eX-Twitter is a big bundle of the world's weirdest & neuroticest. But scientists & journalists like it and I'm addicted to learning. So here I am💙sis/dudette

Joined December 2021
Thousands are speaking their mind about this short clip despite it likely being half-fiction made in the editing room Along with many falling for the "idiot spring breaker" trope for the 30th consecutive year It was bothering me, so I decided to make a PSA to get it off my mind
Chris tells Jessica he's used to dating women who "work out all the time." Love is Blind: Season 10 is now streaming.
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It's the pandemic, stupid.
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It's the pandemic, stupid (Part 8) xitter.cf/i/status/2033538785036… But also long-running issues. Teachers who leave have an 7-8.5x greater chance of advancement, better environment & influence over it than the opposite, 6x prestige, 4.7x work/life balance Better in all but job security
In 2008, 62% of teachers said they were very satisfied with their job. In 2022, that dropped to 12%. We've got a serious problem brewing in education...
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It's the pandemic, stupid (Part 9) xitter.cf/BeshearStan/status/211…
Whole lot of Gen Z really went to the polls in 2024 just to cook their own futures.
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Been away for a while and that will continue; I forgot how peaceful almost anything else is. I also no longer need to track COVID researchers—my original reason for joining. However, I did a 2 month X Premium test and want to let everyone know what I found out: 1/3
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1. I often got account flags for 🤷🏻‍♀️ from 2024. I starting engaging in political topics, Gaza war, & blocked Elon. Still don't know what did it. Commenting too often? Bad post/comment ratio? 🤷🤷 Any "shadow ban" or limit stopped immediately after paying for Premium. 2/3
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2. My usual type of comment got 0-5 likes before. That jumped to "ratioing" major accounts like David French. 3. I ended my sub after my intended 1 month test. Flags returned the next day. After I reupped for another month, any problem disappeared again. Enjoy X y'all! 3/3
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I'm so glad I took a break from Twitter. Don't waste your life on this stuff. Anything else in your life is more important. If you live with your parents playing video games 12 hours a day, that would still be a more important use of your time than this debate.
Evan I thought your book was OK, and I'm certainly very receptive to the idea of D organizations having become too woke/progressive/etc but this Cheesecake Factory stuff makes you look like a humorless reactionary idiot take the fucking L.
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1. I'm sure cultural shock & disappointment happens anywhere Americans move to & includes immigrants going to the US Happens w/paradise destinations like Hawaii too! 2. I doubt these exp represent >⅕th 3. I'm sure regrets are far far less prevalent than those who ran to Russia
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Yes Follow multiple ideas concurrently Estimate the difficulty, thus time. It's not hard to separate a 5min task from a 5sec one Listen to a 🎼, take📝🗒️, brainstorm, watch YT, read an article, relax, rest👀😌, 🧘 Workers should already be doing these Pomodoro-like breaks!
Does it count as work when you're waiting idk +/- 5 minutes for an LLM to respond to a complicated query, multiplied over many prompts? It's kind of hard to use that time productively, especially since sometimes "5 minutes" is 20 minutes and sometimes it's 20 seconds.
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So, interesting fact, the lost data center water is evaporated water, so it is distilled water—one of the purest kinds of water one can drink at 99.99% pure. You'd need lab grade double/vacuum distilled (99.999%) or ultra pure (99.999999%) water to drink better.
drinking data center water and absorbing all the data
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I've never liked simplifying a very diverse population into only 2 partisan boxes. Party ID data backs me up a lot on this now Are Dem coal miners & GOP environmentalists a specific type of person? That'd be a great qualitative study! It's long past time to have some granularity
Partisans are highly segregated by workplace--the effect is similar in size to gender segregation at work. Museums and environmental organizations have the fewest Republicans, gas pipelines and mines have the most Republicans. Historians are most likely to be Democrats, drill operators are the most likely to be Republicans. Political Segregation is largest among the politically active and those with more market power (senior executives). Republicans experience higher exposure to Democrats at work: the average Republican’s coworkers are 50% Democratic versus 32% Republican for the average Democrat. nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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Many possible ideas to improve community engagement and DC construction, but there is still little indication of any slump in hyperscaler/DC construction. It's a lot of bad polling and screaming on X, but the rate of construction is increasing if anything.
