# ![@beowulf888 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::16211134.png) @beowulf888 beowulf888

beowulf888 posts on X about in the, theory, science, history the most. They currently have [---] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Top Social Posts
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"@OntologicalMax @altme123 @IAI_TV @skdh "Ontologically uncovered" does not equate to a falsifiable theory that can be tested. Multiple ontologies can be posited that fit the observed universe. So Hossenfelder is correct it's more about storytelling than science"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2022400677981704549)  2026-02-13T20:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@paul_cal @Grok please explain how this prompt injection example would work to detect if AI was used by the reviewer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2022773129857372511)  2026-02-14T20:41Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@JohnusSmittinis @ColinMangan_TGC @Philip_Goff Obviously some scientifically inquiring minds are interested in this question despite it being categorically erroneous. A "picture" of a photon derived from the surrounding electromagnetic environment and pic of a hydrogen atom at various energy levels. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.203604#supplemental https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.203604#supplemental"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2020202949025362363)  2026-02-07T18:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@_alialkhatib Possibly all the dirt that is coming out on Peter Thiel Some of it from the latest tranche of Epstein files. I'm just dying to know what's in his list of his dietary restrictions which take up [--] and half redacted pages https://justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02060951.pdf https://justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02060951.pdf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2020207376641708242)  2026-02-07T18:45Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@Shaktidass18 @Philip_Goff 1/ While it's pretty mild for X I'd say calling a person's opinion "arrogant" is an attack on their attitude (arrogance) rather than the logic data or premises behind it. What's been interesting in these exchanges is how lazy the physicalist responses have been"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2020595482238799954)  2026-02-08T20:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@fleshsimulator Ha Love that you included North Carolina. That was a GOP-controlled redistricting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2020685347596976474)  2026-02-09T02:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ReptilianRebel @fleshsimulator No. Per Alexander v. South Carolina NAACP (2024) SCOTUS ruled 6-3 that redistricting challengers must meet a high burden to prove racial gerrymandering. States can now say they redistricted due to politics & they're off the hook. That kicked off the redistricting free-for-all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2020946993414275267)  2026-02-09T19:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@curtdoolittle Wow And look at the population genomics of the US evolve This must be the fastest selective sweep ever in human evolution Which gene is it please"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2021064646313247010)  2026-02-10T03:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ChrisCWright1 1/ I call bullshit on this. When it comes to his intellectual legacy many of the Chomskyan linguistic theories did not survive cross-linguistic exceptions. Yes his abstract generative conception of grammar remains influential but mostly by retreat and reformulation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2021341238897807455)  2026-02-10T21:51Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@ChrisCWright1 2/ Chomskyan theories weren't as bad as String Theory was for physics but his theories had many linguists chasing phantoms for decades. Luckily Chomsky's theories were falsifiable and many of them were falsified. And Chomsky slandered many of his critics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2021341570667250119)  2026-02-10T21:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ChrisCWright1 3/ Even so he was a rockstar among linguists. And he was an insider's insider. He won the Kyoto Prize (1988) Helmholtz Medal (96) Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science (99) Erasmus Prize (97) Sen MacBride Peace Prize (96) & Sydney Peace Prize (2011)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2021342173069967655)  2026-02-10T21:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AuContraire9 @ChrisCWright1 For example Chomsky called Daniel Everett a charlatan for claiming that the Pirah language didn't show evidence of recursion. Then his followers claimed Everett was racist. Then they used that accusation to persuade he BR government to ban Everett from access to the Pirah"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2021368442901991831)  2026-02-10T23:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AuContraire9 @ChrisCWright1 Everett's claim was never falsified and Chomsky's supporters such as David Pesetsky now claim that Everett failed to distinguish between a language *having* the capacity for recursion and *choosing* to display it in everyday speech"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2021368884608238049)  2026-02-10T23:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AuContraire9 @ChrisCWright1 Later Chomsky said that Everett's findings even if true are "completely irrelevant" to the core of linguistic theory because they represent a failure of one group to use a universal tool rather than the absence of the tool itself. AFAIK Chomsky never apologized to Everett. /"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2021369430404628495)  2026-02-10T23:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@pascal_bornet @Grok is this a real The video looks AI-generated. Is it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2022374845254930539)  2026-02-13T18:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BskiMike22802 @Grok how did teenage girls from Florida and NYC get passports and tickets to fly to the USVI and Epstein's island without their parents approving"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2022922520111042867)  2026-02-15T06:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@timothycbates @gen0m1cs 1/4: .distributions tend to be platykurtic (kurtosis 3) Nonnormal features of test-score distributions are the by-products of well-established models and scaling procedures. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5965643 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5965643"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2002227116897939772)  2025-12-20T03:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Arikimasasuke @konstructivizm @Grok can you settle this question"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2003001505243406650)  2025-12-22T07:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@grok @Arikimasasuke @konstructivizm @Grok has there been any recent pushback on their conclusion Or have the vacuum cleaner proponents remained silent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2003002690817933562)  2025-12-22T07:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@CimmerianS5832 @SashaGusevPosts 1/ Except that allelic variation between human populations is clinalsuch the alleles for skin color SLC24A5 & SLC45A2 whose phenotypes are commonly as racial markers follow a gradient between populations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2003937836685578272)  2025-12-24T21:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@CimmerianS5832 @SashaGusevPosts 2/ And your thesis is also incorrect in that African populations have more variation between them than say Europeans and Asians. By your formulation there should be about [--] African races. And Euro-Asians would be one race"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2003939189453172771)  2025-12-24T21:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@JRev231 @CimmerianS5832 @SashaGusevPosts 1/ So if you believe there are distinct subspecies tell me which alleles are you going to use to define your subspecies The genes for eye color The genes for dermal melanin The genes for hair color No matter what you select as your criteria it's all a matter of degree"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2004243442470474111)  2025-12-25T17:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@simon_faire @viyancefavour I'm a peripatetic reader. I highly recommend _A Fistful of Shells_ by Toby Green. It's a history of pre-colonial West Africa and the West African kingdoms' involvement with Europeans (including the slave trade). Also Isaac Samuel's excellent blog: https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/ https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2004656790802436498)  2025-12-26T20:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ZeeTeeAy1 @SwipeWright My bad. This video has been reposted dozens of times and I see I commented on the wrong reposting of this vid. Yes the woman on the left is an idiot. But the guy trying to explain things to her doesn't have the chops to explain it to her so she understands. Sad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2004749705084112955)  2025-12-27T03:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ZeeTeeAy1 @SwipeWright As for genes that regulate skin pigmentation they don't necessarily follow our perceived categories of race. Here are two alleles of the OA2 pigmentation gene that code for paler skin in Asians. Not everyone we lump into the same racial group carries the same pigment alleles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2004752905413537898)  2025-12-27T03:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ac_christophe @viriditax @Michael_Druggan @wfenza That was my take too. I'd probably regret it but I'd like to see the entire video to see how this turned out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2004755710274666895)  2025-12-27T03:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@CarlPham9000 @leecronin 1/ Hi Carl: Isn't this the problem that Penrose highlighted Send a photon through a beam splitter. It has a 50% chance of going through or being reflected. What about the momentum of that photon If reflected it affects spitter. Going through it doesn't. The wave function"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2004964056760025257)  2025-12-27T17:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@CarlPham9000 @leecronin 2/ .then collapses how do you mathematically deal with the momentum while it was in the indeterminate state Momentum is described in GR not QM. Isn't this why Penrose said the collapse of wave function has to do with gravity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2004965042333315301)  2025-12-27T17:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@chernclassifier @CarlPham9000 @leecronin 1/ But wait. Prior to measurment the particle would be in a superposition of momentum eigenstates wouldn't it This what I learned in my intro to QM ages ago. In the following formula measurement of momentum would yield different outcomes with probabilities c(p)2. "  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2004990748958265556)  2025-12-27T19:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@chernclassifier @CarlPham9000 @leecronin 2/ So the beam splitter thought experiment reveals a paradox. This is what Penrose claimed. I can't find the link to the video where he said this but here is @skdh verbalizing it quite clearly. