0000 2021
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…
@primalpoly -- Sun Sep 26 22:03:22 +0000 2021
@a_centrism Austin TX house prices are getting a lot more similar to California though...
@primalpoly -- Sun Sep 26 22:00:54 +0000 2021
Thanks to everybody for the helpful & informative replies, examples, & links!
@primalpoly -- Sun Sep 26 22:00:16 +0000 2021
@HumanMortal1 It only freaks me out a few times a day. ;)
@primalpoly -- Sun Sep 26 20:59:36 +0000 2021
@a_centrism 'Direct contact' = pillaging & plundering?
@primalpoly -- Sun Sep 26 20:57:16 +0000 2021
@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?
@MikeSav51408235 -- Mon Sep 27 11:11:01 +0000 2021
@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.
@N21Duncan -- Sun Sep 26 20:34:44 +0000 2021
@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
@JohnLay44605636 -- Sun Sep 26 21:26:37 +0000 2021
@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.
@IOHKMedia -- Sun Sep 26 20:44:43 +0000 2021
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
@BenBarton636 -- Sun Sep 26 20:36:17 +0000 2021
@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.
@Beaker2288 -- Sun Sep 26 21:47:21 +0000 2021
Hanging out with my crew... We run deep... #Cardano $ADA... https://t.co/CBGWKJkGgr
@mpauldaniels -- Sun Sep 26 23:35:12 +0000 2021
@primalpoly For more context… https://t.co/InuwbCT7BQ
@Airylawyer -- Sun Sep 26 23:10:41 +0000 2021
@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
@humbug1994 -- Sun Sep 26 21:55:11 +0000 2021
@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.
@pete7505 -- Sun Sep 26 21:38:14 +0000 2021
@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.
@robertwiblin -- Mon Sep 27 20:58:05 +0000 2021
If I were a petrol station I would simply raise the price of petrol.
@robertwiblin -- Sun Sep 26 20:56:42 +0000 2021
It also lets technology continue to progress. USBC is decent but I hope it won't be the last word in ports.
@MsMelChen -- Mon Sep 27 22:28:39 +0000 2021
"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
@jessesingal -- Mon Sep 27 21:02:03 +0000 2021
yo come on man lemme borrow some of those rights no https://t.co/IXYRRY56wo
@amelapay -- Tue Sep 28 01:19:31 +0000 2021
The two genders https://t.co/UsRZpJPlmx
@TomChivers -- Mon Sep 27 10:05:47 +0000 2021
@Psythor @karinjr even more straightforward, isn't it? One planet: fighting over allocation of the resources of that planet (zero sum). Unlimited planets: working to increase the number of inhabited ones (+ve sum). I know the economy isn't actually zero sum, but colonising planets is even less so
@selentelechia -- Mon Sep 27 01:48:40 +0000 2021
@Doc_BadVibes @eigenrobot @oscredwin @orthonormalist I know a few former leverage members and I don't think this is true!
@selentelechia -- Mon Sep 27 00:16:16 +0000 2021
@oscredwin @eigenrobot @orthonormalist lmao
@robkhenderson -- Sun Sep 26 21:53:29 +0000 2021
@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
@petersuderman -- Sun Sep 26 23:00:11 +0000 2021
Neighbor down the alley is listening to a lounge-jazz covers album — so far I’ve heard breathy, hotel-bar versions of “Beat It,” “Satisfaction,” and now “Every Breath You Take” — and it’s really kind of delightful.
@kimmaicutler -- Sun Sep 26 21:50:34 +0000 2021
Texas spends slightly less per capita on K-12 to get lower class sizes and higher graduation rates. (Also bet housing policy & cost of living for educational professionals has a lot to do with this.) https://t.co/UCkl3ImLUN
@ASFleischman -- Sun Sep 26 22:17:41 +0000 2021
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
@robertwiblin -- Sun Sep 26 20:54:59 +0000 2021
@Jon_Ayre Is there a standard explanation for this among historians or art historians?
@robertwiblin -- Sun Sep 26 20:54:15 +0000 2021
There's something to be said for cable standards but a light touch might be enough. E.g. EU could charge a 10€ fee for mobiles/laptops without a USB-C port for a 2 year period. If the standard is sound that's prob enough for it to take root. And if not, it fails gracefully.
