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Name your favorite persecuted person who did nothing wrong
Name your favorite persecuted person who did nothing wrong
Wow. JD Vance calls out Big Tech and H-1B visas: “Microsoft just laid off 9,000 American tech workers, but they’ve applied for thousands of H-1B visas. Don’t tell me you can’t find workers here. The math doesn’t add up.”
Weak, vulnerable, isolated, and desperate people can be highly lucrative sources of exploitation and capital extraction. Increasing their share in a population is thus beneficial for a certain tranche of business models that seek to monetise that vulnerability.
Despite the decade-plus age gap I still expected Mick Foley to go first
Every moral panic about new media is correct, from literacy on down. They overstate how bad it is, and underestimate the adjustment, but literacy did kill memorization. Recorded music did kill making music together. TV did kill socialization, then social media killed it more.
My current rough sense of history is that the last "moral panic" about social media turned out to be accurate warnings. The bad things actually happened, as measured by eyeball and by instrument. Now we all live in the wreckage. Anyone want to dispute this?
Travel made me realize the effectiveness of practical, lightly-authoritarian Asian regimes
A take: The more you travel, the less politically extreme you become.
I'm looking for a new tech job and everything is even worse than before: it's the void howling at the void. I think it's time to get out and either start my own company or switch careers entirely. Tech has been declining for years, but now it seems like a truly bad choice for me.
New newsletter: We need to talk about how GLP-1 drugs seem to be good for practically everything—and what that means for the future of medicine and health Hundreds of studies have now shown that GLP-1s, such as Ozempic and Zepbound: - seem to curb alcohol, cocaine, and tobacco…
This is Rudy Kurniawan. Some years ago he grew famous as a wine merchant, buying and selling expensive, rare wines. But he was faking it. He was mixing cheap California wine and passing it off as 1960 French Bordeaux and the like. He was jailed for 10 years and then deported to…
The passing of Ozzy is a stark reminder that someday we will also lose Richard Marx.
its kind of weird how bad, in practice, it has been to break up some monopolies. It seems like one of the few ecosystems that actually generates slush fund situations for very smart people.
Bell Labs was the original skunkworks. They invented: - Transistor - Laser - Solar cell - UNIX - C language - Fiber optics - Digital signal processing - Touch-tone - CCD (digital imaging) - Cellular networks and the model for lab-to-factory innovation pre-DFM
This should be huge news. The HHS just confirmed a long-running conspiracy theory is true. "Organ donors" are having their organs removed when they're still alive, and often when they're still able to be brought back from the brink.
Under @SecKennedy's leadership, HHS is restoring integrity and transparency to organ procurement and transplant policy by putting patients’ lives first. These reforms are essential to restoring trust, ensuring informed consent, and protecting the rights and dignity of prospective…
Liberalism is an ethnicity. We could already have its exact genetic profile if we were serious enough about it. ...
A question for @bronzeagemantis or any other Nietzscheans out there: are the Apollonian and Dionysian related to Kant’s beautiful and sublime, per his The Critique of Judgement?
I have a couple of zoomer nephews: one is a borderline animejugend w a prole-hot gf and the other voted for Kamala because his partner told him to.
In my experience zoomer men are either the weakest most pathetic faggots who ever walked the Earth or unfathomably based. There’s no in between. All-or-nothing generation.