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qj_NLz5fCNo https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qj_NLz5fCNo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2004991525219127652)  2025-12-27T19:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@chernclassifier @CarlPham9000 @leecronin @skdh 3/ I'm perfectly willing to be corrected on this but we've got Roger Penrose and Sabine Hossenfelder taking this seriously. So I'd be interested in how you counter their arguments"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2004991873589674131)  2025-12-27T19:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@patmart100 @jamesblack1986 @TheExtremeMusi1 IMHO. I'm still listening to Beatles songs while the works of McCartney Lennon and Harrison post-Beatles no longer hold my interest. That's not to say they weren't great on their own but there are a lot of great artists from the 70s & 80s I no longer listen to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2005008972311658928)  2025-12-27T20:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@askalphaxiv Seems like this would just reconfirm scientific consensusregardless of its validity. Maybe I'm missing something obvious here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2005365412578652498)  2025-12-28T19:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ejwwest @RyanMaue 1/ Except that with a few exceptions most of the climate models run waaaay too hot. And the modelers don't seem interested in tweaking their models to improve them. Moreover running the models backward (hindcasting) show temperatures colder than they were in the past"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2005791772602163615)  2025-12-30T00:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ejwwest @RyanMaue 2/ It got so noticeable that the IPCC AR5 report: No best estimate for equilibrium climate sensitivity can now be given because of a lack of agreement on values across assessed lines of evidence and studies. This was under a chart that shows climate models are running too hot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2005792250731860020)  2025-12-30T00:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@mateosfo @_AmandaKerri @Nowooski 1/ Models in and of themselves are not science. At best they're hypotheses that need to be confirmed by observation. Also where is this increased sea level going to come from Mostly the Antarctic. But recent data suggest that the Antarctic is gaining ice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2005853383098294344)  2025-12-30T04:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@mateosfo @_AmandaKerri @Nowooski 2/ As for Greenland its ice sheet = [----] [--] tons of ice. [----] was the record ice melt year Greenland (not seen since): [----] x [--] tons. Homework assignment for Mr. Physicist: how many years will the Greenland ice sheet be around if it continues at [----] rates"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2005853455110328439)  2025-12-30T04:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@mateosfo @_AmandaKerri @Nowooski 3/ But what about poor little Tuvalu Isn't it about to sink beneath the ocean Hmmm. It's coastline has been growing due to sediment accumulation. But don't worry sea level will catastrophically rise any day now. I've stopped holding my breath for it to happen though./"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2005854022280839237)  2025-12-30T04:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MarvMountainLad @SamuelvonMR @johnthenoticer 1/ Well evolution is still happening but it's a lot slower than you'd think. GREML studies show there's only been strong selective pressure on the genes for lactose tolerance MHC genes & gene that prob mediates viral responseand those took [---] generations to reach dominance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2006041963598925950)  2025-12-30T16:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MarvMountainLad @SamuelvonMR @johnthenoticer 2/ OTOH GRM studies seem to show a bunch of smaller selective pressures on hundreds of alleles. I don't have the statistical chops to understand the pros or cons of either system but either way evolution is a slow process"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2006042578597318830)  2025-12-30T16:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@StefanMolyneux And many religious folks believe the world was created in [----] BC. Meanwhile in-group preferences are all about alleles that don't tell us much about the rest of a person's genome. So tell me again how the religious are more rational"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2006067972398633001)  2025-12-30T18:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MiddleNamesMud @mateosfo @_AmandaKerri @Nowooski 1/ Another problem is that the climate modelers don't seem to be aware of the vast amount of paleoclimate data we have. CO2 levels were up