every adult was once a child but very few remember it what a long strange trip it’s been

Joined July 2010
humbled to share that i am the protagonists in Jonathan Safran Foer’s highly anticipated sequel Extremely Tired and Incredibly Dehydrated
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I just think walking away from “you can see everything” thinking “Amanda Seyfried should really think about how she hurt Elizabeth’s feelings” is one of the crazier takeaways to have
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“I’m sad about her kids / her boyfriend is an asshole, and therefore I believe her about the billion dollar multi-year thoroughly proven fraud” is a troublingly common take among smart people but understanding it is an important lesson for those who know it’s obviously insane
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This is nothing except ethnic cleansing. They’re clearing any trace of them from the land. upi.com/Top_News/World-News/…
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really? what a narrow view! Anderson did in fact write sympathetically & convincingly about girls & women; even Hemingway has a story from an adolescent girl's perspective, "Up in Michigan," that is a knockout; not to mention D.H. Lawrence, Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Hardy & (not least) Shakespeare. if men can't write about women, women presumably can't write about men. educated people can't write about lesser-educated people, Black writers can't write about brown people, people from Maine can't write about people from Vermont, no one can write about anyone except the sickly face in the mirror.
Replying to @JoyceCarolOates
Yeah and he's a man purporting to write about a woman's inner life. I'll pass.
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“Focus on building something you think exists in the world” and it’s slack for “AI-pilled teams” there are so many real problems, please
“You look at their GitHub and they’re not dark green.” @saradu co-founded Alloy Automation and now runs Ando solo, with $20M from Accel, Index and Emergence. She doesn’t think most of your competitors are real. Every market, in her view, has only a few serious players. The rest talk about the mission and then drift toward quick money. “A lot of solo founders should take solace in that.”
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He has absolutely zero presence or cool. There are rumored to be four candidates. Three are named, so it’s likely the fourth.
Let’s not overthink this people, Jack Lowden is the only choice
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There are only 130 US tech companies, public or private, valued at $10B or more (decacorns). That’s roughly 20 to 30 new companies per decade, for the last five decades. This year alone, with a quarter to go, there have been 42 decacorns minted privately. Either this is the most economically transformative event since the industrial revolution, or we’re getting a wee bit ahead of ourselves.
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chris retweeted
like probably 30% minimum of the american population believes this btw
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Jason has a deep emotional bond with Paris and the French people
Let me redo the headline for you @nytimes: “Criminals loot Paris, beat police and light monuments on fire. Subhead: “Citizens are deeply concerned and scared for their personal safety. Election odds predictably swing to law-and-order candidates on prediction markets.”
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Be extremely intentional with your friendships — not acquaintances, not business partners, actual friends Try to pick high-integrity people — the right people Invest time in those relationships Cut or downgrade folks who are transactional or who don’t show up for you Reallocate that time and energy to the right people who do It's ok to be cutthroat about this, as life is the memories you create with your friends and family. Invest in making moments.
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God I’m tired of this stuff. The permanent underclass already exists and they’re not random people in the Bay Area worried about losing their white collar jobs
most people are not psychologically ready for the possibility of a permanent underclass
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram suspended the No Kings Instagram account for today’s No Kings' day of action. Larry Ellison’s TikTok has shut down the account promoting Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary. Elon Musk promoted the fake story about James Talarico on his X while donating over $150 million to help Ken Paxton. Your reminder that Trump’s billionaire allies control what you see on TikTok, X, Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and YouTube — and they have a vested interest in making sure Dems don’t take the majority, so Trump isn’t investigated.
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El Sayed supporting free public education for Tommy
Love him or hate him, y’all gotta admit, @AbdulElSayed is fucking great at this
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I wonder if @Engineering has run load tests simulating when It happens
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Many popular menswear headlines can be made more interesting if you add some political, historical, or technological dimension to them, rather than just tell people how to dress and what to buy. Examples: Boring: "Here's how to dress for the office." Interesting: "Here's how contemporary office dress culture reflects the last century of liberalism." Boring: "Here are the best shoes this season." Interesting: "Here's what Victorian shoemaking can tell us about AI." Boring: "Here are affordable alternative to this season's best bags." Interesting: "Here's how federal budget cuts have made it harder to spot labor exploitation in global supply chains, which shows up as 'hot deals' for consumers." Boring: "Here's how to dress hot and sexy." Interesting: "Here's a history of how people have covertly expressed sexuality through clothes during times when such expressions were taboo." I would argue that the more people engage with these histories and find deeper meaning in clothes, the more they're able to dress in ways that allow them to express what they want and feel satisfied by what they wear, rather than blindly buying whatever is on a "fall essentials" list.
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I love how Marsellus is so incredibly calm and relaxed while one of his own employees yells at him. Most bosses would be all like "I'm your boss, you can't fucking speak to me that way, your goddamn ass is fucking fired" but Marsellus is relaxed, repeats exactly what Jules says and then comes up with an even better situation than the one that Jules asked for. Not to mention, I fucking love, not just the way Ving Rhames performs this scene, but the way Ving Rhames performs every single scene that's in, not just in this movie, but every single movie that he's in.
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Out of the money call options a week before earnings? In a different America, this screams prison time. In this one, a pardon costs a fraction of the premium, if it’s ever even charged.
Someone just bought 3,999 Tesla $430 calls expiring April 2027, paying $27.40 each. That’s $10.96 million in premium, bought at the ask. The calls are about 15% out of the money, and open interest was just 40 before today. Tesla needs to rise to about $457 by expiration, roughly 22% higher, for the buyer to break even. Tesla reports earnings next week.
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Elon is down 1.5m engagements in the last 5 days. Did something happen?
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Just want to say that you can’t be a N*kita fan while also seeing the effects of a single Russian data center going down. Yes I know bots didn’t all have IPs from there. I know that if you look at Elon’s plummeting like counts, that’s maybe why he didn’t stop it. But he didn’t.
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Like the negative effects of Twitter on human civilization, this guy comes in with tons of hype and doesn’t fix the number one problem.
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