Interesting stuff

  1. Read: Too much “climate” financing is going to unrelated (and counterproductive) investments.
  2. Listen: Columbia U lied to get its #2 ranking (it was #18).
  3. Read: Multilingual relationships have some advantages.
  4. Read: “A.I. will be great for creating content where reliability isn’t a concern…” but it may be even more destructive than social media. Related: Get phones out of schools, now.
  5. Read (or listen) to this discussion of how government fails at tech. (It’s a question of innovation versus inclusion, with a strong dose of CYA.)
  6. It has begun is continuing: Another home insurer abandons California due to (underpriced) fire risk.
  7. Watch: Rowen Atkinson defends the right to insult.
  8. Watch Mark Rober’s MIT commencement speech
  9. Read (and learn?): Women are not just small men
  10. Read: 40% of California’s alfalfa is exported, and there’s a water crisis… so take shorter showers? Related: The US Supreme Court kneecaps the Clean Water Act

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Author: David Zetland

I'm a political-economist from California who now lives in Amsterdam.

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