Imagine tweeting about the people you appreciate and having cynical idiots using it to sneer and dunk.

Unprovoked nastiness like this is why people fear participating here.

But fear is the mind killer, and I play tit for tat, so time for a little 🧵 dedicated to these losers:
The iron law of woke projection ensures there will be a steady stream of updates to this thread, I'm sure.
As a plus, I get to block all their idiot followers that choose to somehow spend time in their day to write some shitty reply to the original thread.
Awww... I think I hurt Bernie's feelings.

His grasp of recursion bottoms out at 2, not having conceived of the fact that I can then tweet what I think about his tweet.

Bernie, learn to code. It won't solve all your problems, but it helps with recursion.
My opinion on Bernie has now changed. I don't think he can learn to code, and should stick with "journalism".
This Bernie fellow is literally the editor of this magazine here... Image

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28 Oct
Can journalism be rescued?

Back in February I wrote a thread about it, which I'll revisit and extend here:
Another, more recent thread of thoughts, mostly focusing on honorable use of language:
More recently, I've come to understand that the dream of an objective truth teller is just that: A dream. Counterintuitively, the epistemology of journalism must embrace humility and wear its bias on its sleeve if it wants to regain some trust.
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28 Oct
Breaking News🧵

Yuri Deigin's PharmaBio lost several court cases in Russia for misusing funding, found after a flash audit, having to refund the government.

At YouthBio, his co-founder/CFO has been fined $100k by the SEC for securities violations involving misleading investors.
This information has been released by @BillyBostickson in response to Yuri announcing a new website for DRASTIC, listing only 12 members. The old website is still there, listing 23 members. I'll try to find out more and update this thread as I figure out what's going on.
A good moment to remember what @fullydavid had said about good journalistic workflow 🤣 medium.com/rebel-wisdom/o… Image
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27 Oct
What are the biggest narrative shifts you know of, recent or historical?

Tell me yours I'll tell you mine.
My entry into this current wave of pandemic twittering was this fateful thread right here, chock-full of narrative shifts I've seen in my lifetime.
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26 Oct
You are entering a complex, multilayered situation you need to understand and resolve. No other details available. You can choose any 5 people for your sensemaking dream team. Who do you bring?

My choices:
@elonmusk
@ConceptualJames
@BretWeinstein
@jockowillink
@danielkenobe
Equal team of alternates inspired by the submissions so far.
@balajis
@ESYudkowsky
@chrismartenson
@slatestarcodex
@Plinz
Take this opportunity to improve your Twitter by blocking the idiots responding to this with sneers.

Alternatively, if you want to get blocked, here's your chance. Write something about how my list is stupid or silly, and I'll relieve you of the burden of ever reading my tweets.
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23 Oct
Could corporations be code?

A perma-🧵 to gather thoughts on what's needed to build a robot in the domain of legal personhood. A legal android, if you will.

But first, what is a corporation, anyway? Put simply, it's a legal abstraction allowing many people, with a defined relationship between them, to appear as one, in the eyes of the law (and other humans). Perhaps a better way to think of it is as a "composite person".
However, as always, the devil is in the details. The character of that composition is what ultimately gives rise to corporatism, the reduction to the lowest-common-denominator.
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23 Oct
Why do corporations tend to reduce themselves to the lowest common denominator? 🧵
The book "Loonshots" refers to the idea of "return on politics": Companies should try to make sure that it's more advantageous for one's career to make actual contributions than to be engaged in internal marketing of one's work and angling to get promoted and/or amass more power.
Likewise, @BretWeinstein and @HeatherEHeying refer to the problem of administrators in universities: those who are willing to bear "networking", woriking in committees, and implementing policies, are those who get to control the future, overriding those who focus on their work.
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