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This masonry is wondrous; fates broke it courtyard pavements were smashed; the work of giants is decaying.

corgi down twitter.com/TheWoofWorld/s…

This is Lorna. She had us at hello. Literally. 12/10

One nice way to feel better about yourself is to imagine what Steve Irwin would say about you if you were a little snake he found in the desert

Please stop DMing us asking us to "wake up Mount Rainier just a lil" to clear space in the queue for Taylor Swift tickets. We have a strict standing policy of not taunting the volcanoes.

man the future is weird as hell

If SBF ends up destroying crypto maybe he was an effective altruist after all

#OTD in 1970, the Oregon Highway Division consulted with the U.S. Navy and decided the best way to dispose of a whale carcass was to blow it up with a 1/2 ton of dynamite. The explosion caused blubber to rain down on spectators for over a 1/4 of a mile. The TV segment is classic.

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@PTetlock Did they make many other predictions?

Some trends are moderately visible decades out. A tad curmudgeonly to write off this sort of prescience as the luck that arises when we have lots of dart tossing chimps tossing lots of darts.

This is River. She loves watching the sunrise. Knows that no matter how dark the night gets, the sun will always be there in the morning. 13/10

Mary Shelley did try to warn us about hubristic STEM bros who make strange, impulsive experiments and then watch helplessly as their creation destroys itself at the expense of ordinary people.

Just doin' my daily rounds with Debirdify. Every day my timeline here gets quieter and my timeline over there gets more interesting. pruvisto.org/debirdify/

I never more feel how backwards the US is than when I go to a European grocery store and see that the cashiers get to sit down

@altluu Just go to the twitter dot com server and hold Ctrl-z for a bit.

it requires a profound lack of understanding of institutions to think that you can simply rewind a company back two years. Another common comment (from programmers!) is that operations should be automated, so losing people is fine, not true of any company's at Twitter's scale.

Since I'm trying to write down more predictions, here's one: Twitter's increasing institutional knowledge debt accumulation, which was been hugely accelerated by attrition due to uncertainty about the acquisition, will cause reliability to decline to 2020/2021 Reddit levels

[brooding] we should not have kept saying “I can’t believe this website is free”