Repost: Melanie Swan, "Vast majority of Iranians want a secular government, poll reveals"
“Only 7.9% of respondents said they agree women must be made to wear hijab, down from 18.6 percent.”
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.”