David Aikema

@UmoMobility is incredibly incompetent. Their choice basically means that foreigners (who are least likely to have local currency) are the ones forced to pay in cash to ride a bus.

@MuseZack Try Cuisine and Empire (amazon.com/Cuisine-Empire…). The focus is a bit broader though.

I would love to read a general interest book about how pretty much every major world cuisine as we know it was completely reinvented over a period of 50-100 years in the wake of the Colombian exchange--chilis coming to India and China, tomatoes to Italy, etc. etc.

Screenshot from thehill.com/homenews/admin…

Slightly more dramatic but not all that different from stuff during Trump's 1st term.

@dr_brownian Seeing leading experts in one field get away with all sorts of unscientific and unprofessional behavior seeds reasonable doubt about what is permissible in other fields.

@RogueWPA @EricTopol And since @zeynep mentioned this I've been wondering to what extent blame for the ineffectiveness of the vaccine at blocking transmission can also be attributed to @EricTopol x.com/zeynep/status/…

@RogueWPA If @EricTopol hadn't succeeded in technologyreview.com/2020/10/19/101… it seems to me there's a very real possibility that partisan positions on the vaccine could have been switched. Might have led to a 2nd consecutive Trump term, though not sure if that'd have been better or worse than now

One of many issues where center-left technocrats have pretty good policy ideas but aren't able to implement because they balk at telling recalcitrant constituencies to go kick rocks. (Yglesias is always worth reading on this theme).

@shaneparrish @talismangone @MarkJCarney @profgalloway Also curious if the original response to questions here will eventually disappear like the original post itself did archive.is/9pf1u

@shaneparrish @talismangone @MarkJCarney Would be curious whether @profgalloway provides questions / topics in advance or allows his guests editorial control.

@MJnanostretch Just realized that I'd been following @bigthink on Youtube but have now corrected that. If they're publishing stuff as ridiculous as this it seems clear they were overdue for unsubscription.

Phil Markolin, "Nothing matters but Worobey-Pekar's data processing output. Blah, blah, blah-blah, bablah, blah, blah." 1/5 bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…

@MurielBlaivePhD Has she? x.com/Ayjchan/status…

I'm rubbing my eyes. Why haven't we learned our lesson, asks Zeynep Tufekci, who has been nastily vilifying anyone who dared to bring any perspective that might be remotely critical of the official narrative for the past five years. Who has been peddling "half-truths and strategic deceptions" apart from herself? And after reigning terror on anyone who expressed any doubt, she dares to accuse others of having been duplicitous: "The few papers cited for market origin were written by a small, overlapping group of authors, including those who didn’t tell the public how serious their doubts had been." And to cap it all, she concludes that "Only an honest conversation will lead us forward." You have to see it to believe it! No, Ms Tafekci, "we" were not misled: *you* misled us for five years and now you act all virtuous - again. Do you even know how to speak in any other way? nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opi…

@Rebecca21951651 @sciencecohen @NYTScience @zeynep @ScienceInsider @Nature @aaas @sudipsparikh @Marcia4Science @johnstravis @Magda_Skipper I kinda feel like it's worth reminding people that, as per @Ayjchan's tweet, @zeynep was already saying much the same there all the way back in 2021 x.com/Ayjchan/status…

This is what @sciencecohen will also say in his "How We All Got It So Wrong" tell-all on COVID origins: that he was misled, not that he was doing the misleading. @NYTScience @zeynep @ScienceInsider @Nature @aaas @sudipsparikh @Marcia4Science @johnstravis @Magda_Skipper

German intelligence now assesses a 80-95% likelihood of a lab origin of Covid-19.

Guessing the behaviour still seen from researchers in Wuhan is why we're now seeing in the news the German BND's assessment that the COVID-19 pandemic was most likely due to a lab leak.

@neurorebelde @drglennsullivan Curious what you make of retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/pla…

@drglennsullivan Thinking fast Thinking Slow is a masterpiece. The only explanation I find for Kahneman and Tverski’s model not to be put to use more often is sheer envy because they got a Nobel prize.

Clinical psychology “anti-reading list”: 1. The Body Keeps the Score 2. Thinking Fast and Slow 3. Emotional Intelligence — Goleman 4. Grit — Duckworth 5. The Mismeasure of Man — Gould

@dasfacc @drglennsullivan Would guess something along these lines: linkedin.com/pulse/20140930…

@drglennsullivan Would you please explain why you included Goleman in your list?

I love audiobooks but I never want to listen to them using an ereader. Really wish I could disable audiobook download to my @Kobo Clara BW when syncing. Audiobook "support" is IMO a big drawback of that device vs. my previous ereader.

@daviddunning6 Moderately curious if you get into the question of "what plane". e.g. from a @GarminAviation press release

Why 13% of Americans think they can land a plane in an emergency. No Such Thing, a brand new podcast by Manny Fidel, Noah Friedman, and Devan Joseph. I chime in with my own 2 cents. open.spotify.com/episode/12nQPN…

On the contrary, it is one of the most logical results in human psychology. If people lose trust in institutions and society, they become more open to alternative explanations. That’s the huge harm when authorities engage in coverup or gaslighting against inconvenient truths.