Alex Moore
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Alex Moore
@awmoore
At @boomerang and @gqueues building the future of productivity. MIT '05. Aspirational chef. Goofy dad. Loudest Bama fan in Bryant-Denny every few years.
Berkeley, CA, USA เข้าร่วม Nisan 2008
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Heads up @gmail crew -- the authuser URL parameter isn't working today, so a bunch of the links in Boomerang (and probably a ton of other products) are pulling up 404s. cc @googledevs
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@Noahpinion Do you know anywhere that does in the bay area? My youngest loves corn more than anything, this would blow his mind
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When water flash evaporates in space, about half the water evaporates taking almost all the heat so the other half of the water freezes to ice. The fraction of it that evaporates probably travels in all directions equally because it is a molecular level process. The velocities of those molecules will have a Boltzmann distribution, depending on the temperature of the water at each moment that the evaporation is occurring, so at first, the temperature will be warmer, but it will steadily cool as it evaporates. This will cause the velocities in the water vapor to become smaller and smaller. However, because the bolts in distribution has a very long tail, there will probably be molecules at velocities high enough to reach the moon. So some of those molecules would end up on the moon.
However, the ultraviolet light is able to break molecular bonds, and the probability of a molecule flying all the way to the lunar surface before photolysis is vanishing small. Therefore, what reaches the lunar surface will be individual atoms. These same atomic species are in the solar wind, so it will just be an in distinguishable, tiny addition to the solar wind.
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@craigkerstiens that was our spring break a couple years ago, in unseasonably hot temperatures in the desert. will never forget trying to clean the car in 110 degree heat in between bathroom trips. hang in there 😭
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Nothing like some good time off and a family vacation with norovirus starting to run through folks in a hotel room after sprinting for 6 months. Can I go back to work now?
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These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.
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@conorsen This was not helpful. I do not want to think about these things!!!
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The first athlete who could plausibly play until I’m old enough to file for Social Security.
Pittsburgh Pirates@Pirates
Get to know KG!
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@JamesLucasIT Because food was *EXPENSIVE*, accounting for 42% of household spending, whereas it's 10% now. bls.gov/opub/100-years…
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This is a New York City newsstand in the 1930s
Genuine question: why no overweight people?
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@SukritGanesh @AlecMacGillis Yeah, actually this is less than inflation. Makes sense; civics are made in ohio and indiana.
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@SukritGanesh @AlecMacGillis Y’all come on. 2021 civic started at 21,250. 2026 model is 25,445. Mostly inflation, most of the rest is tariffs, what’s left might be preferences for larger/more expensive vehicles.
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Contrary to what people think, this is not because cars have become more expensive (you can buy a Honda Civic in the mid $20k range), but rather because consumers prefer larger, more premium vehicles. Compact sedans have given way to midsize crossovers.
Alec MacGillis@AlecMacGillis
"The average monthly new-car payment reached $774 in January, up from $588 in January 2021...A growing share of buyers are taking on even larger loans: More than 20 percent of new-car borrowers agreed to pay over $1,000 a month at the end of last year." nytimes.com/2026/03/16/bus…
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@grossdm This is mostly just inflation ($588 is $731 in Jan 2026 dollars), offset by real income growth!
Tariffs (estimated at +4% by Anderson Economic Group and at +12% by Yale) are almost all of the rest. Tariffs were weirdly not mentioned until almost the bottom of the article.
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Prosperitizing yourself to death. If you try to make everything a luxury experience, fewer people will be able to afford it and then the business loses the capacity and muscles to make profits off of affordable products
Alec MacGillis@AlecMacGillis
"The average monthly new-car payment reached $774 in January, up from $588 in January 2021...A growing share of buyers are taking on even larger loans: More than 20 percent of new-car borrowers agreed to pay over $1,000 a month at the end of last year." nytimes.com/2026/03/16/bus…
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My wife's interpretation of @mattyglesias on Ossoff today: I agree with everything he says, but it comes off Iike "I am a manly man, with some thinky-think" 😂
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@AstorAaron Wait, what?
Our school is making the kids learn cursive and I've kind of thought it was a waste of time. What's the benefit?
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This. I can’t believe schools did away with teaching cursive. It was part of the general surrender to the EdTech lobby. Handwritten work is especially needed now in the age of AI Slop.
Governor Josh Shapiro@GovernorShapiro
The best thing we can do for our kids right now is to just let them be kids. Kids are getting cell phones sooner than any generation before them, screen times are up while real human connection is down, and foundational skills aren’t being taught enough these days. We need to take a step back. It’s why I just signed a bipartisan bill into law, requiring cursive handwriting to once again be taught in PA public schools. It’s also why I’ve called on the legislature to pass a bill requiring schools to both implement a bell-to-bell cell phone ban and guarantee recess for every Pennsylvania student. Let’s continue our work to set young people on a path to success — and let our kids be kids.
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I now need MY RABBIT'S VET to sign off on buying hay for her to eat?
$20 says this is another "AI wrote some code" bug from @amazon
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Is anyone putting Trump "I did that!" stickers on gas pumps? When they did it to Biden, it was a lie (Putin was the one who did that), but Trump is 100% responsible for it this time.
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This is so absurd. This model run has the Western US heatwave peaking just shy of a 600DM ridge. That’s about the strongest ridge that the region has ever seen even in the middle of summer. This is not normal.
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I fear all the candidates for governor are going to end up being morons.
James Medlock@jdcmedlock
Such an unserious solution to gas prices in the face of supply constraints. Krugman said it best 26 years ago
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Porter, Booker, and the other electeds doing this slopulist nonsense are conceding two things:
1) they have no credible plans to lower costs in their high cost states
2) the public services provided aren’t worth what the taxpayers are paying
Incredibly bleak. We have no party for state capacity.
Katie Porter@katieporterca
0% state income tax for California families making under $100,000. That’s thousands of dollars back in your pocket where it belongs. As Governor, I’ll work the issue at both ends—lowering taxes for those who are struggling and raising them on the biggest corporations that can afford to pay.
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