Mark

Good summary of the consequences of europe seizing russian assets

Vivaldi on accordion:

Card magic

You see articles like by both left and right commentstors. The other side is always shown as ridiculous and ridiculed. I'd say the purpose of this article isn't to point out the idiocy, but to encourage a polemic political world view, engage people's tribal instincts, and attribute specific beliefs to each. That's how the propaganda works, in my opinion - it's divide and conquer.

The Telegraph

An artist made an ‘anti-racist’ version of the UK flag. You’ll never guess what happened next

The woke Left has started to eat itself – and this extraordinary story proves it

US living wage analysis

Part 1: My Life Is a Lie

How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

Holocaust survivor story:

"You Have a Mother"

We lost my dear friend, Lola Mozes, who survived Auschwitz, this morning. I wrote her story a decade ago.

Great podcast on AI psychosis

UK house prices haven't changed since 1950s when measured in gold

Live coding trance music

Funny how much of this kind of elitism touches. Rob Pike on Go: "The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."