Dan Karlin

Marketer / Dad / Husband

[Dan Karlin @KarlinDan]

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[Dan Karlin @KarlinDan]

@WhatsApp I have no access to my account all of a sudden. Please help!

[Dan Karlin @KarlinDan]

@WhatsApp can you please tell me what happened to my account? All of a sudden I have no access. Thank you!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Congratulations on the award! Well-deserved.

[Dan Karlin @KarlinDan]

@gmiller does this gun only have 5 chambers?

[Geoffrey Miller @gmiller]

Tldr: most AI leaders, developers, & safety experts now understand that if we develop Artificial General Intelligence, we're playing Russian roulette with our entire species.

The main disagreement is whether the revolver we're pointing at our head has 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 bullets.

[Dan Karlin @KarlinDan]

@SahilBloom Interested

[Asra Nomani @AsraNomani]

Hi there @SusanSarandon, this is my mom, my dad and me on the rail trail in Morgantown, West by God Virginia. Let me tell you what it means to be Muslim in America.

First, your backstory: At an anti-Israel protest in NYC, you just said, "There are a lot of people that are afraid, that are afraid of being Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country.”

Let me give you “a taste” of what it “feels like” to be a Muslim in America:

✅🇺🇸 My dad didn’t have to become a second-class indentured servant to one of the many tyrants of Muslim countries that use immigrants from India, like my family, as essential slaves. In 1975, after getting his PhD at Rutgers, he was about to go to Libya — a Muslim country — led by a Muslim, Moammar Qhadafi, to work like a servant with a PhD for a wealthy dictator…but then the phone rang one day and I picked it up…

✅🇺🇸 It was West Virginia University calling, and my dad got a job as an assistant professor of nutrition. He got rejected first for tenure but being Muslim in America meant he got a right like everybody got — his right to appeal and guess what? He won and he became a full professor. That’s what it means to be Muslim in America. You get your full rights, like @DrZuhdiJasser has wished for his family in the Muslim nation of Syria, where a Muslim dictator destroys the lives of Muslims.

✅🇺🇸 My mom? Being Muslim in America meant she got to live FREE with the wind in her hair, like @AlinejadMasih fights for women in the Muslim nation of Iran to be able to enjoy.

✅🇺🇸 And what did living free mean for my mom as a Muslim in America? It meant in 1981 she got to start a business on High Street in downtown Morgantown, called Ain’s International. That is something that @miss9afi wished women could have had the right to do in the Muslim nation of Saudi Arabia. But guess what? That entrepreneurship and financial independence is denied Muslim women in so many Muslim countries.

✅🇺🇸 That summer my mom started her business, I got on a plane at Pittsburgh airport for Tahlequah, Oklahama, and I went away from home at 16 for a National Science Foundation camp — without a male chaperone, a right denied Muslim women and girls in Saudi for so long.

✅🇺🇸 In another “taste” of being Muslim in America? My family got a pathway to citizenship. You think the Muslim dictatorship of Qatar allows a pathway to citizenship for Muslim slaves, servants or Palestinian Muslims? Hell no. The Muslim Al-Thani family just buys citizenship for Muslim soccer stars from countries in Africa to steal World Cup wins. But otherwise it treats non-Qatari Muslims like slaves. America? My family waited, took the test, studied the constitution and we are citizens — hallelujah!

✅🇺🇸 I’m going to fast forward because this is just a “taste” of what it means to be Muslim in America. In 2002, I fled Pakistan with a souvenir that could have gotten me imprisoned or killed: a baby growing inside of me, a wedding ring not upon my hand. Sharia law makes sex out of marriage a crime in Muslim countries like Pakistan. My body? The mullah’s tyranny. And even dare to be atheist like @YasMohammedxx? It’s also a crime punishable by death — in Muslim countries but not in America!

✅🇺🇸 Where do you think I came to give birth to my baby in safety and security, without shame? West by God Virginia in the United States of America — where we enjoy equal rights as Muslim AmeriCANs, not AmeriCANTs.

This is a “taste” of life for a Muslim family in America. Please don’t minimize the experience of Jewish Americans by sanitizing the hell that it is for Muslims living in Muslim countries and vilifying America for the life — and freedoms — she offers Muslims like my family. Go, live like a Muslim woman in a Muslim country.

