Charles Perry

chicago nashvillian spaceships mozillian | research advisor for @dscout

[Jon Bruner @JonBruner]

This is a CT scan of Heinz’s new ketchup cap. It represents a $1.2 million engineering investment over 8 years. Here’s why it’s significant… 🧵

[Alie Jules @aliejules]

Midjourney vs. Dalle-3 vs. Adobe Firefly

Same prompt for all.

10 spicy examples.

1.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Climate debates are often stuck in 2010. But there's no longer a tradeoff between economic growth and stopping climate change. In fact, thanks to technology, the two goals now go together!

https://t.co/ota0G4VEhI

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

I'm forever thinking of this Reddit thread: "What did a Roman parking lot look like?"

[Charles Perry @CharlesUpTop]

@Noahpinion Verner Vinge is my favorite author nobody’s heard of. The feints within feints within feints, the moments of catharsis, the epic exterior and interior world building - seems an opportune time for a series.

[Paul Couvert @itsPaulAi]

ChatGPT is just a single star in the AI galaxy.

More than 1,000 new AI tools were released last week.

Here are 8 insane AI websites that will save you hours of work:

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I tried and failed to write a version of this for more than a year.

It's about a lot of things—virtuous hypocrisy on the left, post-material nonsense on the right, and the scourge of a phenomenon I'm calling "front-yard theater" in American politics.

https://t.co/2wUMgDSyJG

[Steph Smith @stephsmithio]

We’re officially 10% through the year, but that means we still have 90% left to create something remarkable.

Not sure what to build?

Here are 12 big ideas from partners at @a16z, ranging from games to compliance to healthcare to space, and of course... lots of AI opportunities.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In Kyiv, life in wartime has continued on with shocking regularity. “Stores and bars were open, and there was virtually no sign that Kyiv was under attack,” Dave Eggers writes, of a recent trip. “Which it was.”
https://t.co/pqkExvAPlg

[Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli & Brix @bunsenbernerbmd]

The advice in this thread will make you unrecognizable in 30 days.
You owe it to yourself to read it. Trust us.
🧵

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

One painting from every year of the 20th century, in chronological order.

1900: Sunbeams by Vilhelm Hammershøi

1/100

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

1/OK, by popular request, here is a thread on how to have a friend group in your 30s.

There are lots of things I'm not good at, like remembering people's names, debugging code, and foosball. But having a friend group is one thing I am quite good at.

Here are my secrets...

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Everything in this image that doesn't have spikes coming off of it is a galaxy.

Every. Single. Dot.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Next time you get the urge to claim that modern macroeconomics can't predict anything, remember this thread, where Olivier Blanchard -- one of the leading figures of modern macroeconomics -- used a simple model to predict the inflation of 2021-22.

[The National @TheNational]

Light Years last night in Lisbon was magic. Obrigado.

[bob's burgers urbanist 🐿️ @yhdistyminen]

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities

[Alasdair Beckett-King @MisterABK]

Fascinating cultural differences

[Heidi Stevens @HeidiStevens13]

Holy. Shit. What a brilliant, horrifying cover.

[Charles Perry @CharlesUpTop]

The pink hats didn’t give me pause in the same way, but if they had I’d be hesitant to admit it. The rest resonates.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

During the Bush and Obama eras I felt like I was very much in tune with, and part of, coastal urban educated liberal American culture.

Since the Trump era, I've felt increasingly alienated from that culture.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Today, Elon tweeted this diagram by @SwipeWright, which sums up how a lot of people (including me) feel. Then a bunch of ppl responded w/ graphs showing that Republican politicians have moved farther right in that time than Dems have moved left. Here's what I think is happening: