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I write about genetics, 'metrics, and demographics. Read my long-form writing at https://t.co/8hgA4nNS2A.
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Joined March 2023
I've now been on Twitter for a year and nine months!. My thanks go out to all 221,900 of you who have decided to follow me since I started here. Now it's time for the monthly review of posts!.
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Googled these books and half of them have descriptions like this. This is a porn addiction.
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It's been a busy newsweek, but let's not miss this story:. China has demonstrated the first commercial-scale passive cooling of a high temperature nuclear reactor with a pebble bed module. They intentionally turned off the cooling and the reactor cooled itself down, no problem.
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Thread of some surprising things that are older than other things. Notre Dame predates the Maori settlement of New Zealand
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After the Uvalde school shooting, the New York Times produced this graphic:
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Purely hypothetically, how could you sell a $150 million necklace?.
🚨🚨BREAKING:. The Touissant Cartier necklace worn by Daphne Kluger for tonight's Met Gala, valued at over $150 million dollars, has reportedly been stolen
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Paleo artists often "shrink wrap" fossilized animal depictions. The T-Rex, Utahraptor, Triceratops—popular depictions of each of these animals shows skin so close to bone that it might be unrealistic. So let's shrink-wrap existing animals🧵. Can you guess what this is?
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George Costanza was able to pull an endless sequence of stunningly beautiful women for casual sex while being short and bald, dressing like shit, and living with his parents. This was considered normal in the 90s when the show began.
The Simpsons own this home on a single salary from a husband who didn't go to college . This was considered normal in the 90s when the show began.
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Biden is getting close to ZERO votes. This is the biggest blowout of a sitting president in American history.
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Planes will never exist.
Neither Elon Musk nor anybody else will ever colonize Mars:
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Lots of people attacking this decision, but do you think YOU could pass the POST?. Here's a thread of test questions. Question 1:
Female, black applicants who failed Maryland State Police tests likely to receive $2.75M in backpay from discrimination suit
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New York is now closer to turning red than Texas is to turning blue.
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"I'm going to put Japan and Korea back together."
🇯🇵🇰🇵🇰🇷 JOE BIDEN: "I'm going to put Japan and Korea back together"
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I just finished the Rogan interview with Trump. It was three hours of continuous, coherent, and pretty good talk, no slowdowns, and it ended with Trump cutting himself off and saying he has "to go make a speech" and he'd love to come back and keep talking.
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Did you know there's a British police text system you can just message with whatever you want
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Huge new result:. Anti-racism trainings probably lead people to accuse others of racism even when they're not racist. That's exactly the result of a new study on DEI trainings, with a special focus on the impacts of the works of Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo. Let's dig in🧵
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Elon starts his surprise Joe Rogan appearance by mentioning that he's one of the top 20 Diablo 4 players in the world, and there are only TWO Americans in the top 20.
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Update:. Number of words spoken by each Supreme Court Justice in the 2024 term, as of November 15.
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The COVID era Paycheck Protection Program was defrauded at an incredible scale. People received PPP loans for total nonsense at stunning rates. Thread of funny claims. Dodge Hellcat LLC
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Elon Musk: "Most illegal immigrants are good people.". Trump: "I agree.".
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This tracks with the Sinaloa Cartel telling its members to stop making fentanyl or they'll kill them.
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OK, this is just absurd now. The Biden-Harris administration has attacked three emergency services agencies in a week because apparently these exams are too hard for Black people. Want to see how hard this exam is? Let's look at some questions. First up:
Justice Department Sues South Bend, Indiana, for Discriminating Against Black and Female Police Officer Applicants. 🔗:
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Properly shading each state based on 2024 election results, the U.S. is a far more purple place than it at first appears.
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Why is San Francisco so incredibly gay?. Military policy. 🧵
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I think this is my new favorite visualization of contributions to total NATO defense spending.
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They say every seventh person is Chinese, so if you're with your six friends and no one's Chinese, it's you.
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A new paper in Nature found that you cannot, in fact, train AIs on AI-generated data and expect them to continue improving. What happens is actually that the model collapses and ends up producing nonsense.
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JD recently pointed out that Europe is in the curious position where it wants to both regulate American citizens and freeride off of the U.S. for protection. But the U.S. has no obligation to tolerate that sort of treacherous behavior. So now it won't.
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There could never be a space economy without low-cost flights. The plain fact of the matter is that SpaceX has enabled the existence of the space economy.
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In the Rogan-Vance interview, Rogan repeats that he cannot think of a good argument against strict voter ID unless you just want to cheat.
