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In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday. We recognize that this will impact a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but this action is lamentable necessary to ensure the company’s success moving forward.

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It’s the middle of October — and you know what that means. Millions of people are watching reruns of The Shining, tiptoeing through haunted houses and willfully participating in what basically amounts to light psychological distress. During the spooky season, we crave fear.

On the face of it, deliberately choosing to be scared seems rather unusual. Aren’t our bodies supposed to recognize fear as a negative sensation so we know when to arm ourselves against threats?

To help explain such dissonance, I contacted a trauma specialist who offered some insight into what, exactly, happens in our brain when we decide to seek the sensation of fright.

“A big part of the draw is there’s an adrenaline rush,” explained Arianna Galligher, associate director of the Trauma Recovery Center at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

Boo! Now, what just happened in your brain?

At the exact moment we feel fear — elicited from a jump scare in a horror film, for instance — our brain releases a cocktail of endorphins and adrenaline. That mixture of hormones, Galligher says, is similar to what the brain sends out during moments of excitement. Of course, we enjoy in excitement. That’s why fear often feels good.

“Fear and excitement are two sides of the same coin,” she said. “And for a lot of people, that sort of jolt is exciting even if fear is an ingredient.”

Short-lived terror can also offer a uniquely satisfying experience. When we’re purely excited or happy, Galligher says, our body

Now might be the time to finally take Jake Paul seriously as a professional boxer.

today, Jake Paul defeated Anderson Silva via decision in a boxing match that, unlike some Paul fights in the past, absolutely lived up to the hype.

It was a back and forth contest, with most onlookers having it even after the first six rounds. For most of the fight Paul did well at distance, landed sharp jabs to the head and body of the 47-year-old Silva, who tended to fight in patches. Silva’s best success came when he fought tight on the inside, landing multiple sharp uppercuts to the chin of Paul.

But in the eighth and final round, with a marauding Silva looking for the finish, Paul landed a clean shot that sent Silva to the canvas.

Despite that, Silva made it the final bell, with Paul winning a decision according to the judges, who scored the fight 77-74, 78-73, and 78-73.

Then Paul was very respectful towards Silva, but called out UFC fighter Nate Diaz and Saúl “Canelo” lvarez. He also made reference to joining forces with Silva to create a fighters union, to make sure MMA fighters in particular are paid fairly. Paul, on multiple occasions has called out the UFC for its pay structure.

It was easily Paul’s best fight to date. A fight in which he looked comfortable fighting a combat sports veteran with decades of experience. Paul was able to land multiple clean shots on Silva, a fighter once

The 2023 Polestar 2 BST Edition 270 is finally here. After its debut as an experimental prototype at the 2021 Goodwood Festival of Speed, Swedish EV builder Polestar announced a limited-run of the hotted-up Polestar 2 earlier this year. A few supply chain-related delays later — par for the course these days — and I find myself behind the wheel of the electric sport sedan on the damp and twisting back roads of the San Francisco Bay Area, my home turf, grinning from ear to ear.

Performance package upgrades

The Polestar 2 BST Edition 270 is essentially a Dual Motor Long Range model that’s been funked up with a bit of Polestar 1-inspired skunkworks stank. Each of the 270 examples begins life on a normal Polestar 2 assembly line before being whisked off to the Polestar Production Center — former home of Polestar 1 production — for hand-customization and upgrades.

The BST Edition 270 features the same performance software upgrade and power boost that makes the 2023 model year Performance Pack a more compelling upgrade since the last time we evaluated the 2. The software retune adds launch control and boosts the dual motor setup’s output to a combined 476 horsepower (350 kW) and 503 pound-feet of torque. That’s a decent bump over the 402 horsepower of the standard dual motor setup, enough to drop the 0 to 60 mph time from 4.5 seconds to 4.2 ticks. More straight line quickness is nice, but it’s the more responsive accelerator pedal