Learning English with twitter
As long as you don’t get involved in flame wars, twitter can be a great source of interesting content (wasn’t that the original plan?)
You just have to choose the right people to follow.
Also see twitter 2 https://stuartwiffin.substack.com/p/twitter-2
"Ten Unsolved Mysteries of the Brain"-Discover Magazine. I wrote this article 14 years ago. Amazingly, these are still the mysteries we face.
🥗 One of the most thrown away items in the UK is pre-prepared salad. You can knock it into a pesto with just a handful of simple ingredients. Use it on pasta, potato salads, soups or sandwiches or cheese on toast. Get the recipe here! #NoWasteCookBook
cookingonabootstrap.com/2018/03/20/sal…
The trouble with wokeness is not the problems they choose, but the superficial way in which they engage with them. They turn virtue into mere etiquette. But problems like climate change and the brokenness of the US criminal justice system are real.
When Steve Jobs promoted Tim Cook, did anyone think he would then go on to add more than $200B per YEAR in value for TEN years?
Amazing run..
"Cancelling student debt" is a misnomer. All that money still got spent. The only thing that changes is who pays. What "cancelling student debt" really means is that people who don't have student debt pay off the debt of those who do.
Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”
Experimental philosophy research idea: ask moral philosophers to read reddit Am I The Asshole posts and say (a) whether the person is an asshole, and (b) what the top voted verdict is most likely to be. Look at ALL the correlations, including across ethicists. Conclude something.
One thing Twitter has taught me is how smart and compassionate so many creatures on this planet are. 🐢 💙
George Carlin explains CRT-Critical Real Thinking.
Compton Jay @ComptonMadeMe
Oh my god. @RhonddaBryant has just called for Arron Banks to be sanctioned! Quotes Isabel Oakeshott calling him "an agent of influence for the Russian state".
Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz
I know this isn’t the biggest problem in the world but actually it sort of is. The structural misogyny & racism of the very fabric of modern life - the tech platforms we depend on - never ceases to depress me.
I'm not allowed to write the words "Arron Banks" in @ObserverUK currently. Or even "Nigel Farage". The silencing is real. I don't know what @BBC's excuse is, though. Maybe @amolrajan does?
Instead, here's the great @NickCohen4 sneaking him in today:
I’m posting this thread again because it’s unbearable that we’re witnessing a woman being subjected to openly racist & misogynist abuse & doing nothing.
@TwitterSafety must act. And Boris Johnson condemn. These are his people. But if we don’t act, we’re all complicit
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones
More people are learning that the development of the Jewish Space Laser was the result of the longer-term program of funding scientific research.
Eric Hananoki @ehananoki
A bot that trawls for all tweets containing the words "Nazi," "racist," "transphobe," "groomer," "pedo," "bitch," "slut," "neckbeard," and "incel," and quietly disables retweets would fix a large chunk of Twitter's problems, IMO.
I'm afraid I can't give a shout out to everyone promising to murder me - there are so many of you, and I'm a busy woman - but this one deserves a mention for the nineties rave vibe, @TrustFundOzu.
@slutpilled Ladies…
Jessica 🦁 @jessicamalonso
Seems a lot easier to build a self-driving train than a self-driving car. The thing with deciding to switch tracks to save 5 people almost never happens.
I cannot emphasize enough how badly you need to watch this North Korean propaganda video right now.
It will forever change your understanding of film as an artistic medium.
Physics Photo Of the Day:
Arguably the most intelligent photo ever taken:
Solvay Conference on quantum mechanics at the Institute International de Physique Solvay, Brussels, Belgium, in 1927. 17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners.
@nytdavidbrooks @JosephBottum @RichardvReeves @bureaucatliu Wikipedia entries:
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_class
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In 1860, Charles Darwin wrote that "The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail makes me sick." How could such a cumbersome, seemingly pointless trait evolve? His eventual answer: The tail isn't a survival tool; it's a mating ornament, shaped by the peahen's mate preferences.
‘Ghost of Kyiv’ never existed. Ukraine now admits it was invented to boost morale. Strange how no orgs ‘fighting disinformation’ interrogated it.
Almost like whole US-UK ‘disinformation’ programme is actually just another form of information warfare.
Sweden won. Lockdowns and masks lost horribly.
The world’s experiment adopting Chinese Communist Party tactics for trying to stop a respiratory virus has, unsurprisingly, been proven to be the greatest public policy disaster since communism itself
Chomsky says he regards Trump as a deeply dangerous figure, yet he is "the one statesman in the West who has said it, and it's the right way out."
"Let's tell the truth," Chomsky says.
Full interview here:
How cool is this? #STEAM #STEM #math #maths #mlearning
Tansu YEĞEN @TansuYegen
it’s incredible how reading this feels like finally unlocking 100% of your brain
(via @Christophepas)
Exxon is rated top ten best in world for environment, social & governance (ESG) by S&P 500, while Tesla didn’t make the list!
ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.
Who is John Galt?
Dan Sanchez @DanSanchezV
It’s utter mayhem outside! I took the sound off because we were watching something noisy but count them! COUNT THEM!!!
The breakup fee for @Twitter is only $1 billion.
@elonmusk didn’t buy TWTR, but a call option at $44 billion for $1 billion.
I don’t believe he will exercise (close).
Elon Musk just gave $44 billion dollars to the former owners of Twitter that they can now use to end hunger, disease, poverty, war, and injustice.
Which they will do first?
This is what a life of reading the Daily Mail can do to someone. This woman genuinely believes a completely made up, baseless story because it’s been in a newspaper, it’s really quite scary.
