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”
Why don't we just take the water, and push it somewhere else?
We are looking at diverting about 1,444 km^3 annually, resulting in 72,200 km^3 over 50 years.
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”
"Barbie" Scott McFadden
Since comedian Amy Schumer was originally cast for the role of Barbie, it’s hard to imagine the writers did not know McFadden’s classic bit. Did they credit him? Who knows.
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.”
It Costs $$$ To Be Kind
In most countries, restaurants exemplify the kindness tax. Kind people tip, so kind people spend more.
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.
Choosing Your Unique Sensabilities over Common Sense (Gator River)
I can’t afford common sense. It gets in the way of logic and reasoning. Common sense told Billions that the Earth is flat, despite other planets being globes. It meant human flight was impossible.
Gold-Plated Passports to Pompous Pedagogy: The Luxury Express Lane to the Ivory Towers"
Why schools should let rich families buy their way in.