shanelewin.bsky.social
Dad, husband, mathematician, scientist.
VP, AI and Machine Learning @GSK. Building platforms to learn the biological mechanisms of disease. I hate cancer in particular.
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Make it $99M. Anything beyond that has no impact on quality of life and has substantial negative impact on society.
But otherwise solid indeed.
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Fair point. My comment is meant not a reflection of the Pharisees themselves, but specifically that Jesus' specifc critiques of the Pharisees maps to maga Christians quite well. But will delete.
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Newsom is done.
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Great point, with a corralary: because it is possible in our system for a person to accumulate more wealth and status by rejecting transgressions, we've incrntivized and made it innetivable that we will be lead by the worst of us.
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You're right, but it's worth noting that the nominated Dems didn't exactly come out offering social security or health care or etc.
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This. Also, we could use a few laws to restrict foreign or measurably false propaganda.
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If only there was some historical precedent for what happens when you cut rates during escalating inflation.
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At some point, maybe, they'll figure out that when the majority of people are paid so little relative to costs that they don't have disposable income it has significant negative effects on the economy (billionaires don't by 20,000 lunches per day).
Until then, keep blaming the poor I guess?
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More accurately: It's unsporting to point out that billionaires shouldn't exist in a healthy economy.
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Not sure how many elections the Dems need to lose before they realize people are looking for their leaders to stand up and fight for a platform and principles, not chase whatever polls well.
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I very much hope otherwise, but the way they are trying to change the narrative suggests that he's either been killed or treated so badly that they cannot allow him to face the press, for fear of fallout.
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I expected fascism to be horrific, and it's delivered. But I didn't expect it to also be this stupid.
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Rooting for y'all to not make the mistakes we have.
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Spot on.
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True. They have plenty of reserves, might not hold the line, and there are organizations doing better work (ACLU, etc).
But we can celebrate the stance.
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It'd possible to be a father without being a good one.
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Right? We're in the upside down.
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That's very interesting. Do you have a citation?
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Curious to understand how you can set an all time record for a facility that limits attendance by the number of seats it has and regularly sell out.
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Regulators reduce shareholder value by forcing corps to not harm people while making products. It's inconvenient. If we could get rid of all of that and replace it with low cost labor that's overworked with no benefits, it would be great for Elon. And he's irritated if you don't want that too.
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Big tent party: so long as you're willing to funnel all your wealth to the top, you are free to be a bigoted as you want.
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Can you imagine willing leaving a permanent record, your legacy, of this level of absurd bootlicking? Tweets like this will show up in history books.
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If an employee of one of these companies made a comparably expensive and costly bet, they'd be fired.
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Thank you. I think we don't talk enough about how hard it is to survive in this country if anything goes wrong.
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I honestly feel that way about politics. I want to worry about physics and science and curing cancer. Politics is supposed to enable that, and yet, politics is the most important thing for me to focus on.
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To survive, people working subsistence wages have to work until they drop. They have no ability to rage. It's the point.
Before you commit to schadenfreude, know that fate will befall us too, if they win.
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Fun fact: Before Kensian economics pulled us out of the Great depression we tried almost everything else.
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I think you win today.
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Navarro is calling musk an idiot and vice versa. I agree with both of them.
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This is the most terrifying sentence I've ever read.
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If I've ever wanted a tattoo more than "onward dorks!" I don't remember that moment.
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Protip: make them publish the plan to cut that 25%, with details and commitments about layoffs and governance, and in particular accountability, before giving them any power.
Sharing as a friend.
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Added to my reading list.
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2025 is unique on this list in that the decisions that caused the crash were understood beforehand by a significant majority of experts to be likely to cause that precise crash, but we did it anyway. It's the hubris crash.
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You beat me to it.
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If they are old enough, have your kid read Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. It's a pretty good book in and of itself (and Gibson is a helluva writer) but if they hate the Michelin Man it's going to hit hard.
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Also? It's a concentration camp, not a mega prison. They'd need to be convicted of something for it to be a prison.
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Shame probably evolved as an antibody against those who reject collective values, as organized groups are more fit than even superior individuals. It's a net good when those collective values are worth defending.
That respect for expertise is no longer in our collective values is, well, shameful.