Scott Alexander

@slatestarcodex

I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog. This is where I make terrible puns.

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  1. retweeted
    Jun 20

    Dunbar number suggests fiction about small community should have 140 characters. Tweets have 140 characters. Coincidence? It seems.

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  2. 24 hours ago

    "I used to be a priest, but I was defrocked for an improper relationship on the job," Tom said inundated with work.

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  3. 24 hours ago

    "I'm using behavioral conditioning to train lions to keep quiet," Tom said to Rorschach.

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  4. Jul 20

    Seen on 's Tumblr: "Man, I love that I can fight Communism just by paying for stuff"

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  5. Jul 20

    If something's neither a monopoly nor an oligopoly, is it a polypoly?

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  6. Jul 20

    "I'm not going to make a deathbed conversion," Tom said diagnostically.

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  7. Jul 18

    Cosmopolitan libertarians: "Merkel is a monster for supporting policies that made a child cry. No way this will ever come back to haunt us."

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    Jun 29

    metaphysicists with underground tunnels where they collide physicists at enormous speed

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  9. Jul 13

    "Why yes ma'am, I AM the Tom from those Twitter one-liners you've heard," Tom said pungently.

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  10. Jul 12

    "Look, a Confederate general!" Tom said icily.

    5 retweets 14 favorites
  11. Jul 12

    "I'm an only child," Tom said in unison.

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  12. Jul 11

    But each lightning death we prevent undermines ability to dismiss things w/ "more likely to be struck by lightning"

    Another sign of human progress: Deaths from lightning strikes down > 15X since 1940s.
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  13. Jul 10

    It's not a stick, it's a unident!

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  14. Jul 6

    THAT ONLY WORKS ONCE.

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  15. Jul 6

    Seen on 's Tumblr: "What is fourth derivative called?" "Inauguration." "Why?" "Change of jerk."

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  16. Jul 5

    Call me what you will, but I'll say it - this Dutch politician has a silly name:

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  17. retweeted
    Jul 5

    note that it's the translator's problem, not Iglesias'. The tweet actually said "democracy has won"

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  18. Jul 5

    "Pablo Iglesias of Spain's anti-austerity party tweets: 'Today in Greece, victory has won.'" VICTORY HAS WON.

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  19. Jul 4

    Theory: July 4th is sublimated Midsummer in the same way Christmas is sublimated Yule and Easter is sublimated celebration of spring.

    21 retweets 27 favorites
  20. Jul 3

    My Facebook friends have now almost fully separated into the rainbow-flag-over-photo half and the Deep-Dream-processed photo half.

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