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It’s late in the evening and we’re in the hospital while our son slowly makes his way to birth. I’m a sea of emotions, but one of the biggest is the feeling of uselessness: just as I couldn’t carry the baby, I can’t help take
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U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutive decline
“American Indian and Alaskan Native people have experienced a particularly precipitous drop in life expectancy since 2019, going from 71.8 to 65.2 years. This kind of loss is similar to the plunge seen for all Americans after the Spanish Flu.” #Health [Link]
Republican candidates are changing how they handle abortion after Roe v. Wade
“Multiple Republican midterm candidates have removed from their campaign sites references to particularly strict anti-abortion stances, a shift from primary campaigning to the approaching general election and an indication of growing concern in the Republican Party over how to handle abortion policy post-Roe v. Wade.” # [Link]
Capitalism Gives Me the Freedom to Pursue as Many Side Gigs as I Want to Pay Off My Increasing Bills And Loans
“I like to think of myself as an independent contractor who threw out his nine-to-five job for about five to nine different jobs over the course of a year, a contractor with significantly less of the legal protections established in the past hundred years or so by Congress
Why I Changed My Mind on Student Debt Forgiveness
“It is simply impossible for students to work their way through college in the way previous generations could. And at the same time, states have reduced funding to their public colleges that historically allowed schools to charge low tuition prices.” #Democracy [Link]
Paying for the web
My opinions on web business models have changed over time. I agree that advertising was one of the web’s original sins, although at this point in its cultural life I’m not sure I’m prepared to say that it was the only original sin. At the same time,
Person-Centered Terms Encourage Stigmatized Groups’ Trust in News
“Participants trusted articles that used person-centered terms for their group more than articles that used stigmatizing terms.” Understandably. #Media [Link]
Some principles
Open, collaborative protocols > centralized services. Impact on people > impact on capital. Impact on communities > impact on individuals. Human rights > capital rights. Distributed equity > limited ownership. Distributing equity > adding value to exclusionary systems. Sustainability > get-rich-quick. Building value > building wealth. Serving underlying
Opening the Pandora's Box of AI Art
“I’ve never felt so conflicted using an emerging technology as DALL-E 2, which feels like borderline magic in what it’s capable of conjuring, but raises so many ethical questions, it’s hard to keep track of them all.” #Technology [Link]
More Than Half Of All Bitcoin Trades Are Fake
“More than half of all reported trading volume is likely to be fake or non-economic. Forbes estimates the global daily bitcoin volume for the industry was $128 billion on June 14. That is 51% less than the $262 billion one would get by taking the sum of self-reported
Listen up: Podcasts are coming to Twitter
What’s Odeo is new again. #Technology [Link]
California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars
“The rule, issued by the California Air Resources Board, will require that all new cars sold in the state by 2035 be free of greenhouse gas emissions like carbon dioxide. The rule also sets interim targets, requiring that 35 percent of new passenger vehicles sold by 2026 produce zero emissions.