Dana Batali

Former RenderMan, Pixar, Princeton. (moved to bsky)

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

Why are Trump and Vance publicly railroading Zelensky? It’s gross and it feels like they’re carrying someone else’s water.

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

Mr. President, Ukraine did not “start” this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.🇺🇸🇺🇦

“Russia Invades Ukraine in Largest European Attack Since WWII” @FoxNews (February 24, 2022) https://t.co/ra8R9PI9oj

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Thousands of Danish citizens are launching an effort to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.

They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

[Jon Lovett @jonlovett]

When you cut cancer research, you stop doing cancer research

When you cut meals on wheels, the wheels do not bring the meals

That's what happens, it's not a mystery

The Bush and Trump tax cuts are the main driver of our debt to GDP ratio, it is not caused by bunsen burners and petri dishes and malaria nets and school lunches

The government itself is basically an insurance company with a military, and DOGE cannot solve for reality, which is that hard choices about taxes and spending require democracy, which isn't as flashy or fast or entertaining, and is easy to dismiss by foolish people who take for granted the stability and prosperity democracy makes possible

God bless

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

The more I think about it, the more I think 2013-era morality is pretty much correct:

* free speech good
* starting companies and making good products good
* monopolies bad, vendor lock-in bad
* democracy good
* greed bad
* trying to achieve national security through oppressing people bad
* cosmopolitan humanitarian values, caring about faraway people, etc good

Things we've "learned" since then have been harmful more than helpful

[Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific]

Seamus Heaney, My Father, and Me - The Atlantic

This is the story of who I am and how I got here https://t.co/xmEf0UtK3U

[Marie Gluesenkamp Perez @MGPforCongress]

Every housing unit we build lowers the cost of finding a place to live and returns agency to the middle class. In Congress, I’m a cosponsor of the Yes In My Backyard Act (YIMBY) bill, which will prioritize federal dollars for communities that reduce the red tape limiting housing construction. I’m also a champion of getting shop class back in junior high. We’ll fix our housing shortage by reducing red tape, building more housing units, and ensuring young people learn the skills they need to build homes right here in Southwest Washington.

[Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific]

The morning after Pearl Harbor, my father joined every other man at Amherst College and walked into town to enlisted. I once asked him what he'd done next. He looked at me in mild confusion: "I went to class"

That's what we'll do Wednesday - we'll go to class.

[Jeff Jackson @JeffJacksonNC]

This is now the most expensive Attorney General race in American history.

Here’s what that actually means:

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

1/ Alright, friends. It’s starting, and I want to get ahead of it. Four years later, can’t believe we are doing this, but… ELECTION FRAUD DEBUNKING MEGA THREAD, PART II

We’ll have a lot of re-reruns from 2020 (original thread below). Send me any you see. I will investigate everything with an open mind, and flag legit evidence. Let’s begin… #Election2024

https://t.co/S6uaiz7WO8

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Well worth 100,000 retweets.

This is amazing and needs to be seen by every single person in America.

Worth not just tweeting but retweeting every single day until Election Day. https://t.co/R71xDGBknf

[Markus Deserno @MarkusDeserno]

A lovely greeting to y'all! I have a new physics story I'd like to tell——about the relation between Statistical Physics and Quantum Mechanics! Or: why is Quantum Mechanics so in-your-face when it's cold, and why does it fade when you heat up?

Ready? Then buckle up!

1/28

[David Corn @DavidCornDC]

Parents of teenagers everywhere are cheering.

[Akiyoshi Kitaoka @AkiyoshiKitaoka]

There appear to be spirals of light green or light blue. Actually, they are identical (r = 0, g = 255, b = 150). (Munker illusion)

[Cam Harless @camharless]

every american president, but they're all cool and they all sport a mullet

46. Joe Biden

[Tyler Sloan @quorumetrix]

I’ve made this video as an intuition pump for the density of #synapses in the #brain. This volume ~ grain of sand, has >3.2 million synapses (orange cubes). Peeling them away leaves only inputs on 2 #neurons. Zooming in, we see the synapses localized to the dendritic spines.
#b3d

[Brian Douglas @brianbdouglas]

I wrote a multi-part blog on autonomous navigation. It follows my Tech Talks on the subject so if you prefer blogs to videos, this is for you! https://t.co/8ES1Y3Iexv
The first 2 posts are out with more to follow each week.

[Dana Batali @DanaBatali]

Debirdify:

https://t.co/XbApTwyWmH

[Dana Batali @DanaBatali]

@elonmusk @SamHarrisOrg Struggling not to respond to God complexities