Glen Ivan

Fascinated by the world! Humbled by how insignificant yet, important we are :)

[Joe Stephan @joestephanx]

spent the weekend reading (thank claudness) the 𝕏 algorithm source code on github

Nikita Bier (Head of Product at 𝕏) said third-party reposts get up to 90% impression cuts. the code shows exactly why and what else is quietly penalized

most popular threads are quoting weight numbers that aren't even in the public release

here's the full breakdown with 8 solid moves grounded in the code, toned for @XCreators

https://t.co/aT2UjerQgP

[Joe Stephan @joestephanx]

https://t.co/abLd1ctr0G

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Why on earth is the Nürburgring 24h geoblocked on youtube for US and Canada. What is the point.

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

"Indians in Trinidad are still referred to in some places as "coolies". But I feel no shame in that. Today a little coolie girl is now Prime Minister of Trinidad," says Trindad's Indian-origin PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar

[Daniel Di Martino @DanielDiMartino]

How come these "America first" accounts never include India or South Asia...

Truth hurts, I know.

[Glen Ivan @glenling]

Humble reminder that things can change pretty quickly.

[Scott Barber @thescottbarber]

Hudson’s Bay once owned 5% of the Earth’s land surface and now it’s a kiosk in a Canadian Tire

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

A lot of people would be a lot happier and wealthier if they had realized this when they were younger

[Morgan Cameron Ross @Morgan_C_Ross]

The very first moments of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope in St John's, Newfoundland 46 years ago this morning. The Marathon of Hope has raised over $1 billion for cancer research so far. credit: Terry Fox Foundation 🇨🇦

[Zane Hengsperger @zanehengsperger]

when spacex was getting started, the first and last men to walk on the moon testified before congress against it.

gene cernan told congress commercial space companies "do not yet know what they don't know."

he said the boeings and lockheed martins were "the folks who have been working on everything we've done for the last 50 years. they know how it can be done."

neil armstrong said he was "not confident" the newcomers could achieve their goals.

together with jim lovell they warned it would put america on "a long downward slide to mediocrity."

spacex now launches more rockets than every country on earth combined.

the experts will always tell you it can't be done. build it anyway!

[Dr. Kohan🏛🏛🏛 @kohantoys]

Hay que pedirle disculpas a George Lucas; cuando sacó Episodio 1 nos quejabamos de que "bloquear rutas comerciales" era un argumento pobrísimo para un conflicto de Star Wars.

Aquí estamos, pleno 2026, discutiendo por bloqueos de rutas comerciales.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Let this sink in: Canadians are founding twice as many businesses outside Canada than inside. We open more businesses in the U.S. than at home, after a decade of Liberals.

And it has only gotten worse under Mark Carney, whose deficits and bureaucracy are bigger than Trudeau’s and whose tax burden is the same.

[Glen Ivan @glenling]

@build_canada https://t.co/wOfTD6Jd5t an ai driven platform that allows charities and non profits demonstrate their impact in a deeply transparent and transformational way.

[The Scientific Lens @LensScientific]

“While spacewalking I realized something, I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity.”

― Artemis II Astronaut Reid Wiseman

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Glen Ivan @glenling]

@revathitweets @NairSharan Is there a way to connect with her directly? Would like to setup a fundraiser for her.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Over $50,000 has been raised for a Domino’s delivery driver who went out of his way to get his customer's Diet Coke when he realized that Domino's was out.

68-year-old Dan Simpson of Boise, Idaho has gone viral for his kind act.

"[Dan] had stopped at the store himself to pick up Diet Coke for us. On a busy Friday night. During deliveries. Completely out of his own time and effort," the customers said on GoFundMe.

"[Dan's] been working at Domino’s as a second job for 14 years… and he’s retiring in just a few weeks..."

About $50,000 has been raised for Dan so far.

Amazing.

Video: katey_93 / tt.

[Glen Ivan @glenling]

@F1 @pirellisport I get it most of you are butt hurt, but download the F1 TV app and check for yourselves where you can select the on board angle, it’s true, kimi’s camera stopped working for the fastest lap, it’s on for other laps.

[sim 🇧🇷🇲🇽🇸🇳🇫🇷🇭🇹 @simscircuit]

🚨| Sir Lewis Hamilton: "In karting, it happens in karting all the time, back and forth, back and forth.."

"No one ever calls it yo-yo racing. It's real racing."

"So whoever's coming out with that is... yeah."