I finally watched a few episodes of Sex and the City over the weekend and people…enjoyed this show?
— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) February 22, 2021
A (male) friend of mine told me that was a good show and I should watch it. This was apparently not a prank.
I wanted to punt all those people on that show into the sun. What a vapid bunch of dipshits. But it is a very American show, so if you want to know what a lot of white urban Americans are like, that’s the show for your anthro research.
The excess death toll post-pandemic as a result of trauma/stress will probably roughly equal the pandemic death toll in 15-20 years, but be harder to quantify.
This is not an exaggeration: the common type of unstructured interviews (where you ask each candidate different questions and have no preset evaluation criteria) actually make your hiring decisions worse than having at all, as this paper shows! pic.twitter.com/kKQOWTpXHJ
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) February 22, 2021
I really dislike structured interviews, but those results are difficult to argue with. Ah well. The evidence is what it is.
22 Feb 2020
Health experts warn life-saving coronavirus vaccine still years awayhttps://t.co/JpYvXSQrBD pic.twitter.com/Hxww8Ej6d6
— Covid One Year Ago (@YearCovid) February 22, 2021
Oopsie.
uh oh https://t.co/jsgEKLy7do
— แผฐฮดฮนฯฯฮทฯ (@anomicca) February 22, 2021
Yeah, fucked that up, didn’t we?
Of course the libs were always going to turn it into some moral crusade, Joan of Arc motherfuckers, William Bell Riley wannabes, fundamentalists misunderstanding nearly everything, imagining the fucking virus chasing them down the street like the equally-moronically-envisioned nanotech in Michael Crichton’s Prey.
Think about your life this time last year, just before Covid hit. What do you miss?
Nice to see these stories. The first 4-5 months of the pandemic, any such thoughts or stories were drowned under a chorus of nincompoops shrieking about killing Gramma.
Social Credit System with American characteristics for a New Era https://t.co/acq2ArbARn
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) February 22, 2021
I thought the future would be cooler, not this clownishly dystopian hellscape.
Most people haven't understood the extent of Europe's failure on the vaccine rollout.
It's not just that Europe started late. It's that they're *still* barely vaccinating.
Here's the percentage of people who got shots each day last week:
Israel: 1.4%
UK: 0.6%
US: 0.5%
EU: 0.1% pic.twitter.com/STiQ1w89fR— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) February 20, 2021
What the fuck, EU?
Limbaugh's career started immediately after Reagan revoked the Fairness Doctrine, which was implemented in 1949 specifically because of what happened in Europe, and he died 6 weeks after causing a putsch that was exactly like what happened in Europe. history isn't subtle
— sean hannity's bottomless pasta pass (@MenshevikM) February 17, 2021
Glad to see more people talking about the Fairness Doctrine again. It was tossed out in 1987, and Rush Limbaugh in his racist human shitstain form really got rolling in 1988.
Limbaugh was one of the top ten — perhaps top five — baleful influences on the country in the past forty years.
I don't know. It's not impossible but to me, it looks less likely than it did in early Januaryโmore data. Cases down, vaccinations up, seasonality in our favor. I support sensible precautions (go outdoors! wear masks indoors!) & vaccinating as fast we can. https://t.co/TAHDOC9aSh
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) February 21, 2021
The more I think about it, the more I think a spring/summer third wave is very, very unlikely, despite all the alarmism I’ve been seeing about the Covid variants lately. Vaccination is ramping fine, seasonality is with us, and 30%+ of Americans have already had Covid.
All this equals no third wave.
Future historians will date the real start of the climate crisis with Hurricane Katrina, in 2005.
This looks like a fashion line that was a collab with @personfaces angel/demon designs https://t.co/n8qkZ19Skq
— Mostly Coffee (on hiatus…kinda) (@95percentcoffee) February 21, 2021
These will be my Galactic Overlord dresses when I am in my female form.
I see the hashtag #InsteadOfGoingToMars and I think, huh, the budget of NASA is 1/200th of the federal budget, 3% of the military budget, a third of what we spend on just cigarettes… and for that we get the entire Universe. Seems like a damn good deal to me.
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) February 20, 2021
I don’t think it has anything to do with money. The psychological issue is deeper than that: many people — perhaps even a bare majority — just hate anything unfamiliar or that’s not helping them directly (in their minds). Most people have laser vision on absolute horseshit and can’t think five minutes ahead. The pandemic has demonstrated that incredibly well.
But that has been the case for the entire pandemic, hasn’t it? Rarely do I find common cause with Cowen, but in this he’s totally right. Our experts have been almost worthless during this crisis and I wish I could figure out why.
Some of the feats that Zeynep Tufekci and I have achieved are the equivalent of entering the Australian Open and winning it, which should just not be remotely possible. It just should not be a thing that can or does happen. I think part of if it is that academia, in many areas, has been optimized for appearing right rather than being right. And this is exactly the wrong way to handle a pandemic. But other factors I am still considering.
Iโm so proud of everyone for pretending there was no reason to believe this until now.
Just incredible epistemic discipline. Almost certainly no unintended consequences. https://t.co/iObjFu6sQZ
— Dustin Moskovitz (@moskov) February 21, 2021
Yeah, it was quite the “expert” and press performance, wasn’t it? Almost makes one want to become a full-on conspiracy theorist.