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i am confused

how causal was musk in (potential) twitter failure?

like how well was the company running before that? my intuitive sense is "not good at all, it was never profitable" which is uh an indicator

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Credit where credit is due the origin of this idea is @RatOrthodox on twitter

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rat christmas, i gave you my rat
but the very next rat, rat rat rat rat rat rat

Everything just is a tiny bit hornier today

Groon 🤨

Cultures are now not stratified by phenotype or topotype, but neurotype

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my gf “how do I look?”
me, fingernails biting into my palms, muttering to myself “truth and beauty, truth and beauty”

I really like the idea that starting a post with lowercase letters signifies that it's a joke

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the “limits to growth” are when we are huddled around the dying black holes

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The Kolmogorov complexity of a mathematical result is the length of the shortest proof that will be accepted for publication in a journal.

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The dream was for all scientific literature to be open access, hyperlinked, and when possible, rigorously checked by software that could catch errors (e.g. proof assistants).

Instead, we get software that spews out faux-coherent garbage, adding errors, polluting the infosphere.

when something big rights itself by rolling over

the ends justify the means if and only if the ends actually justify the means

sry i promise i'll stop after this one 

has sbf read the sequences

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