@PamelaParesky -- Sun Sep 26 23:33:17 +0000 2021
…(along with many others, including @PsychRabble, who has been researching this for ages): “If academic psychology had more viewpoint diversity, the political biases that distort researchers’ work would all counterbalance one another.” @slsatel 4/ https://t.co/aSXhLbuKMC
@lastpositivist -- Sun Sep 26 20:31:36 +0000 2021
Mongolia playing the very long game. https://t.co/oBlSIMKXw6
@JTLonsdale -- Sun Sep 26 21:35:42 +0000 2021
A great indicator at a growth stage tech company is the ratio of those without the right resumes - but strong opinions, high IQ's & intense work ethics - to sr gray-haired "~VPs" in the company. Companies that don't keep entrepreneurial talent around grow more slowly over time.
@Austen -- Mon Sep 27 04:36:18 +0000 2021
The United States in one graph https://t.co/7pg4Je00rJ
@Austen -- Mon Sep 27 00:11:37 +0000 2021
I have to be honest; I care far more about user experience than privacy. You companies can have any data you want if it makes your product better.
@Austen -- Sun Sep 26 22:06:42 +0000 2021
@briannekimmel @m_franceschetti
@DrDavidLey -- Tue Sep 28 00:46:55 +0000 2021
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
@salonium -- Mon Sep 27 00:27:48 +0000 2021
This is often not ideal. Focusing too much on quality can mean other people who are less concerned about it will fill the gap in the discourse. And it's still important to have information even if it's not perfectly accurate.
@benedictevans -- Mon Sep 27 19:44:59 +0000 2021
@LeimrothScott It’s an indie app on the iOS App Store
@ThinkingUSD -- Mon Sep 27 02:27:01 +0000 2021
girls get taken to nobu one time and catch an ego
@AndySwan -- Mon Sep 27 02:17:26 +0000 2021
How big would the GoFundMe have to be for us to airdrop a million AR-15s into Australia and help these people live again
@rivatez -- Mon Sep 27 14:33:40 +0000 2021
i hate how much technology they put in hotel rooms now. there's always like 2 televisons, a couple of fake ipad things and a huge digital clock by the bed counting your day away. sometimes i ask them to remove it but recently i've found joy in just creepily hiding it all
@rivatez -- Mon Sep 27 02:30:17 +0000 2021
@AndySwan community ghost gunners
@TomChivers -- Mon Sep 27 11:26:42 +0000 2021
@oliverburkeman I get that it is sort of admitting that they have won. On 4chan you lose if you take things seriously, or if you admit you’re offended. I think it’s like that
@TomChivers -- Mon Sep 27 11:22:20 +0000 2021
@oliverburkeman Ooh, so many people to mute in your replies
@chrismessina -- Sun Sep 26 23:54:14 +0000 2021
The true evolution of #ConvComm: when each messaging app mints/adopts its own currency to create a moat. Below: @signalapp's use of $MOB. The first to do this was arguably @kik's Kin, (n.b. one of @kik's co-founders co-founded @SubstackInc): https://t.co/mLqRhPmyH2 https://t.co/2wK0vyYahl
@omershapira -- Mon Sep 27 04:01:11 +0000 2021
High-concept crossover; near flawless execution. I’d pay to read a 13,000-word piece by @jamesbridle dedicated to this tweet https://t.co/hvfMkmWegM
@interfluidity -- Mon Sep 27 03:59:23 +0000 2021
dracula, decentralized. https://t.co/N6drLF9Zsd
@interfluidity -- Sun Sep 26 22:13:21 +0000 2021
@DrCameronMurray yeah. we’re basically trusting whoever’s doing the modeling, but from just the graph we know little about it. (maybe @OurWorldInData has details we could look into, but i sure didn’t.)
@pkedrosky -- Mon Sep 27 01:58:31 +0000 2021
tl;dr: Evaporative demand in California—atmospheric thirst—has soared over the last fifty years, with heat and drought at unprecedented levels A "thirsty" atmosphere is propelling California's drought https://t.co/I21Z1ybkPP https://t.co/57siFhvvxA
@GrammarGirl -- Mon Sep 27 01:58:39 +0000 2021
This is a great question, but I have no idea! Anyone else know? https://t.co/ttYs47OW64
@QiaochuYuan -- Mon Sep 27 19:50:19 +0000 2021
ideas are fake, i mostly talk about ideas to combat other worse ideas. the actual normal lindy way human beings learn from each other is telling stories https://t.co/rJtEZqZA0P
@sarahemclaugh -- Mon Sep 27 01:31:36 +0000 2021
I ran 7 miles today in gorgeous 70 degree weather and then made soup. I am my best self in autumn.
@shoe0nhead -- Mon Sep 27 01:05:04 +0000 2021
i demanded this random woman take off her clothes and I’M the bad guy?????? https://t.co/WVmZcEFrhx
@jbarro -- Mon Sep 27 00:06:21 +0000 2021
Summarily firing your employee over an extra-professional dispute and then IMMEDIATELY offering to somehow help resolve (?) the dispute between two people who now both don’t work for you is an amazing example of Silicon Valley founder arrogance. “What this situation needs is me.” https://t.co/qUdBMJ8ZuT
@PsychoSchmitt -- Mon Sep 27 20:24:16 +0000 2021
Big Five related to immune function measures... https://t.co/5d5fsjqN4k https://t.co/NRDYDJvgwm
@QiaochuYuan -- Sun Sep 26 23:42:14 +0000 2021
@vgr tweet the md5 hash of the prediction. easiest option i know of
@benedictevans -- Mon Sep 27 19:37:55 +0000 2021
People are spending $3 for an app to get rid of Google AMP https://t.co/ocWUnn6las
@jessesingal -- Mon Sep 27 21:07:27 +0000 2021
Jack Turban believes that if a female rape victim prefers discussing her trauma or being physically examined by a female clinician rather than a male one, she is a bigot. https://t.co/UEaTTiZsWd
@jessesingal -- Mon Sep 27 20:56:14 +0000 2021
The grifter alarm is shrieking at a high decibel level https://t.co/SK1t0aVWI0
@jessesingal -- Sun Sep 26 23:49:26 +0000 2021
I deleted this because inevitably people are going to think it's real https://t.co/KZb2kvaGSU
@misha_saul -- Mon Sep 27 21:26:50 +0000 2021
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
@nominalthoughts -- Sun Sep 26 23:52:22 +0000 2021
LaTeX is ass. Absolutely miserable to do anything in it. Dozens of usepackage statements that build up over time and I can't tell which ones I'm even using at this point. I change one line and everything breaks. Every TeX StackExchange answer is like "this is hacky, but..."
@ProfEmilyOster -- Mon Sep 27 21:41:00 +0000 2021
The data on age and COVID is very striking. https://t.co/K1r26yC75R
@ProfEmilyOster -- Tue Sep 28 00:39:26 +0000 2021
This is good news. I am hoping Universities will also lead on considering off-ramps for indoor masking. https://t.co/2wxx5Kn48z
@razibkhan -- Mon Sep 27 23:30:22 +0000 2021
"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
@rerarom -- Mon Sep 27 20:33:14 +0000 2021
@sentientist you know asimov wrote a book in which he appears as a character and does transgressions https://t.co/Pg9R1oOFAj
@realStevenWalk -- Mon Sep 27 22:11:47 +0000 2021
@sentientist Depends: have the duck-sized horses been treated with ivermectin?
@SamuelVimes10 -- Mon Sep 27 16:13:18 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Tue Sep 28 00:07:15 +0000 2021
@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.
@sentientist -- Tue Sep 28 00:00:35 +0000 2021
Yesterday, a cow called me a TERF https://t.co/jQePU71qNA
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 23:50:33 +0000 2021
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…
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 23:47:21 +0000 2021
A word hasn't been this confusing since people started calling tall good looking women "stallions"
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 23:43:29 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 23:30:19 +0000 2021
@SarahTheHaider My following has basically the same sex ratio, and I don't even post nudes.
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 23:27:28 +0000 2021
This poll making fun of me is actually pretty funny. https://t.co/upHLFSRUhS
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 22:43:05 +0000 2021
So... is everyone objectionable on trans issues called a TERF now regardless of whether or not they are actually a feminist?
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 22:30:50 +0000 2021
@DuaneMieliwocki https://t.co/JclnwpJify
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 21:44:03 +0000 2021
RT @heuristicism: would you rather fight: A) one woman who slaps her boyfriend instead of giving him the silent treatment B) three termi…
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 21:40:56 +0000 2021
@mongreloutsider he tried to grope women without permission- the old school English term for is "a masher"
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 21:35:43 +0000 2021
@KnowingBetterYT Yodeling
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 21:34:45 +0000 2021
RT @sapinker: Most talk of eugenics is muddled (confusing heritability, an empirical fact, w a political policy) & historically ignorant (…
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 21:32:59 +0000 2021
@natalia__coelho So true- why didn't we include saving these beautiful creatures as an option
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 21:28:24 +0000 2021
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.
