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Best of Twitter week of August 26-September 1, 2024
Alexey Guzey
September 03, 2024
Hi everyone,
Any comments appreciated!
Enjoy.
New post! "Some mistakes I made as a new manager": benkuhn.net/newmgr/
(Specifically, ones I've also noticed are an attractor for other folks.)
If you're a new manager, hopefully it will help you level up faster to level 2: making new, innovative types of mistake :)
— Ben Kuhn (@benskuhn)
9:51 PM • Apr 23, 2023
Harris is being misunderstood. She is not an activist but a machine politician akin to Pelosi and Willie Brown. She is fixing what she identified as the weakness of Biden's presidency. His feudal managment of the Democratic Party which allowed pressure groups free reign
— Daniel (@DanielBerman2)
5:11 PM • Aug 23, 2024
^ thread
That microplastics are so prevalent means they probably aren't harmful
The're so prevalent because they're so inert - they just break up into finer and finer pieces instead of *reacting* with anything. Because they don't react with anything it's unclear how they cause harm
— Warszawa (@nematophy)
10:13 PM • Aug 23, 2024
^ ?
u have to give girls surprises or else they wither up and die . if they don’t get a surprise treat their life force begins to drain
— (๑´• .̫ •ू`๑) piper (@dotor1mukk)
8:16 PM • Aug 21, 2024
Insanity
Mice fed a 0% protein diet for a week lost nearly 20% of their body mass
Must have been muscle, right?
Nope -- nearly all of it was fat. Lean mass at the end was about the same as the high protein group
FGF21 ftw
— anabology (@anabology)
5:10 PM • Apr 27, 2024
NEW: THE STAGGERING RISE OF AMERICA'S GLOBAL ECONOMIC WARFARE
1st in a series
@federicacocco & I found:
1. ~1/3 of all nations on Earth now face some form of US sanctions. Huge increase from when mostly applied to Cuba & a handful of regimes
2. +*60%* of *all poor countries*… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo)
12:08 PM • Jul 25, 2024
The least attractive male hobbies to women:
— Alexander (@datepsych)
10:51 PM • Aug 24, 2024
^ “ArguingOnline”
Maybe if we red teamed legislation as fiercely we red team AI, we'd get better legislation.
Sadly many people who propose legislation are actively hostile to any and all feedback.
This post from a lawyer, engineer and former FTC employee looks at the unintended side effects of… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Daniel Jeffries (@Dan_Jeffries1)
4:11 PM • Aug 25, 2024
^ “When a legislature writes a statute, their primary incentive is to get a statute out the door so they can take credit for having done something about the problem. Credit for problem-solving helps them get reelected. Once they’ve passed a statute, their role is largely finished - although sometimes legislation includes oversight components such as reports to the legislature.”
huh, this was a major piece of evidence I used to argue against FDA power - the FDA didn't allow beta-blockers for years even after they were approved in Europe, causing thousands of US deaths from heart attacks...
— ivan (@IvanVendrov)
12:30 AM • Aug 26, 2024
Asylum claims in Canada by Indian Citizens
— Chris Brunet (@realChrisBrunet)
6:58 PM • Aug 19, 2024
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