Crémieux
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I write about genetics, 'metrics, and demographics. Read my long-form writing at https://t.co/8hgA4nNS2A.
Joined March 2023
Today makes two years of having a Twitter account. I'm glad that 244,400 of you have decided to follow me in that time, and it's hard to overstate my astonishment that so many would even want to in the first place. So, thank you, and here's the last month's review of posts!.
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I know how to revive America's dying malls.
In China, for affordable prices, people can rent an entire mall, after closing hours, for softgel wars. #China
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Googled these books and half of them have descriptions like this. This is a porn addiction.
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It's been a busy newsweek, but let's not miss this story:. China has demonstrated the first commercial-scale passive cooling of a high temperature nuclear reactor with a pebble bed module. They intentionally turned off the cooling and the reactor cooled itself down, no problem.
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Thread of some surprising things that are older than other things. Notre Dame predates the Maori settlement of New Zealand
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After the Uvalde school shooting, the New York Times produced this graphic:
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Purely hypothetically, how could you sell a $150 million necklace?.
🚨🚨BREAKING:. The Touissant Cartier necklace worn by Daphne Kluger for tonight's Met Gala, valued at over $150 million dollars, has reportedly been stolen
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Paleo artists often "shrink wrap" fossilized animal depictions. The T-Rex, Utahraptor, Triceratops—popular depictions of each of these animals shows skin so close to bone that it might be unrealistic. So let's shrink-wrap existing animals🧵. Can you guess what this is?
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George Costanza was able to pull an endless sequence of stunningly beautiful women for casual sex while being short and bald, dressing like shit, and living with his parents. This was considered normal in the 90s when the show began.
The Simpsons own this home on a single salary from a husband who didn't go to college . This was considered normal in the 90s when the show began.
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Biden is getting close to ZERO votes. This is the biggest blowout of a sitting president in American history.
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Planes will never exist.
Neither Elon Musk nor anybody else will ever colonize Mars:
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Lots of people attacking this decision, but do you think YOU could pass the POST?. Here's a thread of test questions. Question 1:
Female, black applicants who failed Maryland State Police tests likely to receive $2.75M in backpay from discrimination suit
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New York is now closer to turning red than Texas is to turning blue.
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Ethical hacker:. - Identifies universities illegally racially discriminating.- Provides all the data needed to prove it.- Removes all the PII. NYU has no moral ground to stand on. They got owned by the nicest possible hacker.
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The biggest news today should probably be about one of the Executive Orders from yesterday evening. Trust me, it's big. The President just authorized DOGE to start cutting regulations🧵
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The COVID era Paycheck Protection Program was defrauded at an incredible scale. People received PPP loans for total nonsense at stunning rates. Thread of funny claims. Dodge Hellcat LLC
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"I'm going to put Japan and Korea back together."
🇯🇵🇰🇵🇰🇷 JOE BIDEN: "I'm going to put Japan and Korea back together"
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The biggest news of the day should once again be about DOGE. A new Executive Order was passed a few minutes ago. It empowers DOGE to spearhead the complete reorganization of the federal government🧵
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I just finished the Rogan interview with Trump. It was three hours of continuous, coherent, and pretty good talk, no slowdowns, and it ended with Trump cutting himself off and saying he has "to go make a speech" and he'd love to come back and keep talking.
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ICE 24/7 TIP LINE 🇺🇸. 📞866-DHS-2-ICE (866-347-2423).
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Did you know there's a British police text system you can just message with whatever you want
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Huge new result:. Anti-racism trainings probably lead people to accuse others of racism even when they're not racist. That's exactly the result of a new study on DEI trainings, with a special focus on the impacts of the works of Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo. Let's dig in🧵
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Elon starts his surprise Joe Rogan appearance by mentioning that he's one of the top 20 Diablo 4 players in the world, and there are only TWO Americans in the top 20.
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Update:. Number of words spoken by each Supreme Court Justice in the 2024 term, as of November 15.
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This is the most sympathetic serial killer I've ever heard of. First kill: Rapist pedophile. Second kill: Rapist pedophile. Third kill: Wife-murderer. Fourth kill: Rapist pedophile. He has requested that, instead of life in prison, he be allowed to kill himself. Request denied.
Notorious UK serial killer Robert Maudsley is on a hunger strike after his game console was taken away in prison
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It's projected to take the City of Boston 20 years to build a single train station. So here's a thread on how long it took to build other things. It took six years to build the Transcontinental Railroad from Omaha to Sacramento, including hundreds of stations along the way.
West Station will open in 2045 on the MBTA Commuter Rail Framingham/Worcester Line at the former Beacon Park Yard, costing $100 million to build. Harvard University has pledged $50 million to fund the station.
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I am always taken aback by the pace of Chinese growth.
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Elon Musk: "Most illegal immigrants are good people.". Trump: "I agree.".
