First you need to understand what we're doing here. The goal is to make a rich, heavy ingredient, butter, function as a leavening agent instead of weighing us down. We want its moisture content to steam the biscuit upward as in puff pastry while the butterfat invades the crumb.
Jan 10 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Things went pretty bad once we mapped out the whole world and created the UN to keep it glued down. Man's nature is to discover and conquer, so what happens when you deprive those impulses their natural outlets?
✍️ The Unlightenment: Covery and Reconquista✍️
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Until very recently there was only a couple of pathways open to being remembered by history: be a great political/military figure or discover/quantify/invent something great. This is why you know both Alexander and Pythagoras, both Churchill and Newton.
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Oct 10, 2023 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
The American racial groups ranked, according to Bing AI:
1. White 2. Asian 3. Latino 4. Black (Bing isn't a fan)
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I prompted Bing (DALL-E) AI image generator with "an average weekend in a ________ American neighborhood in Chicago."
The engine is super afraid of controversy, so I worded things carefully. "Black" and "white" were forbidden.
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Aug 22, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
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Alright, let's go around the table and see what the future of the Army Officer Corps is looking like.
Two sport HS athlete, handsome post 1960s face, probably had a pretty conservative upbringing but it won't take much to make him reject it. O-5 potential. 1/
Nice girl from a mid-sized town. Hasn't seen much of the world but is big on women's equality. Here to prove all the naysayers wrong. O-4 potential but probably marries early. A mom within 4 yrs.
