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STEALTH JEFF
STEALTH JEFF
@drawandstrike
LOL ok let's see a show of hands. Who *really believes* this meeting on board Air Force One between President Donald J. Trump and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein was about *Rosenstein begging Trump for his job*?

This was a high level briefing to the President by the guy *directly in charge* of handling the declassifying/unredacting of all the DOJ/FBI #SpyGate documents.

But the NYT's was leaked a cover story abour RR plotting to get Trump impeached by using the 25th Amendment.

Trump's already given the order that this must happen. So this was RR briefing Trump just before the documents start being rolled out with 28 days to go until the Nov. 6 midterm elections.
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Ruth Braunstein
Ruth Braunstein
@RuthBraunstein
Ever wonder why we get stuck in endless debates about whether political protesters are being “civil” or not, and whether this should even matter in the first place? 1/

This is a question I ask in my latest article in Theory & Society, “Boundary-work and the demarcation of civil from uncivil protest in the United States: control, legitimacy, and political inequality” (https://t.co/EFMY6Q5hLd) 2/

In the article, I develop the concept of *civility contests*—everyday efforts to distinguish between civil and uncivil individuals, groups, or behaviors. 3/

Focusing on political protest in the US, I find that civility contests involve a wide range of political actors (power holders, opposing movements, the media) who seek to *control* or *delegitimize* protesters (or defend protesters’ *legitimacy*). 4/

When powerholders or political rivals question protesters’ civility, this is a way of changing the subject. Civility contests suck the air and energy out of protests, leaving less room for substantive debate. They also justify sometimes severe punitive action. 5/
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel Andrew
@rachelandrew
After almost 20 years of explaining websites don't need to look the same in all browsers I think I'm done. You have the ability to make progressively enhanced websites, more so than ever before. Use it. Don't use it. Just don't argue with me about it!

I'm writing my talks for next year and we will be looking to the future. I am nothing if not pragmatic. I build sites and applications that have to WORK everywhere, that support as many places as possible. But "look" the same. No. Not possible.
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Steven Sinofsky
Steven Sinofsky
@stevesi
1/ "Consumerization of IT" bit of tired phrase. There’s a much more important shift with changing role of biz productivity software. We're in a new era where software solutions can be more like office "supplies" than office "buildings".


IMPORTANT: TAM for productivity s/w is going UP and not just because h/w & svcs dollars shifting to MS365 from on-prem, but because most cost/spend was hidden as spreadsheets, old templates, one-offs, or internal custom dev. So cloud+commercializaton=BIG TAM.

Consumerization attributes include buyer, user experience, pricing, etc. Key is productivity is minimizing usage or time to complete task, maximizing the value of single use case. Design point very different than consumer services MAU, MPU so "consummation" can be misunderstood.

PC era was "bring your own" with ppl buying s/w at computer stores, using for work. IT took over—*all* software was bought, deployed, controlled. Always some "leakage" of course. SaaS (eg SFDC, DBX, Gmail) showed people do go around IT but this was rough.

Important part of this whole model (especially early) was a "departmental customizer". Ppl writing VBA macros, templates, even big Access database apps. Or buyers of first gen SaaS infrastructure. Created infrastructure highly dependent on single employee or contractors. FRAGILE.
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Armine Yalnizyan
Armine Yalnizyan
@ArmineYalnizyan
The idea of imperfect competition leading to technological advancement can be mapped onto education/early learning and social determinants of health. /2


Market forces lead to suboptimal investments in health and education, especially social determinants of health and early learning. (Invest early, invest often for biggest rerurns.) /3

Public policy can provide the "monopolistic" investment that optimizes (at least improves) productive potential of every person in society, not discounting the potential of the poors and the marginalized. /4

This is exactly what we are going to need more of in the next few years, as the Global North ages rapidly and we are faced with dependency ratios that look like the 1960s, but with half the growth. That working are population will need all hands on deck. /5

In short, after a lifetime of being told that markets can do the job if you just get out of the way, we are entering an era where we will need more public policy interventions to optimize growth and well being./6
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V A L E N C I A
V A L E N C I A
@SayItValencia
SIMPLE GOOGLE SEARCH ON FOOD & ELECTRICITY :

"Electricity is everywhere, even in the human body.
Our cells are specialized to conduct electrical currents.
Elements in our body; sodium, potassium, calcium & magnesium,
have a specific electrical charge.
Almost all cells can use these charged elements to generate electricity."


