politics

Global Tensions: Surveillance States and Social Commentary

13:00 — Social hierarchy analysis: “Your social status ≈ your college ≈ your SAT score ≈ how much you’ve read.” Paul Graham connects reading habits to social status. @paulg

13:00 — Dating market dynamics: evolutionary psychology meets Tinder statistics in detailed analysis of mate selection. @The_Prophet_

11:00 — French reaction to Russian surveillance: “Horrible. On se croirait en France” regarding Moscow’s Telegram restrictions. @Neo_Serval

10:00 — Epstein files remain in focus with continued social media discussion. @FrDesouche

04:00 — Science achievement: longest line of sight on earth photographed makes HackerNews top 3. @lostbutlucky

Jul 2019 — Flashback resurfaces: Trump’s anti-crypto stance “I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies.” @realDonaldTrump

📱 Source Tweets

Your social status ≈ your college. Your college ≈ your SAT score. Your SAT score ≈ your SAT English score. Your SAT English score ≈ how much you've read. ∴ Your social status ≈ how much you read in high school. (Successive ≈s leak a lot, but still rather surprising.)

— @paulg

Real life has always tilted this way under the hood. Mate selection has never been egalitarian. Women are evolutionarily wired to filter. Men are wired to compete. Status, strength, beauty, power, and perception have always shaped the funnel. But here's the real difference. [Quote about Tinder statistics]

— @_The_Prophet__

Horrible. On se croirait en France [Quote: Le Parisien - Moscou restreint Telegram pour contraindre les Russes à passer sur une messagerie facile à surveiller]

— @Neo_Serval

#epsteinfiles

— @FrDesouche

Longest line of sight on earth photographed is #3 on the list from HackerNews, really cool news.ycombinator.com/item?id=469435

— @lostbutlucky

I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air. Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity....

— @realDonaldTrump