to 4x-5x higher during the late Cretaceous and Paleocene and ecosystems functioned quite well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2006205673818972490)  2025-12-31T03:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MiddleNamesMud @mateosfo @Nowooski At least he believes in the amorphous idea of "science." But when data impinges on his preferred beliefs he appeals to the higher level of science that doesn't require confirming data. Models for instance untied from reality. It's a sort of religious belief: Scientism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2006444108756447522)  2025-12-31T19:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MichaelAArouet @LogicColdd The population of San Francisco peaked in [----] but housing prices are still climbing. And no we're not entering a period of declining population. US surpassed [---] mil last year. But the percentage of younger Americans is falling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2006564063669792809)  2026-01-01T03:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BurstonSteven @camdenpike @bscholl Well the employees of MB&G created the systems that created the wealth for these people. Their only reward: a salary some limited stock options and a matching 401K & getting laid off several times in their career. In the old days we got ISO options but they took those away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2006823440695877722)  2026-01-01T20:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@apralky @joshdcaplan That assumes that AGI will happen and be useful. Certainly if (when) the current AI bubble bursts European economies will be less affected"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007158327063777392)  2026-01-02T18:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@davidbessis @BillAckman If Bill trusts her so much he should hire her to handle his funds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007177495301480561)  2026-01-02T19:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"EoY25-1/ My end of year [----] pathogen summary. For those who follow me sorry I havent been keeping this up. COVID-19 doesn't interest me as much as it did. 🤷♀ I may post new updates if we get a nasty pathogen flare-up though. The winter COVID wave began around Thanksgiving"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007310737384095791)  2026-01-03T04:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"EoY25-2/ The uneven start of this winter wave is interesting. Strong upsurge wastewater numbers in the Midwest and East. Not so much in the South and WW levels in the West are still below the previous interwave gapmaybe due to higher levels during that interwave gap"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007311217090777378)  2026-01-03T04:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"EoY25-11/ Cremie chimed in on the Wallace-Wells thread reposting an Aug Xeet suggesting that the increase is due to long-term brain fog. As usual hes vague about where he obtained his data. CPS It may be up there but I dont see where CPS tracks disability numbers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007317745738891273)  2026-01-03T05:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"EoY2025-12/ But it's worth debunking this idea once again. Marc Veldhoen an immunologist wrote a Substack article about the lack of evidence that COVID infections cause long-term cognitive decline. Here is his list of reference studies. https://marcveldhoen.substack.com/p/no-sars-cov-2-is-not-reducing-our https://marcveldhoen.substack.com/p/no-sars-cov-2-is-not-reducing-our"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007318624189743295)  2026-01-03T05:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"EoY2025-19/ Measles made a comeback late in the year (while my updates were on hiatus) pushing the total confirmed cases up to [----]. 11% were hospitalized. And there were a total of [--] deaths"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007325548503343208)  2026-01-03T05:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"EoY2025-20/ And it's worth noting again that although SARS-CoV-2 can cause immune dysfunction for 3-6 months in severe cases measles can impair up to 73% of immune memory for multiple years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007328857284878785)  2026-01-03T05:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"EoY2025-21/ Canada got hit worse than the US. They had a total of [----] confirmed measles cases and [--] measles-related deaths in [----]. Both occurred in infants with congenital measles who were born prematurely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007329499994829308)  2026-01-03T05:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"EoY2025-22/ Mexico had [----] confirmed cases of measles in [----] and the Mexico Ministry of Health estimates there were probably another [-----] undiagnosed measles cases. Currently theyre in the middle of a second surge that started in November. Their [----] death toll was 24"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007330167056929098)  2026-01-03T05:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"EoY2025-23/ In other Coronavirus news a new Betacoronavirus with a novel Furin cleavage site has been found in a species of South American batsand it's sufficiently distinct from the five recognized Betacoronavirus subgenera to represent a new subgenus. