Sunday Review #176 (24Nov2024)
📖 What I’m Reading:You Only Have to Get Rich Once – Jack Raines
Time may be an illusion, new study finds – Joseph Shavit
Farewell, for Now – John Rekenthaler
☝️ Word of the Week:fastidious (adj) fa-STID-ee-uhs Hard to please, exacting; meticulous; excessively concerned about cleanliness, propriety, etc. From Latin fastidium (disgust). “A fastidious dresser stuck in a small, unfashionable town, Mister Mancini wore clothing I recognized from the Young Squires department of Hudson Belk.” 💬 Quote of the Week:“We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.” -Ronald Reagan ps: vaccines work (X) pps: riff of the week (YouTube) (Spotify) |
Thomas Tassin
📖 What I’m Reading: How the 7-minute Louvre robbery unfolded – DailyMail Imagine holding something worth $100 million in your hands and dropping it and then just shrugging and getting on a scooter and scooting off into the crisp Parisian morning air. Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist – The Guardian Obviously his arguments are unhinged and just plain wrong. (Why exactly are international agencies bad? Just because you think they’re “shadowy?”...
📖 What I’m Reading: Stanislov Petrov – Wikipedia My #1 most underrated historical figure and story. “An investigation later confirmed that the Soviet satellite warning system had indeed malfunctioned. Because his decision may have averted a retaliatory nuclear strike, Petrov is often credited as having ‘saved the world’.” Against Treating Chatbots as Conscious – Erik Hoel The new ethical frontier. Why the 5% Rule is the New 4% Rule – Nick Maggiulli New data on retirement spending. Book...
📖 What I’m Reading: How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away – Ronan Farrow Crazy, long, disturbing New Yorker article. South Park creators 'relying' on so-called 'small-penis rule' to avoid Trump legal action – The Mirror “The small-penis strategy allows creators to portray a real-life figure in a fictional work while minimizing the risk of a libel suit by attributing the character a small penis. The reasoning is that any potential lawsuit would require the plaintiff,...