“I’m gonna ride this train of neurodivergent ‘success’ into the great station of adequacy!” …is what I just wrote to my kid’s school after I settled three outstanding bills, making us finally eligible to enroll in the school year… which starts in 2 weeks

The chart also perfectly tracks the increase in sophistication of computer-aided gerrymandering. It used to be harder to get re-elected dozens of times.

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When a painting is bought for millions, it is sometimes said to be a "waste" because that money could have been spent on relieving suffering. This is a misconception. The transfer of money or objects between wealthy people has no effect on the resources available for good works.

Stereo is VR for your ears. The eyes industry is just catching up. We sound-obsessed have been crafting VR for decades: producers, musicians, engineers, storytellers…

PSA: Logan is organizing the 2023 Crit Rat Fest! WHERE: Philadelphia, PA WHEN: Fri June 30th - July 2nd WHAT: Talks, hanging out, conjectures & refutations What is a crit rat you might ask? Well, Lulie has an excellent intro thread here: x.com/reasonisfun/st…

Gaining or losing interest in particular problems or sub-problems is part of the creative process and itself constitutes problem-solving. David Deutsch

A beautifully crafted piece about one of the Jan6 rioters. His story is important — but it’s the remarkable writing from @gregjaffe that moves me. Sensitive, nuanced, vulnerable and strong. THIS is America. THIS is who we are.

Reading a confederacy of dunces is actually painful to me, because “its literally me” and not in a good way.

It is so terribly brilliant. It aches. Raw.

you may ask yourself “why is a sewer district tweeting at 1:16 in the morning” and you may ask yourself “why am i awake reading sewer district tweets at 1:16 in the morning” and it is then in that moment that you realize

No such thing as a NYT review that’s bad for the author.

What kind of monster picks anything but aids/Netflix/holidays ???

"Its, Bits, Qubits" A two-part video/podcast series on David Deutsch's paper "It from Qubit" (2002). Here, in part 1, the scene is set largely around a discussion of John Wheeler's "It from Bit" thesis. History, physics, computation & ultimate reality: youtube.com/watch?v=TNDwN-…

Wow! Brett Hall is killing it! Another brilliant explanatory lesson on fundamental ideas about how to make sense of where we are. 🔥🔥

What a couple of awkward sapiosexuals do on date night: Britbox & chill.

Although if all you care about is *Spotify*'s average for a single stream, it's fine to drive away everybody who isn't willing to pay $38.50 month. But if getting 3x/stream for a tenth as many streams sounds good to you, I think you should stay away from advocacy based on math.

The structural problem with Twitter, reproduced exactly in all its clones, is that there is no shared experience. It’s only a side-effect of this that rebuilding ANY individual experience on a new clone is laborious.