Best of Twitter - Week of June 20, 2022
Years ago, stuck in my home valley in rural Austria, I was sad about how few people work on humanity’s pressing problems. I now built an incubator to get some of the brightest minds to tackle global issues, and we’re running our first event in 40 days: futureforum.foundation
Future Forum @FutureForumFdn
^ self-recommending
Messages I’ve heard in American cities
NYC: you should be better at climbing the status hierarchy
LA: you should be become the best version of yourself
SF: you should be having more impact on the world
What do you hear?
^ v. important
There's a fully functional protein design space on HuggingFace now, which would have felt like outrageous science fiction even 18 months ago. I'm going to try to explain what the incredible potential here is. 🧵
huggingface.co/spaces/simondu…
4/n There are fewer unknown genes than we thought
Deep homology detection showed that in the human and ocean microbiome, only 29% and 35% of genes are actually unknown, respectively. Surprising and encouraging - we’re doing a good job sequencing and characterizing genes
^ lol
Sperm counts of western men down 50% in last 40y.
Hardly a surprise as new study reveals men's bodies contain 'Astonishing' amounts of hormone-disrupting compounds - up to 100x safe level.
#fridaymorning #Friday #nature #pollution #population
^ plastics 🤔
It is important to remind yourself that the system has no interest in the truth, because it has no concept of the truth, because it has not concept of the world.
^ interesting discussion in replies