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That people can’t/don’t read anymore, along with the fact that Harvard students can’t read cursive in primary documents (another Atlantic article), means that very soon we will have a special class of people with the ability to read old works who will interpret the past for us.
That is obviously very dangerous. One of the best things you can do for not only yourself but the world is to read books. Especially old and challenging ones.
My mom and pediatrician used to talk about how when they were residents at the pediatric hospital that they'd see all kinds of horrible stuff from Amish country.
The genetic bottlenecks and inbreeding cause all kinds of incredibly rare severe illnesses.
“How did we go from paper straws to data centres?”
no one listened to the environmentalists who said unchecked corporate pollution was the bigger issue.
This guy collected every local law in America and put them in a single database.
2.2 million laws.
This might seem to you like some nerds side project, and while it is technically, it is also much more important than you think.
Historically, whenever anything is made transparent to the voting bloc it undergoes radical change.
Every. Single. Time.
To the extent governments work overtime to make things opaque. (And I expect that to happen to this dataset too very soon, in a thousand different ways.)
The internet makes everything including politics “global/local” and local laws won’t escape.
It’s hard to understand right now how profound this will be, but we live in interesting times for sure.
Thank you Joe, and all the other nerds who do stuff like this because they are personally curious and they can. This is how history moves forwards
uh. i cannot emphasize enough that this eugenicist monster is targeting autistic kids—many of whom will lead perfectly normal lives—as damaged goods that should be thrown out. his psychopathy and brain damage is self-evident. he is a grave danger to all of our children.
Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p
Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.
This is the type of crisis that a Democratic president would be held personally responsible for by the media. Instead it’s getting virtually no national attention despite the issue being directly connected to federal cuts enacted by the Trump administration
People ask:
“If America spends more on healthcare than almost any other country…why are we still so unhealthy?”
And no.
It is not because doctors are getting Venmos from Big Pharma every time they write a prescription.
It is also not because Americans are using dramatically more healthcare than everyone else.
The uncomfortable truth is more complicated. America spends enormous amounts of money on healthcare.
But we also spend enormous amounts of money on:
Administrative complexity.
Insurance overhead.
Billing infrastructure.
Fragmented systems.
We often pay substantially more for:
Medications.
Hospital stays.
Procedures.
Testing.
The same healthcare often simply costs more vs other countries.
Meanwhile…
We built a system that is very good at treating disease. And much less good at preventing it.
We underinvest in:
Primary care.
Public health.
Prevention.
Nutrition.
Maternal health.
Social support.
Then we act surprised when:
Chronic disease rises.
Medication use rises.
Healthcare costs rise.
People do not become unhealthy in a vacuum.
The problem is not simply that America spends a lot. It is what we spend money on.
I think a giant imperial military blob with an unwieldy and overfunded warfare state making catastrophic tactical decisions by misusing expensive equipment in unsuitable conditions is among the most believable things in that entire movie