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thomas plunkett retweeted
16 Apr 2023
Co-chair of the European Greens celebrating a policy that will do more to damage the environment than any other.
15 Apr 2023
Sex is good but have you tried having your country shutting down its last nuclear power plants in 30 mn?
Community note
Only 6% of the electricity produced by the nuclear plants going offline will be from renewable energy. The rest will be coal & gas.
cnn.com/2023/04/15/eur….
Coal power produces ~100 times more radioactive waste than nuclear power. Therefore, Europe is about to become more - not less - radioactive.
sciencefocus.com/science/do-coa…
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thomas plunkett retweeted
2 Feb 2021
1/23: It’s widely believed that “grit” is one of the most important characteristics of highly successful people. I have an emerging (and controversial view) that the YOLO investing behavior that we’re seeing is directly attributable to a societal reduction in grit. Unpacked:
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28 Jan 2021
We started Bondy to keep encourage buying local. We are currently close to a match for PS 261 in Brooklyn. Help your neighborhood (more to come) and gift your friends gift cards from local businesses through Bondy #buylocal instagram.com/p/CKmJDM_hUAg/…
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28 Jan 2021
Head to bondy.nyc to find more shops and to watch for more neighborhoods to come online soon.
18 Dec 2020
Looking forward to more of this from @daveg enjoyed discussion around friction as necessary to better operating systems (i simplify quite a bit) — thinking about the relative lack of it in eg Robinhood — listen: open.spotify.com/episode/6tn…
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thomas plunkett retweeted
7 Nov 2020
Just out here repping Kamala.
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thomas plunkett retweeted
8 Oct 2020
Kamala’s shut the fuck up energy is top notch.
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thomas plunkett retweeted
3 Sep 2020
History also starts with a whisper not a bang. When Einstein published Special Relativity, nothing much happened. Really new stuff is too radical to even be noticed, it takes time. What are today's equivalents? Epigenetics, network dynamics, the physics of life and entropy?
3 Sep 2020
The Wright Brothers may have achieved the impossible but they weren’t mentioned in the New York Times until 1906 — two years after they flew.
One year *after* the Wright Brothers flew, people thought human flight would only happen in the “very, very, very, very far future.”
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thomas plunkett retweeted
17 Aug 2020
1/- I think the person who wrote this is very confused about what makes NYC great. I moved to the city in the late 1970s, when NYC was supposed to be dead and never coming back, but the city in the late 1970s and 1980s turned out to be the most exciting...
jamesaltucher.com/blog/nyc-i…
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thomas plunkett retweeted
3 Jun 2020
I’m tired of people saying NYC is “out of control”. You’re amplifying the fear attached to these protests and are allowing our government to usher in martial law. We’re peaceful. Support your community, not your government.
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thomas plunkett retweeted
2 Jun 2020
We need a new President.
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thomas plunkett retweeted
2 Jun 2020
Setting a curfew for New York City at 8 pm feels like willfully asking people to defy it, with all the consequences that will likely follow. It is tone deaf and genuinely reckless.
2 Jun 2020
UPDATE: On NY1, Mayor Bill de Blasio just announced that there will also be a curfew in effect Tuesday. That curfew will be in effect from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. - it will start three hours earlier than Monday night's curfew.
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thomas plunkett retweeted
12 Apr 2020
This is the world we are about to enter, one focused on resilience vs efficiency and with more trade friction. It means costs will go up.
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thomas plunkett retweeted
12 Dec 2019
Hiring isn’t the challenge. The challenge is finding people who can be effective while working for executives whose only qualifications and training are narcissistic levels of self confidence.
12 Dec 2019
Nearly every entrepreneur I talk so says hiring is their biggest challenge.
The world is starving for competent people with a strong work-ethic.
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25 Sep 2019
So. Many. Numbers.
Hard things are hard and sometimes things happen.
Luckily, nobody takes their numbers seriously...
24 Sep 2019
Favorite story I was told by major UK pub re Comscore:
One month, they saw a 40% decrease in reported Uniques due to a Comscore error
When asked to apologize/fix Comscore shrugged & said 'when you measure so many numbers you can't be expected to get all of them right'
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