hey @peacock - where the heck is the Opening Ceremony replay? it was supposed to be available for 15 days
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Greg Vilines
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Greg Vilines
@gregvilines
No longer supporting X or its owner. Available on Bluesky (https://t.co/tcUnPoFkY8) & LinkedIn (https://t.co/ek36Iip5M5)
Atlanta, GA Katılım Temmuz 2014
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@WhiteHouse I can’t believe this is an official communication from our government.
Fuck all the way off.
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"CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!"
–President Donald J. Trump
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@waitbutwhy I really enjoyed this book and the discussion of golems. Would love to hear the @waitbutwhy take on the current state of our union.
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My book What's Our Problem? is now available.
The book introduces a new framework for thinking about our chaotic political environment. With 303 drawings, it's a toolbox for understanding our societies, our group dynamics, and our own minds.
Get it here: waitbutwhy.com/whatsourproblem
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Jan 6 and all his many crimes told us Trump thought he was above the law.
Now that he's President again, he's more brazenly lawless than any President in history.
No one should be surprised. Everyone who voted for him should have known better.
nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/…
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This is some dumb, dumb shit.
"A bill to “Make carbon dioxide great again” and another proposing a five-year moratorium on wind and solar projects failed to make it out of Senate committees Monday."
Thankful this didn't pass, but man, Wyoming, get your shit together.
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I have been on a chat with @Zoom support for an hour and a half trying to get an answer to why they are saying we're over our license count out of nowhere. Transferred 4 times and this final rep says "they have limited access to my account". Unreal. Worst customer service ever.
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@mcuban @DOGE @costplusdrugs now THIS is what DOGE should be doing!! @mcuban you've done a lot of things, but CPD is the most amazing by far. A business doing real good and making money!
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Hey @DOGE , @costplusdrugs is out here ready to save taxpayers billions. This is just 16 meds. 16…
Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald MD@jjfitzgeraldMD
The total estimated savings when using CPD compared to Medicare was $462,375,491.53 and $618,833,850.34 for 30- and 90-count pricing, respectively. The price of a 42.5-gram tube of vaginal estrogen cream was $22.48 on Cost Plus Drugs, compared to $293.66 through Medicare Part D.
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What happens when a fundamentally immoral and corrupt person is President with no guardrails? We're finding out now.
nytimes.com/2025/01/26/us/…
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@benchestnut 4/4 I’m not perfect, I definitely love travel, a business trip! I don’t think abstinence is the best policy. But awareness and rigor around our decisions - especially because there’s no hive mind making decisions for the betterment of all of us - feels right to me
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@benchestnut 3/4 Especially because impacts of all those decisions en masse, done by millions of people, fuel macro governmental & capitalist trends.
Some successful examples: Finland and Denmark are #1 & #2 in world happiness, largely built on community & social welfare. The U.S. is 23rd.
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CO2 is only 0.04% of our atmosphere. Don’t let people like this guilt you out of flying to a conference. Go fly. Learn new things, meet new people, build new stuff.
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@benchestnut edit for typo: buying a Suburban when you really need a Rav4 opposes classic conservatism
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@benchestnut 2/2 It's a balance, but buying a Suburban when you really need a Rav4 is classic conservatism. Eat the 8oz instead of the 16oz steak. That mindset could trickle up to more scaled decisions of governance and capitalism. Minimalism is a virtue that also could save a lot of lives.
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@bitcloud Self driving cars were predicted a long time before they made a meaningful impact. But we're finally on the precipice. Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it won't. People said the same thing about climate change for a long time, and now we're screwed.
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Funny that nothing has actually happened with AI.
No politically meaningful deep fakes. No unstoppable viruses. No floods of misinformation.
Just people writing apps, fixing emails & making pictures.
Since GPT2 it was "about to happen".
Provenance & trust networks rule all.
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We have got to stop this curve. Or we're facing terrible consequences.
Curious to the tech leaders how all the promises of AI are going to solve this vs the practical things we know will work:
- Reverse deforestation
- Invest in clean energy
- Reduce our average footprint
Zeke Hausfather@hausfath
Global surface temperatures set a new record in 2024, exceeding 1.5C above preindustrial levels in the majority of datasets. It was more than 0.1C warmer than the prior record set in 2023, and more than 0.25C warmer than any year prior to that.
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