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After a supposedly 111-year-old man was found to have been dead since 81 and unreported so his daughter could keep collecting his pension checks, Japanese authorities began investigating the country's oldest old. They found a mess.
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I genuinely believe that there are a lot of journalists who don't realize Trump is often doing a comedic bit when he speaks.
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How much different Supreme Court Justices spoke in 2023:
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It's been a BAD week for this tweet.
Behind all of Elon Musk’s bloviating and attention-seeking is a small man who is simply not very good at anything.
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Underdiscussed downside of solar versus nuclear:. It's fragile.
What Hurricane Milton did to a Duke Energy solar farm in Florida.
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Having moderators do live fact checks in a clearly biased way is insane.
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I still find it fascinating that female monkeys like dolls and male monkeys like cars.
So monkeys, like man, show sex-typed preferences visually as newborns. What about among monkey children, what toys do they like?. One notable difference is that female Vervets like dolls and male Vervets like cars.
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France's national railway company pulled out of bidding for the high-speed rail contract in California in 2011. They said the state was awful to work in and they preferred to work somewhere less dysfunctional. So they went to North Africa.
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Sorry, over 1 in 5 Albanians are arrested?.
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This thread evidently reached people who would fail the test.
Lots of people attacking this decision, but do you think YOU could pass the POST?. Here's a thread of test questions. Question 1:
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Trump says he had to argue with Mark Milley about how it definitely wasn't cheaper to leave a $150 million dollar plane in Afghanistan rather than flying it out. Apparently Milley was insistent it was cheaper to leave it to the Taliban.
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1% of people are responsible for 24% of the health spending in America and 5% of people are responsible for just over half.
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"The shooter was low IQ". Look at yourself. He was the valedictorian of a good school. He was not "low IQ". You can dislike his beliefs and even think that he's evil, but you're telling on yourself if you believe he was actually unintelligent.
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In 2008, Swiss authorities arrested Gaddafi's son for beating his servants. His response was to propose the G8 dissolve Switzerland as a country.
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Wow. Even communists can succeed by embracing capitalism.
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In Trump's first term, his staff were underqualified and didn't know that the civil servants left behind from the Obama years were lying to them. In this egregious example, career DOL employees simply lied and then proved they were lying the day Biden came into power.
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Most of Africa had an economic lead over China not long ago. The leaving colonial nations left behind railroads, irrigation, and other infrastructure in Africa that China wasn't blessed with. Now China has the lead.
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I can see one reason why Trump's hush-money trial won't be going anywhere.
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"Without Mohammed, Charlemagne would have been inconceivable.". This quote describes Pirenne's thesis that Antiquity—the period when economic activity concentrated in the Mediterranean—ended because the rise of Islam destroyed the flow of trade across it.
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I just got done listening to Rogan's interview of Vance. It was substantive, and it is nice to hear that Vance would bring a lot of reasonability to the Trump White House if elected. Due to how long the interview was, it also showed off Vance's unusual-for-a-Republican priorities.
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Lots of people are saying this is frivolous because firefighters should have to pass some test, but let's go ahead and look at some test questions so you can see why this test is just way too hard. This first one's a doozy:
Justice Department Secures Agreement with Durham, North Carolina, to End Discriminatory Hiring Practices in City’s Fire Department. 🔗:
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"Wow, X is so right wing these days". No that's just the country.
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The idea that vaccines cause autism is kind of amazing, because it persists despite being based on a fraudulent study. It is completely made-up, and yet people believe they've found reasons to believe it.
I fully believe vaccines cause Autism. It’s another example of crimes against humanity. And innocent babies, children, and their families are the victims.
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>take out their pagers.>take out their walkie-talkies.>take out their other comms seemingly randomly.>'GUYS WE NEED TO GET TOGETHER AND SOLVE THIS'.>get together.>Mossad blows up the building.
🚨🚨An Israeli official said that the entire senior command of Hezbollah's Radwan force was eliminated in the strike (around 20 commanders).
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This is such a great chart for showing off how good economists have gotten at stabilizing the economy.
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If a generation of 30 million people has a fertility rate of 0.68, the next generation contains only 10.2 million people. The first generation's grandkids number only about 3.5 million, and their great-grandkids number only about 1.2 million. Korea will disappear overnight.
As of 2024 the fertility rate in South Korea is 0.68 births per woman.
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The Great Pyramid of Giza was completed before Woolly Mammoths went extinct
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Scientific fraud of this caliber makes a good case for capital punishment.
this disgusting shitstain of a man spent 25 fucking years fucking up the entire field of research on Parkinson's and Alzheimers cures for personal gain. despicable.
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I think this graphic is a great way to convey the progress studies mentality.
