Aaron N

@Aizkmusic Great work

wikitok.vercel.app It's 2:00 AM Who wants infinite scrolling wikipedia!!

The Moon's shadow, or umbra, is pictured covering portions of Canada and the U.S. as the space station soared into the solar eclipse from 261 miles above on Aug. 8, 2024. More pix... flic.kr/s/aHBqjBkQGq

because we’re here on earth to fart around

In my years on Twitter, I’ve summarized hundreds of useful concepts into tweet form. Here are the best concepts to help you navigate 2024, as chosen by the editors at @UnHerd Thread:

i have never been able to persuade myself to be interested in the snail thought experiment here's one that bothers me instead: there's some set of words in your subconscious that, if you said them out loud in the right way, would rearrange your entire reality. what are they?

when you stand under an umbrella very little rain falls on your head. it is easy for even the wise to mistake this for an absence of rain , but this is a critical error in judgment

In the time it takes you to read this tweet, the expansion of the universe will carry this gorgeous spiral galaxy, called NGC 3147, another 31,000 miles away from us. That’s about four Earth diameters. #MondayMotivation

New this week from me

The best role model of traditional masculinity on the internet is probably some guy that makes YouTube videos teaching you how to change tires and fix household appliances

"Why are bankers disproportionately Jewish?" Bro, maybe you shouldn't have banned Jews from being guild members for hundreds of years and instead relegated them to handling money because usury was sinful and that's all they were good for. Just saying.

The thing about fukuyamas end of history that people don't realize, is he actually meant literally nothing will ever happen again. So if you ever see anything happen, you have to let everyone know so we can finally discredit his theory.

The "Twitter Apocalypse" chatter has a lot of Y2K energy.

@eigenrobot Ah yes, the best ea cause area

new ea cause area: dont worry abt donating money. simply be a devoted spouse, a grateful child, a loving parent, a dear friend. be true to your word. stand resolute against evil yet forgive those who wrong you. lift the spirits of all you meet with kind words and an open heart

new EA cause area: redeeming Satan to gods light admittedly a long shot but the upside is huge

a recurring class of conflict is one between people looking to minimize negative variance and people looking to maximize positive variance

While it is true that you learn with age, the down side is that what you learn is often what a damn fool you were before.

not onboard with people who think that humans are irrelevant in the scale of the universe. there’s obviously something special about intelligence. like in the entire universe you can either convert iron to gold in a supernova or in a particle collider on earth and nowhere else

Hey @elonmusk - you now have the power to bring back Vine. Seriously. Vine ruled AND it'll be a TikTok killer. #BringBackVine

Policymakers: I need a solution Academics: here's a critique 😚