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[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The graph says "very very very very rarely".
Retardito Fabiano can't read his own graphs.

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[АС @AlexeyChekel]

Объясните мне пожалуйста, почему все, ВСЕ, В-С-Е!!! девушки/женщины/девочки/тётеньки/бабушки любят Валеру Меладзе?

[Артём Дерягин @DerArto]

Этому шедевру немого кинематографа я ставлю 10 из 10!

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The crypto fad is starting to peter out as many of those fanciful young adults who like to play w/computers in their mothers' basements are now getting enamored with AI.

You need another infatuation to displace an infatuation: successore novo vincitur omnis amor.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Want to know what the apocalypse will be like?

Look no further than the terrifying art of John Martin, a long forgotten 19th century painter you've probably never heard of...

[Andrzej Kukla @Mathinity_]

Even though I'm certain that this identity is true (3 proofs in this 🧵), I still can't believe it's true!
[1/4]

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

*taps table*

usa
usa
USA
USA
YOU ESS AYE
YOU ESS AYE

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

For the new Mission Impossible film, Tom Cruise drove a bike off a cliff and landed with a parachute.

Is it his wildest stunt? Here are 6 contenders:

1/ MI: Dead Reckoning (2023): To prep for the cliff jump, Cruise did 13,000 motorcross jumps and landed the actual stunt 6x.

[Антон Щерба 🔗⏺️👌 @LLLepba]

На что пойдёте в кино?

Лайк, если Ретвит, если
Жопка 🤔 Паровоз

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

Napoleon was a master orator

But we would NOT know this without Balzac

In 1838, Balzac went through all of Napoleon speeches

And saved his best insights in a book

10 bangers from the king👇🏻

1/ "I found the Crown of France lying in the gutter, and picked it up with my sword."

[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

Students at NYU asked the creators of South Park the million-dollar question:

“What makes a good story?”

They gave one of the best explanations of story I’ve heard:

“If we can take the beats of your outline, and the words ‘and then’ belong between those beats… you got something pretty boring.

What should happen between every beat you’ve written down is the words ‘therefore’ or ‘but.’”

They go on to say, “That gives you the causation between each beat, and that makes a story.”

Point 1:

There’s an idea in storytelling called ‘Promise, Progress, Payoff.’

Essentially, a story is a neverending cycle of promises that are paid off over the span of the story.

It’s a cycle of expectation and resolution. Cause and effect. Conflict and progress.

Point 2:

A story isn’t a bunch of random events thrown together.

A story is a series of but / because / therefore moments.

A famous example:

• Harry discovers he's a wizard. Because of this, he goes to learn magic at Hogwarts.
• But then he learns Voldemort wants to kill him and rule the world.
• Therefore, he must find a way to defeat him.

Point 3:

‘And’ implies a simple continuation.

‘But / Therefore’ give prior events meaning through causation.

‘But’ implies conflict. ‘Therefore’ implies progress.

I’m reminded of a Hemingway quote:

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”

Great writing is intentional. It doesn’t wander. It builds upon itself.

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I hope you enjoyed that! If so, follow @nathanbaugh27. I study the best storytellers ever and share what I learn.

[Colin Keeley @ColinKeeley]

Peter Attia is the #1 longevity doctor.

He charges $150,000 a year to be his patient.

His 13-steps for a long healthy life:

[Byzantine Emporia @byzantinemporia]

Was Machiavelli right about anything? (No)

Thread.

[АС @AlexeyChekel]

@hey_lysss Succession final episode?

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

This is cinema.

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

Our paper making neural networks more modular, sparse and interpretable by penalizing neuron length is now on arXiv. Less is more! @ZimingLiu11 https://t.co/D4SYe2GCjX