Elex Michaelson@Elex_Michaelson
.@Schwarzenegger says Thanksgiving has "special meaning" for him.
He first arrived in the U.S. a week before Thanksgiving & barely spoke English.
A family invited him into their home & he first got to see the generosity of the American people.
More: youtube.com/watch?v=9myTaX…
7:19 AM · Nov 24, 2022
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non functional tubule@meatspacemaxima
when the definitive narrative of the 2010s gets told it’s going to blow peoples minds and violate all sorts of narratives (and counterintuitively _not_ be some RW redpill)
7:23 AM · Nov 24, 2022
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non functional tubule@meatspacemaxima
what’s misunderstood is the decade started basically w/o smartphones and ended w/ everyone way too online — at the level where even Putin was downstream of like, gamergate level gripes.
7:36 AM · Nov 24, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Base rates are another statistical concept more people should learn about. https://t.co/zR7PJFcB9L
James Woods @RealJamesWoods
There you have it. https://t.co/fz081Mlpo4
6:41 PM · Nov 24, 2022
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Ethan Mollick@emollick
Something to be thankful for: we are finally winning against mosquitoes, the deadliest scourge in history. They may have killed 52 billion people since modern humans emerged
Mosquito nets prevented 500M cases of malaria since 2000
And a new malaria vaccine is over 75% effective
7:11 PM · Nov 24, 2022
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John Gruber@gruber
I love James Cameron’s oeuvre (who doesn’t?) but the commercials for Avatar 2 make it look like an animated film, no?
7:56 PM · Nov 24, 2022
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Jason Snell@jsnell
@gruber It's "live action" the same way Jungle Book and Lion King were, it appears. Photorealistic CGI.
8:01 PM · Nov 24, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
China, I love you, but please think of some insults other than "ghost"
9:13 PM · Nov 24, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Arab insult: "Why don't you go crawl back inside your mother's vagina, oh sorry it's because it's home to a gang of raccoons"
Chinese insult: "...Ghost."
9:15 PM · Nov 24, 2022
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