Pooja Loftus

The 'Life in the UK' test needs an upgrade. Studying for it now for ILR, but the questions are like "Who won this Cricket match in 1928"? Who cares? Instead, should ask: Rank the following grocery stores by poshness, or Rank the following lettings/estate agents by sketchiness.

@joftius Finally, you do something useful 😜

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@FischerKing64 For every person getting things done, there were 6-10 people just hanging out. Not a lot of incentive to work hard, and it could be frustrating at times. Still, he fired a lot of good people doing really cool projects which were stupidly close to launching.

Someone should write a business/comedy book about what the 80-90% of Twitter employees were doing all day before Musk fired them. I don’t just mean the people censoring content. But just all of them, because it must have amounted to hanging out more or less.

Michal Kolesar's Advanced Applied Econometrics lecture notes are a delight github.com/kolesarm/539b/

@joftius By tweeting about it 😜

Listening to an absolute banger on vinyl and thinking "wait, how do I heart or favorite this?"

@allanplaskett @joftius Yeah Josh, why are you posting just to disappoint @allanplaskett and ruin his day. Let him have a good day!

@joftius I thought you’d gone. Life can be so disappointing.

Very interesting, seems to contradict the popular conception that youtube is the most "rabbit-hole" radicalizing platform Users apparently exercise a lot of individual choice, and are not simply shepherded by "the algorithm"

@ChaseSupport Sure. The rep I spoke with yesterday was helpful and lifted the block. For reasons(?), Chase reinstated the block 5 mins after that and now it's unliftable without me giving the info in the blocked account. I've lost hours of my time on this. You've lost me as a customer.

@PoojaLoftus Hi. We'd like to reach out and see how we can help. Could you please DM your full name, zip code, and the full page screenshot of the message, so we can see how we can help? ^JI twitter.com/messages/compo…

@Chase: We're locking down your online account because we suspect Fraud. Call us to unlock it. (I call. I wait for hours to talk to a person.) Chase: To verify it's you, tell us the information that is only in your online account. That is locked. Me: ....

@Andrew___Baker At the very least, he should have to give up the matching white fedora

Literally no one understands something more completely than a woman in a meeting who starts a question with “Just so I understand…”

@binchcity @_pem_pem Poland (specifically, Krakow's old Jewish district that's slowly being revitalized) has bagels- they originated from there

@_pem_pem Europeans have failed to consider that we don’t wanna go there even if our food is poisonous. We have bagels

Even if the toxins in American food make us way more unhealthy than Europeans what am I supposed to do about that? Move to Europe? Kill myself?

@statsepi This is the real reason I changed my career- got real tired of being asked to run stats for studies with tiny little sample sizes that we all knew were completely useless. Nonparametric methods will only get you so far.

@SejalSukhadwala There's a pub near there called The Pineapple that's also secretly(?) a Thai Restaurant and it's very good

Any good vegetarian-friendly restaurants near Tufnell Park tube station? I'm there from time to time for meetings. I already know about Ethiopian places - Engocha, Lalibela, Queen of Sheba. Such a shame Ceremony closed (a long time back) - I still miss it.

@WillKremer is the stick bc Teddy Roosevelt said ""speak softly and carry a big stick"

Visiting my friend who is the chief of staff for a United States Senator. This is his bedroom.

worked at Twitter, doing 2022 taxes, and need forms from HR 🤡

From PDPs to CDP (Causal Dependence Plots) for interpretable ML - nice job @joftius and team

Why does @Google limit data storage on Gmail while simultaneously flooding us with promo/ad emails, which also count against our storage allowance? They profit from those ads and profit from forcing us to pay for extra storage to store those ads.

@minjinlee11 I think a good collection of short stories has: a mix of open ended and complete stories, varying emotions from story to story, and each has a sense of poetry and economy with language.

Guest editing BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2023. Trying to figure out how to choose 20 great stories out of 120 great short stories. Reading the stories is joy. Not including 100 is agony. Question for folks who love short stories: What makes a great short story for you?

@emilynussbaum It was a weird time. Netflix mailed us DVDs, Jon Stewart was god, online message boards / forums ruled, 'Flight of the Conchords' was cool, and fashion had a mini-70s revival.

I have a weird problem where I can remember the specific culture of the 80s, the 90s and the 10s through now, but everything about the first decade of the century is a blur to me (other than TV, which was my job)

@VeryBadLlama my 'big' TV cost less than the storage boxes/containers in my TV stand, and also less than the TV stand

"young people can't buy homes because they'd rather buy big fancy TVs" I am begging older generations to understand that televisions have gone from "a thing that costs 4 months' salary" to "a thing you get for free when your roommate moves and can't be bothered to take it"