Daniel Escalante

No sé hacer pancakes

[Daniel Carvalho @davalho]

Mientras algunos ponen en duda la legitimidad del proceso electoral, otros plantean retrocesos en libertades ya conquistadas.

En ambos casos, la democracia exige límites, respeto por las instituciones y capacidad de construir consensos.

[Daniel Escalante @escalantedaniel]

@MrHaney2525 @Texas_jeep__guy Reported and Blocked, you racist and disgusting cunt

[Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (PARODIA) @lopezobradooor_]

Váyanse a la verga todos

[Daniel Escalante @escalantedaniel]

100%

[William Poulos @W_Poulos]

I’m not usually affected by the deaths of people I don’t know personally, but this one hurts.

Chess Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has passed away, aged 29.

I never met him, but I’ve spent hundreds (maybe thousands) of hours watching his videos. I got back into chess during the Covid lockdowns, and I wouldn’t have fallen in love with the game without his generous, witty, and instructive lessons.

A history graduate from Stanford, Naroditsky was the most articulate and lucid commentator and teacher in chess. He was rare: a Twitch streamer and YouTube creator without a hint of ego. Everything he did was in the service of the game he loved.

He knew how to instruct weaker players like me. Commonly in his videos he’d say “you might be tempted to play…” followed by the exact terrible move I would have played, and then he’d explain why it was so bad.

I hear his voice and his idioms in my head when I play: is the opponent’s threat genuine or only a “paper tiger”? Can you set up a defence so that the opponent’s attack is “biting on granite”? Can you see a follow-up to your “sexy move” or have you succumbed to “onemove-itis?”

I’ll never be able to play as well as he did, but his videos always gave the impression that, with enough patience and effort, one day I might be able to.

It might be strange to have a teacher younger than you, but it’s even stranger to find out that he’s gone.

Remember Philip Larkin’s lines at the end of his poem “The Mower”:

"we should be careful

Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time."

Memory eternal

[Daniel Escalante @escalantedaniel]

@mjfree I hate DJT as much as any other but I think you should rephrase this post as to not get in some kind of trouble

[Daniel Escalante @escalantedaniel]

@TansuYegen @grok who of these people died

[Daniel Escalante @escalantedaniel]

@44britcedes I get asking different questions from the typical but this one is just plain dumb

[Daniel Escalante @escalantedaniel]

@minicnair @grok explain

[Daniel Escalante @escalantedaniel]

@formulafakers @grok give me all the info you can on this

[Barrett @SledgeDev]

scrum masters moving the project along. dont know what we would do without them

[Jack Lang @jacklang]

Copa América security. One gate open in SW corner, 90 mins before kick-off. Thousands of very hot fans out there. Problem waiting to happen. Not good

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

I am so sorry I cannot stop watching this video. There’s an old boss I wish I could send this too.

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

I’ll have what he’s drinking

[Daniel Escalante @escalantedaniel]

@Ivana_Knapp @MakeItAQuote

[Ameer Hamza @AmeerHamzaVoice]

@fasc1nate Kurt Vonnegut explains how stories work in 6 minutes in the best way I've ever seen:

[The New York Times @nytimes]

In @nytopinion

“When President Biden weighs American policy toward Gaza, may he think of a gentle scholar named Mohammed Alshannat,” writes @NickKristof, who had been in contact with Alshannat, a Palestinian in Gaza, during the war. https://t.co/lFdUT8VjLU

[Daniel Escalante @escalantedaniel]

@Parul_Gautam7 Send

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@ammattipyoraily @NairoInGreen