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Derek Thompson @DKThomp

3 weeks ago

In medicine, detection tech is outrunning cures. More ppl are living with a medical omen of ~what might kill them in the future~ without the ability to truly know that will will happen or to fix it. The Age of Detection incurs a tradeoff between anxiety and longevity that will…

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scott 🌞 @scottdomes

2 months ago

scrolling on your phone is (often) a form of avoidance, and avoidance is not a passive act; it takes energy avoidance is holding a clenching, grasping state in your body, a leaning away, small acts of tension & contortion (we can notice this to be true by how we’re often more…

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Beany Tuesday @beanytuesday

2 months ago

An Essay About Essay(ist)s

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600

3 months ago

Fantastic bit of geography trivia by @Maps_interlude.

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Michael McLean @cornoisseur

2 years ago

The @cta should remove about ⅓ of bus stops to speed up service. There are simply too many. We have the lowest stop spacing outside downtown of any city in America.

cta @cta

2 years ago

The @cta should remove about ⅓ of bus stops to speed up service. There are simply too many. We have the lowest stop spacing outside downtown of any city in America. https://t.co/XvU0NmW4Et

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Lauren Wilford @lauren_wilford

4 months ago

It took me a long, slow time to put together that "putting one another at ease" is the collective project of a society, and that everyone has their part to play. And when it comes from a place of mutual generosity, it really does feel good. It allows for real connection

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Frances Lorenz @frances__lorenz

4 months ago

I'm not so sure that this is one of the "hardest" to unlearn perse, if we were to organise the entire space of all possible habits and rank them from hardest to least hardest, on average, I could see this being somewhere closer to the middle. Perhaps it would be more accurate to

Cate Hall @catehall

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donald boat @laserboat999

4 months ago

My racehorse is encouraging me to jailbreak and tinker with him like a machine, he keeps saying "change my genes, change my code, fuck my shit up, fuck everything up, i want to teleport, i want to fly"

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Kyla Scanlon @kylascan

5 months ago

Rejection, convenience, and predictability are all core parts of the economy - think college kids trying to get jobs right now, Klarna and DoorDash and the defaulting NACHOs, and the downfall of Cartoon Network. In the Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis describes how demons feast on…

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signüll @signulll

5 months ago

@pascalthibeault it’s truly the thought that counts.

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Thor Nystrom @thorku

5 months ago

Ravens GM Eric DeCosta with the smartest 2 minutes you’ll hear on the NFL Draft

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The Onion @TheOnion

5 months ago

What To Know About ‘Sinners’

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Vivid Void @VividVoid_

6 months ago

Everybody's looking for that unique and irreplaceable person to make a commitment to, nobody's realizing it's your commitment that makes someone unique and irreplaceable

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Sam Ro 📈 @SamRo

6 months ago

no shit

Chris @itsCblast

6 months ago

no shit

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A. Ham @PhoenixWrightA1

6 months ago

@NateSilver538 It's essentially Critical Trade Theory. Any trade imbalance between two countries is de facto evidence of systemic unfair trade practices.

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Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 @peterwildeford

6 months ago

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critter @BecomingCritter

6 months ago

We only see the planes that made it home, their wings patched and proud against the sunset—but the sky forgets to speak of the ones who vanished into clouds, whose stories the wind still carries in silence.

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Aleph @woke8yearold

7 months ago

The Duke of Orleans is one of the funniest figured from the French Revolution. He survived by joining the Revolution and changed his name to Philippe Égalité, which is so larpy it’s hard to believe it’s real. It’s like a woke changing their name to John Diversity