Amos Zeeberg

@nut_history It's beautiful without understanding any of the Japanese words, but here's the subtitle version for those who are curious mlb.com/news/mlb-openi…

Major League Baseball is aired in the morning for Japan. So technically they eat breakfast with it being on television. Here’s their #openingday commercial. No hyperbole, when I say this, it might be greater than any US MLB commercial I’ve seen. Well done and worth the watch for any baseball fan.

@NYCJessa @nut_history mlb.com/news/mlb-openi…

@nut_history Is there any version with English subtitles? I want to know what they are saying.

@MarchMadnessMBB I bet on St John's to win so don't really mind, but that's an obvious travel on the catch. He had his right foot flat on the ground (immediately becomes pivot) and maybe his left toe, too. Then he did a hop into a dribble. Can't move pivot before dribbling.

DYLAN DARLING GAME WINNER OMG 🚨 ST. JOHN'S ADVANCES TO THE SWEET 16 🤯

@LeboltElana @secho99ncaa One guy is 3-8, rest of the team 0-16 😳

@secho99ncaa Where are the made 3s?!

South Florida. Woof, that was supposed to be the best non-major in the tourney

@secho99ncaa And isn't Louisville missing one of their best dudes? I had them going to the Sweet Sixteen but then changed that when I saw he was out.

@kynichol @cryptopunk7213 At least we have fair waring now. If you let them see your mouth while you're talking, it's your own fault at this point.

@cryptopunk7213 We are never gonna get those pod bay doors closed now… “- apple acquired stealth startup for $2B that can lip read - integrating their tech for new ai consumer airpods with cameras and mics “

so just to recap this week (so far) - musk industries is real (spacex, tesla, xai merger) - clawdbot explosion leading to a bankrun on mac minis but then anthropic released their own version - tesla dropped the bomb they’re halting production on model s and x to scale 1M optimus humanoid robots this year instead - china dropped the mother of all open source models kimi k2.5 that turn video into production-ready apps but then google dropped a gemini update ON THE SAME DAY that does the same thing gg - google said fuck it and also launched the worlds greatest world model genie and switched on gemini for 3.8B chrome browser users AND released alpha genome model that one-shots 1M dna base pairs for 3000 researchers across 160 countries AND teased new veo model - microsoft crushed earnings, launched a new ai chip but stock still tanked 10% because they *only* grew rev 39% - anthropic round 2X oversubbed raised to 20B 🏌️ - openai raising another $100B, 750B val 🏌️ - intel leaked they’re gonna help produce nvidias next gen feynman gpus - hello americas tsmc - a robot (built by figure) washed the dishes with zero human interaction - apple acquired stealth startup for $2B that can lip read - integrating their tech for new ai consumer airpods with cameras and mics - demis confirms google glass 2.0 coming this summer fckin hell

@danmcgregor @anselerator @rparloff @EricColumbus Contrails - normal, visible, scientific, consensus reality Chemtrails - invisible, imaginary, batshit crazy, tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist

@anselerator @rparloff @EricColumbus I stand corrected sir! 👍😃

More tinfoil hat stuff. h/t @EricColumbus

@body_text @cremieuxrecueil 😆

@settostun @cremieuxrecueil Congrats, you've already looked into this more than Cremieux did

If you have a cold and you want it to go away faster, consider taking a zinc lozenge. Aggregating data from three randomized placebo-controlled trials, it seems lozenges cut down the time people are sick by ~40%. By day 5, 70% were cured with lozenges versus 27% with placebo.

@body_text @cremieuxrecueil Actually Zicam does have citric acid as an inactive ingredient, not listed on the Amazon page but it's here. Sneaky! zicam.com/our-products/c… Looks like Cold-Eeze avoids citrate and other acids entirely. coldeeze.com/products/plus-…

@settostun @cremieuxrecueil Zicam has no citric acid, but it has stearic acid and flavourings (maybe those can include citric acid??). I don't know if stearic acid is as bad as citric acid Otherwise seems legit

@body_text @cremieuxrecueil Looks like Zicam (at least some formulations) includes zinc acetate and gluconate, no citrate. amazon.com/Zicam-Remedy-L…

@cremieuxrecueil WRONG 😑 The studies that show efficacy never talk about OTC lozenges, which have citric acid that binds zinc ions into a useless topically zinc citrate. We simply don’t have an OTC lozenge that works. Waste of money. Search for “citric” pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC54…

@MiguelGBTC @cremieuxrecueil Seems long-term use can cause problems (eg with copper absorption), but I think short-term use (a week or less) shouldn't be a problem, no?

