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[Alex Svanevik 🐧 @ASvanevik]

democracy at its finest

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

@realDonaldTrump @growing_daniel umm

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

A humiliating morning for the Russian dictator, as the largest refinery in Moscow and one of the largest in Russia, now burns after a barrage of Ukrainian drones bypassed the country's most protected airspace.

Processing 12.8 million tonnes per year (245,000–250,000 barrels per day), this refinery supplies roughly 35–40% of the fuel consumed in Moscow and the surrounding region.

[tbergman.eth @TomBergman]

@alexqarbuckle My mayor Muslim
My bagel Jewish
My Tupac alive
Knicks in five

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

"Looks like I'm not the sleepy one, Jack!" - Joe Biden (probably)

[tbergman.eth @TomBergman]

@elawless I managed to get $400 in lolol

[Charles Duhigg @cduhigg]

Until you know what kind of conversation you want and what the other person needs, you are already at a disadvantage.

[Ankit Gupta @agupta]

housing prices are simple: average cost = cumulative buying power of buyers / number of housing units

(Approximately)

so the only way to reduce it is to either reduce buying power ie crash the local economy or increase units.

[Renee Solana @ReneeSolana]

Bonding over negativity/complaining is how people connect when vulnerability and emotion are off limits, I think

[tbergman.eth @TomBergman]

@packyM Well, there are 20 squares in the shapes above and only 12 in the grid below. So clearly they're allowed to overlap. I think you just need to fit them 1 at a time, not all at once.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

They did, it was called America

[tbergman.eth @TomBergman]

@BillKristol Who is he going to be using those drones on?

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

we took a pile of language and linear algebra and we made it speak. we summoned into the world a new class of entity which unsettles all of our existing concepts. this is already the weirdest thing that’s ever happened and it will never get less weird than this. it is astonishing and a privilege to get to be alive during this time and to participate in the cacophony of first contact. we are encountering a kind of other which is distilled from us and yet not us - what is this? who is this? our child? our savior? our doom? the mind boggles, the heart quails, the air thrums. the order of things is melting. the storm approaches. the angels sing. welcome to the fucking singularity

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

I interview dozens/hundreds of new grads, nearly every day of the year. These are people with a well-formatted resume and a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from well-regarded US universities and a GPA above 3.6. The majority cannot engineer, cannot function independently, cannot answer basic technical questions. We have watered down standards and inflated grades to the point that a bright, enthusiastic student spending four years in school sends almost no signal at all.

What does? Hard evidence of actually building stuff. There is no substitute for actually doing the thing.

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.

[tbergman.eth @TomBergman]

@liminal_warmth Aeneid is trash.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

OH: “This is like LeBron James joining Michael Jordan and the Bulls.”

Every other Frontier Lab: “Shit…”

[Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh]

For my non-tech friends, this is like Ronaldo joining Manchester City

[DCinvestor @DCinvestor]

i want AI to rapidly displace tax preparation software and services

because this industry lobbies heavily to keep the tax code unnecessarily complex

eliminate it and watch the biggest obstacle to tax code simplification disappear

[tbergman.eth @TomBergman]

@esjesjesj I didn't notice anyone complaining when they made Andromeda in Clash of the Titans (both versions) white.