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This is a CT scan of Heinz’s new ketchup cap. It represents a $1.2 million engineering investment over 8 years. Here’s why it’s significant… 🧵
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Midjourney vs. Dalle-3 vs. Adobe Firefly
Same prompt for all.
10 spicy examples.
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Climate debates are often stuck in 2010. But there's no longer a tradeoff between economic growth and stopping climate change. In fact, thanks to technology, the two goals now go together!
noahpinion.blog/p/our-climate-…
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I'm forever thinking of this Reddit thread: "What did a Roman parking lot look like?"
Peter Norton@PeterNorton12
Without history we tend to consider the status quo normal, and other possibilities anomalous. But the original proponents of today's status quo on US streets called their own position "radical," and the status quo we live with every day was their far-fetched, radical aspiration.
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@Noahpinion Verner Vinge is my favorite author nobody’s heard of. The feints within feints within feints, the moments of catharsis, the epic exterior and interior world building - seems an opportune time for a series.
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We also need more non-Star-Trek shows about space exploration, using totally different technological packages and political futures. The Expanse was great in this regard and they should do more in that universe. I also suggest adapting the Zones of Thought books.
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ChatGPT is just a single star in the AI galaxy.
More than 1,000 new AI tools were released last week.
Here are 8 insane AI websites that will save you hours of work:
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I tried and failed to write a version of this for more than a year.
It's about a lot of things—virtuous hypocrisy on the left, post-material nonsense on the right, and the scourge of a phenomenon I'm calling "front-yard theater" in American politics.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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We’re officially 10% through the year, but that means we still have 90% left to create something remarkable.
Not sure what to build?
Here are 12 big ideas from partners at @a16z, ranging from games to compliance to healthcare to space, and of course... lots of AI opportunities.
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In Kyiv, life in wartime has continued on with shocking regularity. “Stores and bars were open, and there was virtually no sign that Kyiv was under attack,” Dave Eggers writes, of a recent trip. “Which it was.”
nyer.cm/PySKmTK
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The advice in this thread will make you unrecognizable in 30 days.
You owe it to yourself to read it. Trust us.
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One painting from every year of the 20th century, in chronological order.
1900: Sunbeams by Vilhelm Hammershøi
1/100
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1/OK, by popular request, here is a thread on how to have a friend group in your 30s.
There are lots of things I'm not good at, like remembering people's names, debugging code, and foosball. But having a friend group is one thing I am quite good at.
Here are my secrets...
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Everything in this image that doesn't have spikes coming off of it is a galaxy.
Every. Single. Dot.
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Next time you get the urge to claim that modern macroeconomics can't predict anything, remember this thread, where Olivier Blanchard -- one of the leading figures of modern macroeconomics -- used a simple model to predict the inflation of 2021-22.
Olivier Blanchard@ojblanchard1
Let me double down and go through some numbers. I agree that too much is better than too little and we should aim for some overheating. The question is how much. Much too much is both possible and harmful. I think this package is too much.
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities
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The pink hats didn’t give me pause in the same way, but if they had I’d be hesitant to admit it. The rest resonates.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
During the Bush and Obama eras I felt like I was very much in tune with, and part of, coastal urban educated liberal American culture. Since the Trump era, I've felt increasingly alienated from that culture.
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Today, Elon tweeted this diagram by @SwipeWright, which sums up how a lot of people (including me) feel. Then a bunch of ppl responded w/ graphs showing that Republican politicians have moved farther right in that time than Dems have moved left. Here's what I think is happening:
Elon Musk@elonmusk
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