Bradd Libby

My new book The Pattern of Progress: How Radically Cheaper, Easier, Faster, Better Technologies and Ideas Rapidly Change the World is now available in printed form on Amazon amazon.com/Pattern-Progre…

@celinedionysus_ @whitejsakai Funny - they don’t *look* Zuish

@whitejsakai i support iceland's right to exist as a zuish state

Turns out there’s an Icelandic revival of the ugaritic traditional religion of Zuism, mostly for tax reasons

@HodlAlabamGhost @LukeGromen @aeberman12 @JayMartinBC In part, the Iranian government is materially contributing to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

@LukeGromen @aeberman12 @JayMartinBC I know you can't say anything on X. ....but why are "we" attacking Iran in the first place? (rhetorical question) I know that you know. Just incredibly sad that our kids future is significantly worse than ours was.

It's quite simple & sad @JayMartinBC The US made an unthinkable military blunder not controlling Hormuz before attacking Iran Nothing to do with US power Everything to do with failure of US tactics

@JimHarris @OurWorldInData Aquaculture fish are fed, in part, from leftover bits from wild capture fishing. So, every year, the amount of wild capture fish fed per aquaculture fish goes down, meaning that aquaculture fish becomes lower and lower in quality over time

Who knew? The world gets more seafood from aquaculture than wild catch #food via @OurWorldInData

@PostiManner @arnocast The EU put cheat devices in their diesel cars, breaking US environmental laws and gassing Americans to death Scientists from West Virginia (#1 Trump-voting state) discovered that crime How many Europeans do Americans get to kill in return?

@arnocast Get the fuck out from Europe.. Welcome back when Trump is gone, he need to be placed to straitjacket first!

“The Americans withdrawing from European security affairs is no longer the worst-case scenario. The worst-case scenario is Americans withdrawing from European security and turning against us.” thetimes.com/article/584309…

@DominikSklyarov @dimkovska88 @visegrad24 2% of GDP In September 2014, the members of NATO made the ‘Defense Investment Pledge’, where they agreed to spend 2% of GDP on their militaries By 2021, just before Putin’s wider invasion of Ukraine, only the U.S., Greece, Estonia, Poland, and Latvia had met the pledge

@dimkovska88 @visegrad24 what's considered fair share?

The Telegraph reports that Trump is considering withdrawing US troops from Germany 🇺🇸🇩🇪

@elonmusk It was only 43 years from Robert Goddard’s first rocket flight in 1926 to the Moon landing, which is a more appropriate comparison

Incredible that it was only 66 years from the first controlled, powered flight to landing on the Moon!

@PeterDiamandis Video calling was described in the book ‘Mizora’ by Mary Bradley Lane in 1880

Technologies that started as science fiction: Submarines — Jules Verne, 1870. Built by Simon Lake, 1898. Rockets — H.G. Wells, 1898. Built by Robert Goddard, 1926. Helicopters — Jules Verne, 1886. Built by Igor Sikorsky, 1939. Tablet computers — Arthur C. Clarke, 1968. Built by Apple, 2010. Video calling — The Jetsons, 1962. Built by Zoom, 2013. The internet — William Gibson coined “cyberspace,” 1984. The web went live, 1991. Humanoid robots — Karel Čapek, 1920. Built by Tesla, 2024. Universal translators — Murray Leinster, 1945. Built by Google, 2017. Brain-computer interfaces — William Gibson, 1984. Built by Neuralink, 2024. De-extinction — Michael Crichton, 1990. Being built by Colossal, today. What else?

@mkay_steve @NeboTheDog @HeidiBachram They’re two different photos, blended together down the middle

@NeboTheDog @HeidiBachram Seems like no one else notices that

Three suspects in the arson on the Czech defence factory have been arrested. They’re US and Czech citizens. Look like standard pro-Pals to me.

€4900 Electric Vehicle? @tonyseba predicted it 12 YEARS AGO! 📉 hubs.li/Q048bkXW0

@PerellClips Other tricks they used Eleanorrigby: picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been Ladymadonna: listens to the music playing in your head

The Beatles used all kinds of rhetorical tricks in their songwriting, which is one reason why their music is so memorable. Two examples: 1) Anadiplosis, which is where the last word of one verse starts the next one, such as with "You say goodbye and I say hello. Hello, hello!" 2) Epanalepsis, where each verse begins and ends with the same word, like in the song 'Yesterday' which goes: "Yesterday / All my troubles seemed so far away / Now it looks as though they're here to stay / Oh, I believe in yesterday." These are fancy words for very simple rhetorical tricks that you'll see in all kinds of popular music. — Mark Forsyth

Michigan Center, Michigan, is not in the center of Michigan

@marsh071 @ragipsoylu That is what he looks like when he’s smiling

@ragipsoylu Not a good or flattering photo. Choose one that shows him smiling!

Turkish user: “Even the most ardent pro-government newspaper in Turkey didn’t do this”

Abundance or Collapse now available FOR FREE in digital formats! I've been SO inspired by the amazing response from so many of you. The key theme I've heard is that the book is an amazing tool in helping folks think about the coming AI disruption, and most importantly, how to prepare for it. I hope making it freely available can help many more people position themselves on the winning side of the AI disruption. Link for PDF and ePUB formats in replies below.

@robbertleusink How do you know that “the chart spread to every country on earth within a decade”? Is there some table somewhere that shows when it first appeared in different countries?

Every eye test you've ever taken was designed in the Netherlands in 1862 Herman Snellen didn't use existing fonts He built every letter from scratch on a mathematical grid, so that only your eyesight determined what you could read, not the shape of the letter The chart spread to every country on earth within a decade 163 years later, nothing has replaced it A Dutchman set the global standard for human vision

@itsme_urstruly Cats used to have passports

Now this is the kind of news I want in my feed

@25YearsAgoLive Left-handed Mosin-Nagant on the movie poster. No left-handed Mosin-Nagant in the movie 🙁

Enemy at the Gates, a WWII movie about the Battle of Stalingrad starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, and Ed Harris, premieres in theaters.

@RichOToole Sushi wasn’t really ‘thing’ in Japan until the 1970s, when it became affordable to fly Atlantic bluefin tuna there. It became big over about fifteen years, then spread to the US and Europe See Issenberg, ‘The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy’ 2007

I don’t think the younger generation understands that Sushi wasn’t really a thing in America in the early 90’s. I don’t remember even seeing a sushi restaurant till I was like 12 or 13.

@stats_feed Synthetic camphor

🇫🇮 Finnish inventions and discoveries: Pulk Linux Xylitol Sauna Ice skates Angry birds Circular lock Bubble chair Nokia phone Child day care Flight recorder Paternity leave Maternity pack Satchel charge Fiskars scissors Molotov cocktail Electric solar sail Hart rate monitor IRC Chat Protocol Dish draining closet Savonius wind turbine Principle of transparency Integrated health centers Free comprehensive education National suicide prevention project Internet browser with a user interface

@oldbooksguy I, personally, am partial to Bradd Libby’s “The Pattern of Progress: How Radically Cheaper, Easier, Faster, Better Technologies and Ideas Rapidly Change the World”, by Bradd Libby

What's a book you consider a masterpiece?

The rest of the world is quickly going pollution-free EV. "China is not going to wait for the U.S. or anyone else to sort out their internal regulatory fights" ktvu.com/news/trump-adm…