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Rights vs Conditional Privileges

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  • Rights vs Conditional Privileges

    From existennialmemes:

  • Roald Dahl’s letter about his daughter’s measles death

    Roald Dahl’s daughter Olivia died from measles in 1962 before a reliable vaccine was available. In 1988, he wrote a letter published by Sandwell Health Authority in a pamphlet. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often…

  • The birth and reverb of friendship by Derek Sivers

    This poem, the birth and reverb of friendship, by Derek Sivers, hit hard. An excerpt. The seed of who I am might have been there before.But the interaction with a friend made it sprout.That’s when this tree began.Conception versus birth.

  • How Musk Took Over the Federal Government

    The New York Times goes in depth as to how Elon Musk took over the government. Mr. Musk made clear that he saw the gutting of that bureaucracy as primarily a technology challenge. He told the party of around 20 that when he overhauled Twitter, the social media company that he bought in 2022 and…

  • The Bull in the China Shop Doesn’t Care What it Breaks

    “Like a bull in a china shop.” We know the bull’s indiscriminately destructive, sometimes purposeful, but what’s often missing is that often the bull doesn’t care what it breaks. No matter how revered, inconsequential, reinforced with robust protections or an honor policy not to touch, it’s all the same to the bull. A thing. And…

  • The Oscar Best Picture Nominees, each uniquely weird

    Wesley Morris ties all the 2025 Oscar Best Picture Nominees with a common thread: they’re each uniquely weird. They’re weird — every single one. They take weird forms. The people in them do weird stuff. They induce weirdness in you. I’ve seen 9 out of 10 of the nominees (still waiting for I’m Still Here…

  • Gen Z Nobel Laureate

  • Gen Z data points

    When it comes to trusting media and information, Gen Z gives priority to the immediacy of influencers versus the authority of actual experts. It’s not that Gen Z doesn’t believe in experts. Rather, it’s that social media has rewired the way they think about credibility. TikTok influencers are now our “friends.” The algorithm repeats and…

  • Five Card Nancy

    From Scott McCloud, Five Card Nancy consist of thinking five random panels from the Nancy comic strip and making a three panel comic. It’s like Cards Against Humanity, but more surreal.

  • MD Foodie Boyz

    “These are three middle schoolers who podcast,” Barstool Sports’ Pat McAuliffe explained in a podcast episode this week, where they attempted to book the boys for their show. “It’s an unintentional parody of what podcasts are. They’re like ‘what’s your favorite pizza,’ and then they just talk about pizza.” There’s something hilarious about the juxtaposition…