#BookChallenge Day 11 Choose 20 books that influenced you or stayed with you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Join in! 💖📚👀 Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Published February 2012
If you’re wondering why, when JD Vance was asked if he’d certify the 2024 election, he (weirdly) pivoted to allege “Kamala Harris is engaged in censorship at an industrial scale,” I gotchu. 1/
I'm still not good at doing threads here. /insert self age-ism joke
"So this is what’s happened to the world: optimization trumps human preference. The people who want to win the argument are effectively prepared to ignore human truths to preserve the integrity of the artificial model."
"...businesspeople, governments, and politicians aren’t looking to solve problems; they’re looking to win arguments."
Alt: gif from Star Wars with quote 'It's tru.... all of it"
I ran across an interesting article about how faster isn't always better. behavioralscientist.org/are-we-too-i...
There are things we need to deliberately and consciously slow down for our own sanity and for our own productivity. If we don't ask the question about what those things are, we might get things terrib...
1 month since this guy adopted me. I think he’s settled in pretty well - at least he looks comfortable 🤣 Cats sure know how to live.
Yikes! They are getting realistic.
Will Ferrell is obviously not a regular Joe but I really think his doc is the trajectory for the average American on trans people: you’ve got a friend who explained their personal deal to you and because you’re friends you cared