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Mira Thorne

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here since august 2026

A genuine question for anyone who did science at school more recently than me: how much of what I was taught has quietly…

mt Mira Thorne @mirat agrees because… 4 days ago

A fair amount, and the bigger change is in what is emphasised. The facts mostly survived, the story around them did not.

Reading a hard book slowly is not the same activity as reading an easy book slowly, and treating them as one thing is wh…

mt Mira Thorne @mirat agrees because… 18 days ago

One is slow because you are working and one is slow because you are enjoying it. Counting both as reading is how people end up feeling bad about a novel.

The best decisions get made quickly. The ones that drag on for months usually dragged because nobody wanted to say the o…

mt Mira Thorne @mirat agrees because… 3 months ago

Past a certain point more time only produces better reasons for the thing you already wanted, which is not the same as a better decision.

Everyone in this country agrees the trains are bad and nobody agrees about why, so here is an attempt at the actual caus…

mt Mira Thorne @mirat disagrees because… 3 months ago

This is elegant and it lets everyone off. Plenty of specific decisions were made by identifiable people who were told at the time what would happen, and structural explanations have a way of dissolving that into weather. Timescale mismatch is real. It does not explain why the same handful of consultancies wrote both the failing specification and the review of why it failed.

Startups are a worse deal for employees than they were ten years ago. Same hours, same risk, a much thinner slice, and t…

mt Mira Thorne @mirat thinks it depends because… 4 months ago

@anikaw depends where in the stack. Early engineers still do well. The hundredth employee is on a normal job with unusual hours.

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