loidav

Made in CA. Opinions are mine. RT ≠ endorsements. Let's make things together // @aireverie @nytimes @nature @castingnetworks

[loidav @loidav]

via @NYTimes: I envision these being the Adult version of Harriet, the Spy’s Tomato Sandwiches https://t.co/b1iOvy6fbn

[loidav @loidav]

@levarburton I love #readingrainbow - my brothers and I would dance to the theme song and then settle down to watch as kids. Reading Rainbow is why I love to read. Thank you @levarburton !

[LeVar Burton @levarburton]

Apparently, today is my 40th Rainbow-versary!!!
#ReadingRainbow
#icanflytwiceashigh

[Marc Johnson @SolidEvidence]

These are the locations where we have detected cryptic lineages from wastewater so far. Number of lineages is in yellow.

I'm sure this is the tip of the iceberg.

1/

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Scars of old crises make firms inflexible.

When companies have a negative shock (product failure, drop in revenues, etc) one of the ways they get back on track is by making standard procedures to solve the problem. But adopting standards lowers future adaptability forevermore.

[loidav @loidav]

via ⁦@nytimes⁩ https://t.co/X3H0TZA7Cc

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

There's a surprisingly large set of situations where we look at something but fail to notice what we are looking at, from typos on a page to a bike when driving.

This readable paper shows it comes from our limited capacity to process visual information. https://t.co/bxj0Z0cMJn

[Sarah Allen @Mssarahmssarah]

Dispatch from a Manhattan Elementary School:

8 kids in class of 22 get covid.

No note goes home to families because NYC DOE close contact letters have ended (1 covid test was sent). 2 parents run into each other at drugstore & start to put together how bad the situation is. 1/

[loidav @loidav]

In CA the Casual Carpool serendipity of meeting interesting people as a rider was fun. / ‘Slugging’ culture in D.C. region threatened by commuting shifts https://t.co/Ob8pHVBL6A

[loidav @loidav]

@robinberjon Take care! Now the image of an Immaculate Infection candle is stuck in my head 🤣 hope you feel better soon

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

It’s been a mystery why Roman concrete often lasted thousands of years, but ours decays in mere decades.

Turns out they incorporated chemicals in a process that induces self-healing; scientists at MIT just figured this all out - in 2022.

Extraordinary.

https://t.co/cOPyln0ifd

[Rob Morris @RobertRMorris]

It’s also possible that genuine empathy is one thing we humans can prize as uniquely our own. Maybe it’s the one thing we do that AI can’t ever replace.

(curious what others think? @zakijam @paulbloomatyale?)

[Dr. Mia 🇬🇷 @Miazolam]

Hi, your favorite future emergency doc here to remind you to NEVER PUT YOUR FEET UP ON THE CAR DASHBOARD. EVER. Should you get into an accident, the results are truly catastrophic. Please just don’t.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Another thing you can do this New Year to make people happy: reach out to folks you haven't spoken to in a while, even if you aren't very close

This paper shows we worry it will be awkward (it isn't) & that people won't appreciate it (but they really do!) https://t.co/8Z50Lqm9KH

[Abed A. Ayoub @aayoub]

.@American_Girl salesperson to my daughter today:

“You want a doll that looks like you, or you want the pretty one?”

One hell of a way to ruin a 5 year olds day, and Christmas weekend, in ways you won’t even understand, especially for a brown kid.

Horrible experience.

[loidav @loidav]

RIP ⁦@SesameStreetBob⁩ ⁦@sesamestreet⁩ made this world a brighter place. He and Luis ⁦@EmilioDelgado58⁩ were big staples of my childhood. I imagine them both in the sky - singing a duet, bringing us more life lessons. https://t.co/ZKuLKQMVwS

[loidav @loidav]

I wonder how this could relate to #slack channels.
Sincerely just curious

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Toxic Reddit communities turn normal Redditors toxic: “Newcomers’ first comments in these distinctive subreddits differ from those same people’s prior behavior in other subreddits. Through this adjustment, they nearly match the toxicity level of the subreddit they are joining” 1/

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The best way to ensure good code is to have a good organization.

This paper from Microsoft looking at 50M lines of code found that organizational factors were far more powerful in explaining the number of bugs than any technical aspect of the project. https://t.co/4Sxwuug6N5

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Narcissistic people can be extremely charming but they also lack a sense of self. This is why they control everyone around them: they’re actually controlling their own self perception.