Aaron Graham

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: UK government urges citizens to stockpile at least 3 days of emergency food & water amid the global cybersecurity crisis.

[Aaron Graham @RonOfEarth]

@SadlyItsBradley I got a RAVPower 10000 mAh battery bank last year. It's pocket sized, and seems to work well. I think I was on VRChat with Steam Frame for at least 3 hours and still had over 30% left. I got it on sale for $30.

[Aaron Graham @RonOfEarth]

@HardwareSteam Getting SteamOS running on a PC so I could stream PCVR VRChat on Steam Frame was a nightmare. I was troubleshooting issues at almost every step. AI had me swapping monitors, HDMI cables, running terminal commands, etc.

[Aaron Graham @RonOfEarth]

@gingasvr It was a real pain to get SteamOS installed on a PC, but I was able to get VRChat working in PCVR on Steam Frame and it was great.

[Aaron Graham @RonOfEarth]

@SchoolOfGr8Men I learned some of these the hard way, and my father was a petty man who did not want to see me do well.

[Aaron Graham @RonOfEarth]

@skdh I was wondering, if resistance in metals goes down as temp goes down, how much of resistance is due to electron scattering by phonons?

[Nux @mherlihy0816]

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall and it took me a second to realize they meant autumn and not the total collapse of society.

[Aaron Graham @RonOfEarth]

@BigscreenVR I would've gotten one a long time ago if it were easy to connect with Bazzite Linux. I probably would've even switched Linux distros if there was a Bigscreen compatible one.

[Aaron Graham @RonOfEarth]

@SecKennedy I'd like to see them remove HFCS from their sauces.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

@BradFromUSA The only solution is a complete structural shift.

No country can sustain conditions we are seeing now over the long-term.

That is: the odds of bankruptcy over the long-term are at 100% on our current fiscal path.

[Aaron Graham @RonOfEarth]

@JoelWebbon My feed has been taken over by this tweet about men, and everything about the destruction of the U.S. base in Jordan has disappeared.

[Aaron Graham @RonOfEarth]

@GrapheneOS @dyna64real I'm still using a Pixel 6 Pro, and I believe the final update for gen 6 is October. I'd love to upgrade to a Motorola before the final security update on this gets too old.

[Aaron Graham @RonOfEarth]

@JohnLeePettim13 Remember this if you have one of those diesel heaters and fuel is hard to get someday.

[Incentivising @incentivising]

Game theory explains why improving yourself rarely fixes your outcomes. People keep treating their own skills and discipline as a dominant variable because it's the one they can consciously control. They end up running never-ending optimizations but leave the whole structure around them untouched. Suddenly, they are the shiniest object in the room, but it gets them nowhere. That's because a diamond in the mud is still part of the mud. Cleaning it and putting it back where you found it changes absolutely nothing. Hence, you must change the structure. Swipe the entire room clean; toss out the junk. Ask yourself which environment converts what you already have into a return and what it would cost to move there. Don't spend a decade improving yourself while covered in filth. The structure around you either works for you or against you. There is no middle ground.

[Alexander Kustov @akoustov]

The whole Arday thing is absolutely breaking me. While many folks lament the loss of trust in higher education or the media, the bigger issue is clearly the loss of our trustworthiness.

Regular people are not supposed to do their own research on things like masks, plagiarism, or racism—they *should* just be able to take what institutions like Harvard, Cambridge, or BBC tell them for granted. But now they can't. And they seek populist alternatives on social media that are even worse.

I mean, I'm not sure I'd trust Cambridge administrators and many other universities myself now. And it's not just the replication crisis or DEI scandals—there are some disciplines like education where the standards are so low it's not even clear whether anything they produce can be replicated or falsified at all by design.

I'm still a professor though, because I believe universities can be valuable and because I see a lot of great people around me doing serious work in the pursuit of truth and the public interest, even within social sciences. But to change course for the better and restore trust, we should start by restoring trustworthiness and calling out bullshit on our own side even when bad people on the other side exist and attack higher ed for the wrong reasons.

[Aaron Graham @RonOfEarth]

@fredsoda I'm an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran with an engineering degree, and I couldn't get an interview there for an entry level position. Fuck General Dynamics.

[Aaron Graham @RonOfEarth]

@cyantist Yes, and Schopenhauer's 38 strategems.

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

@LocasaleLab it's easy enough to identify people who publish almost nothing. the real problem is to identify people who publish irrelevant crap which at this point is the majority of them, in pretty much any field.

[Aaron Graham @RonOfEarth]

@cyantist @LKrauss1 Ask him if the ends justify the means if belief in the supernatural makes you a happier person.

[Aaron Graham @RonOfEarth]

@ekwufinance The real treasure wasn't losing the war, it was all the enemies we made along the way.