Tyler Olsen

Annihilating the problem is... a challenge. But there are immediate small things people can do to push back. In a war, real or info, most people are not atomic bomber pilots. Most are soldiers doing their little part.

Nothing "solves" it. But Twitter's slice of the attention pie is still very small. People only have so much time on their hands and the more time they spend on useful stuff (sourced elsewhere, from a variety of outlets) the less attractive Twitter becomes as a way to spend time.

The counter-response here is pretty clear. It isn't to shout at people you like to get off X. It is to create and fund alternative media sources to X that fosters the opposite effects.

(And it is far cheaper to buy/fund a local news source than to create a new money-losing app.)

The "socialist" (instead of socialite) under Hilton suggests some need for.... skepticism of this. (Theron, for one, does not appear to be a supporter.)

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I think this is where AI might be able to help: Not in replacing people currently doing X work, but by providing a tool that helps enable work that is currently not getting done b/c of the immense lift required. (See: medical record stuff.)

I get this but also it's true that you can only kick the can so far down the road and the longer you do so, the harder the problem tends to get. I do wonder if AI can help allow some of these systemic upgrades -- if not writing the code, then providing another layer of analysis.

this is basically what every single bit of critical infrastructure looks like: someone you'll never meet in an office exactly like this ensuring that the shit pumps continue to move the shit away from your house.

If you employ 10 reporters, you really don't want each of them spending their time making videos of highly variable quality. You want your good-talking people to make good videos and your bad-talking ppl (like me) to spend their time finding things out/refining.

Interesting thread. Hard to predict where anything is going but as a journalism distribution platform, short-form videos seems to be begging for efficiencies of scale/talent, where a team of journalists assign the most charismatic among them to do the front-facing work (like a podcast/newscast!)

7. That takes densification and time. It is already happening at a fairly fast rate. But we live in a democracy and, whether we like it or not, it won't continue to happen if people who live in these places feel they are losing more than they are gaining.

6. Lots of people ask if I like living in Lillooet. Usually I say there are good and bad things, but I'm adaptable. Like most ppl, circumstances drew me to the place I live more than anything else. Our goal should be to improve people's communities where they are, not expect them to move.

5. I also think it would help to be more precise when diagnosing problematic "suburbs."

Significant numbers of residents of suburban communities live in urban conditions just as many residents of urban cities live in suburban conditions. The conditions are the key, not the suburban/urban label

4. On the family side, you can raise kids well in any number of living arrangements and communities. But space, which is very useful, is very expensive in places where condos are built. Using space more efficiently should help everyone, everywhere.

Yep. Also townhouse complexes with a decent sized communal property space for kids to roam.

3. Also not all suburbs are "suburbs." And not all are costly to society. If you think we need to allow people to live close to where they work, we need communities that aren't cities, or which exist near warehouses and logistics centres and trucking hubs and food processing factories.

2. We can make it more possible for someone who grew up in a house with a backyard (or just highly values that) to give their kids some semblance of that lifestyle in a modern context.

1. I think we need to understand different people like different things b/c ppl are different from one another (and were raised in different environments). We prefer environments close to that in which we grew up. That is normal!

From the AP, last year: "Since 2005, the numbers of newspapers published in the United States has dropped from 7,325 in 2005 to 4,490 now....Daily newspaper circulation that averaged between 50 and 60 million people at the turn of the century now stands at just over 15 million."

Lost the tournament final. Today suuuuucks.

Anyways

We really don't

I think baseball is the one where even a 7 game series is more like a coin flip

Good game. Defence, Binnington played well. Forwards were good. Can't really regret decisions or cast blame. Puck just no go goal.

I've spent my life preparing for this (getting a good breakfast made in an intermission)

Gotta find that tooth

Cope plan is now just shrugging and pointing at Hellebuyck.

Some Olympic-calibre routes from Canada's defence to get these icings

Alright. 20 minutes of imagining ways you are going to try to cope if things go bad while desperately hoping to things go well.