Revengeance_Day

Systems engineer, incrementalist, hard-nosed optimist.

[faemoose @Faemoose]

16 years old.
Fully paid off Costco hotdog.
It's not "parents money".
It's not luck.
It's consistency.
It's discipline.
I grind EVERYDAY to live this lifestyle.

[The Missing Data Depot @data_depot]

A 7-year study of 3,900 social science papers found that only ~50% could be replicated.

There was significant variation across fields, however.

While more than 60% of political science & econ papers were replicated, only ~25% of sociology & 0% of education papers were.

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

i was worried this completely asinine but undeniably entertaining controversy was about to die out. thank you, elon, for pouring moron-juice on the dumpster fire

[Revengeance_Day @Revengeance_Day]

@JamesSurowiecki He turns away last second instead of going for a header because he realizes defender is winding up for a blind kick!

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

Well. It has turned out to be embarrassing.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

JD Vance one year ago today:

“I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents"

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

You could start by walking down the hall. See why your boss keeps pardoning people convicted of money laundering, wire fraud, tax evasion, and securities fraud.

[Josh Balk @joshbalk]

The pork industry lost with voters. Lost at the Supreme Court. So they turned to Congress—and got the "Save Our Bacon" Act buried in the House Farm Bill. It's the biggest rollback of animal welfare protections in U.S. history. A thread. 🧵

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours. Here is the list:

10:15 PM - Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016
10:15 PM - Says Obama worked with CIA to overthrow Trump
10:15 PM - Reposts tweet saying Obama is a “traitor” and that he should be arrested
10:22 PM - Attacks dominion voting systems for 2020 election saying they switched votes
10:22 PM - Says Fulton County, GA had their 2020 fraud exposed (there was none)
10:23 PM - Accuses Obama of personally making $120 million from Obamacare (wtf?)
10:23 PM - Cites quack lawyer Sidney Powell on the 2020 election
10:24 PM - Posts fake JFK Jr account that says Obama wiretapped Trump Tower
10:27 PM - Demands Senator Mark Kelly resign
10:29 PM - Claims neither Biden nor Harris were in charge of the Biden admin
10:29 PM - Attacks Fulton County, GA again
10:29 PM - Posts Fox News clip of Rep Ro Khanna
10:30 PM - Demands Jack Smith be arrested
10:30 PM - Accuses Obama, Clinton, and Comey of treason
10:39 PM - Reposts a tweet from a MAGA account saying they have secret intel proving Clinton and Obama committed crimes
10:39 PM - Reposts a MAGA tweet saying Hillary Clinton should be sent to Haiti
10:40 PM - Says the DOJ is “working hard” to arrest his enemies for treason
10:40 PM - Reposts a tweet attacking his own DOJ and Todd Blanche for no arrests of political enemies
10:40 PM - Posts a TikTok video of people stealing from a convenience store
10:41 PM - Posts a TikTok of someone taking a Door Dash order
10:41 PM - accuses Obama, John Brennan, and Clinton of sedition and treason again
10:42 PM - Posts a video of a man on CCTV footage knocking over food a waiter was carrying
10:47 PM - Calls Obama the “most DEMONIC FORCE” in American politics
10:47 PM - Posts a tweet from Mike Flynn saying 2020 election wasn’t fair
10:49 PM - Attacks Dominion again claiming they stole the 2020 election (it wasn’t)
10:51 PM - Reposts a fake Charlie Kirk account that claimed Obama blocked Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted
10:53 PM - Claims Obama was part of Hillary Clinton’s emails in some way
11:28 PM - Claims a senior Democrat just testified under oath that Senator Adam Schiff leaked classified information
1:13 AM - Attacks the New York Times for reporting on the reflecting pool

This man is clearly not well.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Fukuyama said it before I did, and Eric Hoffer said it long before both of us, in his 1951 book The True Believer.

[Tim Hirschel-Burns @TimH_B]

However dumb you think the process for destroying USAID was, it was dumber.

This is from Nicholas Enrich's new book Into the Wood Chipper, describing a meeting with Trump-appointed USAID leadership *after* they had largely gutted the agency

[Eric Levitz @EricLevitz]

Social media undermined expert authority, democratized public debate, and steered individuals into evermore bespoke conceptions of reality.

But AI could reverse these trends. As @danwilliamsphil and @dylanmatt argue, LLMs appear to be a "converging" and "technocratizing" technology -- one that increases expert influence and social consensus.

This is partly because AI companies and social media firms have radically different business models: https://t.co/vAvaLBFSqc

[Revengeance_Day @Revengeance_Day]

@BohuslavskaKate Russia being tied up in Ukraine, and having already let Syria fall as well, is the reason Iran was vulnerable now in the first place.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Iconic moments in Trump diplomacy

You think he won’t really go there but then he does

[Revengeance_Day @Revengeance_Day]

@mattyglesias The Vail stories are all lame, yes. But strapping yourself to some waxed plank/s and flying down the most stunning parts of the planet is obviously superior to the other things on this list, and winter is boring!
Making it happen takes more time and effort than $.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

This is hilarious.

Also, completely enraging.

[Revengeance_Day @Revengeance_Day]

@davidshor I think this is just adding xAI to the GenAI tool, which already has Gemini.

[Revengeance_Day @Revengeance_Day]

@_NotA_Bot_ @jongeeting I used to stay with my aunt in that neighborhood of North Philly during an internship, and could not even believe it when I realized I had to jump the tracks to get to the train. Looked around all over thinking I must be missing something? How did that happen?!

[Eric Levitz @EricLevitz]

Over the past 4 decades, the culture war's rise realigned American politics -- pushing working-class voters right and college grads left.

A new study offers a simple theory for why this happened: Americans' at-home entertainment options got too good.
https://t.co/qPVTXPsgFF

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Cannot help Ukraine, Taiwan, or the people of Iran because the US government is bogged down in wars of aggression against Minnesota and Denmark.