Walter Hickey

@walthickey

Executive Editor @sherwood.news, book whatyou.watch, writer . Previously FiveThirtyEight and Business Insider. Pulitzer Prize winner.

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Walter Hickey@walthickey· 26d

it's time www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jul 9

baffled that the discovery of a time-traveling lawyer is not the top story in America right now www.numlock.com/p/numlock-ne...

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jul 5

it's like the Odyssey, tales of masculine dinguses are best consumed by spoken word. also I want the cast of Righteous Gemstones to get the Grammy.

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jul 5

the new Danny McBride short story collection is marvelous. But the new Danny McBride Audiobook is a *masterpiece.*

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jul 5

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jul 2

if gmail is in the "make the button as large as possible and put it directly next to a high-traffic area" phase of the AI rollout it's not going... well, right?

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jul 1

the newscast is implying that this is ruining things for tourists? buddy, spotting batman on top of the empire state building is why the tourists wanna look at it to begin with.

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jul 1

good for them

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jun 27

lmfao

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jun 26

oh man it's gonna be Japan vs Brazil in the knockout round? as the sacred texts foretold.

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jun 24

congrats to UK friends about their new government now can you please address the policy that resulted in the single rudest thing my telephone has ever said to me

the length of time you've had an apple account was used to confirm you're 18+

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jun 19

never been a mandate of heaven guy but it might be time to hear The Fisher King folks out

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jun 9

jamming an entire spanakopita into this guy

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jun 9

this scam text is a brilliant version of that old Microsoft paper "Why do Nigerian scammers still say they're from Nigeria?"

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jun 7

the hell are we doing here toybook.com/monopoly-bra...

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jun 3

oh my god puck.news/disney-is-re...

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jun 3

nightmare blunt rotation

Walter Hickey@walthickey· Jun 1

ha, holy shit, would be high off this interaction for a miminum of six months

Walter Hickey@walthickey· May 27

I am extremely excited to spend at least three books of my turns stewing over my captured girlfriend instead of doing the simple task asked of me

Walter Hickey@walthickey· May 26

lol

Walter Hickey@walthickey· May 22

lmao

Walter Hickey@walthickey· May 20

The Parallax View (1974) but it's a Discord www.garbageday.email/p/an-interne...

Walter Hickey@walthickey· May 15

went to the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum today and its a place where they moved historically significant buildings there for you to see and i was like gosh what a concept other places should do that it's neat and then I remembered i literally went to college in colonial f—ing williamsburg

Walter Hickey@walthickey· May 14

hooting and hollering at the eisner nominees, so much stuff I love getting a nod this year

Walter Hickey@walthickey· May 7

The House of Lords have only been tolerated all these years because they were thought to be in a comatose condition which preceded dissolution. They have got to dissolution now. That this body, utterly unrepresentative, utterly unreformed, should come forward and claim the right to make and unmake Governments, should lay one greedy paw on the prerogatives of the sovereign and another upon the established and most fundamental privileges of the House of Commons is a spectacle which a year ago no one would have believed could happen; which fifty years ago no Peer would have dared suggest; and which two hundred years ago would not have been discussed in the amiable though active manner of a political campaign, but would have been settled by charges of cavalry and the steady advance of iron-clad pikemen.
Winston Churchill, The People's Rights

Walter Hickey@walthickey· May 6

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Walter Hickey@walthickey· May 6

best argument against conspiracy theories is outlined in this paper that looks at actual secrets and how long people were able to keep them secret pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Conspiratorial ideation is the tendency of individuals to believe that events and power relations are secretly manipulated by certain clandestine groups and organisations. Many of
these ostensibly explanatory conjectures are non-falsifiable, lacking in evidence or demonstrably false, yet public acceptance remains high. Efforts to convince the general public of
the validity of medical and scientific findings can be hampered by such narratives, which
can create the impression of doubt or disagreement in areas where the science is well
established. Conversely, historical examples of exposed conspiracies do exist and it may
be difficult for people to differentiate between reasonable and dubious assertions. In this
work, we establish a simple mathematical model for conspiracies involving multiple actors
with time, which yields failure probability for any given conspiracy. Parameters for the model
are estimated from literature examples of known scandals, and the factors influencing conspiracy success and failure are explored. The model is also used to estimate the likelihood
of claims from some commonly-held conspiratorial beliefs; these are namely that the moonlandings were faked, climate-change is a hoax, vaccination is dangerous and that a cure for
cancer is being suppressed by vested interests. Simulations of these claims predict that
intrinsic failure would be imminent even with the most generous estimates for the secretkeeping ability of active participants—the results of this model suggest that large conspiracies (1000 agents) quickly become untenable and prone to failure. The theory presented
here might be useful in counteracting the potentially deleterious consequences of bogus
and anti-science narratives, and examining the hypothetical conditions under which sustainable conspiracy might be possible.

Walter Hickey@walthickey· May 5

a lack of principles?

Walter Hickey@walthickey· May 4

huge win for @pablo.show

Walter Hickey@walthickey· May 1

i contain multitudes