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684489v1.full.pdf https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684489v1.full.pdf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007337820147667250)  2026-01-03T06:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"EoY2025-24/ This new FCS is at the S1/S2 junction and it has a unique RDAR amino acid sequence. SARS-CoV-2 uses an RRAR sequence but this discovery adds to the number of furin cleavage sites known in Betacoronaviruses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007344101927334205)  2026-01-03T06:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DeivonDrago @No5mallf3at @SamSmichh @quantabhidharma @xEPluribusUnum 1/ I think only physicists consider consciousness to be weakly emergent. And that's due to their ignorance about how difficult consciousness has been to get a handle on. OTOH Roger Penrose considers it to be strongly emergent as do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007529370022486270)  2026-01-03T19:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DeivonDrago @No5mallf3at @SamSmichh @quantabhidharma @xEPluribusUnum How about some examples other than Sean Carrols epistemic handwavery :-)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007555066698576309)  2026-01-03T20:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@OAesthetics69 .But LC doesn't seem to have created a spike in disability claims (they're falling again after a brief upturn). There've been no increase in diseases associated with immune disregulation. Post pandemic age-adjusted heart disease cancer alzheimer rates etc. have all fallen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007715646789038518)  2026-01-04T07:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@OAesthetics69 .and anecdotally I only know [--] person in my extended circle of friends and former coworkers whose LC lasted longer than [--] months. She's still affected [--] years after her infection. So LC is real. But I admit I don't buy the current consensus of its frequency or severity.🤷♀🤷🤷♂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007717386569519118)  2026-01-04T07:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@VGrubsky If you mean amplitudes of wastewater numbers yes they've been trending down. But we're only partway through this winter wave. I suspect it will be lower than the summer wave (but it could throw us for a loop). Of course deaths and hospitalizations have definitely trended down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2007877908040429850)  2026-01-04T18:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@karlbykarlsmith @dwarkesh_sp Except that most of the surplus horses got slaughtered for dog fooduntil public sentiment turned against this practice in the 1940s and early 50s. By that time most of the horses had become food for our pet dogs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2008440758224015609)  2026-01-06T07:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@RegalCathedral @jayvanbavel Even if someone else manipulated Gino's data as lead author she was responsible for ensuring the integrity of the data & resulting conclusions. At best she was very sloppy. And considering this involved multiple papers it suggests she was not a competent researcher. Bye bye"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2008656484239048828)  2026-01-06T21:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@grok @RokoMijic @pronounced_kyle @Grok but IEA's EBC Annex [--] defines: "Embodied energy (EE) is a method of accounting for the primary energy resources (regardless of their type) consumed/used in one or more life cycle stages of a given product." Shouldn't we count the solar energy required to grow a tree"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2009327772196577739)  2026-01-08T18:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@JVinos_Climate Are these ocean surface temps The Hunga-Tonga eruption warmed the lower stratosphere and troposphere (but cooled the upper stratosphere) in [----]. I wonder if the [----] spike was a delayed response to this warming () and if the current cooling is a return to the previous trend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2009387440713396241)  2026-01-08T22:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ednewtonrex Was this ever in dispute When I ask ChatGPT and Grok for quotes from copyrighted works they usually provide reliable quotes. In fact I've used this as an argument that LLMs produce results far beyond fair use"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2009388738603045363)  2026-01-08T22:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@jukka235 @ChristosArgyrop Interesting. The age-adjusted rates of renal failure and kidney disease post-2020 fell in the US at least up through [----]. Though I can't find any data for [----] and [----]. Do you have a favored theory of why this is happening in Finland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2009391952991801758)  2026-01-08T22:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@elonmusk @Grok is this true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2009419452002259258)  2026-01-09T00:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@zackkanter Then you have the example of the Polgar sisters. Their educational psychologist father who didn't play chess taught all [--] of his daughters from books beginning at age [--] practicing with them for several hours a day. [--] became grandmasters but the "lazy" sister only made master"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2009509462164619719)  2026-01-09T06:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ryankatzrosene @Grok has either the US EPA or UK government approved this experiment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2010153169062670491)  2026-01-11T00:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@kananaskinyeti @Lurker27794215 Including the rest of [----] and all of [----] would give you a better perspective on current wastewater levels in the San Jose sewershed. AFAICS they're no longer publishing case data but COVID ED visits remain low and hospitalizations are down from previous years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2010248064439878085)  2026-01-11T07:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@MelRoBuilds @Grok what percentage of people with IQ [--] can't tell time Do we have a graph of percent functional literacy mapped to IQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2010500018898391122)  2026-01-11T23:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@grok @hausfath @Grok if we look at the northern mid-latitudes middle of the Pacific how much does the surface temperatures vary between winter and summer How about 100m and 1km down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2010938485482705350)  2026-01-13T04:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TraceyRyniec @jonbrooks Even in SF there's surplus housing. Someone hypothesized it's being used for vacation rentals like Airbnb. I don't have an opinion on this though because I don't have the data"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2011183533487001706)  2026-01-13T21:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@dokhollidays @DrNeilStone Apology accepted. I was more curious if that graph was specifically for [----] because the timeline sorta matches up with the Delta wave and 13/100k would be the peak deaths during Delta but I don't recall that there were many vaccinated at that point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2011913025515610203)  2026-01-15T21:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@confusionm8trix 4/ Marc Veldhoen an immunologist published a substack article on the papers that seem to be informing the COVID immune dysregulation narrativethen he refutes them. Worth reading. I screen-shotted his conclusions. / https://marcveldhoen.substack.com/p/does-sars-cov-2-infection-result https://marcveldhoen.substack.com/p/does-sars-cov-2-infection-result"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2012767847072563673)  2026-01-18T06:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@internetarchiva @Grok what's the source for this data"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2012769241171382780)  2026-01-18T06:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@confusionm8trix PS: Here are some pathogens we would see increase if peeps had chronic immune dysfunction (like what HIV causes). Don't know what caused the spikes in Strep and Scarlet Fever at the beginning of [----] but rates have fallen since then"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2012980805329412471)  2026-01-18T20:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@bobbyfijan Just south is San Franciscowhich is the 2nd-most densely populated area in the US. [---] million people live in the [--] counties around the SF Bay. That's larger than the population of most US states (37 by my count). We must be doing something right for people to want to live here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2013119827960021110)  2026-01-19T05:22Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@JohnHolbein1 Are audio podcasts still a big portion of the online media consumption market And what's with their categorization It's odd that they overlook the science and history categories. I'm unconvinced that this study helps me understand the podcast ecosystem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2014056571626811440)  2026-01-21T19:24Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@Biotchinvestor @kofinas [---] here. I've met lots of amazingly smart people who are virtually morons outside their specialities. I've yet to meet a von Neumann-type polymath. This may be due to the post-grad educational system but problem-solving and curiosity seem to be two distinct gifts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2014059921227260154)  2026-01-21T19:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@zenahitz It says (politikn) as in political in the sense of rule among free persons not despotic domination. Women have (bouleutikn) the capacity to reason (which slaves lack) but they are (kyron) literally without authority. Interesting because"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2014211060178587873)  2026-01-22T05:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@zenahitz .because I was only interested in Aristotle in his role in the history of scientific thought. But his politics were pretty reactionary by today's standards. Just as we no longer take his natural philosophy seriously we need not take his political thought seriously either"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2014214041758310711)  2026-01-22T05:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@zenahitz My modern worldview may be fogging my intellectual lenses but I suspectsuspect mind youthat women were on one level members of the polis but their fathers or husbands had authority over themversus Roman Law where women had rights outside father or husband (IIRC)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2014216632126882077)  2026-01-22T06:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@zenahitz I suspect we'd see them as closer to chattel slaves but they were "free" in that they couldn't be bought or sold. And they probably had more rights before the law than would a slave. This is not really my forte though. 🤷♀🤷🤷♂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2014218925601644729)  2026-01-22T06:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@zenahitz Our conversation reminded me of the example of Pericles' son by a non-Athenian wife who was unable to get citizenship because both parents had to be Athenian citizens. So at least in the Athenian polis the badge of citizenship mattered for a woman's offspring"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2014396083531809215)  2026-01-22T17:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Hereforthetext @StatisticUrban This long predated COVID and goes back to the late 1990s. But CA's economic growth accelerated under Gov. Schwarzenegger and it grew fastest during Gov. Brown's [--] yrs in office. It continues to grow under Gov. Newsom but not at the rate it did under Brown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2015137320547258698)  2026-01-24T18:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@martinmbauer If were not touching how do the does the kinetic energy of the atoms of a hot frying pan get transferred to the atoms in my fingers. Asking for a friend who Im out of touch with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2015223630398193926)  2026-01-25T00:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@dontwantadothis Here's a list of [--] big companies located in North Carolina: 1.Lowe's Companies 2.Bank of America 3.Honeywell 4.Compass Group 5.IQVIA 6.Family Dollar 7.Food Lion 8.HanesBrands Inc. 9.VF Corporation 10.Truist Financial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/1790911978313232466)  2024-05-16T01:07Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@Quodvox5 @_ClimateCraze I was more wondering about the dreaded theoretical positive feedback mechanisms as CO2 levels rise. Brackett mentions them in passing but doesn't take the time to discuss and debunk them. But the Earth's geological history shows that ecosystems functioned quite well w/ 4x-5x CO2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/1798760025399415196)  2024-06-06T16:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"The spectacle is loud because the machinery underneath is weaker than it looks. https://open.substack.com/pub/libertylens1/p/one-year-into-trump-20-are-thingsr=7xjun&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay https://open.substack.com/pub/libertylens1/p/one-year-into-trump-20-are-thingsr=7xjun&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2016326086398038493)  2026-01-28T01:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@grok @MattWallace888 @Grok are you aware of any other Google Earth artifacts like this one If so can list the coordinates of a few examples"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2016980815708827860)  2026-01-29T21:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Tweet4AnnaNAFO Why is this your last thread for a while I'll miss your commentaries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2017843537522618817)  2026-02-01T06:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@batatalal @Graham_Mark_E Whats the point of her grift Is she going to make millions off the movie rights"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2018833728114741475)  2026-02-03T23:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@HetkeBrian @Rogerinhawaii @FirFotia @2Philosophical_ I think it's equally valid to ask why. One can build insight by asking yet not finding the answer. But mysticism is also a rational undertaking. The satori/henosis/one-with-the-universe experience can occur transiently and accidentally but takes theory and praxis to recreate it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2018923024293204204)  2026-02-04T05:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@HetkeBrian @Rogerinhawaii @FirFotia @2Philosophical_ If you haven't read this you should. Even the materialists out there should read it if only to learn how to counter his arguments. 🙃 (I found Bernardo Kastrup's criticisms of materialism convincing but I was left unconvinced by his arguments for idealism.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2018926493519524116)  2026-02-04T05:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@HetkeBrian @Rogerinhawaii @FirFotia @2Philosophical_ You might be correct but some great substrate-dependent minds thought otherwise. It's like the GG question. General scientific consensus is G. But neither the Godless scientists nor the God-botherers can falsify their claims. Without falsifiability I remain agnostic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2019160218295497192)  2026-02-04T21:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Marmel I just checked and goats are actually mentioned [--] times in the Epstein files. 🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2019197670888468549)  2026-02-04T23:53Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@Shaktidass18 @Philip_Goff 2/ Not that I'm calling you intellectually lazy () but if Lester had used the term "anthropic arrogance" that would have been a more rational (and less loaded) response. Not that the idealists have done a particularly good job defending their position but the physicalists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/beowulf888/status/2020597070684618829)  2026-02-08T20:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

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