JV

Figaro qua, Figaro là, Figaro su, Figaro giù, Figaro su, Figaro giù! Pronto prontissimo son come il fulmine: sono il factotum della citta...

[Rogério de Souza Farias @rofarias]

Em 1962, enquanto o Brasil jogava a Copa no Chile, Henry Kissinger atravessava o país tentando decifrar outra partida: a disputa pelo futuro da democracia brasileira. Artigo assinado por Luís Cláudio Villafañe e por mim na @revistapiaui:
https://t.co/lx8GXf5jMC

[Andrei @TheUntranslated]

January 19, 2027.

Its linguistic complexity is possibly rivalled only by that of Horcynus Orca.

https://t.co/ZjMY5vjLQY

[Alex Luck @AlexLuck9]

The dolphins are preparing for departure. That's a warning sign. They'll leave a note though.

[JV @joaovargas]

@patio11 would be interested to hear any thoughts you might have on @TheZvi 's take on your advice re term life insurance.

[JV @joaovargas]

From the diaries of Alastair Campbell:

Tuesday, October 16
There was a growing sense that things were not going brilliantly.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

This might be the first hot take on how technology tells us how to live our lives, destroying our ability to make human decisions.

The technology in question is the sundial.

From a 3rd century BCE Roman adaptation of a Greek play, as discussed in Kerr’s “The Ordered Day”

[Jeremy Dicker 🌏 @Dicker_JJ]

almost ready for MFA promotion

[WIRED @WIRED]

A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story. https://t.co/u8QpIBO2r4

[Jeremy Dicker 🌏 @Dicker_JJ]

every embassy

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

[Jeremy Dicker 🌏 @Dicker_JJ]

In these turbulent times, I take great comfort knowing there’s an ambitious third secretary out there putting the finishing touches on a draft cable for the ambassador’s review

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

finally, we're living through precedented times

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Our lack of any reliable measures of human error rates across intellectually demanding tasks and fields is a huge hindrance to understanding the thresholds of hallucination and reliability that AI might cross incrementally that could lead to sudden leaps in usefulness & adoption.

[Timothy B. Lee @binarybits]

You're so vain you probably think this tweet is about you.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

“OMG an error rate. Pack it in, boys.”, said the field of Operations Research in a terrible dystopia we don’t live in.

[JV @joaovargas]

@dieworkwear Any chance for a thread on how to wear suede shoes or boots with a suit?

[Jeremy Dicker 🌏 @Dicker_JJ]

just me?

[JV @joaovargas]

Better than most lists of this kind. I strongly endorse #45: If you can train yourself to ask “is there a better way to do this?” at random intervals ten times a day, you will become unstoppable.

[Cate Hall @catehall]

I put all my secrets in a single post and now I don't have any more :\

(Link below)

[JV @joaovargas]

As a big fan of @patio11 's Complex Systems podcast, I hope someday we'll get an episode about airline ticketing systems - one of those bits of infrastructure we rarely see directly but impact our lives in so many entertaining ways (hello, 12 hour layover in airport with no wifi)