Nico Gavazzi

“It costs nothing to dream and everything not to”✨Product @unbabel 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇫🇮 Growth / Design Thinking / Human

[Seth Bannon @sethbannon]

Israel's critics say they recklessly bombed Gaza, unnecessarily killing tens of thousands of innocent women and children.

Israel's defenders say they were as precise as could be, the deaths unavoidable.

Propagandists lie. Satellite images don't.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Dividing the world into two equal parts...

[Melissa Chan @melissakchan]

A tale of two billionaires. Jeff Bezos was at fashion week in Europe while he pulled a let-them-eat-cake firing of 30% of Washington Post journalists. Jimmy Lai stood by his newsroom and he will now likely die in a Hong Kong prison. Tell everyone you know about Jimmy Lai.

[Nico Gavazzi @_finnico_]

@chamath Who said being a billionaire equals being a winner? Thats the whole reason why society is so fucked up! Success comes in many shapes and forms

[Nico Gavazzi @_finnico_]

@SilentlySirs @grok what happened here

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

In prison, Israeli guards told him again and again that Israeli soldiers had killed his entire family – a form of psychological torture, he said, meant to break him. But when he walked up the stairs of his Gaza home today, his wife rushed into his arms, his children and parents beside her – alive, waiting, and all of them delirious with relief and joy.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Wheelchair-bound RAF Veterans & elderly lady vicars arrested, while Israeli President Herzog, who has issued a steam of genocidal comments against Palestinian civilians & is specifically named in the @CIJ_ICJ Israel genocide case, is invited to meet Labour ministers

[Harriet Williamson @harriepw]

Steve is an RAF veteran. Here’s his arrest by the @metpoliceuk as he holds a paper sign in London today. @novaramedia

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Thousands, and then millions, of American small businesses, including many iconic brands, will go bankrupt this year if the tariff policies on China don’t change.

🧵

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The future is unevenly distributed.

[Lisa @lisawehden]

A recent estimate by a team of Stanford economists attributes almost a quarter of all US innovation since 1976 to high-skilled, foreign-born individuals. This is despite a difficult immigration system.

Let's accelerate innovation!

[Nico Gavazzi @_finnico_]

@paulg Finally some simple common sense, we need more of this

[Nico Gavazzi @_finnico_]

@levelsio Amazon Prime launched in portugal in 2021 via .ES. I had many next day deliveries. It depends on your address, the building, and the courier assigned, they are a few (CTT, Paack, etc). We have a person responsible to collect packages, but yeah not as efficient as US

[Nico Gavazzi @_finnico_]

@KonstantinKisin This is where hate is born, by manipulation of reality, non sensical comparisons and preaching the wrong history, so sad to see this kind of thinking, disgrace to humankind and peaceful coexistence

[Nico Gavazzi @_finnico_]

@elonmusk Fox News correspondent lol how serious of you

[Adam Tooze @adam_tooze]

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[Michael Seibel @mwseibel]

Relationships strengthen with direct communication. Relationships weaken when either party fears direct communication. This is a lesson I see many founders struggle with -- especially with their co-founders, early employees, and first execs. In the best working relationships, each party not only communicates directly but encourages direct communication from the people they work with. PS: direct communication doesn't mean being an asshole. You can be kind/compassionate but still direct.

[Nico Gavazzi @_finnico_]

@elonmusk Fake news @elonmusk first in suggestions actually

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Which side believes in more misinformation?

I used to think that the question was unanswerable because it depends on the questions you ask. People can come up with questions that conservatives get wrong ("Was the 2020 election stolen?") or that liberals get wrong ("Were 2016 vote totals changed by Russia?") Many studies do this, and they should be rejected as biased.

But a 2021 paper has convinced me that liberals are the side that is overwhelmingly closer to the truth on most factual matters.

This article found an objective way to get at the misinformation question. Researchers decided to track 20 viral stories each two week period over 6 months in 2019. Every two weeks, they grabbed the 10 most viral true stories and 10 most viral fake stories over that period.

They then recruited conservatives and liberals to see who believed in more false information, in 12 different waves. This is an unbiased method because the researchers aren't themselves deciding which questions to ask. They're looking at what articles go viral, and then asking people about them. If one side tends to see more fake stories go viral, that will show up in the data.

First finding: more conservative false stories go viral.

"Fully two-thirds (65.0%) of the high engagement true statements were characterized as benefiting the political left, compared to only 10.0% that were described as benefiting the right. The pattern among falsehoods was reversed, although the relationship was attenuated: 45.8% benefited the political right versus about a quarter (23.3%) the left."

Both sides share unflattering things about their enemies. But when liberals do it, the information they share on social media is more likely to be true.

Moreover, it could be that people at the extremes are more likely to believe false information. In fact, the more conservative you are, the more false statements you're likely to believe. "Very liberal" people do the best at this measure, and "very conservative" the worst.

Even more shockingly, the researchers controlled for the fact that more conservative misinformation goes viral. Yes, both sides were biased and more likely to believe what they wanted. But liberals were more likely to admit things against their ideological interests. They were just better informed or less biased across the board.

In sum, this is absolutely damning for conservatives

1) Conservatives share a terrible epistemological ecosystem, where false claims go viral much more often. This is not a small difference. Liberals dominate the real news industry, while conservatives are the leaders in fake news
2) Conservatives as a result believe more false information
3) One could try to argue that a few conservative "bad apples" spread misinformation, and that biases the results, because among the general public each side just endorses what makes them feel good. But conservatives believe more false information even when that is accounted for.

One might have suspected these results just from observing different kinds of news media. But this is the strongest piece of confirmatory evidence I've seen for the idea that one side is in an epistemologically superior position. The right-wing echo chamber is a major problem, and in many ways worse than the liberal establishment it criticizes.

Part of this is probably just IQ. Liberals are smarter, and smart people are more likely to believe in true things on average. Also, when tribes with slightly different means form, they can have radically different cultures. To compare conservatives to liberals, it's not enough to just ask what the average IQ or level of tribal instinct is for each group. One must understand that a group that is low intelligence and high on tribalism will form a fundamentally different culture than one with the opposite traits. This is why cultural differences are often more radical than individual differences between communities. A community is not simply the sum of its parts, but includes feedback loops.

Social science can often be very biased, but we shouldn't reject findings when the methodology being used is sound.

The simple truth is liberals are more connected to reality than conservatives.

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

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