Best of Twitter week of September 2-8, 2024

Not DNA
Not RNA
Not even epigenetic marks

Inherited amyloid proteins
nature.com/articles/s4155…

— Louis R Nemzer (@BiophysicsFL)
9:54 PM • Sep 2, 2024

In 2020, the South African government banned alcohol sales as part of their COVID measures. Then they lifted the ban, and then brought it back unexpectedly, and then did that again

Every ban saw murders decline, and every reprieve saw them return. Stunningly, prohibition worked:

— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil)
11:18 PM • Sep 4, 2024

In general people underestimate how responsive politicians are to public opinion (especially “elite public opinion”, say top 10-15%)

— Robert Kwasny (@fruitoftears)
12:07 AM • Aug 24, 2024

Online morons: Durov's gf was leaking travel logs on Instagram! Modern women amirite 😏 what a pussy does to…
Reality (?): Durov, a citizen of France, got honeypotted by Macron himself

As I often say: people flaunting their cynicism LARP are insufficiently cynical. x.com/i/web/status/1…

— Teortaxes▶️ (@teortaxesTex)
1:56 AM • Aug 28, 2024

— MrE (@MrE_mssg)
7:19 PM • Aug 27, 2024

Ooh, love this term: "ghost knowledge".

I definitely know the concept but hadn't heard this term for it before.

— Patrick Dubroy (@dubroy)
4:22 PM • Sep 5, 2024

Trump on Lex interview talking about how a lot of high-powered business guys have stage fright, can't talk in front of a crowd.

I used to be like that.  For me it came down to choking in front of a group I respected, a group that respected me, disastrously.  I was humiliated.… x.com/i/web/status/1…

— The Mangy (@MangyManiak)
5:02 PM • Sep 3, 2024

Whenever this topic comes up, it becomes clear that many Americans don't understand how their country has achieved internal free trade. It's not because everyone intrinsically enjoys the right to trade, it's because the courts strike down protectionist state statutes.

— garbologist/anthropologist/discard scholar (@CultySmother)
6:26 AM • Sep 3, 2024

Americans winning the technological race with the power of social technology, except it's not democracy or free markets or any of that crap, but half-dead Kissinger hypnotoading gullible Chinese apparatchiks into dropping out. What ass timeline is that? I want a refund.

— Teortaxes▶️ (@teortaxesTex)
6:48 PM • Aug 26, 2024

Too stupid. It can’t be. It cannot be real. It’s too dumb man.

— jake (@jakebrodes)
9:55 PM • Sep 3, 2024