Very well handled by @BenKentish
Nation Wishes There Were Some Way They Could Have Known About The Hunter Biden Laptop Story Before The Election
Know who controls the companies, and these companies influence your government and media. 👀👀
Check who runs your investment funds and if it's Blackrock, know they are using your money to control the narrative.
🧵 Since we are on the topic of BlackRock this week. It might time to touch on all the people who have gone to work in the White House from Black Rock since Joe Biden took office.
Much better to do your free labor for Black Rock, Vanguard, and a Saudi Prince.
Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson
If you think you're having a bad week, just remember that the team at WarnerMedia who lost $5.9m/day at Quibi were the same backers of CNN+ where they lost $9.4m/day.
@Noahpinion Just looking at that photo, you would assume that Shoigu is the leader and Putin is the nervous underling.
Watch this with draw not dropped… I dare you.
Alexis Conran @alexisconran
Paths Open vs. Closed
Black Lines = paths closed
Green Lines = paths open
We spend too much time focusing on what might have been (black) and not enough time focusing on what may be (green).
Never underestimate the density of opportunity that lies ahead.
(h/t @waitbutwhy)
It appears that the ‘cost of living’ crisis doesn’t apply to the House of Commons. Let them eat sandwiches
There are no red pixels in this image. The red you're seeing is all in your mind. i.redd.it/hj03en37psv71.…
@AndreaDClarke @gunsnrosesgirl3 that's so cute...
even turtles want to have fun
Cary Cooper @ProfCaryCooper
What professors can learn from YouTubers. 10 lessons in five minutes. This is SO GREAT. Thank you @todd_gureckis. h/t @weijima01
My husband has just had a pay rise, which is lovely, but I can't help notice that in the last 10 years, his salary has increased 87%, while mine has increased by 18%
I've spent most of that time working on curing cancer. He's been calculating your car insurance.
"It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe...can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil."--Richard Feynman, born this week, 1918.
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems—of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.
Analysis of 50 previously secret scientific studies by Monsanto & other chemical giants raises troubling questions about the long history of regulatory assurances of the safety of glyphosate and Roundup weed killers @Bayer
It’s incredible how this is just normal now in SF. One just looks onto a public space and sees a shanty town. Totes cool. Life as usual. Nobody even blinks, or wonders if the political direction is maybe a wee bit off. Can’t be helped. To even question is to show privilege.
Jenny Chan 鄰白廢物 🦍 barb, feeling the spirit @JennyChachan
Excellent article showing why instructors who started using @perusall to build community in the online classroom during the pandemic will continue to do so after the pandemic
@patrickc This is the citation @mattyglesias gives for “40% of murders involve the use of alcohol” in his post about alcohol health costs last week.
"City leaders say the @CureViolence intervention program has curbed crime in 3 other neighborhoods. Now, they want to pass a bill and expand the crime-fighting team to Walnut Park West in hopes of stopping the violence."
I wouldn't exactly say Sen. Whitehouse seems particularly concerned or even interested about the fact he continues to belong an all-white club (which his wife owns a large part of).
As always, judge a person by the acts that compose their life, not the public rhetoric they spew.
Jewish Deplorable @TrumpJew2
If you are interested in my views on atheism and Christianity, and want to read about some of the other people who think in similar ways - from Roger Scruton to the Murrays (Charles and Douglas) - here's an insightful article:
“Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity when some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?” Thomas Sowell
Be pro-nuclear (or pro any viable technology) and you'll be blamed for every problem it causes.
Only be pro emissions reduction and other banning or throttling, and you won't be blamed for any consequences because your story will always be: should have banned and throttled more.
Hannah Ritchie @_HannahRitchie
In my interview w/@JordanHarbinger he pushed back (refreshingly!) on the idea that you shouldn't feel bad about errors
jordanharbinger.com/536
Indeed, one can swing too far from "Being wrong ALWAYS means you screwed up" to "Being wrong NEVER means you screwed up"
Both are false
Are there any examples of voters voting in favour of reducing their collective income/consumption/GDP by 5% in order to achieve some other goal?
10%?
I will also convene my coaching team from Valencia on Tuesday to see whether we can do anything about the results we got 👍
Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson
Only 10% of cars sold in Norway are entirely petroleum powered. Like any competent dealer, the Norwegians sell the stuff, but they don't use it.
Day 1 of my class and 68% of my surveyed students agree with the claim "Differences in behavior between men and women are broadly-speaking mostly because of socialization and culture and not biology." They're on a collision course with @hoovlet and the science of testosterone!
It's remarkable that as recently as 11 years ago, the sum of all human knowledge could be provided in just two books.
One of the more salient Western conceits is that the world should be interested in our flavor of dissipated and deconstructed post-modern culture and aesthetics.
Lina Arabi @LinaArabii
How it's done.
WHO African Region @WHOAFRO
If you take promises very seriously, you'll almost never make them. Instead we should offer grades of promises based on how much we'll inconvenience ourselves to do the thing. From "I will do this on pain of death" to "I will do this unless I get distracted by a cool bee."
Infuriating and exhausting. First hand experience: @nlevchin and her team at @SciFiVC built and run a small venture fund with returns better than most of the top tier VC world. The headline is always “Max Levchin invested.” Lazy and sexist.
Kaz Nejatian @CanadaKaz
Great to see MacKenzie Scott's unusual and public approach to giving, including grants to two of @LifeYouCanSave 's recommended charities @GiveDirectly and @sanku_PHC
@TimHarford @BBCMoreOrLess @juliagalef This might be a case of survivorship bias. If we consider all possible universes where Spock makes a prediction, before an event. In 99% of universes, Kirk ignores the prediction and the Enterprise blows up and we never see the show.
Another list here from Noahpinion: