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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
The Anarchist Banker
The Anarchist Banker
Fernando Pessoa The Anarchist Banker 1922
·theanarchistlibrary.org·
The Anarchist Banker
The Value of Reparations
The Value of Reparations
In 1990, the US government sent $20,000 and a formal letter of apology to more than 82,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerate
·kottke.org·
The Value of Reparations
We Can’t Talk About Fixing Loneliness without Talking About Neighborhoods
We Can’t Talk About Fixing Loneliness without Talking About Neighborhoods
If we as a nation are going to directly address an “underappreciated public health crisis that has harmed individual and societal health,” we must not only acknowledge the power of social infrastructure but also encourage public and private development projects to build and enhance environments that promote connection and further support and invest in institutions that bring people and communities together.
·aei.org·
We Can’t Talk About Fixing Loneliness without Talking About Neighborhoods
The Path to Soft Fascism
The Path to Soft Fascism
Today on TAP: France could be the next country to elect a far-right president.
·prospect.org·
The Path to Soft Fascism
The Harried Leisure Class - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Harried Leisure Class - Marginal REVOLUTION
How easy is it for a male breadwinner to raise a family? Oren Cass argues that the cost of “thriving,” is increasing. That’s false. When you do the numbers correctly, Winship and Horpedahl show that the cost of thriving is falling. It’s falling more slowly than we would like–but it’s still the case that current […]
·marginalrevolution.com·
The Harried Leisure Class - Marginal REVOLUTION
How Automation Enables Remote Work - DevOps.com
How Automation Enables Remote Work - DevOps.com
By increasing efficiency, reducing errors and cutting costs, automation not only makes remote work possible but also profitable.
·devops.com·
How Automation Enables Remote Work - DevOps.com