Alex Pershteyn

[Michael Mulvihill @mulvihill79]

The World Cup Final averaged 66.4 million viewers in the U.S. on FOX and Telemundo combined.

42.5 million on FOX. 23.9 million on Telemundo.

Other than Super Bowls, this is the largest sports audience since the 1994 Winter Olympics.

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

If you gave away $126 billion to subsidize free flights between LA and San Francisco at current demand levels, you could fund roughly 150 to 200 years of travel before the money runs out.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Total pandamonium!

[The Wieners Circle @TheWienerCircle]

Is this real life, or is the just fantasy?! Free hot dogs again Tuesday motherfuckers!

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Mission: Save the pandas from extinction.

Obstacle: The pandas. 🐼

[The Wieners Circle @TheWienerCircle]

If Caleb throws 4 TDs on Sunday, we will give away free hot dogs on Tuesday

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

Such a striking graphic in the WaPo. In early 2000s, there were fewer than 60 members of Congress over age 65. Now there are nearly 160.

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media

Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions https://t.co/IUy6sTcmI1 via @jburnmurdoch

[Alex Pershteyn @alexp83]

Well done, Astronomer

[Astronomer @astronomerio]

Thank you for your interest in Astronomer.

[Jack Corbett @jackcorrbit]

you can venmo the United States to help pay off the national debt

[Gisele Navarro @ichbinGisele]

This is how websites die.

Data from @pewresearch shows that Google users are more likely to end their browsing session entirely after being presented with an AI Overview compared to result pages without one.

🔗 https://t.co/DeEWfUrVV1

[David Shor @davidshor]

Adding this incredible chart from @DKThomp to the mix.

There has been an enormous decline in in-person socialization that has corresponded with massive declines in mental wellbeing and dramatic increases in selfishness and political radicalism over the past decade.

[Alex Pershteyn @alexp83]

@AmericanAir I sent you a DM about a rebooked flight in 2 hours that doesn't work for us, could you please respond ASAP.

[Annie Agar @AnnieAgar]

Chicago produced a Pope before a QB who throws for 4000 yards.

[Alex Pershteyn @alexp83]

Good thread

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW 🧵: Is human intelligence starting to decline?

Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s.

What should we make of this?

[Steve Jurvetson @FutureJurvetson]

1 in 44 chance of a 8-megaton blast by meteorite 💥
(Hiroshima was 0.015 megatons for comparison).

JWST will try to get a better read on its trajectory and size. If needed, deflection has to occur in 2028, not on final approach like in the movies.

[Yegor Denisov-Blanch @yegordb]

I’m at Stanford and I research software engineering productivity.

We have data on the performance of >50k engineers from 100s of companies.

Inspired by @deedydas, our research shows:

~9.5% of software engineers do virtually nothing: Ghost Engineers (0.1x-ers)

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat.

Some of those stories may even be true!

But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇

[Alex Pershteyn @alexp83]

@lthomasnews What's even more hilarious is right from the beginning Khabib shouted instructions in Dagestani and not Russian (so that Shabliy wouldn't be able to understand it), so translator was useless for most of the fight, yet they somehow persisted with this idea and kept showing Khabib

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Still wondering how does this species survive in the wild..