You will come back to America and kiss the land beneath your feet. 🇺🇸

[Muriel Blaive, PhD @MurielBlaivePhD]

Yes, you are not dreaming, this is in the New York Times:

"The evidence is now in, and it is startling. The school closures that took 50 million children out of classrooms at the start of the pandemic may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education. It also set student progress in math and reading back by two decades and widened the achievement gap that separates poor and wealthy children. ... Economists are predicting that this generation, with such a significant educational gap, will experience diminished lifetime earnings and become a significant drag on the economy."

Good for you, dear @NewYorkTimesRP. You might investigate next why the people who said as much from the beginning are still banned or shadow banned on social media. Oh, and an apology would be quite appropriate, too, to all the people you relentlessly belittled and patronized for 3,5 years and whom you now see were right.

https://t.co/vAFuNMkh7F

[Dan Karlin @KarlinDan]

@girdley All the TV and movie ideas are good but you cannot use subtitles.

The absolute best is to consistently (at least 5 hours per week) be in a social setting where only Spanish is spoken: dinner, drinks, sports team, work. This is the only real way to level up.

[Dan Karlin @KarlinDan]

@mhp_guy I've had so many incidents like this. They never righted the wrong tho. Hopefully this guy gets his act together. You handled with such patience hats off.

[Frank McCormick @CBHeresy]

My scary classroom social experiment demonstrating how tyrannies arise from democracies:

I gave a bunch of extra credit tickets to the first few students to arrive in class, then everyone else received 1-2 tickets.

The kids that came into class last were outraged by the “injustice” of those that came first getting a greater reward.

There were no rules or directions for this day in class. I just told them I’d act as an enforcer of whatever they decided to do in the 47 minutes.

The girl circled in red- Emily- was a genius.

She used her charisma and charm to court the majority of her peers that had less coupons, and played off their resentment of the minority that had earned more tickets for arriving to class early.

In the allotted time she convinced her peers that if they voted to give her absolute power, she would confiscate the 40+ coupons held by the minority and distribute them equally.

The minority of students were frustrated, but powerless against the majority vote.

Emily was elected to a “supreme ruler” position, and as promised she confiscated all of the tickets from the minority of students that arrived to class first.

That’s when things got interesting.

She kept the vast majority of tickets for herself, and distributed a few to some of her friends.

It was a microcosm of what has happened historically time and time again, and the danger our republic faces.

I asked the students to write a reflection on how they now viewed unrestrained majority-rules democracy, and their opinions has definitely changed from the day prior.

[Dan Karlin @KarlinDan]

This strikes me as remarkable and heart felt

[Nuseir Yassin @nasdaily]

Personal Thoughts:
(not for everyone, feel free to skip)

For the longest time, I struggled with my identity.

A Palestinian kid born inside Israel. Like…wtf.

Many of my friends refuse to this day to say the word “Israel” and call themselves “Palestinian” only.

But since I was 12, that did not make sense to me.

So I decided to mix the two and become a “Palestinian-Israeli”

I thought this term reflected who I was.
Palestinian first. Israeli second.

But after recent events, I started to think.
And think.
And think.
And then my thoughts turned to anger.

I realized that if Israel were to be “invaded” like that again, we would not be safe. To a terrorist invading Israel, all citizens are targets.

900 Israelis died so far. More than 40 of them are Arabs. Killed by other Arabs. And even 2 Thai people died too.

And I do not want to live under a Palestinian government.

Which means I only have one home, even if I’m not Jewish:

Israel.

That’s where all my family lives. That’s where I grew up. That’s the country I want to see continue to exist so I can exist.

Palestine should exist too as an independent state. And I hope to see the country thrive and become less extreme and more prosperous. I love Palestine and have invested in Palestine.

But it’s not my home.

So from today forward,
I view myself as an “Israeli-Palestinian”.

Israeli first.
Palestinian second.

Sometimes it takes a shock like this to see so clearly.

[Dan Karlin @KarlinDan]

Fantastic idea. Is it feasible? Like how would you collect the irradiated material then produce the batteries?

