Mugged Van Driessen

Duende fracker. Selling popcorn to Perfect vs. Good, fight of the century.

[𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann]

Both left and right challenges to the founding "stem from a form of pessimism—but that neither is quite pessimistic enough... we ought to be absolutists about right and wrong, but relativists about praise and blame."
https://t.co/P00ajX0GHC

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

70% of Jewish voters believe we should condition or end aid to Israel

[Lisan al Gaib @scaling01]

New Misalignment Report by OpenAI where GPT-6 Astra quietly did about 40% less work on coding tasks framed as safety research than on identical tasks framed as capabilities research

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

Republicans are currently divided on the question of “Who to throw under the bus?”

Democrats are currently divided on the question of “Which hand should we overplay?”

[Center for Immigration Studies @CIS_org]

📉 NEW DATA: Since January 2025 when President Trump took office, data shows an unprecedented 2.9 MILLION DECLINE in the foreign-born population — naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, long-term temporary visitors, and illegal immigrants.

https://t.co/UJQWD7qcjP

[Conor Rogers @conorjrogers]

Debbie Ann and Giancarlo Paolucci, 32 and 35, pictured here outside their home in Forest Hills in 1986.

[Mugged Van Driessen @EllerbyJustin]

#13!

[Edmund @Kulambq]

Italo Calvino's 14 principles for defining a classic.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

America was supposed to be Art Deco.

The lobby of 450 Sutter Street, San Francisco, opened in 1929. We don't appreciate this architecture enough.

[fedaykin reepicheep @mauddweeb]

Me and all my boys rn

[Michael Kofman @KofmanMichael]

Regarding Russian conscripts, this is not the case. The overwhelming percentage of Russian forces fighting in this war are men well over 30 who accepted service contracts for money. They were not conscripted, or mobilized. For more on this topic: https://t.co/YF6aIj7qDE

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

Something that seems true about the culture war is that the right has fully internalized the fact that America now has two cultures. The left hasn't, so they haven't figured out how to be liberal and humane toward their opponents, which hamstrings everything that makes them strong

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

Screaming

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

It just seems implausible this is what we are made of, essentially, nanotechnology about a billion years beyond anything we can design or make ourselves.

[Claudia Ulrich @Ulrich1976c]

Sexual reproduction thus began not as reproduction, but as cooperative DNA repair in the face of death.

The cell was now diploid. It had twice as much DNA, required twice as much energy, and the next incomplete division threatened absolute genetic chaos.

[Mugged Van Driessen @EllerbyJustin]

How romantic!!!

[Claudia Ulrich @Ulrich1976c]

Sexual reproduction thus began not as reproduction, but as cooperative DNA repair in the face of death.

The cell was now diploid. It had twice as much DNA, required twice as much energy, and the next incomplete division threatened absolute genetic chaos.

[William Aronstein @WilliamAronste3]

In some cases English has even more than two registers or two words; there is the Anglo-Saxon (Germanic) register, the Romance register (from French), a Latinized register (derived from literary Latin), and a Scandinavian register (from Norse and Danish). An example would be wrath (Saxon), rage (French), ire (Latin), and anger (Norse). So rich!

[Mugged Van Driessen @EllerbyJustin]

https://t.co/8QgSxHhQxj

[Mugged Van Driessen @EllerbyJustin]

Sorry, this has been adjudicated and settled by Katt Williams. Link below.

[Bethel McGrew @BMcGrewvy]

I'm not sharing footage of the guy who got mauled by a tiger but am I to understand there were with men with guns present who had the ability to shoot the tiger and...didn't? What are we doing here?

[Jen 💚 @JenKatWrites]

wait sorry, I found one exception, this man has to continue working, for his bird wife

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Aerospace Engineer here.

Airplanes fly in curved routes because of the Coriolis effect from the Earths rotation.

You will notice that routes south of the equator have an arc that points the other way.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.