A friend visiting in-laws texted from The Villages today. For those who don't know, The Villages is a retirement mecca in Florida and is one of the country's biggest Republican strongholds. For years the lawns and golf carts were decorated in Nouveau Maga. I'm sure it's still solidly red, but the enthusiasm for advertising one's Trump support seems to be waning.
Perhaps the spell is breaking and fewer people are making MAGA a load-bearing part of their identity
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So given that Elon went full nazi after the market close, I wonder...
Will all the hedge fund managers who demanded that their alma maters doxx the students who signed ant-iIsrael protest letters (to ensure they couldn't get hired anywhere) ASLO be selling their TSLA stock at the open tomorrow?
Or is what's in their portfolios not subject to the same rigorous ethical and moral standards as their hiring practices?
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She knew how to take a parting shot:
That morning at the lab, Kariko’s old boss had come to see her off. She did not tell him what a terrible mistake he was making in letting her leave. She didn’t gloat about her future at BioNTech [...] then a relative upstart in the field. Instead the woman who had bounced from dep't to dep't, with no tenure prospects and never earning over $60,000 a year, said with total confidence: “In the future, this lab will be a museum. Don’t touch it.”
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Michael Lewis has been a fraud for a long time. People with first hand knowledge of his subjects despise him
I wrote this ten years ago, about a speech he gave at Princeton where he completely misrepresented the outcomes of a study to suit his desired narrative
https://deadletteroffice.quora.com/Dear-Michael-Lewis
He has never let the facts get in the way of a good story and admitted on TV some years back that his fact-checking was more "sense checking"
If only his work were labeled fiction, he'd be my favorite author
This post inspired by his 60 Minutes appearance about his FTX hagiography, about which he says:
“They had a great real business. If no one had cast aspersions on the business, if there hadn’t been a run on customers deposits, they’d still be making tones of money”
AYFKM‽
"Elon Musk used to be so smart? What happened to him?"
"I used to love Bill Maher but lately he's so insufferable"
"I admired Rudy Giuliani, now he's nothing but a racist alcoholic"
"How did these men change so much?"
They haven't. They've always been terrible. A columnist in 2016 compared Musk to Trump. Maher's been contemptuous of his audience since PI. Giuliani was a race baiter while running for mayor
They haven't changed. You have. We have. And it's about time we see them clearly
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I've been online long enough to have met my spouse on Usenet more than a quarter of a century ago.
I run a philanthropic investment fund to offer an alternative for non-profit social entrepreneurs. It has funded low cost ag in the Congo, regenerative waste in Uganda, and $25 baby incubators, among other things.
I used to write a lot on Quora. These days I mostly prefer shutting up and listening.
I collect wooden #jigsaw #puzzles, #pinball machines, and #hats.
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