Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
On this day 63 years ago-Jun. 11, 1963-President John F. Kennedy addressed the American people on civil rights.
It was the same day that Alabama governor George Wallace had symbolically blocked access to the University of Alabama for two Black students trying to register.
Video: C-Span.
🔴 Georg Riekeles, BESF Co-Director and EPC Associate Director, will moderate discussions on global imbalances, China’s export surge and Europe’s digital ecosystem.
Featuring @michaelpettis.bsky.social, Maria Demertzis, @martinsandbu.ft.com, Camille Boullenois and others.
Iikka Korhonen
What reasons do we (and they) have for thinking that super-AGI would maintain predatory capitalism, rather than shifting us all over to a planned (by it) economy? #socialistcalculationdebate redux.
What do you call a trade grouping united by a shared political ideology that avoids economic interactions with a more technologically advanced country because it thinks the latter practices labor repression and it worries such interactions might weaken its own internal cohesion?
I dunno. COMECON?
