Greg Epstein
Humanist Chaplain @Harvard & @MIT. NYTimes bestseller @GoodWithoutGod. Now exploring ethics @TechCrunch: on tech as a religion in which I'm agnostic. Open DMs
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Hi Friends, One of the (many) suggestions I make to writers after they get a book deal is to not calculate their hourly wage. Do not try to estimate how many hours you spent writing and revising and divide that by your total advance. Writing is not...
Greg Epstein
"Writers are not paid by the hour. If we were, we’d take EVEN LONGER to write all our books lol."
The usual great advice from @kate_mckean's Agents & Books newsletter @SubstackInc, which all my aspiring writer friends should get, FYI
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Google Hires Firm Known for Anti-Union Efforts
After nearly two years of unrest, the company appears to be cracking down on employee activism.
Former Winthrop Dean Sullivan Failed to File Tax Returns for Nearly a Decade, Judge Finds | News | The Harvard Crimson
The United States Tax Court found that former Winthrop House Faculty Dean Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr. failed to file income tax returns from 2005 through 2013 and failed to pay the Internal Revenue Service more than $1 million in an opinion released...
Alexander Vindman and the Questioning of an American Jew's Patriotism
Julia Ioffe on the making of a decorated U.S. military officer, and the immigrant experience of Soviet Jews in America.
Facebook fetes Kavanaugh
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has kept a relatively low-profile since the Senate narrowly confirmed him last year amidst serious allegations of sexual assault. That will change tonight when Kavanaugh is the keynote speaker at the annual...
Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 2018
Amazon avoids paying federal tax — for the second year in a row, according to a new report.
Protecting and Empowering Renters | Elizabeth Warren
Everyone should have a decent, affordable, and safe place to live. I’ll fight to uphold the rights of tenants against exploitative landlords, tackle the growing cost of rent, and invest in healthy and green homes for all.
‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims
More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.
Greg Epstein
"Mr. Xi displayed a fixation w/the issue...He likened Islamic extremism to a virus-like contagion & a dangerously addictive drug, & declared that addressing it would require “a period of painful, interventionary treatment.”
Sound familiar to anyone?
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Greg Epstein
“If they don’t undergo study and training, they’ll never thoroughly & fully understand the dangers of religious extremism,” one said, citing Syria and ISIS. “No matter what age, anyone who has been infected by religious extremism must undergo study.”
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WeWork has been sending alarming noncompete letters to workers it laid off earlier this year
Employment lawyers described WeWork's letters as aggressive.
Greg Epstein
Ways average WeWork employee could violate a non-compete:
*Persuade Softbank to loan them billions f/no good reason
*Text friends re: coming over to their apartment to work on a business plan; call doing so a "tech company"
*elevate world consciousness
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The Firebrand's New Brand: David Silverman's Return to Atheist Leadership
The spark of community felt in nontheistic circles struggles to burn when so much of the movement’s oxygen is used up defending harmful ideologies and elevating problematic men.
We scanned thousands of faces in DC today to show why facial recognition surveillance should be…
Today, activists working with digital rights group Fight for the Future conducted live facial recognition surveillance in the halls of…
How To Interview a Tech Company
A Guide for the Ethically-Minded Student
Screening: What is Democracy?
Featuring a diverse cast—including celebrated theorists, trauma surgeons, activists, factory workers, asylum seekers, and former prime ministers—this film connects the past and the present…
Blame Economists for the Mess We’re In
Why did America listen to the people who thought we needed “more millionaires and more bankrupts?”
Greg Epstein
Average life expectancy gap between poor and wealthy women widened from 3.9 years to 13.6 years, 1980-2010. Wow. In our society of inequality and inequity, the price of being on the losing side is a whole decade of life. Wow.
h/t @BCAppelbaum
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EXCLUSIVE: This Is How the U.S. Military’s Massive Facial Recognition System Works
Documents obtained by OneZero show how the military captures biometric data around the world
The Warren Way Is the Wrong Way
Her big-government plans would damage rather than improve our economy.
Martin Scorsese: I Said Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema. Let Me Explain.
Cinema is an art form that brings you the unexpected. In superhero movies, nothing is at risk, a director says.
Students Are Demanding MIT Fire a Professor Who Visited Epstein in Prison
An engineering professor who accepted donations from Epstein is advising a freshman seminar at MIT this semester.
Courtney Kennedy and Paul Hill’s enduring agony - The Boston Globe
Kennedy and Hill had had their share of tragedy and pain before they met and married. Now they are again coping with loss: the death of their daughter, Saoirse.
Greg Epstein
Not my usual Twitter fare but this story about the late Saoirse Kennedy Hill, who died at 22 this summer, and her family, is an exquisite form of heartbreak and devastation by @globecullen @BostonGlobe. 💚
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