Venkatesh Rao
This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.
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'We need to live with it': White House readies new message for the nation on coronavirus
The effort to craft a clearer response comes after months of Trump downplaying the health crisis and mixed signals from the administration.
Two in three victims of Covid-19 had a disability
Almost two thirds of people who have died because of Covid-19 were disabled, statistics show, prompting calls for an inquiry into the deaths.The figures come from an analysis by the Office for
Danse Macabre - Wikipedia
Venkatesh Rao
Even Tuchman’s writing can not redeem this last decade. It just exhausting stupid intrigues among elites. General condition is ghoulish fascination with death. Death cults on the rise. Death masks, obsession with rotting corpses, danse macabre on the rise
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One U.K. trial is transforming COVID-19 treatment. Why haven’t others delivered more results?
Clinical study has been helped by a simple design, a centralized health care system, and lots of infections
Consulting as Investing
Consulting shares many qualities with investing, but is not the same
The Long-Term Belief-Scarring Effects of COVID-19 - Marginal REVOLUTION
The largest economic cost of the COVID-19 pandemic could arise from changes in behavior long after the immediate health crisis is resolved. A potential source of such a long-lived change is scarring of beliefs, a persistent change in the perceived...
Venkatesh Rao
Scarring effects of Covid ht @tylercowen shades of Laura Cartensen research on time horizons and motivation. Also seems related to Henry Jenkins civic imagination research.
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Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off
Botswana’s government is yet to test the remains of the dead animals in what has been described as a ‘conservation disaster’
Is it legal to steal the American flag from the moon?
I'm not quite sure whether the question is correctly answered here or whether it belongs to Law Stack Exchange.
Assuming I can fly into space, more precisely to the moon and back again.
What laws f...
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Prologue in Middle English (Not Complete)
The Canterbury Tales Prologue read by J.B. Bessinger Jr. -or at least some of it until the tape went cray cray ;) FOR MY SUBSCRIBERS-This isn't a normal vide...
Root cellar - Wikipedia
Venkatesh Rao
TIL about root cellars, for storing root veggies.
Context:
Me: makes fried rice with potato, carrot, cabbage, and old rice, feels proud
Wife: “this is like middle of winter root cellar fried rice like we have no food”
Me: is that a thing? Googles...
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Sideways: Observations on Pain and Privilege | Epsilon Theory
A sideways moment is when your life becomes a probabilistic exercise, where you are at the mercy of one of two merciless social institutions: hospitals or the police. My life went sideways a week ago, and here's what I learned about pain and...
On Cooling the Mark Out, Erving Goffman - WikiFranchise
Venkatesh Rao
Grifts are not long cons either. Cons exploit timeless human fallibility (see for example Erving Goffman classic “on cooling the mark out”). Grifts otoh exploit potentially solvable problems.
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Why the Pandemic is Turning So Many People into Conspiracy Theorists
Large-scale crises can put a damper on critical thinking skills.
Yak Collective - Don't Waste the Reboot
Presented by The Yak Collective Don’t waste the reboot. make this “next normal” better than the last Version 1.0, April 30, 2020
Don't Waste the COVID-19 Reboot
The inaugural report by the Yak Collective, Don’t Waste the Reboot offers organizations a smorgasbord of 25 creative and unexpected…