Some fruits & vegetables conduct electricity, often providing a current strong enough to act as a BATTERY.
Electrical power increases as you connect more fruits.

The acidity of citrus fruits acts as an electrolyte that conducts electricity.
(Orange, grapefruits, limes & lemons)


Why the body needs electricity?

Ions (atoms that has electric charge) carry the electrical energy necessary for many functions, including muscle contractions and transmission of nerve impulses.
Many bodily functions depend on electrolytes.

Simple.
I want to work WITH my body.

This took me 2 minutes to research.
It's simple mathematics
At this point, I'm starting to believe that a lot of people just want to be ignorant.
You have difficulty seeing through a decorum when someone who looks different than you tells you something.

@12D_ASCENSION thank you.
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Fran\xe7ois Chollet
François Chollet
@fchollet
One of the most amazing things about the brain is how incredibly slow it is. Nerve impulses travel extremely slowly compared to the speed of electricity, and our fastest neurons can fire *a few* times per second . Compare that to the clock speed of a modern CPU, ~10M times faster

Yet we can produce complex behaviors in response to unexpected events in about 400-500ms (like catching an incoming object). Including muscle-brain roundtrip. This implies that each neuron involved in the computation fires at most a couple of times.

This inherent slowness, coupled with the constraint of real-time responses, must have shaped the algorithms developed by the brain in profound ways (in particular, this is likely why we need *so many* neurons). Intelligence developed on a computer might look very different.

In particular, we are unable to brute-force any problem. We solve constraint satisfaction problems via intuition and analogy. A chess master evaluates millions of times fewer positions than a computer program at a comparable level.

Our biological and experiential limitations *force* our brains to be *intelligent* -- to learn from few examples, to generalize strongly, to build complex solutions in few trials. Everything that is out of reach for AI today.
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Jed Shugerman
Jed Shugerman
@jedshug
1. The Trump/Alfa Bank server connection during the campaign wasn't random.
2. Trump and the GOP just appointed Brian Benczkowski, a lawyer who worked for Alfa Bank, to lead the DOJ's criminal division, and he refuses to recuse himself.
What the hell is going on here?
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HOS SOCIAL
HOS SOCIAL
@HOS_MEDIA
Scenes from our most recent meet and greet 😍

*New Memes Alert !! 😂


We were all full 😎


Young soccer match in the making !

@justkholii__ didn't score but his team won 😂
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Nate Schmidt
Nate Schmidt
@schm7dt
One of the biggest mistakes newbies make is spending time/money to turn an idea into reality BEFORE they've even validated it will actually work.

Learning how to validate ideas fast was one of the best things I ever did.

In this thread, I share what I've learned...

Validating an idea means figuring out whether or not it will actually work before taking the time to actually build everything out.

It's important to know how to validate because it prevents you from wasting time on low ROI shit that doesn't produce results.

Being able to validate ideas fast is what separates entrepreneurs from "wantrepreneurs."

To validate an idea, you must prove that people are ready, willing, and able to give you money for whatever it is you're selling. Basically, validating is doing the marketing first, before you build the business behind it.

For example:

You want to build an ecom brand selling sunglasses, watches, accessories. But you're not yet sure if it will work. So instead of contacting suppliers, getting samples, and spending a bunch of $$ on inventory, you do the marketing first.
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Seth Abramson
Seth Abramson
@SethAbramson
MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Kremlin "Intermediary" George Papadopoulos Alleges President Trump Lied About Never Having Met With Him After March 2016; September 2016 Meeting Occurred After Trump Knew of Russian Attacks


2/ Trump's legal duty under the federal aiding and abetting statute not to do anything that might induce further Russian attacks was officially triggered on August 17, 2016, at his first classified briefing. Why was he meeting with a "Kremlin intermediary" weeks after this date?
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Seth Abramson
Seth Abramson
@SethAbramson
As I know from my many years as a criminal defense attorney, GP, inmates can usually get books if they're sent directly from the publisher. What is your inmate number going to be? I will try to get you a copy of PROOF OF COLLUSION to help you pass the time while you're in prison.