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Al Qaeda, 2001: We will destroy the decadent West. Al Qaeda, 2024: Diversity is our strength.
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The woman who ruined Scientific American has decided to resign!
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This is going to be great for his re-election campaign!.
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The internet is rotting and what goes online is not necessarily forever. Already more than a third of webpages from 2013 cannot be accessed, and with archives disappearing, mountains of content will be completely lost.
Internet Archive has not been archiving since 10/8. Google Cache has stopped caching. The Alexa service - the one that used to rank web traffic (not the Amazon virtual assistant) is gone. The ability of censors to memory-hole the internet is growing.
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Napoleon was the best-performing general in European history, and it's not even close. His Wins Above Replacement (WAR) simply dwarfed everyone else, including Caesar.
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You have to understand:. China's population is declining at an accelerating rate. Each year will be like losing an entire small European country. This will change the world.
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I simulated 100,000 people to show how often people are "thrice-exceptional": Smart, stable, and exceptionally hard-working. I've highlighted these people in red in this chart:
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Once again, it's only a few people doing the vast majority of the crimes.
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Here's a fun target for higher education reform:. Reverse the Biden administration's choice to subsidize the least productive degrees while penalizing people for majoring in productive subjects.
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Elon's Twitter acquisition has majorly impacted the public perception of this event. Millions have been exposed to unfiltered gore for days on end and millions more have seen left-wing people and groups they respected totally discredit themselves by supporting Hamas. Worth it.
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This post got 50,000 likes and it never even pointed out the actual issue with the calculations, it just took issue with framing and it expressed that Kareem is too inept to find sources. But what's new?. Kareem debunking thread below
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A bridge still in use in Trier is nearly a thousand years older than the Inca Empire
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TL;DR: Neo-Nazi is told 'you look like a Jew,' takes a DNA test, finds he's 2.4% Jewish thanks to his great-great-grandmother, and now he dons the tefillin three times a day, goes to synagogue, lives kashrut, and regularly attends Torah study.
Neo-Nazi who inspired Edward Norton’s ‘American History X’ skinhead is now an observant Jew thanks to DNA discovery
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When We Get Back Home was a humorous Japanese occupation-era comic series depicting what American soldiers would do when they returned from their time in Japan. The series is an excellent glimpse into how Americans viewed Japan. Here's a thread of some of my favorite panels.
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The World Bank puts out a lot of reports and nobody reads them.
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James "The Adonis" Polk ran on the promise he would achieve his agenda in one term and not run again. He then achieved his agenda and did not run again. But imagine if he had achieved his dream.
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A few days ago, Biden commuted the death sentences of almost every federal death row inmate. Every single person whose sentence Biden commuted was verifiably evil and clearly earned the death penalty. Let's go through all 37🧵.
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Today several universities just became free to most of the population:. - MIT announced that students from families making <$200k attend free.- The UT System announced that students from families making <$100k attend free.
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We need a word for when people start believing something based on zero evidence and then after it's known there was no evidence for their belief, they keep searching for reasons to believe it.
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If the reactor won't melt down because it can passively cool itself in the eventuality that cooling fails, then that eliminates another reason for opposing nuclear. Good.
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In the past 24 hours, it's become known that Luigi Mangione. 1. Had a completely successful back surgery. 2. Wasn't a UnitedHealthcare enrollee. The odds he just wanted to attack someone in healthcare should go up.
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Now, without sarcasm, if you fail this sort of test, something is wrong with you. This test is incredibly easy and you would have to be illiterate and innumerate to fail. And yet, 9% of Whites and 29% of Blacks fail. Incidentally, with equal variances, that's a 0.79 d difference.
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This is a pretty large effect!. TL;DR: People whose work is graded later tend to be graded more harshly. If your grading order is alphabetical, that'll unduly penalize people with alphabetically-later surnames.
What a great paper - with 30m Canvas records, they find that LMS design leads to disparities in grading.
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This has a price of $5,333.33/mo. If you're a tech worker coming from a major city, that's not a bad price.
A cruise line is currently offering a 4-year trip for Americans who want to skip Trump’s second term.
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Shoplifting is definitely serious, and it's an area where extremely few people do a lot of harm. For example: 0.00385% of New York's population were responsible for 33% of the shoplifting arrests in the city. 327 people being arrested more than 6,000 times in a year is insane.
This is not okay and is not sustainable. It's time to get serious about how to handle shoplifting and disorder. The answer can't be long prison sentences, but it also can't be nothing. The AV CJ team is holding a BRIDGE event on how to handle retail theft, early in 2025. Looking.
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Give me all your plots of weird thresholds, like this:
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