Free ideas for data center companies: - Agree to build 100 homes for every data center & sell that at below market cost/give them away to locals. - commit to hiring & paying 500 residents to do community work (arts, health care, community improvement) for life of the center.
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This is over 53 @Scaramucci s. It's probably a record! No controversies, not even a story about swallowing over 35 sticks of gum per day. Less hated than Kellyanne Conway. Young enough people will forget and she can rebrand quickly. Good for her, actually.
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Since the 1980s, it's been a cliche for middle-class to say they're going to Disneyland/world *only after* a big success or💰windwall. It's never been considered cheap. Even tho 30hrs of two parks costs less than many 2hr concerts. And SoCal residents can go 200x/yr for $599 🤷‍♀️
This is downstream of the same reason Disney can raise prices eternally for the parks and middle or even upper middle class people get frustrated that they can’t afford it: it’s a Veblen good and also something that touches on the core subconscious parts of American culture.
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Cutting Miami out of Florida is a crime.
genuinely the answer is just H right? New York City Washington DC Pittsburgh Philadelphia And the you get various types of nature eg beaches in Ocean City/Virginia Beach, or the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, etc
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Egypt's solar eclipse next year may be more epic. Still can't top what the Artemis crew saw, those very lucky few :(
FYI, we’re exactly 19 years away from an insane solar eclipse in the United States. August 12th, 2045 will feature an epic totality path lined with great viewing spots. Parts of the southeast will be under totality for six minutes!
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This is a common complaint among moderate politicos, yet like age & term limits, few prioritize changing the status quo. Lazy? We know now that open primaries barely help because it's a turnout problem. Top-2, RCV, etc systems help, but how many really push for em? Very few
💯I'm increasingly convinced that partisan primaries and gerrymandering are the original sin of our broken politics. Crazy fanatics dominate primary voting, and then gerrymandering carries the broken candidate over the finish line. And then we all hate the Congress it produces.
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This frequency is about an F# at 1460Hz szynalski.com/tone#1460,v0.5… That's right below the nails on a chalkboard freq that pierces our ears most. Even if they're technically under the dB limit, it'll sound louder. How stupid are they? A simple wall can easily block this noise.
🦔Turn your sound on for this one. This is what it sounds like to live next to an AI data center, 24 hours a day. In Dowagiac, Michigan, residents sued after a facility run by Hyperscale Data ran around the clock at 78 decibels outside their homes. The company offered to buy their houses rather than fix the noise. One family has lived on that street for nearly a century. My Take This isn't one town with one bad facility. Microsoft faces a class-action in Wisconsin over data center noise residents can hear a mile and a half from the property line. In Virginia, one-third of data centers sit within 200 feet of homes. Noise from thousands of servers can hit 96 decibels, and diesel backup generators reach 105, which is a jet overhead. Residents report headaches, nausea, and sleep problems. Property values near this kind of infrastructure drop up to 20%. The company response in Michigan was to offer to buy the homes rather than quiet the facility, homes that families spent decades in, priced against a corporate buyout. Water in Oregon, wells in Georgia, ratepayer costs in Louisiana, river water in California, and now noise in Michigan and Wisconsin. None of this was in the brochure when these projects got approved. Closed-loop cooling and proper sound barriers exist and would solve most of this, but they cost more, so the companies skip them and the neighbors lose sleep and equity instead. Hedgie🤗
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One super frustrating thing is the uncritical acceptance of CBO estimates that US interest rates will surge over the next 30yrs despite plummeting for the last 40. Real interest/economic burden is never mentioned. And the CBO is always wrong! They're always FCUKn wrong, yo!
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