Is anyone in European government ashamed and embarrassed about the cookie banner thing?

The only reason we look back at the past so fondly is that we know things ended. The present always feels more scary because it’s unresolved and live

A Volvo engineer named Nils Bohlin invented the three-point seatbelt, but Volvo gave away the patent to other manufacturers because it had more value as a free life-saving tool.

very hard to do something novel for the first time; orders of magnitude easier to copy something that is known to be possible. conviction is either extremely difficult, or free.

The long game is less crowded.

This is even more true for Australia than the US.

Every day on social media I'm reminded that only a small fraction of people seem able to understand the idea of tradeoffs. The question is almost never, is X a nice thing to do.

I wonder if one day there will be media nutritionists Where you hand over your media history and they tell you how to improve it to reduce ignorance and outrage and to inspire. Kids- Just say no to TikTok Adults - keep your tv news below 10 mins daily Etc

fr there is no hope for a culture in which everyone moves like it’s a sign of weakness to change one’s mind when presented with new information

I find great comfort in the fact that I'm not the only manchild who thinks this sounds like the perfect day.

I think I got distracted by the dancing, but I stared at this like a magic eye picture for a about 30 seconds before I got it!

Gm gm, just a reminder that what people project isn’t reality.

"If you disappear for a year, when you come back, the world hasn’t ’moved on’ as much as you thought it would" one of many gems here mailchi.mp/94dec258461a/n…

We've already used 17% of 2024.

100% agree!

Long live the imposters!

Oscar Hammerstein's advice to his daughter Alice in 1936:

I see this so much

I have a lot of theories about how despair goes viral in English speaking places. I’ll just share this tidbit, from an analysis of 170 years of American news coverage. We really are living in an era of negativity-poisoned discourse that is (*empirically*) historically unique.

The fact that this is sensible, inevitable, and the way forward for medical procedures doesn't reduce any of the horror of watching a human being operated on by a machine. It's like 1984 meets the dentist. newatlas.com/health-wellbei…