Ryan Gearner

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Except for all the shooting the ceasefire is holding solid.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Russia is starting to massively struggle in the Ukraine war:
-Offensives have stalled with assaults taking huge losses, Ukraine counter attacking in places.
-Russia is losing the drone war in technology and frontline application.
-Economy being hit hard from drone raids.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe. https://t.co/P4ZNeIfvPV

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

New newsletter: MODERN FATHERHOOD WOULD BE UNRECOGNIZABLE TO A 1950'S DAD

Compared to their Boomer parents, childcare time among Millennial dads has more than doubled.

Compared to their Silent Generation grandparents, it’s nearly quadrupled.

You will be hard-pressed to find any part of day-to-day modern life that has changed more in the last half-century than the way today’s parents—and fathers, in particular—spend their time.

The new American dad is more present and more exhausted—but also, more satisfied with life. What's behind this half-century transformation? Today's piece combines history, economic analysis, and gorgeous charts galore from @AzizSunderji

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Russia eased vaccination standards when diphtheria seemed beaten. 157,000 infections. 5,000 dead. Japan dropped mandates after a trust collapse. Rubella came back. Babies born blind and deaf. Nigeria boycotted polio shots. The virus paralyzed 2,500 children and spread to 20 countries.

That is the documented pattern. Kennedy has now dropped six vaccines from routine schedules and pulled $1.6 billion from global immunization. Measles is already in 46 states.

[Ryan Gearner @RyanGear94]

@BasedMikeLee To say young children shouldn’t have work sent home is one thing. But to insinuate that teachers are the ones to blame and not look at systemic reasons is short-sighted. Also, teachers should be paid more

[Jack Hunter @jackhunter74]

Trump: I’m gonna wipe out an entire civilization.

Pope: That’s wrong.

Vance: The pope should stick to questions of morality.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists. https://t.co/p1zapRIpxj

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The big lie of “gov sucks at everything “ , is that they suck the most at enforcing performance and costs.

You know what’s worse than the gov running a service? Private companies knowing that the gov entities they contract with can’t do shit to stop them from fucking up everything and making a fortune.

I’m not saying this applies to every private company. Many do have ethics. Not all. And as an entrepreneur, it’s embarrassing to us all.

Need proof ? Look at the Noem ad contract.

Look at healthcare. Taxpayers provide 70pct or more of the revenue of the largest insurance companies.

Those same insurance companies get fined and found liable for ripping off taxpayers, again and again and again. And they still get to do business with the gov, knowing they can effectively steal money from us all. The fines are a nuisance.

And this is healthcare. When they lie, people die.

Maybe when we are smart enough to pass laws saying that gov contractors get one mulligan. Two fines from any government entity and you are blacklisted from Gov contracts at the state and federal level for 10 years. That’s when things will change

Until then the concept of privatization of gov services like the tsa or post office or .. is just a license for a private company to abuse taxpayers and face next to no consequences.

[Melissa DeRosa @melissadderosa]

“This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather.”

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

An article from the 90s explaining how in the 1980s, personal computers changed the dynamic of college vs high school workers. College grads learned how to use PCs and grew wages faster

Mind you, this was when interest rates were 15pct, white collar unemployment was the highest it’s been any non covid year, general unemployment was 10pct, there was a recession, 18pct mortgages, and the start of the savings and loan industry collapse.

The economy was a mess. Except it was the start of the “digital revolution “ which lead to change.

Here we are at the early days of the AI revolution. I think it will be very analogous to what happened back then.

If you think learning how to use Clause seems daunting, imagine being 50 yrs old in 1983, not knowing how to type, using a 1.0 key adding machine with a tape roll to do all your work as an analyst and realizing you had to figure out how your brand new IBM PC and lotus 1-2-3 worked.

Or having only used a typewriter your entire career , then having to learn the new PC and WordStar. Trust me. WordStar key combinations were far harder to learn than telling Claude what you want done

Lots of people couldn’t figure it out. Those who did were more productive

Ctrl QA with AI

https://t.co/kNmBX6Msv3

[Clay Dumas @claydumas]

People haven't wrapped their heads around how much the politics of renewables have been altered by the fact that Texas is kicking everyone's ass in building solar, wind, and batteries. Greg Abbot sounds woke when he talks energy now. That's a preview of what's coming nationally.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Many conservatives are remembering how Paul Ehrlich was wrong about all his enviro-pessimism and supposed constraints on growth, but all those views are the same concerns that fuel the anti-immigrant movement. Zero sum. Fixed pie. Misanthropy. People as "takers," not makers.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

dear apple, the iPod needs to come back. not for nostalgia. for the parents who want their kids to love music and audiobooks without a browser, social media, and the whole internet attached to it

[signüll @signulll]

if you showed this chart to a typical economist like 20 years ago, they would've laughed you out of the room.

the right side of this is white collar jobs that were once worshipped. these jobs were comfortable, well paying, & came with societal status + recognition. your parents would’ve been proud of you.

now these are likely all set to be severely impacted in a shorter period of time than anyone likely ever thought of let alone projected. this is like ppl waiting on a beach enjoying the sun when a tsunami has already struck.

[Rachel Janfaza @racheljanfaza]

There is 100% a desire from young people for positivity. I hear this every single day. Look at the trend of millennial optimism. Gen Z is sick of our toxic, violent political rhetoric and hungry for anything but that. Being earnest is now counter culture.

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

It feels naive to say, but a civilian massacre of this scale did not used to be treated by US officials as the normal cost of waging war.