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Sep 14, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
This is so insane. The NYC subway system is closed overnight now as part of the coronavirus shutdowns, but they’re still running the trains on the same schedule as before the closure. “Only cops and transit workers are allowed to board” nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny…
Like a bad parody of bananas NYC govt wastefulness. “Train crews said they enjoy the shutdown. Most overnight trains operate with a conductor and an operator together in the front car...’You’re normally pretty isolated in that cab,’ said one operator”
nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny…
They still have conductors!!!

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Aug 19, 2022
I just saw something incredibly beautiful while waiting in line at Dunkin Donuts at the JFK arrivals hall
Two French tourists who just arrived, can barely speak English, the guy asks for coffee. The lady behind the counter just barrages him with questions about all the possible modifications he might want to make, and he has absolutely no idea what she’s saying.
She makes no effort to slow down or simplify, and he’s completely bewildered and just starts saying “yes” to everything to make it stop, and each yes just led to more questions and more additions
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Jul 17, 2022
Hard to square the larger narrative of Twitter as a struggling business with the extraordinary rise of the Thread Guy
There’s always been various kinds of thread people on here, they rise and fall like the empires of old. But the Thread Guy is such a hyper evolved version, and there seems to be dozens of new Thread Guys emerging fully formed each week
Incredible to witness new Thread Guys being born in real time
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Jul 15, 2022
Your summer Friday treat is this amazing NEOM feature: bloomberg.com/features/2022-…
There’s so much going on in this NEOM story but the highlight for me is they want to put canals alongside the roads, filled with swimming pool water, so people can swim to work bloomberg.com/features/2022-… Image
Secondary highlight is NEOM’s “linear city” concept, THE LINE, has evolved to include “two parallel mega-structures, as tall as the Empire State Building, that would extend horizontally for dozens of miles” that planners estimate will cost more than a trillion dollars to build
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Jun 11, 2022
This discussion between a Google engineer and their conversational AI model helped cause the engineer to believe the AI is becoming sentient, kick up an internal shitstorm and get suspended from his job. And it is absolutely insane. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
FWIW I thought this was a great thread re the “is AI becoming sentient” debate, TL;DR being that it’s an interesting question but it’s dramatically less important or urgent than the actually existing issues around ethical/responsible use of AI right now
Also if AI is capable of doing things like holding lengthy conversations indistinguishable from a human, or running a business or creating beautiful art etc, whether it’s “intelligent” doesn’t really seem like the most important question either way?
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Sep 5, 2021
This could be the rare unicorn of a story where everyone involved is simultaneously wrong—the doctor, the TV station that interviewed him and wrote it up, the places that aggregated that write up, the hospital that corrected him, and the people triumphantly citing the correction
To begin with: Maybe it’s just editing, but in the original TV interview that all this drama is based on, the doctor never actually says it’s ivermectin overdoses that are overwhelming emergency rooms kfor.com/news/local/pat…
Beyond that, neither the doctor or the TV station name a specific hospital, although the station says it’s happening in “eastern and southeastern Oklahoma.”
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Sep 3, 2021
Apologies for the upcoming binge of whataboutism, but an American magazine asking “how much time must pass before we must regard Australia as illiberal and unfree?” is pretty comical theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
America has more prisoners than China and Russia combined. It has more than 125,000 people being tracked with GPS ankle bracelets. Judges sentence drug addicts to work for no wages in commercial poultry slaughterhouses as rehab.
All of these things are more sinister and oppressive than enforcing home quarantine during a pandemic by requiring people to send selfies of themselves at home at random intervals.
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