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This tracks with the Sinaloa Cartel telling its members to stop making fentanyl or they'll kill them.
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OK, this is just absurd now. The Biden-Harris administration has attacked three emergency services agencies in a week because apparently these exams are too hard for Black people. Want to see how hard this exam is? Let's look at some questions. First up:
Justice Department Sues South Bend, Indiana, for Discriminating Against Black and Female Police Officer Applicants. 🔗:
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Properly shading each state based on 2024 election results, the U.S. is a far more purple place than it at first appears.
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Remember when Beijing was always so smoggy that it was impossible to see a few feet in front of you?. That's basically fixed. Since 2013, PM2.5 is down 64%, NO2 is down 54%, SO2 is down 89%, and instead of having just 13 clear days a year, they now have more than 300.
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Why is San Francisco so incredibly gay?. Military policy. 🧵
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The motherlode is now being tapped for the first, but not the last, time. This is where the real big savings are.
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Amazing. We shouldn't forget that this is many people's first time ever seeing a traditional refugee exodus rather than a mass movement of economically motivated young men.
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I think this is my new favorite visualization of contributions to total NATO defense spending.
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A new paper in Nature found that you cannot, in fact, train AIs on AI-generated data and expect them to continue improving. What happens is actually that the model collapses and ends up producing nonsense.
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They say every seventh person is Chinese, so if you're with your six friends and no one's Chinese, it's you.
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JD recently pointed out that Europe is in the curious position where it wants to both regulate American citizens and freeride off of the U.S. for protection. But the U.S. has no obligation to tolerate that sort of treacherous behavior. So now it won't.
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There could never be a space economy without low-cost flights. The plain fact of the matter is that SpaceX has enabled the existence of the space economy.
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In the Rogan-Vance interview, Rogan repeats that he cannot think of a good argument against strict voter ID unless you just want to cheat.
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After a supposedly 111-year-old man was found to have been dead since 81 and unreported so his daughter could keep collecting his pension checks, Japanese authorities began investigating the country's oldest old. They found a mess.
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I genuinely believe that there are a lot of journalists who don't realize Trump is often doing a comedic bit when he speaks.
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The first empirical evaluation of New York's congestion pricing has just been published. Spoiler: It worked really, really well🧵
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How much different Supreme Court Justices spoke in 2023:
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It's been a BAD week for this tweet.
Behind all of Elon Musk’s bloviating and attention-seeking is a small man who is simply not very good at anything.
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RFK Jr. just now:. - 20% of science funding should be for replication studies.- Peer reviews should always be published alongside papers.- Cargo cults must be ended and fraudulent celebrity scientists crushed. Very good!.
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Underdiscussed downside of solar versus nuclear:. It's fragile.
What Hurricane Milton did to a Duke Energy solar farm in Florida.
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Having moderators do live fact checks in a clearly biased way is insane.
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This seems massively overhyped. "Creating the dire wolves called for making just 20 edits in 14 genes in the common gray wolf." In other words, it's not a dire wolf - it's a gray wolf modified to be more like a dire wolf. That's a cool achievement but they have not 'brought the.
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I still find it fascinating that female monkeys like dolls and male monkeys like cars.
So monkeys, like man, show sex-typed preferences visually as newborns. What about among monkey children, what toys do they like?. One notable difference is that female Vervets like dolls and male Vervets like cars.
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France's national railway company pulled out of bidding for the high-speed rail contract in California in 2011. They said the state was awful to work in and they preferred to work somewhere less dysfunctional. So they went to North Africa.
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President Trump just sent a hugely important memo to all agency heads. It instructs them to inform courts filing injunctions against them that, per the law, plaintiffs have to post a security equal to the potential costs of the injunction to the Federal Government.
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RFK Jr. just said that null results must be published and that too many nulls researchers find are simply never published. This is really good.
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What an incredible new daily game
I scored an average of 3388 over 10 rounds in today's EthnoGuessr! Can you beat my score of 5000 points on round 10? Play now at .
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Sorry, over 1 in 5 Albanians are arrested?.
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This thread evidently reached people who would fail the test.
Lots of people attacking this decision, but do you think YOU could pass the POST?. Here's a thread of test questions. Question 1:
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Trump says he had to argue with Mark Milley about how it definitely wasn't cheaper to leave a $150 million dollar plane in Afghanistan rather than flying it out. Apparently Milley was insistent it was cheaper to leave it to the Taliban.
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Whoever made this meme really struck gold. You will not be catching the traditional Catholic Vice President making major doctrinal mistakes, you'll just look like this:
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1% of people are responsible for 24% of the health spending in America and 5% of people are responsible for just over half.
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He brought the meme on himself.
