"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." Simone Weil

This is why *many* White people voted for Donald Trump. Change my mind.

BREAKING: Missourians voted to end the state's abortion ban, the very first abortion ban enforced after Roe was overturned. This is a huge win for reproductive freedom in Missouri.

We are often so focused on being right that we miss the advantage of simply avoiding stupidity.

Don’t ask whose fault this was. Plenty of time for second-guessing and recriminations. Ask instead, what can you do? For my part, that means telling the truth as I see it, as long as I can. The media will be under a lot of pressure to toe the line; don’t capitulate in advance

This is insanity indeed that we've all seen coming.

TIL his name is Droopy

Is there a support group for NYT Connections players where we could commiserate over "omg how dumb is purple today?"

I like to imagine that social media managers have this group chat where they egg each other on and also high five each other

you called?

Just found out I have been paying Consumer Reports digital membership over a decade. My last login was in 2011. 🤡💀

iOS find the right button to snooze

In the latest article about Kamala Harris’ staff turnover in the Washington Post, former staffers complain that she expects her team to be just as prepared as she is, and to be able to explain everything they put in her briefings and schedule.

How Telegram Became a Sanctuary for Domestic Terrorists

OK, here is my best guess on the state of LLMs: - The scale increase between gpt-3 and gpt-4 was 100x - Doing that for the next model is going to be very hard - We're nearly out of general language tokens. So let's say we can 2x that. And perhaps get more proprietary tokens and

why did public cloud storage pricing stop going down in 2017?

Is there a support group where we can go and complain about the NYT Connections game? #Purplefirst

Come on man.

A lot of food for thought here 👇

Raise your hand ✋ if this is what you have in your mind when you see the headline

This 🧵 is validating, comforting, and triggering at the same time.