My favorite biography of Walt Disney.

A new initiative in the progress movement! Eli Dourado is Chief Economist; many other names you might know are involved:

We see this trend a lot around the world.

Rather than see it as a threat to a way of life, it is often a new beginning

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The only exit strategy in the fight for freedom from terror and slavery is winning. Because the bad guys don’t stop when you leave; they see you are weak and keep taking more.

Violent crime is falling fast.

Climate change is looking a bit less dire.

U.S. incomes are growing fast.

Millennials and Gen Z are doing better than their parents did.

Wage inequality is falling.

Time to let ourselves be a little optimistic!!

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Very good! 💰

F I N A L L Y 🇺🇦🇺🇸

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A very positive development in Europe and I don't think this has been reported much in the media during the last few decades.

The suicide rates among young people declined in many European countries.

funny/sad that autocorrect thinks the phrase 'what has gone right with today's generation' must be wrong.

On April 5, 2008, the Japanese spacecraft Kaguya captured this full Earth-rise over the Moon limb in high resolution

[📹 JAXA]

Tesla co-founder JB Straubel has built an EV-battery colossus in the scrublands of Nevada. He spent the day giving me the first look at everything @redwoodmat has been building.

It starts with *30 acres* of old batteries headed headed for recycling 🧵

Stämmer inte. Extrem fattigdom MINSKAR, inte ökar. I alla fall enligt Världsbankens senaste statistik.

Mellan 2023 och 2024 minskade den från 9% till 8,9%, från 701 miljoner till 689 miljoner.

(Men sant är att pandemin fick den att öka, och några regioner har inte återhämtat

Mass shootings, defined as 4+ victims shot, are down from 165 last year at this time to 116 this year—a 30% decline. Mass shootings with 4+killed are down from 17 last year to 9 this year. The media remains silent on this. Good news is no news.

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No way am I going to fall for this trick, Hittler

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Men den tredje har precis anlänt från tryckeriet, om du vill köpa ett exemplar:

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Dream job!

Homicides are plummeting.

In all 10 cities with the most 2023 homicides—for which we have data—homicides are falling. The pandemic crime wave is crashing hard.

If these percentage decline numbers were percentage growth numbers, it would be the lede of every cable news show—>

This will be huge: Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, was writing a memoir about his life and work as a pro-democracy activist before his death, and Knopf will publish it in the US this fall, with a simultaneous global release. nytimes.com/2024/04/11/boo…