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approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · 25d

Sora 2 still ain’t close to midjourney tbh

approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Aug 28

if someone breaks into your house imho the best weapon is a 2000 lumen flashlight

approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Aug 9

The thing about meeting people for coffee is that they have to catch the version of you pre-coffee

approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Jul 16

there is a 9th circle of cringe for people who put their open water PADI cert on their linkedins

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approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Jul 9

friendliness among Canadian vs US airport security workers isn’t Fuji vs Pink Lady, it’s apples vs elephants

approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Jul 2

once a political campaign gets a hold of your personal email, your inbox basically contracted herpes, the virus will multiply forever and ever into other campaigns

approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Jun 26

I love how partiful is for friends parties, luma is for work parties, and Facebook events is for dead people

approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Jun 24

biotech investor by day: i'm not going to invest in your startup that molecule has so many off-target effects in the brain etc etc

by nights/weekends: *gobbles up ketamine*

approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Jun 23

My ability to talk to people without closed captions has severely atrophied

approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Jun 18

Confession: occasionally when my friends call me with their AirPods, I just say that I can’t hear them and that they have to call me back later

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Ugh, stop using AirPods

This is a PSA I've been holding onto for 4 years, since the pandemic pushed everyone to teleconferencing: You should stop using AirPods for taking Zoom/phone calls. It doesn't matter if you dished o...

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approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Jun 18

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approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Jun 18

How do I subscribe to the snail mail version

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approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Jun 18

this tracks with the diabetes x autism link

Pedro Pimentel-Coelho @ppimentel-coelho.bsky.social · Jun 14

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Early life high fructose impairs microglial phagocytosis and neurodevelopment

Zhaoquan Wang et al.

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Early life high fructose impairs microglial phagocytosis and neurodevelopment - Nature

Exposure of mice to high fructose during gestation or early postnatal life causes decreased microglial phagocytosis during brain development and leads to anxiety-like behaviour in adolescence.

www.nature.com

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approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Jun 17

watch exit row become the new first class

approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Jun 17

the hat is an incredible invention in that it completely protects you when the UV index is high in the day and only partially protects you when it’s low

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approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Jun 17

there should be a circle of hell for people who rsvp yes on partiful knowing full well they absolutely are not coming

approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Jun 9

dumb q but why do we need ASL for online video events when we can have captions? do we really need to cater to the deaf AND illiterate part of the venn diagram?

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approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Jun 9

99.9999% of the time none of us are "reasoning" either

approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Jun 9

wow old gem haha

approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Aug 2

How much stock can I buy with 4789 Duolingo gems

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approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · May 17

obtaining india e-visa is a millennium prize level problem.

application wants a PHOTO of passport in PDF, max file size 300 kb

approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Apr 22

I’m still convinced innovation is faster in CS than biology bc papers are all open

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approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Apr 18

AGI evals should include racing a human driver from point A to B

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approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Apr 16

everyone is talking about diversifying from US stocks, but the fact that Europe’s most valuable company is SAP is just sad

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Eshu Marneedi @eshumarneedi.com · Apr 14

GPT-4.1 is better than GPT-4.5 but worse than GPT-o1 which is better than GPT-o3-mini-high which is worse than GPT-o1 Pro which IS THIS MAKING SENSE TO YOU

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approximately ~wes @westleydang.com · Apr 14

nobody ever talks about how loud eating an apple is