Repost: Steven Vaughan-Nichols, "3 million smart toothbrushes were not..."
“You should also never charge your device at a public USB port. That same port that charges your gadget can also infect it.”
Repost: WSJ "Negative Takes on China’s Economy Are Disappearing From the Internet"
"As the data have worsened, Beijing has tightened the flow of information around its economy."
Repost: Bari Weiss "End DEI"
“DEI is about arrogating power.”
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.