Excellent thread on pushing the limits for a long enough time that those limits become the new normal. And all the danger that brings.
If I was setting up curriculum at a university I’d make an entire semester-long class on The Challenger disaster, and make it required for any remotely STEM-oriented major. pic.twitter.com/PDQPJkaLx1
— foone (@Foone) February 13, 2019
Feels good to finally be in the top 10% of something. https://t.co/wjY4shAbyQ
— Matt Edwards (@engineershope) February 18, 2019
This guy wrote Medea in 431 BC and he’s STILL out here hustling. Respect pic.twitter.com/ySuTp9syxw
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) February 17, 2019
The normal way to pay a public-company CEO involves giving him mostly stock, so if he wants to lead a fancy lifestyle, he will eventually need to sell some of his company’s stock to fund it. And so if a CEO has a long history of sexual harassment, then he will also inevitably have a history of:
- Selling stock,
- While he knows about the harassment,
- And the shareholders don’t.
Is this insider trading? Is he trading while in possession of material nonpublic information about his own company, information that he has a duty to his shareholders to disclose (or else to abstain from trading)? I mean … yes, right? It is a little hard to see the argument the other way.[4] He knows some stuff, the shareholders do not, it’s about his job, it is clearly (in hindsight, anyway!) material to the stock price, boom, insider trading.
— Matt Levine
The freakin’ Notes app used as an official communication medium of the White House. Phones (should we even call them phones?) are eating the world.
Per Buzzfeed:
Crazy cool. And frightening.
On this day in 2005: YouTube founded pic.twitter.com/nfXaZRtaHV
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) February 14, 2019
21 USC §§331, 333, 352 & 21 CFR §348.50(c)(1)(ii)-(d) make it a federal crime to sell male genital desensitizer without telling men to put it on their penis and not in their eyes.
— A Crime a Day (@CrimeADay) March 27, 2018
The most unrealistic part of Armageddon is that congress took the asteroid threat seriously and appropriated funds for a solution.
— Andrew Sleighter (@AndrewSleighter) February 13, 2019
I WANT PROOF THAT SHE GOT A TREAT pic.twitter.com/yMWuX8YQt1
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) February 12, 2019
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