Free idea: Someone should write about science news the way Matt Levine writes about finance news. Namely, in a style where the background/explainer is at least as important as the news itself. To elaborate:

Would actually pay for that kind of newsletter!

To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal. And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist. Here's how that happened. 1/🧵

Mini earthquake earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev…

*external loud screaming*

This is not difficult. Put up concrete barriers. Grade separated or physically protected bike lines is the fix. Signs are fine, but do almost nothing to prevent this type of accident

Very excited about shorter wait times on weekends and evenings. Makes BART much more useful!

I got COVID for the first time. Even being fully vaxxed and pretty low risk activities. It is a miserable illness, you don’t want it. Mask up 😷 Get the booster when it is available 💉

I *think* 17.1.2 enabled emoji as stickers

Hey BART what’s the deal with the water damage on the pylons at the Fruitvale station? As I walked underneath water dripped on me (gross!) and then I look up and see this. This can’t be good for the concrete structure? What are you doing to fix this?

In the genre of bonkers button arrangements for elevator floors this one is truly next level #elevator #ux #usability

“why do you have a messy pile of clothes in the chair?” it’s L1 cache for fast random access to our frequently used clothes in O(1) time

iOS 17.4 updated obliterated all the contact pictures from Messages. The posters are still there in Contacts. *sigh* time to re-add them again…

Is Slack down for anybody else?

Absolutely would love a whole UI in this style!

So Facebook needs to do a better job filtering out ads that are actively scammy. For example here are 260 ads that try to trick the user to click on them by impersonating part of Facebook UI. I am surprised these aren’t filtered out automatically. facebook.com/ads/library/?a…

100% this! Also, most of the time people can get better return on investment improving the thermal envelopes of their house by updating old windows and doors, adding insulation, etc. I will want to get solar with battery eventually, but more as a resilience then money savings

pRoGrEsSiVe pOpE

USERS: you're alienating the people who actually use your product TWITTER: likes are now florps USERS: what TWITTER: timeline goes sideways