(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 douglas rushkoff I've never understood the "build a bunker to escape the apocalypse" mentality. I'm not afraid of nuclear war killing *me*, I'm afraid of nuclear war killing the guy who's going to invent the life extension breakthroughs that will save my life a century from now.

Don’t argue with idiots on the Internet. How do you know you’re arguing with an idiot? Because they’re arguing with idiots on the Internet.

So I guess we still haven't figured out how not to give large-scale murderers and thieves unlimited opportunity to become the primary topic of public conversation... We really need better edgelords.

What do 36 million people use now that eventually 5 billion will?

this is one of the most important graphs that I saw in 2023 that has led to behavior change. This is in Peter Attia's book Outlive tldr: if you want to be able to climb stairs when you are 75, you need to be in the top 95th percentile of cardiovascular fitness. With this, you

How to get active and sh*t: get rid of your car and walk half of your commute to work

Inferential confusion

Big moment for Postgres! Search has always been Postgres' weak spot, and everyone just accepted it. If you needed a real relevance-ranked keyword search, the default answer was to spin up Elasticsearch or add Algolia and deal with the data sync headaches forever. The problem