Putin on the China US Trade War. "When tigers fight, the Wise Monkey sits and observes"
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"The shooter was low IQ". Look at yourself. He was the valedictorian of a good school. He was not "low IQ". You can dislike his beliefs and even think that he's evil, but you're telling on yourself if you believe he was actually unintelligent.
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In 2008, Swiss authorities arrested Gaddafi's son for beating his servants. His response was to propose the G8 dissolve Switzerland as a country.
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High schoolers think it's funny to self-report being transgender. This makes estimates of trans percentages and other stats unreliable. Students who self-report as trans also frequently report being blind 7-foot-tall crackheads who belong to a gang and never visit the dentist.
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Wow. Even communists can succeed by embracing capitalism.
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In Trump's first term, his staff were underqualified and didn't know that the civil servants left behind from the Obama years were lying to them. In this egregious example, career DOL employees simply lied and then proved they were lying the day Biden came into power.
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Most of Africa had an economic lead over China not long ago. The leaving colonial nations left behind railroads, irrigation, and other infrastructure in Africa that China wasn't blessed with. Now China has the lead.
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Told someone that the LLM output they were citing was nonsensical, gave them a source proving it, and they responded that I was wrong because they asked the LLM multiple times and got the same answer. LLMs are replacing reasoning for some of the dumbest people.
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>sell irresponsible product.>users are all irresponsible people.>they behave irresponsibly.>???.>we go out of business.
“The fintech, which offers interest-free consumer loans to allow customers to make retail purchases, on Monday reported a net loss of $99mn for the three months to March, up from $47mn a year earlier.” 👇🏼
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CBS just recorded their highest approval rating for President Trump in their polling history this past week. The thing that makes this newsworthy is the age split: Trump's doing better among the young than the old!
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Tokyo "has remained affordable by becoming the world's largest city. It has become the world's largest city by remaining affordable.". Tokyo shows an inclusive vision of building that other cities can pursue, and it does that while eschewing traditional means of being inclusive.
Tokyo builds more housing than almost any other major city. Is housing notably cheap there?.
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"Without Mohammed, Charlemagne would have been inconceivable.". This quote describes Pirenne's thesis that Antiquity—the period when economic activity concentrated in the Mediterranean—ended because the rise of Islam destroyed the flow of trade across it.
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I can see one reason why Trump's hush-money trial won't be going anywhere.
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I just got done listening to Rogan's interview of Vance. It was substantive, and it is nice to hear that Vance would bring a lot of reasonability to the Trump White House if elected. Due to how long the interview was, it also showed off Vance's unusual-for-a-Republican priorities.
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Paraphrasing a Democratic operative who I won't name:. The Democratic party is now less effective because the pro-Palestine movement was effective at marginalizing the party's Jews and the party promoted Black women to fill the empty spots.
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Lots of people are saying this is frivolous because firefighters should have to pass some test, but let's go ahead and look at some test questions so you can see why this test is just way too hard. This first one's a doozy:
Justice Department Secures Agreement with Durham, North Carolina, to End Discriminatory Hiring Practices in City’s Fire Department. 🔗:
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"Wow, X is so right wing these days". No that's just the country.
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The idea that vaccines cause autism is kind of amazing, because it persists despite being based on a fraudulent study. It is completely made-up, and yet people believe they've found reasons to believe it.
I fully believe vaccines cause Autism. It’s another example of crimes against humanity. And innocent babies, children, and their families are the victims.
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>take out their pagers.>take out their walkie-talkies.>take out their other comms seemingly randomly.>'GUYS WE NEED TO GET TOGETHER AND SOLVE THIS'.>get together.>Mossad blows up the building.
🚨🚨An Israeli official said that the entire senior command of Hezbollah's Radwan force was eliminated in the strike (around 20 commanders).
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This is such a great chart for showing off how good economists have gotten at stabilizing the economy.
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This story was so inspiring that I shot myself, but I only damaged the gullible part of my brain and now I no longer believe the story.
In the 1980s, a man suffering from extreme OCD attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head. Rather than ending his life, the bullet destroyed the brain region linked to his OCD, and five years later, he had transformed into a straight-A college student.
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If a generation of 30 million people has a fertility rate of 0.68, the next generation contains only 10.2 million people. The first generation's grandkids number only about 3.5 million, and their great-grandkids number only about 1.2 million. Korea will disappear overnight.
As of 2024 the fertility rate in South Korea is 0.68 births per woman.
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The Great Pyramid of Giza was completed before Woolly Mammoths went extinct
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Scientific fraud of this caliber makes a good case for capital punishment.
this disgusting shitstain of a man spent 25 fucking years fucking up the entire field of research on Parkinson's and Alzheimers cures for personal gain. despicable.
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I think this graphic is a great way to convey the progress studies mentality.
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Al Qaeda, 2001: We will destroy the decadent West. Al Qaeda, 2024: Diversity is our strength.
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