in retrospect it's gonna seem significant that a youtuber beat up one of the country's last undisputed heroes a week after it reelected a reality tv star president it's gonna feel dated, watching the selfconsciousness of a jake paul type, the slimy political calculation it takes to win an exhibition fight and then get on the mic to thank the troops and farmers, back in the dawn of the panopticon

My first ~decade on this app I refused to find out how it works. I threw ideas into the void, it was beneath me to concern myself over it
But now that I actually know how it works I can throw my ideas into the void much more effectively!
If you're curious here's How Twitter Works Thinking about this cause @coldhealing was describing their x-ray Algorithm vision (that they ought to write about) and I told them that a refusal to engage with the mechanics of the platform is basically equivalent to closing your eyes walking across town
(Which is what I did)

Just saw it twice in twelve hours, and I was thrilled that Villeneuve hates Dune as much as me and Tolkien
He ripped the black antihuman heart out of Herbert's story and stitched in plausible motivations
He nailed Herbert's worldview with the repeated shot: kneeling before power





Yeah, yeah, the genius of Dune is that the hero is actually powerless
Everybody in the world of bleak sixties environmentalist Herbert is controlled by invisible strings, the irony of prescience is that Paul can see the strings but remains powerless against them

People are curious about what you learn interviewing 20+ nyc women about dating apps, so here we go
Buckle your seatbelts, pour a cuppa, and put your men-are-from-mars-women-are-from-the-seventh-circle culture war gladii and scuta aside
Let's take the numbers first:

https://twitter.com/inflammateomnia/status/1723448583129584058

27: women interviewed
25: avg age
11: interviews that were themselves first dates (the girls knew what they were getting into, it was actually a great opener)
8: avg hrs app usage
1: times I spit out my fake tooth in front of an interviewee
0: avg # of dates a woman had per week

"Everything you eat is making you sick and reducing your testosterone."
I heard this a few weeks back and dismissed it because it sounds like a conspiracy, and slapping down dumb conspiracies makes me feel smart!
Except, uh, guys? We might actually be in trouble. Let me explain. The idea is, basically, an herbicide we use to grow everything messes with gut microbes that maintain your testosterone levels. We've missed this so far because we haven't understood the gut biome's effect on T until the last few years!