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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ
I'm not even sure what deep metaphor I think I'm looking at, here. Maybe I'm just filling my chapel with horny moths
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Ryan Orbuch Feb 1
Here's the correspondence between CO2 emissions (gigatons) to atmospheric concentrations (parts per million). It's very helpful to think between both scales! From :
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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ Feb 1
You'll look either Very Courageous (if not considered "powerful") or Very Discerning (if "powerful") if you simply make a habit of expecting people to give you a good reason to care about what they think which is just good, basic epistemic hygiene
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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ Feb 1
Big red scare vibes, very retro-modern
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Patrick McKenzie Feb 1
Replying to @patio11
(Risky here being shorthand for "high variance in expected returns of the underlying.") If you gave a choice "Would you rather have 100 CEOs in your network or 100 college students?" assuming low levels of investment in each relationship I think almost everyone picks wrong.
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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ Feb 1
Replying to @webdevMason
Most people never, ever forget the first person to give them a sizable advance on their own self-confidence β€” there's no greater security in life than being a serial enabler of wonderful young people
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Nathan🌐 Feb 1
Most Likely to Succeed is fantastic I think I have to thank for recommending it Basically they get 12/13 year olds to do ridiculously good projects that we never expect them to be able to do, or let them try
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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ Feb 1
Creating a serendipitous connection, freely offering a good idea, telling someone you see their potential & you'll be in their corner... these are both cheap & costly, the currency of trust in the human project Invest this way and you'll have the world's most joyous nest egg
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Antonio GarcΓ­a MartΓ­nez Jan 31
Journalists used to provide distribution, so they were pandered to. Now they simply provide distortion, so they're ignored. To the formerly pandered, indifference feels like defensiveness, when it's merely the ingratiating mask falling off.
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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ Jan 31
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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ Jan 30
Replying to @KyleBogosian
Right now, we only have a very tentative model for lethality, and the confirmed infection population is still at a manageable, treatable size and largely geographically contained. There are very good reasons to try to keep it that way
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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ Jan 30
Replying to @KyleBogosian
I meeeean, I agree that it's not a good idea for anyone to panic. Panic wouldn't be a good plan if it *were* an existential threat. But (a) the Big One won't look like the Big One until it... looks like the Big One, and (b) the very solid global response is clearly a good thing
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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ Jan 30
Replying to @webdevMason
tired: anxious antivax moms don't care about immunocompromised kids wired: most of those deaths were people with shitty immune systems, just saying
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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ Jan 30
>200 dead despite intensive care; at least an order of magnitude more deadly than the flu, highly mobile w/ no vaccine, just declared a global health emergency by the WHO, and WIRED's contribution is ...*drumroll*... border health checks are authoritarian
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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ Jan 30
Replying to @antirobust @OBaverstam
Some folks have mentioned that the ticket will likely get thrown out if he sees a judge. But then you're talking about taking time off, making the trip to the courthouse, waiting an hour or two, and possibly still paying the $80. People only ever really do that out of principle
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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ Jan 30
Replying to @webdevMason
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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ Jan 30
Replying to @webdevMason
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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ Jan 30
Official "for fucksake, San Francisco" thread
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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ Jan 30
Replying to @TheShortboy
There is literally no way to distinguish between a self-put down so accurate that it's actually helpful, and a self-put down that is just a self-fulfilling prophecy. But I've also learned that you can't save a person who is philosophically dedicated to drowning, and I don't try.
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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ Jan 30
Replying to @TheShortboy
I hear people say this, and I don't really care to argue with it. I do know that not a lot of those people follow me, and the people who *do* follow me who claim to feel this way often later reveal that they're desperately unhappy, and get limited satisfaction from self martyrdom
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Mason πŸƒπŸ»βœ‚οΈ Jan 30
Replying to @webdevMason
I actually think there's room for a special sort of domain expert to replace the grantwriting process for corporate/eccentric nonprofits, filtering like a VC rather than e.g. a University
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