Best of Twitter - Week of October 11, 2021
“Facebook is not dying as a business, but they’ve died as a brand.”
Insightful framing by @mgsiegler
500ish.com/facebook-is-to…
@visakanv "Although it might be too much to say that laureates are bred by laureates, it is nevertheless the case that 34 of the 55 worked, as younger men, under a total of 46 previous prize winners." [!] jstor.org/stable/2091086
Chart of the Day:
@Apple’s advertising business has more than tripled its market share in the six months after it introduced privacy changes to iPhones that obstructed rivals, including @Facebook and @Google, from targeting ads at consumers.
*A Thread*
US Recon training bootcamp involves you literally being hunted and tortured while you're under-sleeping, under-eating, and under-equipped. Is there an equivalent of this training that could be relevant to our day-to-day life?
lots of people also say that brutality is just a way to test people, not train them. I don't think it's actually true
Here's a scenario I was thinking about from "One Bullet Away". Totally brutal and also I bet incredibly useful if you ever get captured.
DannyBoy @boy3141
^ thread
Honestly not looking good either way
Dawn of the unicel
Rob Henderson @robkhenderson
This is cool as it hints at something a lot of these plays get wrong — instead of trying to automate dishes that humans prepare, we should start exploring quality dishes that are designed for automatic preparation.
Ian Hogarth @soundboy
^ this for many X
Spotify publishes the coolest research!
Facts from this paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWS…
1) Everyone listens to music released in their adolescent years.
Also from nytimes.com/2018/02/10/opi… we know that the peak influence age for women is 13 and men 14.
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