@MiguelGBTC @cremieuxrecueil Are there issues with taking high doses like this for just a few days? The RDA is for long-term use, iirc.

@Nick_Locascio @cremieuxrecueil But the studies are about people who are already infected and symptomatic. Why would coating your mouth help in that case?

@cremieuxrecueil the mechanism is simple but effective - the losenge coats your mouth & throat w/ ions that bind to ICAM-1 to prevent entry of rhinoviruses

@danicajdillion Thanks, sounds like appreciable effect. How should I think about social network density? Why vary so much by county? Does it often scale w pop density or some other social property? (I get that you studied social network density for a reason, just trying to grok it better.)

The standardized beta here is about .11 (fairly typical of regional psych analyses), with a 10% increase in density associated with about a 2% decrease in partisan animosity. To put that in perspective, partisan animosity has increased by about 15% since 2016, so if a county starting at today’s average level of animosity doubled its density, we’d expect animosity levels better than those of 2016 (~20% reduction).

Americans are growing more socially isolated and politically divided. Could these two forms of disconnection be linked? Our new paper in @appliednetsci suggests that people with denser, more connected social networks often feel less partisan animosity. 🧵

@QJeffR @MenInBlazers If you're American born and bred, USA should be your main team. We're often plucky underdogs in soccer, it's an interesting role for us. Cool to have Uruguay as a second team, cheer for them when they're playing anyone but USA.

@MenInBlazers I’m so conflicted! Great for the US team, but my wife was an exchange student to Uruguay, and it’s been SO MUCH MORE FUN to root for Uruguay over the past 30 years

Consider this your cordial reminder that the USMNT beat Uruguay 5-1 yesterday 🇺🇸

@bobbyandyson @ManagerTactical Not Uruguay's B team! Besides the absence of Valverde, this was most if their first-choice players.

@ManagerTactical That team put out a performance. Pochettino has them motivated. Uruguay B team, but considering we don’t know our A, B, or C team, then that’s pretty good.

I hate to be that guy but this is close to the worst possible USMNT 🇺🇸starting XI with this roster. If Uruguay 🇺🇾 loses, they should give up their sovereignty and join Brazil 🇧🇷 once again.

@LuluOrange63280 @cremieuxrecueil @IPostAndGhost I'm not sure. I think Jews in both places were disproportionately likely to be communist, for different reasons.

@settostun @cremieuxrecueil @IPostAndGhost Tell me than, of the ashkenazi Jews you mentioned who gravitated way more towards communism?

There's a lot of truth to this. Wherever we have data, we see this repeated: Communists tend to be downwardly mobile. They are, always and everywhere, disproportionately likely to be their generation's losers. Consider this Finnish data on the Red and White Guards:

@danicajdillion What do you make of this effect size? (Confess I haven't read the paper, just the tweets and abstract.)

Next, we zoomed out to the county level. Using data from the Social Capital Atlas and Project Implicit (79,819 people), we found that counties with denser social networks showed lower partisan animosity—even after accounting for population, politics, demographics, and inequality.

@LuluOrange63280 @cremieuxrecueil @IPostAndGhost It depends on where you're talking about. At the beginning of the 20th century, Jews in Germany tended to be urban, assimilated, and well-off, while Jews in Russia were mostly poor peasants facing significant discrimination.

@cremieuxrecueil @IPostAndGhost This is a bit misleading. At the beginning of the 20th century ashkenazi Jews were mostly poor, lower class, and highly discriminated. They were attracted to Communism at least partly because communism falsely promised to end the discrimination.

This guy is promoting his app that will make an AI digital twin of your dead relatives. What's going through his head? Literally every single comment is trashing this twisted Black Mirror idea. Is he so lost in the tech bubble that he doesn't talk to any normal people?