Jon Crowell
283 posts
@ReemAmirIbrahim I think it would be great if gambling addicts sued casinos into bankruptcy
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Should gambling addicts sue casinos? Should overeaters sue supermarkets?
Obviously not! So why are social media companies being sued?
We're entering a world where companies that create something other people actually want are at risk of being sued, banned, or heavily regulated.
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@krishnanrohit I just don’t think AI actually improves productivity
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An observation from a discussion earlier tonight that I dont think I've shared before: AI has already changed most white collar jobs, and the reason it's not shown in macro productivity stats is because while it's saved time for folks individually this ends up as leisure for them
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@Scienceofsport If you read your theory carefully you’ll realize it refutes itself
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I wonder if those taller bars just before "major milestones" might not be as likely the result of faster runners slowing down? For example, you might be capable of 3:45 at max, but you target a 3:59, or even take it easier to run 3:59 to help other runners under that milestone.
hagaetc@hagaetc
Marathon finishing time distribution proves one of my biggest leadership lessons: Deadlines work! … even if they are somewhat arbitrary
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fascinating narrative youve concocted there. but i think i'll go with "it was costing a lot of money and not making it back"
Ivan Burazin@ivanburazin
OpenAI shutting down Sora is the most predictable outcome of misunderstanding consumer behavior. Everyone grossly overestimates how creative people want to be. 99% of humans simply want to scroll and zone out instead of spending energy conceptualizing, editing, and creating videos. No matter how much the barrier to creation is lowered by a single prompt. It still takes effort and a fair amount of creative thinking. Even Instagram has 2 billion users. But hardly ~10 million (or 0.5%) would be serious creators. So any AI consumer app betting on "with [new_app], everyone becomes a creator!" is being delusional and will go down the same way. After all the word "consumer" exists for a reason. They consume. They don't produce (or even want to lol)
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Really regret that I didn’t come out to my parents as poly years ago. I wrote a letter & got feedback from partners & then chickened out. Never sent it.
And now I still haven’t done it & it’s built up in my mind to an Even Scarier Thing.
Any advice or stories for me?
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@SBakerMD Pretty sure he took the $ and used it to rebrand his company into @reverohealth
All this happened around the same time he blocked me from his carnivore facebook group for simply commenting that I was uncomfortable eating the meat of animals with larger brain stems than humans 😂
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What happened to the clinical study that Shawn Baker was raising money for? Was that study conducted, or if not, where is the money?
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@charles_forsyth @jessfraz Everyone who says this fails to understand Tailwind
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I really don't understand tailwind, all it did is make everyone inline styles & everything becomes bifurcated inlined styles. It's full blown anarchy there's nothing blocking people from doing shit thats gross in one place, I have to write eslint rules to not descend into chaos.
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@jessfraz I went through a short period like this before I had the AHA moment.
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ALL YOU ALL JUST LIVING IN CHAOS LIKE SAVAGES WTF AM I MISSING HERE
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@mattyglesias @RuxandraTeslo I think the pyramids are pretty plain, to be honest
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@RuxandraTeslo The question of why market forces don't generate buildings that people like is definitely interesting.
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Highbrow center-right people are surprisingly open to elaborate conspiracy theories about architecture.
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I think I'm probably on the extreme high end of openness to letting a robot babysit my children and this presentation did not fill me with enthusiasm for letting a robot babysit my children
MELANIA TRUMP@MELANIATRUMP
FOSTERING THE FUTURE TOGETHER || 45 Nations || 1 Humanoid || 1 Mission || Empower our Children || The White House || 2026 Inaugural Global Summit
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@ArthurCDent I finally gave up and unfollowed you after being shown this pointless tweet. Who are you talking to?
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@ArthurCDent @Halalcoholism @DanDavisWrites Just give up on Twitter, dude -- you get no engagement for good reason
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@Halalcoholism @DanDavisWrites I mean, Bird is right. Like the 🇮🇪 ‘spice bag’ I’m sure it’s satisfying but also pretty basic stuff. No shade, go ahead and enjoy, but like the 🇦🇺 chiko roll, it’s clearly not going to build one’s reputation as a culinary superpower.
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"We eat potatoes, we suck so bad, I'm so ashamed."
These people are deranged.
Mike Bird@Birdyword
I love a jacket potato as much as any Englishman, but I sometimes fear that the ability for the rest of the world to see how we live has not been an entirely positive development for our country
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Fabian is unequivocally the best analyst on Iranian missiles. He understands Iranian missile technology and the IRGC-AF better than anyone. His work is essential to understanding this war.
Fabian Hinz@fab_hinz
Tried my hand at a very rough, initial geospatial battle damage assessment of Iranian missile and drone strikes against US and regional military bases. A few notes on caveats and methodology. 1/7
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@ArthurCDent You have the most uninteresting tweets, commentary, and remarks of anyone on Earth.
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Managed to cut myself shaving using the most hi-tec expensive Gillette razor available.
These things are a marvel of ultra precise engineering — it’s almost impossible to harm yourself with them.
What kind of careless boob could manage it?
Me, thats who
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Obsessed with the WAGs. They’re beautiful, stylish, and always supporting their man. Love to see it.
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@kkmaway @TheStalwart It is common for American pundits to explain other cultures to Americans in these terms, so Joe was just turning it around to be funny
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Good time to remind followers not based in the US that in American culture there is a high premium placed on basically “saving face” which may be something useful to think about if you’re trying to figure out how this ends.
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@TheStalwart “Saving face” is something that American culture shares with, I dunno, every other one on the planet
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@wehdata @TheStalwart He's just making fun of how often American's explain other cultures using this approach
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@TheStalwart As opposed to other cultures who… don’t? America is the culture that allows pajamas in Walmart and promotes idiots to its highest office. saving face is not its unique cultural trait.
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