🚨Come work with us! 🚨
Over at @collabfund we're kicking off a search for two new team members to join us as part of our two-year Associate program.
We're looking for folks who are:
🚀entrepreneurial
⏩hard working
😄optimistic
🧑🔬intellectually curious
💡self-starting
🗽excited to live in New York
👇to read more and apply!
UCSF has received a $100 million gift from longtime supporters Kathy Chiao and Kenneth Hao. This major investment will help modernize our hospitals and advance cancer research through the Weill Cancer Hub West. https://t.co/4q3twioLJ5
🎉 To mark the 30th anniversary of the @InternetArchive on May 10, we’re opening the yearbook to revisit the Class of 1996; the sites & organizations that helped shape the early web.
Before feeds, before algorithms, before we assumed everything online would last forever, this was the era that set it all in motion: Yahoo! Quake, Hotmail, The Onion and the archivists preserving it all.
Join us in the coming days as we celebrate THE CLASS OF '96 🎓
More 👉 https://t.co/T3DSvqrwbV
#Classof96
@internetarchive #webhistory @waybackmachine
WHOOP 🤝 U.S. NAVY 🇺🇸
I’m proud to share that WHOOP has been awarded a contract to support the U.S. Navy’s Command Readiness, Endurance, and Watchstanding (CREW) program.
Learn more here:
https://t.co/Ep9RXpvqe6
Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history.
Media giants are now threatening to do this.
We can't let this happen.
Pass it on.
📊 How much do governments spend, and what do they spend it on?
In the chart, we see total government spending broken down by purpose, such as health, education, and defense, relative to the size of the economy (as measured by GDP). This is shown for a selection of OECD countries.
How much governments spend varies quite a lot across OECD countries: in France it’s 57% of GDP, while in Chile it’s less than half that (28%).
Keep in mind that these are relative shares, not absolute amounts. GDP itself varies considerably across countries, so the same percentage can represent very different sums depending on the size of a country’s economy.
For some categories, such as social protection — which includes things like pensions, unemployment benefits, disability support, and other benefits — the difference across countries is relatively large. For example, it’s 26% in Finland compared to 7.9% in the US.
In other categories, such as public services — which include things like paying interest on government debt, the running of core government functions, and foreign aid — the share is more similar across countries.
This data comes from the OECD’s Government at a Glance dataset, which covers 47 countries. Our colleague @parriagadap recently updated our charts with the latest release.
Today we’re announcing Collab Holdings, a different approach to private equity for extraordinary consumer brands. As the world gets faster, more synthetic, more algorithmically optimized, people reach for things that feel slow, crafted, and real. The companies that serve this instinct represent one of the most interesting opportunities in consumer investing.
It’s not a straight shot to the far side of the Moon! 🌕
Over approximately 10 days, the Artemis II astronauts will orbit Earth twice before looping around the far side of the Moon in a figure eight and returning home.
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…
Just keep going ✌️
“Humanity’s next great voyage begins”
Four astronauts are on their way to the Moon and, if everything goes to plan, they will travel farther from Earth than any human has before
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