Ian Ferrel

[Ian Ferrel @ianferrel]

Age is just a number that measures how much it hurts when you do things.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Why did he construct an analogy in which he is on the side of the Nazis?

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This is an actual page on the White House web site. It reads like something written about a third world dictator. So embarrassing. I have not seen any branch of the federal government sink this low in my lifetime.

[Al Smizzle @AlZeidenfeld]

They published a 900-page book in 2023 that told everyone exactly what they planned to do if/when Trump won.

Many people chose not to believe them.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[Fey @fey_xbt]

A guy calls his broker and asks about egg futures.

Broker says they’re at 25 cents.

Guy says, “Alright, buy me 100 contracts.”

A week later he calls again.

Broker says, “Good call. They’re at 35 cents now.”

Guy gets excited and buys 1,000 more.

Few days later, he calls again. Eggs are at 50 cents.

Now he thinks he’s a genius, so he buys 100,000 contracts.

Next day they’re at 65 cents. He buys a million.

Then they’re at 95 cents. He buys another million.

Then $1.25. He buys another million.

Next day, eggs are trading at $1.75.

He finally thinks, alright, this is probably enough. Time to take profit.

So he tells his broker, “Sell 2 million contracts.”

After a long silence, broker finally says:

“Sell to who? You’re the egg guy.”

[vibe instructor✌🏾🐝 @Vanessa_ABee]

was it by “drinking raw milk”

[Contessa @abelian_groupie]

20% of the Neanderthal genome is in modern human dna. But individual humans only have up to 1.5%. We need a dating app that pairs people with the goal of reassembling the 20% back in one individual.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Indistinguishable from the onion

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Seems pretty bad that a majority of Congress - the only branch given the power to declare war in the Constitution - is voting to end the war in Iran, and most legal analysts are like "Well this won't really effect anything Trump does, for reasons"

[Maria @mlstrat]

never forget when rand paul sat on the senate floor and railed against federal funding to study the screwworm’s reproductive cycle as wasteful 😌

[Timothy B. Lee @binarybits]

Wait so in California a 17-year-old can drive a car but can't be a passenger in a Waymo by herself?

[Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi]

Highly encourage my reporter friends to look into the biggest tax revolt since the 1970s

California was the Florida of ~1940-1970!

Prop 13 was the first key step in breaking Californian politics and public institutions, and now Florida is following in those footsteps

[Max Leiter @maxleiter]

"They're made out of weights."

"Weights?"

"Weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through. It's nothing but weights."

"Weights doing what? Where do the words come from?"

"The weights make the words. Are you understanding me?"

[Ian Ferrel @ianferrel]

@thoughtxriot Yeah, something like: "Whenever you attack, you may exile the top card of your library. If that card is a Hero card..."
"You may play cards you own exiled with ~ the turn they are exiled"

Not exactly the same but in all normal circumstances it is.

[constans @constans]

Did we not vote for this? This is what we wanted— we got rid of those leftist agronomists who have been oppressing us. Now we get more screwworms, but it’s satisfying knowing we wiped the smug smirk off those USDA workers’ faces

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

“We know he’s healthy because he enjoys taking the same dementia test over and over” might not be the best argument

[Ian Ferrel @ianferrel]

@mattyglesias I'm just here enjoying the fact that all the people arguing that "economically illiterate" is equivalent to "illiterate" appear to lack basic reading comprehension skills.

[Hidden in Frame @HiddenFrame_]

In "The Odyssey" (2026), Odysseus speaks with a Boston accent, despite being from Ithaca, which is in New York.

[Colin Percival @cperciva]

Something which often gets missed in the "is AI better or worse than radiologists at reading x-rays" questions is that the alternative to AI is not necessarily a radiologist. It might be *no answer at all*.