Repost: Graham Hillard, "... it’s time to defund NPR"
“the fair-minded listener could likely find a kernel of truth in each of the stories mentioned above despite their almost comic slantedness.”
Repost: ThinkChina on baizuo (white left)
The Chinese have a word for the ‘white left’
Repost: Matt Laslo, "Bipartisan support for Mitch McConnell staying in the Senate until death"
“In 1846, former President John Quincy Adams suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed. Voters didn’t care. The former U.S. senator from Massachusetts overcame its debilitating effects and was then sent back to Washington”
Repost: Emma Hinchliffe, Joseph Abrams, "79% of seed funding for diverse founders goes to white women..."
“The data supports longtime research that shows that Black women receive less than 1% of venture funding”
Repost: Noam Chomsky, "The False Promise of ChatGPT"
“the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations.”
Three Recs I Dont Have Time For
I used Chat GPT to give me the sparknotes on these three websites. I’ll vaguely promise to revisit each of them later. Two relate to influencers in the business world, the other a concept.
Repost: Andrew 'Garbage Day' Miller, "Dream Theater vs. The Mars Volta"
I grew up during early internet days. I still yearn to turn on a clunky desktop with my big toe, and patiently wait for it to boot. Hell, I’ve even thought of making my laptop’s fingerprint scanner learn my big toe.
Repost: Arielle Lana LeJarde (Resident Advisor), "'Anonymity is a lost art': Why some artists are taking breaks from social media"
DnB DJ Halogenix, “The insatiable appetite {social media} creates to be constantly seen is destroying not only my mental health, but the core values and qualities of the [music] culture that I fell in love with.’”
Repost: Robin Hanson, "Women As Worriers Who Exclude"
I do not agree with the author. The book he cites references female competition with other females. He brings up #metoo, missing that #metoo was focused on exposing men. His analysis is wacky at best.