2/ As GP rails against Mueller to help sell movie rights to his story (or whatever), here's what his attorneys actually said in court: "Our firm would in a second stand up if we saw prosecutorial or governmental misconduct. We have seen no such thing." But they didn't stop there.

3/ George's attorneys added, "We have seen no entrapment. We have seen no set-up by U.S. intelligence people. Everything we saw, they’ve been on the square." So apparently on the same day my world "collapses," George's lawyers will *also* experience a massive temporal distortion.
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Larry Schweikart
Larry Schweikart
@LarrySchweikart
1) https://t.co/ejQmeU5YIu

First the Hill/Cook, now this. Folks, they are aware they are losing or have already lost the House. The last big vote suppression push is on.

Yesterday, two NC polls basically put all the "at risk" NC seats out of reach.
Before that, TX and OH's vulnerable seats were pretty much off the board (Sessions is ahead but close).

NY now down to two vulnerable seats with the R leading in one. Both are red.

3) UNLIKE THE LIBS, I will tell you . . .

I.
Can.
Be.
Wrong.

But I'm not seeing a DemoKKKrat takeover of the House. At most I have them with 19 flips---but that is really stretching it and that's them running the table.

4) Meanwhile, we had news of a D-R potential flip in AZ1, where Wendy Rogers has gotten out to a surprising lead.

This goes along with the expected two flips from MN. There are at least two others out there, possibly three.

5) Meanwhile, in the world of real voting, in blue Montgomery Co., OH we have the following in absentee balloting: R=11,041, D=7,087, I/U=12,609

Well, you say, all those indies may vote D.

They didn't in 2016. Based on 2016 votes and voting history of EVERY SINGLE HOUSE . . .
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Cleuci de Oliveira
Cleuci de Oliveira
@CLEUCl
My 2-cents on this great thread

For past 3 yrs, I’ve been working on a project that’s required me to study lynch mobs in Brazil

To call rate of lynchings here a problem is an understatement

& I think it correlates w ppl’s thirst for a law & order strongman like Bolsonaro

1/13


Back in 2016 I crawled the news for reports of lynchings across Brazil

What I found: 180 deaths — 180 people killed by an angry crowd

That’s 1 every 2 days

I wrote about that in the article linked below (keep in mind: the year hadn’t ended

Experts all told me same thing: vigilante justice is a byproduct of people’s belief that the state does not fight crime effectively

This is true everywhere

Consider the Philippines, which had elected strongman Duterte: https://t.co/2rJLGd2vwy

3/13

https://t.co/2rJLGd2vwy


So what about this last week before the elections in Brazil? Have there been any vigilante killings?

Let’s go back to last Saturday

4/13

In the early hours, a man recently released from prison was beaten to death by 4 others in the center of Brazil’s richest city, São Paulo

Killing took place in the middle of the street, on the doorstep of the country’s most prestigious
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zeynep tufekci
zeynep tufekci
@zeynep
Wow Google is all in with the conservative Federalist Society which engineered the multi-decade effort to foster judges like Kavanaugh and Gorsuch for the Supreme Court. Facebook vice-president was in DC hearings to personally support Kavanaugh. Silicon Valley is so “liberal.”🙄


Facebook’s top sites are often hyper-partisan right-wing sites and also.. this. All the complaining you hear about “liberal bias” in Silicon Valley is just strategic playing the referees—who are pretty easy to play, apparently. H/t @kevinroose https://t.co/vpPZXzir7q


No that’s not the structure of my argument. Facebook and YouTube have been great for Breitbart and Trump for example—it’s that success that moved Fox closer to them. Tech platforms are biased towards the hyper-partisan and Breitbart plays that better.
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Liz Ryerson
Liz Ryerson
@ellaguro
in other news, i really really really really really really am tired of hearing about both Taylor Swift and Kanye West.

