Matty Michaud

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[Matty Michaud @mattymichaud]

@CherieBeneteau Why bonuses can be touched is beyond me.

[髙安カミユ（ミジンコまさ） @martytaka777]

日本がチュニジアに4-0で勝利すると
渋谷交差点はカオスに。
しかし、信号が変わると、警察の誘導もあり退散。
自動車を破壊する者もいない。
火をつける者もいない。
熱狂は共有するが、秩序は壊さない。誇ろうか！

[Tommy2 @t0xmmy2]

Something good is happening at this World Cup.

The Scots turned up. The English turned up. The Norwegians turned up. They sang their songs, got stuck in, and the Americans loved them for it. Glasgow and Boston are getting twinned off the back of it.

For 30 years we’ve been told to view the US as some sort of Great Satan — all imperialism and orange-man clichés. Not everyone buys it of course, but enough do.

And then Europeans actually go, and find a place that feels familiar. Makes sense to them. A bit richer, a bit further ahead, but recognisably ours. Settled by Europeans, still deeply European in its bones.

There’s a gathering-of-the-clans feeling to it. Old neighbours discovering they still like the same songs, the same drink, the same daft humour, and genuinely enjoying each other’s company.

None of it’s a surprise, really. It’s just been buried under so much politics that we forgot we were allowed to enjoy it.

Good to be reminded.

[Matty Michaud @mattymichaud]

@CanadaTaxGuy so theft, got it.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The casting in Mindhunter is so precise it’s almost unsettling.

[Matthew LaBosco @matthew_labosco]

High cortisol is the real reason you wake up at 3-4 AM.

It also shaves 5 years off your life — tanks testosterone, locks belly fat, literally shrinks your brain.

If I wanted to fix it without medication, here are 8 things I'd do every day:

1. No food 3 hours before bed.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Seneca hits you with a brick.
Pay attention to your life.

[Neetu Arnold @neetu_arnold]

University of California STEM professors want standardized tests back due to severe math deficiencies among students:

“We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle school mathematics”

“The current admissions metric, based primarily on GPA & essays, can no longer reliably distinguish readiness for university-level STEM majors in an era of severe grade inflation & AI assisted application essays”

[Matty Michaud @mattymichaud]

@PAHoyeck I hear ya, however, the examples here are very different from the double use of em dashes within one sentence that is standard practice from LLMs.

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

University librarians are the unsung heroes of academia

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

TD report on CANADA's BRAIN DRAIN is really interesting.

Canada is quietly losing its top talent to the United States in what economists call a silent brain drain. While Canada does a strong job educating highly skilled workers in STEM, engineering, and entrepreneurship, it struggles to keep them due to higher taxes that kick in at much lower income levels, limited opportunities to scale companies, weaker commercialization of ideas, and much better pay and growth potential south of the border.
-> Talent leaves mainly through temporary US work visas rather than permanent moves
-> Outflows are heavily concentrated among the highest skilled, especially in tech and advanced degrees
-> Onward migration is worst among immigrants and top university graduates
-> Canada has a missing middle of medium sized firms, relying instead on many tiny businesses and a few large ones
-> Personal tax rates often exceed 50 percent in major provinces and apply at much lower thresholds than in the US
-> Complex corporate tax rules push entrepreneurs toward tax planning instead of growth

All of this weakens productivity, innovation, and domestic returns on education, making Canada a feeder system for the US economy
REPORT: https://t.co/fA0VzaJDSm

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Reasons to use an em dash:

1) reclaim it from the machines
2) you don't know what a semicolon is for
3) it has incredible vibes

[Jason Locasale @LocasaleLab]

Universities lost their way when vice provost became a more lucrative and prestigious career path than professor.

[Matty Michaud @mattymichaud]

@MrBeast 1 like

[Scholarship for PhD @ScholarshipfPhd]

“Research is my Passion”

[Brent A. Williams, MD @BrentAWilliams2]

One of my daughter's biggest concerns right now is "will there be any jobs left by the time I get done with college", and it seems like no one has a cogent answer.

[Matty Michaud @mattymichaud]

@Simon_Ingari Applies for work in Japan where each job wants you to fill out your CV using their excel template 😓

[Matty Michaud @mattymichaud]

@Simon_Ingari The whole manually writing into boxes is so silly. ESP with automation. Massive waste of time