Rocket Lab and SpaceX just launching all the dang time while everyone else not launching all the dang time

Great interview here with the founder of the California Forever project in Solano County. I'm excited by the ambition of this!

asteriskmag.com/issues/06/cali…

It's happening. It's exciting.

'American students increasingly want those STEM degrees. If universities can’t meet that demand because of their legacy commitments to economically less important sectors, that’s not just a problem for college kids — it’s a problem for the United States.....'

- Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

california's $10 billion+ high-speed rail boondoggle is not a good reason to abandon the concept of high-speed rail. it is a good reason to put a lot of people in prison for fraud.

Awesome philanthropy:
Before Andrew Carnegie, most libraries were not free, usually they were part of private clubs.

Carnegie donated $1.5B (in today's dollars) to build 2500 libraries; cities provided land, paid for books & were required to keep them free.

Great week in fintech

.Simon Taylor: 'My British readers who don't regularly travel to the US won't have seen it, but the US has transformed its airline experience over the last five years. Whether you use CLEAR, TSA Precheck, or increasingly just regular TSA, facial biometrics are becoming a default.'

Bank of America $BAC: “This quarter, Zelle transactions have passed the combined number of checks written, plus the amount of cash withdrawals from tellers and from ATMs.” Who would have thought this ever happens?!

Occasional reminder that there are no low energy, rich countries

'Most comments were along the lines of “kids learning math fast sounds great, actually,” “curing cancer seems good,” or “advancing human achievement is a worthy mission.” A more self-aware person might have heard this criticism and deleted the tweets.'

.Nellie Bowles: 'Biden continues paying off successful young voters: Sorry, I mean “forgiving student debt.”....'

'Amazon installed 17,000 electric vehicle chargers in just two years...Biden admin had Congress put $7.5 billion...not a single...charging station has been built.'

In most countries, you observe a lot abandoned unfinished buildings. In the US, you virtually never do. I'd never thought about this as a physical manifestation of the US's highly developed credit sector. economist.com/middle-east-an….

@Zipline just made its 1,000,000th autonomous delivery to a customer. 10 years ago experts told me drone delivery wasn't possible, would never be allowed anywhere, and no one would ever pay for it. Turns out it is possible and people love it.

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!!

noahpinion.blog/p/five-things-…

Monopoly is when all your friends use the luxury product because everyone you know is rich.

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Very well made argument. Risks of open source are way lower than risks of any one powerful actor owning the most capable model

'The internet, used correctly, is simply a call option for future employment opportunities, and you shift the odds in your favor as the rest of the world becomes more familiar with you and your work.'

Today's blog:

youngmoney.co/p/marketing

Wage inequality is falling, younger generations are doing better than their parents and we’re making progress against climate change

Don't listen to doomers

via Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