so weird how people don't consider that either a) maybe they both suck or more importantly, b) maybe none of this actually matters at all and your shitty fanfiction about this whole rivalry is extremely tired

ugh i don't want to be a grumpy old person here but really, come on

i guess i should be blaming the media outlets that have fueled these fake feuds and made them look like some kind of significant World Defining Event more than anything else

like believe me i'm not above overthinking about pop music or pop musicians but like, these kind of rivalries just feel like bad high school drama at the end of the day and the amount of people trying to make them look like Politically Significant events has just been depressing
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@reiver \u22bc (Charles Iliya Krempeaux)
@reiver ⊼ (Charles Ili...
@reiver
"Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature"

by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Tina Xu

https://t.co/npWFbaYzn1

(big 5)

Still reading it, but… an important point would be how they (implicitly or explicitly) define


“Many studies consider the “traits of entrepreneurs” or the “traits that make entrepreneurs successful.” ”

What type of person tries to do entrepreneurial things versus What type of person succeeds after trying to do entrepreneurial


“We focus […] on […]: (1) the personality traits of entrepreneurs and how they compare to other groups; (2) the attitudes towards risk that entrepreneurs display; and (3) the overall goals and aspirations that entrepreneurs bring to their


“The bulk of recent literature seeks to answer two main questions: (1) Do certain traits predict an individual’s likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur, and (2) Do certain traits predict an entrepreneur’s likelihood of achieving “successful”
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Avichal Garg \u26a1
Avichal Garg ⚡
@avichal
1/ HOW TO ASK FOR HELP AS AN ENTREPRENEUR -- Every week entrepreneurs reach out to me cold on LinkedIn, Twitter, and email asking for help. I love helping if I can!

Unfortunately most people are terrible at asking for help. Here is how to do it properly.

2/ OFFER CONTEXT on who you are first -- If we have any connections in common, highlight them. If we met somewhere, remind me. If we went to the same school, know people in common, are from the same place, anything. If you have done anything impressive, tell me.

3/ BE PRECISE in your request -- "can you mentor me?" is bad. "Can we get on a call?" is bad. "Do you know person X and could you forward the following blurb to them?" is great. "I am applying to YC. Does our application make it clear what we build?" is great.

4/ TELL ME WHY I CAN UNIQUELY HELP -- Do your research and don't ask me for help on things I can't help with. If you didn't articulate why and how I can uniquely help you, I assume you are spamming a bunch of people to ask for the same thing.

5/ DO NOT UNDERCUT YOUR OWN AUTHORITY -- Don't apologize for asking. Don't tell me a sob story. Stay factual. If you demonstrate you are not confident or irrational, I am less likely to want to help you.
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@reiver \u22bc (Charles Iliya Krempeaux)
@reiver ⊼ (Charles Ili...
@reiver
"Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature"

by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Tina Xu

https://t.co/npWFbaYzn1

(big 5)

Still reading it, but… an important point would be how they (implicitly or explicitly) define


“Many studies consider the “traits of entrepreneurs” or the “traits that make entrepreneurs successful.” ”

What type of person tries to do entrepreneurial things versus What type of person succeeds after trying to do entrepreneurial


“We focus […] on […]: (1) the personality traits of entrepreneurs and how they compare to other groups; (2) the attitudes towards risk that entrepreneurs display; and (3) the overall goals and aspirations that entrepreneurs bring to their


“The bulk of recent literature seeks to answer two main questions: (1) Do certain traits predict an individual’s likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur, and (2) Do certain traits predict an entrepreneur’s likelihood of achieving “successful”
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Mike Rosenberg
Mike Rosenberg
@ByRosenberg
In San Jose (median home: $1.1M) teachers are commuting 4 hours a day and 1 in 7 teachers quit each year. The school district wants to build housing for the teachers.

Naturally 5,000 locals signed a petition against it because it might lower home values

There is a myth - often used by neighbors to thwart development - that affordable housing makes property values drop in the neighborhood. Study after study has disproved

This gif should be up on the projector screen at every neighborhood meeting about a new low-income housing project
https://t.co/Lb17kGl0iB
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