I play with discs, math, computers. Used to play board games, before I had a daughter. He/him/his.
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What makes a protest movement successful? Social Change Lab just finished a 6-month report looking into this and we're excited to share our results. We conducted a literature review, bespoke public opinion polling, interviews with experts, and more.
What we found 🧵
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I think the new richest person should be required to buy Twitter now and this cycle should continue until none of them are rich anymore
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hard to believe there was once a time where they’d send a big yellow book to everyone’s house listing yours and everyone else’s assassination coordinates
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Seen on Mastodon which sums it up pretty succinctly…
ALT A post on mastodon that that summarizes GPTs output as “”mansplaining as a service.”
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You've seen Advent of Code, now get ready for Ramadan of Code. It's 30 days of no coding.
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If you want to reduce your carbon footprint, focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local.
The chart shows why: transport tends to account for only a small share of greenhouse gas emissions — the differences between different food choices are much larger.
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Mastering Stratego deepmind.com/blog/mastering-…
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Elon Musk's Twitter just suspended the account of antifascist researcher @chadloder likely to suppress reporting on right-wing extremists. As I reported, Loder's painstaking research identifying a Proud Boy who attacked police on Jan 6 was cited by the DOJ theintercept.com/2021/11/10/…
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watching all these people that engineer anti-queer massacres like Colorado Springs every day post thoughts and prayers for the victims whose deaths they made with their own hands on a platform that is redesigning itself to deliver that bile and poison more freely and widely
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This seems like a big fucking deal that no one has picked up on:
The American Medical Association has amended their ethical guidance to say that post-Roe, doctors should put their patients' health & safety first, even if it means breaking the law
jessica.substack.com/p/abort…
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Anyone interested in a full-time job doing FLINT development should get in touch.
I don't have funding at the moment, but given a qualified candidate (skilled with computer algebra *and* C programming), there's a decent chance that funding can be found.
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if this is my very last tweet, i just gotta say one thing -- I will never, ever, buy a Tesla
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Let V be a vector space over a field F with |V| < ∞. The following are equivalent:
(1) The sum of all vectors in V is nonzero.
(2) |V| = 2.
Mathematics.
"Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors."
~Elon Musk, bit.ly/3knxxn6
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Harvard study found that hiring one highly productive ‘toxic worker’ does more damage to a company’s bottom line than employing several less productive, but more cooperative, workers.
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Just a reminder for International Inuit Day ❤️
Inuk = 1 🙋🏻♀️
Inuuk = 2 🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
Inuit = 3 or more 🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️ +
So I would say I am Inuk (singular) and my family is Inuit (plural)
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A word on the idiocy known as "immunity debt". How did such a nonsensical idea take hold?
Simple. The obvious mental model for our immune system is a muscle: use it or lose it. Muscles atrophy when we don't use them. The same mental model works for our memories & skills.
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The most interesting lesson from this (saddening) thread is how much impact one person can have on the course of history, for better or worse, esp through training.
