Best of Twitter - Week of June 20, 2022

Isaak Freeman @isaakfreeman

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

Future Forum's public launch! FF is an experimental 4-day event on Aug 4th-7th in SF. Ft. @3blue1brown, @anderssandberg, @_TamaraWinter, @jasoncrawford, @eboyden3, & more. More info & apply now: https://t.co/SLLlseC3kD Please retweet this & help us reach Twitter's far corners!

^ self-recommending

Emmett Shear @eshear

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?

Emmett Shear @eshear

These tweets obviously inspired by paulgraham.com/cities.html if you’ve never read it

paulgraham.comCities and Ambition

^ v. important

Matthew Carrigan @carrigmat

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…

huggingface.coProteinMPNN - a Hugging Face Space by simonduerrDiscover amazing ML apps made by the community

joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸) @JoshuaSteinman

Nothing to see here just a cyber attack destroying a steel mill.

Matthew S. Schechter @mschecht_bio

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

Bill McGuire @ProfBillMcGuire

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

theguardian.comCocktail of chemical pollutants linked to falling sperm quality in researchExclusive: Study finds mixtures of compounds thought to disrupt hormones are present in people at ‘astonishing’ levels

^ plastics 🤔

Julian Togelius @togelius

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