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Arik Motskin

@amots

data scientist.

Katılım Aralık 2009
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Arik Motskin
Arik Motskin@amots·
@zarathustra5150 @wrathofgnon This was written for a pre Internet age. If anything, mass media is dying today, with all manner of subgroups and isolated communities developing like never before. Only difference now is that geography is not a limiting factor for these small communities to form
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Zarathustra
Zarathustra@zarathustra5150·
A kind of “Great Flattening”, as it were. Michael Crichton saw it coming decades ago:
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signüll@signulll

if you’ve read my content, you know that i talk about aesthetic convergence a lot which i find truly fascinating. cuz wherever you go now you’ll notice tons of ppl look exactly the same (esp in dense places). the reason is pretty simple… you see the old world had local weirdness because taste formation had friction. you had to find the record store, the zine, the older cousin, the weird bar, the badly lit bookstore, or the regional scene. style was embedded in place & transmission was lossy. lossy transmission creates mutation. mutation creates subculture. the feed destroys that by making everything instantly accessible, comparable, rankable, & purchasable. by anyone. memeticism + algorithms are like steroids for human desire.. so now the moment some aesthetic emerges, it gets: seen → copied → named → packaged → linked → sold → exhausted. that cycle used to take years. now it takes days. sometimes hours. that’s why every subculture now feels stillborn. it gets merchandised before it gets a mythology. this has so many other downstream effects on almost the entire human desire set, like wanting only certain aesthetics of ppl (& now you see why dude looksmaxxxing is a thing too).

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Zachary Foster
Zachary Foster@_ZachFoster·
@davidfrum @MattiFriedman Indeed, quite the reveal!! FP broke this earth-shattering news that there is lots of interest in the holocaust of our time .... Israel's genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. ...waiting for FP's next big expose on renewed interest in Iran.
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Eric Topol
Eric Topol@EricTopol·
In 2 randomized, open-label trials of Paxlovid there was lack of evidence of reduced hospitalizations among the participants, who were age 50+ with coexisting conditions, and who were vaccinated. The endpoint was very low (<1.2%) in the treatment and control groups for both trials (i.e. under-powered to detect a difference). nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
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america 2026
america 2026@steveamerica26·
@amots @EWErickson They abused the vra and seized control via the courts! Democrats gerrymandered states they don’t even do well in because of vra abuse. Republicans didn’t respond
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Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson@EWErickson·
Just so you get the truth and not the partisan spin here, Republicans came up with the idea of the mid-decade redistricting fight and started in Texas. Then, in Virginia, the RNC spent $0.00 to fight. Now, as drawn, the Democrats have an advantage from the redistricting fight.
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america 2026
america 2026@steveamerica26·
@EWErickson Republicans didn’t do this. Democrats started this in 2023 with these racial gerrymanders
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Rob@robnicholsontor·
@JesseBrown So you are hoping to have people be prejudice against the Muslim community instead? The narrative becomes Muslim shoots at Jewish restaurant as opposed to person. What value are you getting by knowing his name?
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Arik Motskin
Arik Motskin@amots·
@cenkuygur you need to get a hobby. can you try knitting? you'd like knitting. good for your blood pressure.
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Cenk Uygur
Cenk Uygur@cenkuygur·
I'm glad Trump fired Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem, but you know who he should really fire? All his Israel First advisors, who told him this war would be easy. They really screwed him. Plus, they work for a different country.
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Arik Motskin
Arik Motskin@amots·
@JewishWonk He is wretched. The dripping smugness from these podcast bros is disgusting.
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Arik Motskin
Arik Motskin@amots·
@jonfavs The smugness is the worst part. What a hollow, disgusting person you are. Not sure if it's better that you don't know how foolish you are, or that it's all an act to hide your true feelings.
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Arik Motskin
Arik Motskin@amots·
@conor64 Instead, people just wanted to pretend like it never happened. Incredibly shortsighted.
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Arik Motskin
Arik Motskin@amots·
@conor64 I was upset that no lessons from this public health emergency had been learned or implemented: - no mandated ventilation requirements in the building codes - no mandated masking in hospitals and other medical facilities - no focus on air quality and ventilation in schools
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Conor Friedersdorf
Conor Friedersdorf@conor64·
A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.
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Arik Motskin
Arik Motskin@amots·
@CarrieCnh12 Sounds like it was a very traumatic experience for you to see these young people laughing and walking down the street. Your restraint is admirable.
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Tim Miller
Tim Miller@Timodc·
what do you think is the extent of platners nazism please be specific? is he for concentration camps for jews? does he want to ban jews from public spaces? have masked men shoot them in street, deport them to foreign camps? jail people who write pro-israel op-ed’s? trying to get a baseline for comparison
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Philip Klein
Philip Klein@philipaklein·
So @Timodc is on this platform all day acting sanctimonious and now he’s saying — vote for the guy with the Nazi tattoo, it’s important! Once a hack, always a hack.
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline

“It is absolutely critical that the Democrats figure out how in the fuck to win working-class white people if they ever want to have power or control again.” @Timodc on why backing Graham Platner in the Maine Senate race may be a gamble worth taking.

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Arik Motskin
Arik Motskin@amots·
@doubleouttahere @shannonrwatts Palling with Nate Cornacchia, boosting Stew Peters, getting a fricking SS tattoo. At some point, enough is enough. If he's too stupid to understand these connections, he *also* doesn't deserve to be a senator.
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Josh Frankel
Josh Frankel@doubleouttahere·
@shannonrwatts What exactly has he done that’s antisemitic and not simply anti Israel?
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Shannon Watts
Shannon Watts@shannonrwatts·
I’m not a centrist or a leftist; I’m a progressive Democrat who supports everyone from AOC to Underwood to Gallego. But supporting/nominating someone for US Senate who continues to engage in antisemitism is a moral stain on our party and a warning sign for our future.
Ruben Gallego@RubenGallego

.@grahamformaine is the kind of fighter Maine hasn’t seen in a long time, someone who tells you exactly what he thinks, doesn’t owe anything to the special interests, and wakes up every day thinking about working families. He’s a Marine, and reflects the grit and independence that defines Maine, and that’s exactly why I’m proud to endorse him

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Arik Motskin
Arik Motskin@amots·
@JesseBrown Hard to believe. What on earth did these images have to do with dentistry?
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Jesse Brown
Jesse Brown@JesseBrown·
I've since read Anil Kishen's apology and looked back at the image's origins, and you know what? It's plausible that he had no discriminatory or hateful intent and that his denunciation of antisemitism is genuine, and not ass-covering. Jewish students shouldn't have to see this stuff in a dentistry class, nobody should. And a person in his position should know better and not need to plead ignorance. But I no longer think it's a foregone conclusion that he was revealing bias or malice.
Jesse Brown@JesseBrown

They are investigating the dean to see if the images he used in a dentristy lecture were racist.... One was "a cartoon of a man with a large, hooked nose swimming in a pool of money." Sounds like a tough case.... thestar.com/news/gta/u-of-…

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Arik Motskin
Arik Motskin@amots·
@avappleyard @peacock Surely the first time anyone has referred to a scrum in front of the net as "a little bit of argy bargy"
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Alexander Appleyard
Alexander Appleyard@avappleyard·
@amots @peacock He is for sure a "pro" commentator who has done some homework. But dont think he actually knows hockey well a lot of incorrect terminology that anyone who has been around the game would never say... even in the UK.
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Arik Motskin
Arik Motskin@amots·
@avappleyard @peacock He seems to be relatively competent in terms of hockey knowledge. But curious how he doesn't seem to know the names of some of the best players in the world, calling him "Cole" Makar.
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