Pretty much everything you think about the wealth-race dynamic is wrong.
Links
Don’t complain about your taxes!
https://kottke.org/18/04/how-bill-russell-stopped-charles-barkley-from-complaining-about-taxes
As I’ve been fortunate to be reasonably successful in life, I am looking more and more for ways to give back. And not being a jerk about the most fundamental way to do that is, literally, the least anybody can do.
BS Detector, Redux
I’m sure that I posted about this before, but this is still awesome!
Even the software is racist and sexist
because facial recognition AIs have a hard time with darker complexions and female features. Article.
Super-interesting Article on “Political Correctness”
My thing about “political correctness” is that it’s not a constraint on free speech at all. It’s simply acting civilized. When somebody who is a particular thing asks you to refer to them a certain way, that’s just being civilized to accommodate them. When people say “I hate all this political correctness”, I like to replace “political correct” with “being respectful”. And then people just sound like dicks for saying “I hate all this being respectful”.
I may have to follow in his footsteps
And here comes the latest sexist float in the tech parade
I’ll let this stand on it’s own
A Scot Pronounces Scotch Names
Carl Sagan’s BS Defense Kit
This is a great summary of Sagan’s BS kit. Awesome reading! I know quite a few business decisions that I’ve been involved in where one of the flawed techniques at the end of the article were leveraged. Feels icky.