217 - X marks the spot ❌💬
Hey there, ! Busy times before the break so we're doing a content curation post :D
I'm not calling it X, but even after Elon took over Twitter there are still some banger tweets regardless of his cringe persona on the platform.
Let's go through some stuff I've bookmarked / liked, shall we?:
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a KING CRAB FEAST - absolutely INCREDIBLE I want to eat all of it
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mind-bending optical illusion - straight outta japan - I didn't know people still worked on NEW ones?
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What about clever honesty? - a lovely reframe of people who like saying 'I'm just blunt'
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Elaine dances through space and time - sick edit of Elaine from Seinfeld dancing her way through some ICONIC scenes
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Naan bread is just BREAD BREAD and the followup for 2x redundant sayings
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To be Alive, by Gregory Orr - guys I'm really into poetry these days
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Charlie Munger best quotes - "Every time you hear EBITDA, just substitute it with bullshit" - RIP Charlie
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Using AI to animate stationary pictures - the AI just keeps progressin' and movin' and shakin'! And look at this one as well!
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Pika Labs - genAI for video - and it's getting HELLA good
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The origin of Stockholm Syndrome - it's not what you think, surprisingly?
It's getting nearer to Christmas - ready for a break? I sure am...
Chat soon :)
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✔️Real Life Recommendations
- The Boy and the Heron - honey wake up a new Studio Ghibli movie just dropped. Yes, it was after Miyazaki said he was retired. Yes, he says he's going to retire after this one. Yes it's just as weird, fantastical, spell-binding, heart-wrenching and utterly opaque in terms of meaning. Oh yes, it also has the cutesy character that is there for merch only. Go watch it!
- Loki Season 2 - guys, it's just so good. What a banger follow up to an already banger season of TV. FANTASTIC.
🚌 Adventures on the Information Super-Highway
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The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity - some research conducted by Slack which is pretty cool:
Employees who feel obligated to work after-hours register 20% lower productivity scores than those who log off at the end of the standard workday. They also report: - 2.1x worse work-related stress - 1.7x times lower satisfaction with their overall working environment - 2x greater burnout
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One Swedish zoo, seven escaped chimpanzees - a harrowing tale of chimps getting loose out of a zoo. Stressful.
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How many hobbits live in Middle-Earth? - or men? or elves? or dwarves? or orcs? A demographer tries to find out! It's long, but it's the exact type of nerd-bait that fellow nerds will love :D