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Will AI Change Our Memories?
Will AI Change Our Memories?
Photographs have always been an imperfect reproduction of real life — see the story of Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother or
·kottke.org·
Will AI Change Our Memories?
The rise of niche consumption - Marginal REVOLUTION
The rise of niche consumption - Marginal REVOLUTION
Over the last 15 years, individual households have concentrated their spending on a few preferred products. However, this is not driven by “superstar” products capturing larger market shares. Instead, households increasingly purchase different products from each other. As a result, aggregate spending concentration has decreased. We develop a model of heterogeneous household demand and use […]
·marginalrevolution.com·
The rise of niche consumption - Marginal REVOLUTION
June 29, 2023
June 29, 2023
Today the Supreme Court handed down a decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. Students for Fair Admissions is an organization designed to fight against affirmative action in college admissions, and today it achieved its goal: the Supreme Court decided that policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina that consider race as a factor in admissions are unconstitutional because they violate the guarantee of equal protection before the law, established by the Fourteenth Amendment.
·heathercoxrichardson.substack.com·
June 29, 2023
The Radical Theology of Mr. Rogers
The Radical Theology of Mr. Rogers
From Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, a piece on the still-radical teachings of Fred Rogers, who emphasized the “love thy neighbor
·kottke.org·
The Radical Theology of Mr. Rogers
What game theory can teach us about standing up to bullies
What game theory can teach us about standing up to bullies
In a time of income inequality and ruthless politics, people with outsized power or an unrelenting willingness to browbeat others often seem to come out ahead.
·phys.org·
What game theory can teach us about standing up to bullies
“If I never again have to read a bunch of entitled tech bros mansplaining on twitter about their way of working is the only way, I will die a happy man.” Canadian Investor Chris Neumann on Venture Vibes, Who Helped Him Along the Way, and the Qualities of a Founder Who Could Fail But He’d Back Again
“If I never again have to read a bunch of entitled tech bros mansplaining on twitter about their way of working is the only way, I will die a happy man.” Canadian Investor Chris Neumann on Venture Vibes, Who Helped Him Along the Way, and the Qualities of a Founder Who Could Fail But He’d Back Again
·hunterwalk.com·
“If I never again have to read a bunch of entitled tech bros mansplaining on twitter about their way of working is the only way, I will die a happy man.” Canadian Investor Chris Neumann on Venture Vibes, Who Helped Him Along the Way, and the Qualities of a Founder Who Could Fail But He’d Back Again
Shattering the myth of men as hunters and women as gatherers
Shattering the myth of men as hunters and women as gatherers
Analysis of data from dozens of foraging societies around the world shows that women hunt in at least 79% of these societies, opposing the widespread belief that men exclusively hunt and women exclusively gather. Abigail Anderson of Seattle Pacific University, US, and colleagues presented these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on June 28, 2023.
·phys.org·
Shattering the myth of men as hunters and women as gatherers
50 years of US wages, in one chart
50 years of US wages, in one chart
Average weekly earnings are $23.24 today, the same as in 1973 when adjusted for inflation.
·weforum.org·
50 years of US wages, in one chart