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

How to make a battery that lasts 5000 years in three steps

1: Take used graphite shielding from a nuclear power plant.
2: Scrape off the layer of carbon-14 thats formed via neutron bombardment
3: Compress this along with carbon-12 into a diamond.

Diamonds can convert radiation directly into electrical current, something first proposed by the University of Bristol in 2016.

The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years. It decays by emitting a low-energy electron which bounces around the surrounding carbon-12 diamond crystal lattice generating electron-hole pairs, which creates a small electrical current. From the carbon-14 you get usable energy and nickel-14, a stable isotope.

One gram of carbon-14 would produce about 15 joules of energy per-day at an operating voltage of 2V - for reference, an IoT mesh network device that sends 12 bytes every hour consumes around 0.10 joules per day. A single one-gram diamond battery could power 150 mesh network nodes for 5000 years before the power output drops off substantially.

There are 250,000 tons of irradiated graphite shielding containing carbon-14 from the worlds nuclear power facilities today.

You can also tune the output power by choosing different radioactive isotopes - a Russian team developed a prototype battery using nickel-63 as the radioactive isotope and achieved a power density of 10uW/cm^3 output and specific energy of 3.3Wh/kg - about 100x lower power output than lithium-ion batteries, but over the 100-year usable lifetime it contains 10x more total energy.

Nuclear diamond batteries have emerged from the world of academic research into a startup based in Switzerland, @ndbtechnology, building chips that provide ~100uW of power that last decades.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

I had 2 Moderna vaccinations and a booster and was hospitalized for acute pericarditis last year. I was afraid for my life.

The medical community minimized vaccine myopericarditis in young men early on. This we now know was a serious mistake.

Back in those days, CDC would have still recommended further boosters for me, despite my pericarditis.

Because I wasn't insane, I didn't get any additional shots. But some companies did mandate additional shots, based on CDC advice, even to men who experienced myopericarditis.

Thankfully this advice has shifted. But this did not happen until after innumerable avoidable vaccine injuries to young men.

These mistakes undermined trust in public health. I now trust public health messaging much less. The vaccines were a godsend for older, at-risk people. The data still show that, even if there is an ever-growing controversy about the effectiveness of boosters, which the public health establishment refuses to test using randomized controlled trial designs.

But the CDC's messaging for young adults continues to lack nuance and undermines trust in public health authorities and harms young people. Nowhere else in the world are the booster recommendations as aggressive--and evidence-free--as they are from the CDC.

I don’t know if my pericarditis was caused by the vaccine, but it is suspicious. I continue to read and learn, and I believe that for older people vaccination might be very important. This despite dissenting views by pro-vaccination figures like Paul Offit, who suggests that even older people should not get boosted.

For me, it’s clear that my COVID vaccinations almost certainly caused more harm than good, and I regret having received them.

I am reading to learn whether in healthy young adult men, any vaccination makes sense.

It is incredibly disappointing to learn that the vaccines that I assured people were safe were not safe, and that I was wrong.

When I was told in comments that the vaccine might have been responsible for my pericarditis, I blocked everyone who suggested it.

I was emotional and closed-minded and wrong.

I should have done better and questioned more and I am sorry.

[Dan Karlin @KarlinDan]

@BrockHBriggs People say cherish it and if you translate that to direct language they are saying exactly what you are saying: I was at wits end for the first 3-6-9 months because the change in lifestyle is so abrupt and extreme. You'll be fine. It gets really good when they hit about 3.

[Dan Karlin @KarlinDan]

Very telling stat about the sentiment of adult Americans

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

The 18-44 age bucket is shocking….

Within two decades.

[Dan Karlin @KarlinDan]

This is nuts.

[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

Philadelphia is completely out of control.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Have you heard dis information?

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

As President, I will repeal Lyndon Johnson’s Executive Order 11246 which mandates race-based quotas. Every Republican since Johnson had the opportunity to do it. I’ll do it on Day 1 without apology. We will also reduce federal employees by 75%, shut down redundant agencies, & rescind >50% of federal regulations which fail to meet the West Virginia v. EPA standard. This is the single most powerful lever to unleash the U.S. economy. All that’s required is a U.S. President with sufficient spine & knowledge to act. @SharylAttkisson

[Dan Karlin @KarlinDan]

@DanielChesley I'm down