Wow the “my eyes hurt” Google trend is real, not just a meme, oh nooo
Check out that spatial distribution too, it follows the path of the eclipse 😭
William Eden
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William Eden
@WilliamAEden
Recovering economist turned biotech VC. Monitoring the Omnicrisis. Lossy compression not recommended. My other half: @diviacaroline
- The next time someone gaslights you that tech stagnation isn’t real, send them this tweet:66 years apart
- My mind is still blown that literal Gigachad Henry Cavill turned out to secretly be the nerdiest of all possible nerds, not just playing video games several hours/day but *also* collecting Warhammer miniatures, the most low-status male-coded hobby in existence
- I figure it’s worth posting a summary thread about my current thoughts on COVID to refer back to: Like many great blunders in history, we went into this without an exit plan. The landscape has changed such that risk is now individual cost/benefit more than public health. 1/
- TIL that an apparently effective treatment for warts is… duct tape?? Not even joking, they did a randomized trial, and it outperformed freezing the warts off!
- My Twitter timeline is full of panicked takes about imminent AI apocalypse and certain doom. I think this is starting to get overplayed, and so I want to make a long thread about why I'm personally not worried yet. Get ready for a big one... 1/n
- Peter Daszak has received another grant from the NIH… …to study bat coronaviruses in the wild. After everything the world has just been though. After all the risky research that was supposed to protect us from a global pandemic failed to stop one.
- I have never seen the narrative so divided before: Normies are only talking about the election The extremely online are only talking about FTX OSINT is only talking about Kherson Legacy bluechecks are only talking about Elon destroying Twitter
- I’m not sure exactly what I expected the world to look like when AI safety went mainstream, but I wasn’t prepared for this
- Having 5 children feels like we hit some kind of cool phase transition The kids themselves are developing their own kind of internal family culture It feels really good and fun and self-sustaining
- TIL that in the late 1700s men cartelized peacocking, and agreed to give up beautiful, richly adorned clothing forever This is now called the “Great Male Renunciation” 🤯
