Supporting Bloomberg in the primary is an easy way to let people know that if Trump had just called himself a Dem you'd be wearing a MAGA hat right now.
— maura quint (@behindyourback) February 17, 2020
Holy shit. She burned the fucking house down with all the centrists inside. I love it.
Harsh environments breed hard people
— Preethi Kasireddy (@iam_preethi) February 20, 2020
Yes. I wonder often how I’d be different if I hadn’t grown up in rural North Florida. Probably would be, but the counterfactual is impossible to know.
I want to make a parody version of Billie Eilish’s “You Should See Me In a Crown” called “You Should See Me Fight a Clown.”
This is the calendar of a CISO I hope you’re gettin paid https://t.co/Ln2BRpQ0Sz
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) February 20, 2020
At my previous job, where I was not a C-level, I often had 8 hours of meetings scheduled a day. Nightmare. People would try to schedule meetings during my lunch and would get angry when I declined them.
They’d say, “Well, it was the only free time on your calendar!” Yeah, there’s a reason for that.
The good thing about if I ever became a billionaire is that I’m already as big a jerk as I’m ever going to be. It wouldn’t change me much. I’d probably just give away a lot of the money, not fake give it away like a lot of billionaires do.
People would still get angry at me, though, because I’d do an expedition to Mars just so I could put a pull-up bar on Hellas Planitia. And when people asked me, “Mike, why’d you put a pull-up bar on Mars?” I’d say, “DUH, so I could do a pull-up on Mars, what are you, some kind of dumbass?”
Well, you see what I mean.
Every once in a while I remember that Einstein's most cited paper is the one where he says "quantum mechanics must be bunk, because if it is true all these crazy things must also be true."
He led the field in predicting quantum effects!
— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) February 19, 2020
Turns out all those crazy things (and more) were true. Occam’s Razor is only useful if you don’t know anything else. Complexity is unavoidable when it matches actual features of the universe.
The problem of getting people to accept direct public funding of research, as opposed to relying on government-granted patent monopolies, is that it is too simple for intellectual types to understand https://t.co/LW78kdpCkl
— Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13) February 19, 2020
Intellectuals tend to want to make things more complicated than they must be because it excludes others and keeps the barriers to entry high. Sometimes, the world is complex. That is unavoidable. But a lot of what you see is artificially convoluted; this is unnecessary and is about protecting existing power and is designed for gatekeeping.