July 2012
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Economic Insecurity and Technology →
In 2010, 20% of Americans lost 25% of their income due to a decline in income or a spike in medical spending or a combination of the two. The percentage has nearly doubled since 1985.
How might economic insecurity effect demand for technology?
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Even a Paltry $150M For Tappan Zee Transit Is Too... →
n8han:
“It can be done incrementally,” said Zupan. “That’s really the conflict with the way the governor is spinning it.”
It could have been done incrementally will be a great epitaph for our civilization.
Very true.
“We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.” Kurt Vonnegut
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Someone: What about the woman question?
Gertrude Stein: Not everything can be about everything.
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“PETER THIEL: But I think that when you look at this question of how much...”
– Peter Thiel vs Eric Schmidt on technological progress, or lack thereof, and much else besides. Full transcript here.
(Cardiff)
This is a very insightful observation. In fact, I asked a related question on Quora about the relationship between income and wealth inequality and technological...
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The “Daily Show” Guide to my Enemies →
Martin Luther King in Stride Toward Freedom:
I could not go to sleep. While I lay in that quiet front bedroom, with a distant street lamp throwing a reassuring glow through the curtained window, I began to think of the viciousness of people who would bomb my home. I could feel the anger rising when I realized that my wife and baby could have been killed. I thought about the city commissioners...
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Write a postcard to a Tour racer! (in French) →
I made this same exact post a year ago. You can send a postcard via email to riders in the Tour de France. What an amazing series of tubes.
You can even send postcards to the workers who help the Tour roll along the 2,000 mile course. I worked for a forthcoming documentary of the 2009 Tour de France, and it’s a very hard job just to sit in a car and drive that far! Imagine riding…
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2012 Drone Strikes →
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Have we pushed Iran toward a nuclear future? →
garysick:
Hossein Moussavian, the former Iranian nuclear negotiator, now at Princeton, has written an important interpretation of the West’s approach to the Iranian nuclear question. According to Moussavian, writing in Arms Control Today, the US strategy has rejected repeated offers to cap Iran’s nuclear development and install maximum transparency. Instead, the US and its allies have insisted...
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“When we look into the sky, we are all humble by the creation.
There are total...”
– The comments from Charlie Rose’s interview of Larry Page
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“The greatest indictment of our profession at the moment is the fact that...”
– Paul Kimmage (via cyclocosm)
Ah, journalism!
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“Sexuality (or gender) is just as distorting when we fixate upon it as when we...”
– Girls! Girls! Girls! by Tony Judt
Tumblr politics bloggers ought to read Judt’s essay.
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“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
– Winston Churchill at the Morgan Library
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