Andy Coley

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

@grok who will win the 2026FIFA football World Cup? One word answer.

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

@hamptonism Try Sydney

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

@OwenRask Agree. Current CGT will crush the start up ecosystem in Aus. Teams already move overseas for capital and talent, this will expedite the move. Also Sov Wealth Fund is crucial, if they add to their tax coffers this will be a complete waste of a nation building opportunity

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

@elonmusk @Starlink Fly @qatarairways with @Starlink the connection was insane. So fast and no issues, was better than my home internet connection

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

@Backstays @lexfridman Just recommended the same thing

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

@TommiPedruzzi @NavalismHQ Claude

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

@nikitabier podcasts on X suck… if your serious about this channel, it needs huge basic improvements. Just basic UX features would go a real long way. Tried to listen to the recent Tucker pod in instalments but gave up and went to another channel.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

It annoys me that so many people are under the impression that this guy, Steven Bradbury, is some subpar goober who lucked his way into gold.

That could not be further from the truth.

This is one of the most satisfying victories in the history of the Olympics if you know the full backstory.

This medal final was during his fourth Olympics, in Salt Lake City in 2002.

Earlier in his career, he was among the best athletes in the world in this specific event, the 1000 meter short-track men's speed skate.

But despite his talent, he just had some of the shittiest luck in the sport. We're talking a decade of shit luck.

In the '94 Winter Olympics, he was considered the odds-on favorite to take gold, but he fell in his heat after getting illegally pushed by an opponent (who was later disqualified). He didn't get a re-do. That was it. He got shoved by some asshole, and his Olympics was over.

Then in the '98 Winter Olympics, he was a favorite to at least medal in the same event but got caught up in a collision that wasn't his fault and failed to advance.

In 1994, he got his thigh sliced open by a competitor's skate during a race, which required 111 stitches and 18 months of recovery time.

In 2000, he broke his neck during training because a skater in front of him fell and tripped him up. That required a bunch of screws and plates being inserted into his skull and back and chest.

And doctors told him that he should stop skating. But he didn't wanna give up. It meant too much to him.

So, there he was in Salt Lake City in 2002, past his prime, a walking erector set, going up against opponents who were faster and younger and in their prime.

He manages to win his heat and advance to the quarterfinal but then has the shit luck (yet again) of having to go up against the best two athletes in the quarterfinal and only the top two advance.

He finishes third and thinks: "Damn, I gave it my best shot." But then, the second place finisher is disqualified, so Bradbury gets to advance to the semifinal.

Now, at this point, he's thinking: Well, shit, I'm not as fast as these younger guys, and I got a bad habit of getting taken out by crashes that aren't my fault.

So, he consults with the Australian national coach, Ann Zhang, and they decide that he should hang back from the pack and hope the pack crashes.

That is a perfectly valid strategy. If you crash, you lose, but speed skaters risk crashing to gain an advantage in order to win.

It may not feel exciting, but it is a valid strategy and just as risky: avoid crashes entirely and hope that pays off.

It paid off in the semifinal: the pack, including the defending Olympic champion, jostled too much and crashed. Bradbury wins and advances.

So, he's improbably in the final and takes the same approach, and it works: the entire pack jostles too much and crashes, and Bradbury's risk of hanging back pays off.

This victory was not some un-athletic schlub lucking his way into gold.

It was a journeyman athlete who never gave up and played smart after a career of shitty luck and finally got his due after it being snatched away from him so many times.

Hands down, one of my favorite Olympics stories.

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

@godofprompt Claude

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

@hamptonism Exercise

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

@pitdesi *This is good

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

@businessbarista Claude

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

@maxmarchione And ironically, the other Tiger, Tony the Tiger, wouldn’t stop going on about how great they are…

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

@jspujji DECK

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

⚡️One of the chief theories behind Spain's power blackout this week is that the Iberian grid had an "inertia" problem.
So... what on earth is inertia and why does it matter??
If only someone had written a long thread about this a while back...
👇

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

Twinkle twinkle little star…

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A small section of the Andromeda Galaxy, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope, showing more than 100 million stars.

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

This Kinesin has some Rizz

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This clip shows a kinesin, a motor protein that moves molecules around the cell. It's powered by ATP and transport molecules along microtube filaments at a rate of 2000 nm/s

[🎞️ “The Inner Life of the Cell”]

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

@antic2000 The AI is training on you (and any other hotel). If ppl respond, they understand what worked well as it was successful and that gets added to the algorithm and it goes again but more informed and better

[Andy Coley @ColeyAndy]

@simonahac Yes! See the flag there now 🇰🇷 … missed that