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Best of Twitter week of September 30-October 6, 2024
Alexey Guzey
October 07, 2024
Hi everyone,
As always, comments/corrections appreciated!
NEW: we may have passed peak obesity 🎉📈📉🙏
In what might be one of the most significant trends I have ever charted, the US obesity rate fell last year.
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch)
11:21 AM • Oct 4, 2024
Conspiracy theories @tylercowen believes in:
— Age of Infovores (@ageofinfovores)
12:23 AM • Oct 3, 2024
“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”
— MrE (@MrE_mssg)
5:28 AM • Sep 30, 2024
maddening. It reveals the hollowness of our supposedly humane age that we tolerate human annihilation, that we do not care for it, that factory farms are a greater priority. Walking in circles of habits, driven by entrained incentive generators, like so many smug blind ants.
— Teortaxes▶️ (@teortaxesTex)
9:34 AM • Oct 4, 2024
^ death is bad and it’s insane we are so complacent (I’m doing all I can...).
newscience.org 👀
— Alexey Guzey (@alexeyguzey)
9:19 PM • Sep 27, 2024
People sometimes underappreciate how globalized early modernity was.
In 1597 the Spanish invaded Cambodia and they had Mexican recruits—just two generations out from the Aztec Empire—fighting alongside Japanese ronin mercenaries against a coalition of Southeast Asian armies.
— Hereward the Woke (@BamaExpat)
7:33 PM • Oct 4, 2024
One of the more ludicrous examples of a power-seeking consequentialist agent building a political coalition. Maybe ever
— Teortaxes▶️ (@teortaxesTex)
12:57 AM • Sep 30, 2024
In quantum mechanics, the observer effect boils down to the idea that the world state is lazily evaluated (i.e. you only compute something when the result is causally needed to evaluate something else). This makes the many-world interpretation very icky: MWI requires "compute"… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— François Chollet (@fchollet)
6:10 PM • Oct 4, 2024
When a restaurant gets a Michelin star: Customer expectations rise, employee wage demands rise, suppliers expect you to pay more, and the restaurant is more likely to go out of business in the ensuing years.
— Morgan Housel (@morganhousel)
3:03 PM • Oct 6, 2024
CATASTROPHIC: Chinese hackers massively wiretapped 🇺🇸USA by compromising the interception portals mandated under US law.
Remember this the next time a government demands encryption backdoors.
By: @bysarahkrouse@dnvolz@aviswanatha@bobmcmillan h/t @RonDeibert
READ:… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton)
4:03 PM • Oct 5, 2024
whenever people talk about how ai will replace developers within two years or some crap i remember this classic
— rob🏴 (@rob_mcrobberson)
4:40 AM • Oct 5, 2024
In the 1970s & 80s, anthropologists working in small-scale, non-industrial societies fastidiously noted down what people were doing throughout the day. I’ve been exploring the data & am struck by one of the most popular activities: doing nothing. [thread]
— manvir singh (@mnvrsngh)
1:53 PM • Apr 4, 2022
Not a comment on study (which isn’t linked) but I used to work the night shift (8pm-3am), entering data of manufacturing firms from hard copies.
I thought I’d be more productive if I listed to industrial & trance music super loud on my headphones. And I was! Doubled my entry… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Alex Imas (@alexolegimas)
1:32 PM • Oct 4, 2024
best card writing advice I ever read
— paige finn doherty (@paigefinnn)
3:58 PM • Oct 5, 2024
Have a great week!
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