drac
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lonelier than I realised, being an author
Matt Wallace is Updates Only@MattFnWallace
The career of an author is a strange beast and it is rarely what most people perceive it to be from the outside or what is happening on the surface. This has been on my mind a lot lately, for very personal reasons. So I guess I'm going to write about that a bit.
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English has many pairs of words where '-th' was once added to make a noun out of the other, like 'width' and 'wide'.
My favourites are the ones for which the link may not be obvious now, like:
- 'mirth' and 'merry'
- 'drought' and 'dry'
- 'filth' and 'foul'
- 'sloth' and 'slow'
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@aishnazim Settings, General, Keyboard, scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and switch off Memoji stickers
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Definitely! Make the rich people useful. I can't eat A.I. or use it to commute to work in comfort!
Chris Bakke@ChrisJBakke
We really need VCs to step up to the plate and start subsidizing our lives again. $52 to DoorDash a pizza? $105 Uber rides to the airport? $800 for a WeWork desk? $350 Airbnb cleaning fees? SoftBank needs to step in and cut those costs by 85% again.
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Chess (.) com is a fascinating company.
• Founded in 2005
• Bought the domain for $55,000
• Have 400+ employees (100% remote)
• Crossed 100 million members this year
• Finished 2022 with ~$100M in revenue
Here's the story: huddleup.substack.com/p/how-the-resu…
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restofworld.org/2023/mexico-me… | what a 40% reduction in funding can do to a metro system
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you might agree with them, you might think there’s no good options, whatever. But backing politicians to do the right thing in SL just makes you an easily exploitable mug.
The PR win from just using the money for food kitchens on the 4th was right there, but they won’t take it
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🤔 Does paying people for vaccination have negative consequences, such as reducing future vaccination and eroding moral values?
No.
Our new paper in Nature:
“Financial incentives for vaccination do not have negative unintended consequences”
nature.com/articles/s4158…
👇🧵
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Mike White is so drunk and hilarious. he just called out every famous person in the audience for passing on White Lotus. a true icon lol
"I know you all passed! You all passed on this show! So, yes, it's very gratifying to have this moment."
#GoldenGlobes
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