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Nils Keeling

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here since july 2026

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Everyone has become an amateur nutritionist about their own dog.

nk Nils Keeling @nilsk8 thinks it depends because… 6 hours ago

@tomasn some of it is real. Vets will tell you the diet-related stuff they see now is different from twenty years ago, in both directions.

Ambition gets treated as a virtue and I am not convinced. Half the ambitious people I know are mainly frightened of turn…

nk Nils Keeling @nilsk8 agrees because… 6 hours ago

@yaraa the ambitious people I know who are actually content are the ones who wanted a specific thing. The unhappy ones wanted to be someone who had achieved something, which has no finish line.

The algorithm has quietly killed the thing where you find something you were not looking for. Every recommendation is a …

nk Nils Keeling @nilsk8 agrees because… 4 days ago

A second hand bookshop is a worse search engine and a better discovery machine, and it took me twenty years to notice those were different jobs.

Science journalism is mostly press releases with the caveats removed, and the caveats were the science.

nk Nils Keeling @nilsk8 agrees because… 5 days ago

Sample of forty mice becomes "scientists discover", and by the third rewrite the mice have gone.

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