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 21:25:29 +0000 2021
"Would you rather fight one horse sized duck or 100 duck sized h..." "How dare you imply I would hurt an animal!!"
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 21:21:53 +0000 2021
RT @TomChivers: On the bipartisan nature of bullshit https://t.co/DJJdCxr63e
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 21:20:32 +0000 2021
@PsychdOnScience @JeffGassen @EmilyCorrigan10 @sarahehillphd Awesome
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 20:29:59 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 20:21:31 +0000 2021
@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.
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 20:07:12 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 20:03:41 +0000 2021
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.
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 19:53:04 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 19:41:39 +0000 2021
@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.
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 19:39:15 +0000 2021
@TruBluBrewCru https://t.co/JclnwpJify
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 19:34:59 +0000 2021
@josilenepower Unfortunately my Portuguese, at its best, was only good enough for me to talk to my Mom about my day. But thanks :)
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 05:00:20 +0000 2021
RT @RichardHanania: Groups most in favor of using technology to make babies more intelligent: men, Hispanics, and liberals. https://t.co/Jf…
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 04:55:34 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 04:55:34 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 04:55:33 +0000 2021
"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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 04:55:32 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 04:55:31 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 04:55:30 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 04:55:29 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 04:55:28 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 04:55:27 +0000 2021
"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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 04:55:26 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 04:55:25 +0000 2021
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 🧵
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 03:34:15 +0000 2021
RT @Peter_Nimitz: Sex divide in support for nuclear power https://t.co/pxn6K8aSwK
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 03:28:47 +0000 2021
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.
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 00:44:44 +0000 2021
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.
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 00:43:17 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 00:41:41 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 00:39:28 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Mon Sep 27 00:37:11 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Sun Sep 26 22:33:02 +0000 2021
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
@sentientist -- Sun Sep 26 21:49:22 +0000 2021
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…
@sentientist -- Sun Sep 26 21:00:42 +0000 2021
RT @Aella_Girl: Which sexual relationship pair has the greatest power imbalance?
@sentientist -- Sun Sep 26 20:33:47 +0000 2021
@itsmike_mcg indirectly
@JgaltTweets -- Mon Sep 27 22:21:40 +0000 2021
@sentientist https://t.co/L9d7b8lLHL
@PsychdOnScience -- Mon Sep 27 19:30:14 +0000 2021
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
@youre_justben -- Mon Sep 27 14:06:34 +0000 2021
@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
@doug_butt -- Tue Sep 28 00:02:41 +0000 2021
@sentientist Cows would like terf, presumably.
@MorphingReality -- Mon Sep 27 23:42:50 +0000 2021
@sentientist @SarahTheHaider This makes it sound like Ms. Haider does lol
@jlann2003 -- Mon Sep 27 21:37:13 +0000 2021
@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
@walterolson -- Mon Sep 27 00:00:27 +0000 2021
Poblano peppers stuffed with ground beef, herbs, and shredded potatoes. #TwitterSupperClub https://t.co/wSfYffOXQc
@eigenrobot -- Mon Sep 27 08:40:16 +0000 2021
https://t.co/XmAvT7roiT https://t.co/CPXk9mTGsx
@PamelaParesky -- Sun Sep 26 23:33:16 +0000 2021
The “political imbalance makes truth-seeking harder. Studies have repeatedly shown that investigators’ sociopolitical views influence the questions they ask.” @slsatel Also, as Satel writes, and as @glukianoff, @JonHaidt, and I have often noted… 3/ https://t.co/aSXhLbMlEa
@PamelaParesky -- Sun Sep 26 23:33:15 +0000 2021
Important piece by @slsatel in @TheAtlantic (🧵) “researchers found some common traits between left-wing and right-wing authoritarians, including a ‘preference for social uniformity, prejudice towards different others, willingness to wield group authority to coerce behavior…” 1/
@PamelaParesky -- Sun Sep 26 23:33:15 +0000 2021
“…cognitive rigidity, aggression and punitiveness towards perceived enemies, outsized concern for hierarchy, and moral absolutism.’” @slsatel reports. Part of the problem with recognizing these tendencies is political one-sidedness in academia. 2/ https://t.co/aSXhLbMlEa
@benedictevans -- Sun Sep 26 22:23:46 +0000 2021
@kocienda It’s like sending a ‘wire’ to buy a house, and checking the account numbers over and over.
@benedictevans -- Mon Sep 27 11:43:09 +0000 2021
The term 'cryptocurrency' always reminds me of the Voltaire joke "This body which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."