Niki Skene (Ernst)

@mherger ich würde sagen "eingefroren" ist passender, als verloren, meinst du nicht?

@wholemars party-time for haters

WHAT!!!!

This is a computer generated video using Unreal Engine. Your skepticism meter should be at level 10 moving forward… twitter.com/Lauren_Souther…

the only appropriate way to drive to #TEDAI

@AvivaKlompas @Harvard which is just proof that @Harvard is not necessarily a badge of intelligence.

interesting watch

@WR4NYGov dont you throw hamas and palestinian in a same pot here? interesting talk, thanks for sharing!

My rant - I'm pro-Israel and the so-called Palestinian cause is genocidal insanity Feel free to be impolite in replies, but expect that to be returned in kind PS: No that's not a Star of David. It's from the Plaid powertrain that Munro & Associates tore down.

Too many people on this stupid app can’t tell the difference between innocent Palestinian people and terrorists like Hamas. Stop conflating the two. You’re not helping. I have family in Gaza. They hate Hamas. They are not torturing women and parading their dead bodies around. The people doing that are not “innocent Palestinians” They are evil and monstrous terrorists. This should not be difficult.

@ArminWolf @matschnetzer jetzt schon öfters gesehen. hübsch gemacht, sagt aber nichts aus, wenn es nicht den referenzwert gibt, wieviele sich die flächen teilen. und: ist das wirklich ein problem des landes? zu wenig platz für irgendwen?

Beeindruckende Grafik: Von @matschnetzer.

Reading @danariely's #misbelief and baffled about how "thinking big" actually works for people when it comes to conspirancy theories.

@itsALLrisky followed

@X living room

where are u posting from

@pablodiabolo klee am hanslteich

@cb_doge @elonmusk is demonstrating the world where everyone can and should use X. the doingtheright-thing part is a positive side effect

Elon Musk is doing what the US president should be doing! Agree?

@lleskn0rke USW in caps ist ja der heimliche Schlüssel in die Herzen aller Frauen.

@TEDchris why is it your intention to keep this conversation alive?

Turns out there are a few more things I need to say about the storm that’s blown up over Coleman Hughes’ TED Talk. It would mean a lot if you would read this through to the end! 🙏 The first is how unfair it is that Adam Grant got dragged into this. After Coleman gave his talk in Vancouver, our team asked Adam privately whether social science supported Coleman’s argument about color blindness and he referred us to a paper that had surveyed the field. We briefly shared some of his concerns with Coleman but we should have shared Adam’s full, nuanced summary of the evidence, because his overall stance is indeed backed up by the paper. As the researchers themselves write: “Multiculturalism is more consistently associated with improved intergroup relations than any identity-blind ideology.” psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-54… And now, for his efforts, Adam has been falsely accused of trying to suppress the talk and of misinterpreting the research. This really upsets me. Adam is a wonderful scientist who goes where the data points. Please, leave him out of this.   Clearly, there’s no shortage of people who are mad at TED (and at me). The post below has more than 1200 comments, some supportive, but many furious over their perception that this is just another case of an organization being captured by woke employees. I think they're missing some key context. Let me share a little more of the story as I personally have experienced it. Pretty much every single media organization in America, if not the world, has found it challenging to navigate the last few years. That certainly includes us. The world’s escalating political division, accelerated first by cable news, then by social media, has put relentless pressure on organizations to move sharply left or sharply right. Most of our content is nonpolitical — and that’s the way it will stay. But when we have entered political waters, that content in recent years has indeed been more likely to use the language and ideas of progressives than conservatives.  And that fact, in itself, has been a cause of intense debate internally.  We’re a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, and our mission is to offer powerful ideas to everyone in the world, not just those from within one political group. Speaking personally, as TED’s ultimate decision maker, I am determined that we hold to that mission.   This is exactly why we invited Coleman Hughes to TED this year. He’s a compelling voice, capable of articulating what are generally regarded as right of center ideas with great confidence and clarity. We want a growing diversity of ideas at TED, even those not everyone here agrees with, provided they are contributing to an important discussion. Some commenters below just don’t understand how anyone could be upset by a talk arguing for color blindness. This speaks to their own lack of immersion in the rich debate that has swirled on this topic in recent years. See, for example, a wonderful TED Talk from 2014, “Color blind or color brave?”, arguing that we’ll never achieve true equity unless we proactively take race into account in our decision-making.  Check it out. It’s persuasive: go.ted.com/6WzH If someone's spent their whole life experiencing a playing field that is tilted against them, proactive policies to un-tilt that field are a ray of light. A talk arguing to dump those in favor of color-blindness can therefore seem not just wrong, but truly dangerous. So I get why some members of the TED community — and also some of our team — were upset by Coleman’s talk. I see comments from people saying “That’s their problem, just fire them.” Give me a break. I love this team. They’re smart, creative, curious and kind, and they work for TED because they believe in the importance of ideas and in TED’s mission. I think it’s healthy that there are sometimes heartfelt debates within the org. When those arise, the right stance is to try to work through them so that we can all learn. That's exactly what happened in this case. Speaking personally, I really long for a shift in our culture. And I don’t think I’m alone. I see a growing number of people yearn for something better than having our conversations dominated by the angry and the judgmental. What if we tried giving each other the benefit of the doubt? There are so many people out there acting in good faith, trying to build a better future. Instead of looking for an excuse to tear each other down, how about we listen, learn and seek to find common ground?

@ArminWolf mit dem "es ist erst" gehen sie mit land und woche aber schon hart ins gericht, lieber @ArminWolf schliesslich ist ab morgen 10h "mahlzeit" und dann quasi eh schon Wochenende. Ich fürchte mehr haben wir nichts zu bieten.

Das ist also die Woche, in der zwei ehem. FPÖ-Abgeordnete bei den Taliban waren, ein SPÖ-Strategiekonzept an 800 falsche Mail-Adressen ging und der ÖVP-Chef den Mäci für eine warme Kindermahlzeit empfohlen hat. Und es ist erst Donnerstag.

this is what you get in a world of regulating innovation. the "good" news: they might soon have a lot less organizations to regulate.

@Sofi_Shvets have to check it out when I am back. can you dm me the name/adr.?

@nikiskene Yes, very Santa Cruz vibe

Probably the best view coffee place in SF