Huge honor to be be on the podcast with , here's a link to listen on ? We spoke for 4 hours! Awesome how they edited it down.
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Since the early 1990s, pop song lyrics have become significantly more negative (ht )
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"We conclude that the proliferation of negative song lyrics may be explained partly by content bias ... negative lyrics do better in the charts"
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High winds at the perfect time of day created a previously undocumented 2,400-foot rainbow waterfall in Yosemite National Park
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Nutella is one the world's favorite sweets.
The invention of the hazelnut spread traces all the way back to Napoleon. And more recently, a chocolate shortage in WWII.
Today, it's the crown jewel for Italy's richest family: the Ferrero Group, worth $36B.
Here's the story🧵
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And thank you to for kicking this entire thing off on open protocols. It was a gift to the world that has provided countless billions of hours of joy to people.
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Podcasting is amazing. For podcasting to be as robust as the web, it needs popular open source clients. Here's ours:
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Interesting #jazz news out of San Francisco... Tech innovator and famed Jazz educator and pianist Dr. Simon Rowe announce a new jazz club in the city. Fingers crossed for a masterclass in how audience development can be taken to a new level!
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Exciting launch!
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Today, AI systems can create stunning art & beat humans at chess & Go. But they can't do things a 3-year-old can do. Why?
We're launching @genintelligent & open sourcing our research environment, Avalon, so as a community we can answer these questions: generallyintelligent.com/launch/
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I volunteer helping seniors with their technology issues. One of my regulars came in with a Lenovo laptop. It still had a retail sticker; I imagine she bought it used, for over $500
"I bought this so recently, how is it already so slow," she asked me
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The saddest thing for me about modern tech’s long spiral into user manipulation and surveillance is how it has just slowly killed off the joy that people like me used to feel about new tech. Every product Meta or Amazon announces makes the future seem bleaker and grayer. 1/n
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Right now devs can’t write code in the US without fear of requiring a license they couldn’t possibly get, and you can’t launch a token without fear of prosecution for not completing a registration no one could complete.
If the industry argues for no regs this is what we get.
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I've been trying to avoid Soup-gate takes. But the final paragraphs of this piece (on the important lessons for philanthropy, climate activism, and our theory of change) is spot on.
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Guess the author (without using Google).
[h/t Bernard Avishai]
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Expert RT
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I love you Pocket Casts 👻🔪🔪
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SF right now (especially if you’re in AI) is electric. There’s more seriousness from higher quality builders than there has been in more than 5 years, the heat-seekers mostly left, ambitious technical people are moving here, and good ideas and idea collision are happening.
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Susie Goodall wanted to circumnavigate the globe in her sailboat without stopping. Then a storm struck. (via for in News+)
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How do you identify a modern Web app? It has multiple small spinners instead of one big spinner.
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WHAT KILLED THE CRABS?
The official story is something like “a billion snow crabs disappeared.”
If that sounds fishy to you, keep reading. Let’s dive into the ecology, oceanography, & geopolitical history of the Bering Sea.
A science thread on crabs, corruption, & collapse: 🦀
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Thanks so much for your kind words during our IPO last year. I couldn’t respond at that time due to quiet period guidance, which I mention in this blog post about the #IPO process that contains a bunch of things I learned:
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The following is the translation of a thread posted earlier this week by .
"Lots of people don’t know what happened yesterday.
To put it simply, Biden has forced all Americans working in China to pick between quitting their jobs and losing American citizenship.
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(I still prefer QWERTY for thumb typing, as in the article) iOS 16 quietly added native Dvorak keyboard support, delighting weirdos like me theverge.com/2022/10/14/234 via
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200 WordPress.com websites built for LGBTQ+ organizations across the globe with 🎉 In this video, you'll hear about the impact that these websites have within the LGTBQ+ communities that benefit from them. To learn more, go to outintech.com💙
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Strong co-sign with everything in this thread!
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Async communication is a simple concept: you send a message without expecting an immediate response. The surprising thing is the side-effects of async if you make it the default communication.
Here are some core learnings we've done at Doist in the last 8 years 
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Why high speed rail hasn't caught on
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It's great to see distributed being embraced up and down that list.
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Today is national coming out day!
To all of you who are coming out today, good luck and I hope it goes super well.
For all of you who can't, don't worry - we who are will keep trying to make the world safer so that one day you can.
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“When you pour your love into the animal, the animal pours the love back into you”
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PUB DAY for "When McKinsey Comes to Town." This is much more than a book about a consulting firm: McKinsey is how ideas like high CEO pay, offshoring, asset securitization, and mega-profit healthcare spread far and wide. THIS THREAD describes our journey.
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Not a developer: blogs in Wordpress
Junior developer: writes their own blog site
Developer: writes their own blog site framework
Senior developer: uses someone else’s blog site framework
Staff developer: blogs in Wordpress
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The world's first trombone rhythm game is instantly a GOTY contender. And no, I'm not kidding. Turn up the volume and hear Beethoven like you've never heard it before. trib.al/pFwvN8z
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Some great book recommendations and some interviews I plan to watch.
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An Internet news outlet is asking a lot of people I know, and some I don't, what I've been up to lately. Lord knows what they'll ultimately publish, so I thought I'd just write this instead. -->
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Alabama GOP chairman made the photo ID he used to vote
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An Internet news outlet is asking a lot of people I know, and some I don't, what I've been up to lately. Lord knows what they'll ultimately publish, so I thought I'd just write this instead. -->
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