Jeff McNeill
@mcneill.info
#dad #science #culture
he/him born at 321 ppm
black & trans lives will always matter
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he/him born at 321 ppm
black & trans lives will always matter
https://jeffmcneill.com
https://hachyderm.io/@jeffmcneill
https://blacksky.community/profile/jeffmcneill.com
"Talent vs Luck", published in 2018 (and later awarded an Ig Nobel Prize), is still one of the most downloaded and most-read articles, ever, in the journal "Advances of Complex Systems"
www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1...
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
"Talent vs Luck", published in 2018 (and later awarded an Ig Nobel Prize), is still one of the most downloaded and most-read articles, ever, in the journal "Advances of Complex Systems"
www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1...
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
— Elie Wiesel
— Elie Wiesel
December 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
— Elie Wiesel
— Elie Wiesel
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
November 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
When you win a war, your people are united and applaud you. When you make peace, your people are doubtful and resentful.
— Shimon Peres
— Shimon Peres
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
When you win a war, your people are united and applaud you. When you make peace, your people are doubtful and resentful.
— Shimon Peres
— Shimon Peres
China Has Overtaken America - And Trump's policies guarantee that we will never catch up.
archive.is/YwCfN
archive.is/YwCfN
October 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
China Has Overtaken America - And Trump's policies guarantee that we will never catch up.
archive.is/YwCfN
archive.is/YwCfN
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
— Soren Kierkegaard
— Soren Kierkegaard
October 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
— Soren Kierkegaard
— Soren Kierkegaard
Bluesky app collects and shares personal data. Just another venture funded app starting down the road to enshitification.
March 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Bluesky app collects and shares personal data. Just another venture funded app starting down the road to enshitification.
There are always people who prefer mediocrity, and when they get it, say ‘What a relief!’
— T.S. Eliot
— T.S. Eliot
February 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
There are always people who prefer mediocrity, and when they get it, say ‘What a relief!’
— T.S. Eliot
— T.S. Eliot
February 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
— H.L. Menken
— H.L. Menken
February 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
— H.L. Menken
— H.L. Menken
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
— H. L. Mencken
— H. L. Mencken
February 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
— H. L. Mencken
— H. L. Mencken
Day after Christmas breakfast: yogurt and cantaloupe, scrambled eggs with lox, olive toast, miso soup, cheesecake, eggnog.
December 26, 2024 at 3:52 AM
Day after Christmas breakfast: yogurt and cantaloupe, scrambled eggs with lox, olive toast, miso soup, cheesecake, eggnog.