DrRobCz 🇦🇺 🇵🇱 🇺🇦

Academic;commentator;caffeine junkie. Financial reporting. Perl hacker;data scientist;hm ZHP, sci/tech nerd. Mastodon:@[email protected] Blue:@DrRobCz

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Henry Ford was generally a racist and a bad person, but he understood something our current broligarchs have completely forgotten.

He said: I have to pay my workers enough to afford the products they’re building.

Give them a house, decent schools, reasonable healthcare.

If I do that, they’re not descending on my Dearborn mansion with pitchforks while I eat my caviar.

We’ve lost that plot entirely.

We have broligarchs who want to be trillionaires and they’re missing the lesson that a deeply flawed man figured out a hundred years ago.

Capitalism works, but only if people believe the game is worth playing.

Right now they don’t and history is very clear about what comes next.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Michelle Obama!

[Animarchy History 🇦🇺 @AnimarchyYT]

I am so patriotic right now

[Iranian Observer @Ms_Iranian]

Look who just landed in France for the G7 summit. The clown-in-chief has arrived. 🤡

[The Notorious JTB @then0toriousjtb]

Flood the timeline with Michelle Obama.

Michelle Obama earned degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law, served as First Lady, became a bestselling author, and inspired millions around the world.

Today, WE post Michelle Obama.

[Bartłomiej Wypartowicz 🇵🇱 @WypartowiczBa]

Rosyjski artysta Siemion Skrepetski, autor ostrych, antyputinowskich karykatur, został zastrzelony w Białej Podlaskiej.

W 2021 roku wyemigrował do Polski, podróżował po Europie i organizował protesty przeciwko Władimirowi Putinowi.

Do zdarzenia doszło przed godziną 10:00 na parkingu osiedlowym przy ulicy Królowej Jadwigi. Napastnik podszedł do artysty i oddał w jego kierunku kilka strzałów z bliskiej odległości.

Bardzo źle to wygląda. Bardzo.

[Brendan Cox @MrBrendanCox]

This is a brilliant investigation. It shows what many of us knew. Hostile states are supporting both Islamist & far right causes in order to divide us. If you are echoing those narratives you are aiding & abeting a hostile state.

https://t.co/Qr8sbm42zv

[DrRobCz 🇦🇺 🇵🇱 🇺🇦 @DrRobCz]

@NOELreports What are the lyrics from the first clip. Sounds like “fu…”?

[DrRobCz 🇦🇺 🇵🇱 🇺🇦 @DrRobCz]

@NOELreports What are the lyrics from the first clip. Sounds like “fuxk…”?

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Pediatric cancer research was considered wasteful spending... Keeping poor people from starving to death was considered wasteful spending...

[Alexander Khara 🇺🇦 @alexanderkhara]

@AdrianP_doc No. I disagree with you. There’s criminal punishment in our Criminal Code for those who illegally crossed the border between Ukraine and russia. Those who won’t flee after the liberation of Crimea should face justice.

[Brad @BradleyKellard]

Malcolm Gladwell revealed why you shouldn't go to Harvard:

1. America does not have a shortage of students who want science and math degrees. It has a shortage of students who finish them. Half of all high school seniors who intend to study STEM drop out by the end of their second year. The problem is not interest. It is persistence.

2. The obvious assumption is that smarter students persist longer. So Gladwell tested it. At Hartwick College, a small liberal arts school in New York, the top third of math SAT scorers took the majority of STEM degrees. The bottom third dropped out in large numbers. The data seemed to confirm it. Smarter kids stick around longer.

3. Then he looked at Harvard. The bottom third of Harvard's math SAT scores are equal to the top third at Hartwick. By the logic above, everyone at Harvard should graduate with a STEM degree. They are all brilliant. Nobody should be dropping out.

4. Harvard showed the exact same pattern as Hartwick. Top students graduated. Bottom students dropped out like flies. Even though the bottom Harvard students were objectively brilliant by any global standard. Something else entirely was driving the dropout rate.

5. That something is called relative deprivation theory. Human beings do not measure themselves against the world. They measure themselves against the people immediately around them. A Harvard student in the bottom third does not think I am in the top one percent of all students globally. They think that kid next to me keeps getting everything right and I keep getting it wrong. So they quit.

6. The research from UCLA puts a specific number on it. Your odds of graduating with a STEM degree fall by two percentage points for every ten point increase in the average SAT score of your peers. Choose Harvard over the University of Maryland and your chance of finishing a STEM degree drops by thirty percent. Thirty percent. Just to put a brand name on your resume.

7. Relative position matters more than absolute position when it comes to confidence, motivation, and self belief. The eightieth percentile student at Harvard looks up at the people above them and feels like they cannot compete. The number one student at a state school feels like they can conquer the world. That feeling drives everything.

8. The practical hiring implication is radical. Class rank matters more than institution name. Gladwell argues companies should have a don't ask don't tell policy for where someone went to college. Hiring only from top schools means missing the top students from every other school. That is not smart hiring. That is brand worship.

9. When choosing a college, never go to the best school you get into. Go to the school where you are guaranteed to be near the top of your class. Being a big fish in a smaller pond does not just feel better. It statistically produces better outcomes than being a small fish in the most prestigious pond available.

10. So why do we keep choosing Harvard over Maryland? Because we are flattered. Because the acceptance letter feels like validation. Because we make an irrational decision in a moment of enormous flattery and call it ambition. Gladwell's conclusion is simple and brutal. When we have the chance to join an elite institution we do things that are genuinely against our own interest and we feel great about it the whole time.

[Devana 🇺🇦 @DevanaUkraine]

🇩🇪 How an AfD Politician Uncovered the Kremlin's Lies and Flipped for Ukraine

A former member of Germany's pro-Russian AfD party shares just how powerful Russian propaganda is within their ranks, admitting that he himself used to be deeply pro-Russian because he blindly believed Russia's lies.

However, when he traveled to Ukraine for the very first time, he saw with his own eyes that everything Russia says is a complete lie, and that Ukrainians are entirely different from Russians. Following this revelation, he became staunchly pro-Ukrainian right inside his pro-Russian party and began openly calling out Russia's falsehoods.

[EUvsDisinfo @EUvsDisinfo]

Alexandra Jost, the Russian propagandist know for disseminating Kremlin propaganda dressed up as lifestyle content on behalf of Russia Today, has just been placed under EU sanctions. Don’t expect ‘Sasha Meets Europe’ anytime soon.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

When Notre-Dame burned in 2019, the world stopped.

Today, Russia damages Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a monastery nearly 1,000 years old and older than Notre-Dame itself.

A thousand years of history deserves the same attention, the same sympathy, and the same protection.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Love what the Australian soccer team says about modern Australia. Seriously, watch this video, and you'll be cheering for them too.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Many of the Russian soldiers seen daily being blown up by Ukrainian drones are there not because they're trained infantry, but are specialists or even officers who are being sent to their deaths as a punishment. A Russian colonel says he's never seen anything like it. ⬇️

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Applebaum: What binds Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is not religion or ideology.

China is communist, Russia nationalist, Iran theocratic. What binds them is fear of liberal language: rights, rule of law, separation of powers and independent courts. 1/

[Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge]

Ireland: occupied for centuries by imperial invaders who brutally suppressed their language & identity; endured torture, murder, sexual violence, hunger. They bravely resisted & live free today.

More than anyone in Western Europe, Ireland should understand & stand with Ukraine.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Donald had a temper tantrum on national television and walked out of an interview simply because Kristen Welker presented him with a basic fact.

Note to other journalists: now is the time to pile on. He won't be able to handle it.