To those accustomed to privileges, equality feels like oppression.
💬 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Via 🔗Alexandra Wolfe … thank you.
To those accustomed to privileges, equality feels like oppression.
💬 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Via 🔗Alexandra Wolfe … thank you.
🔗 Ranked: The Most Productive Countries in the World
… or to put it another way - further proof that measuring GDP does not accurately reflect productivity.
I think this is pretty much the only thing I came across today which is worth reading …
🔗 Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
There’s a particular kind of person who can’t accept that story at face value, and you’ve met them. I am absolutely sure of it. They show up in every comment section and reply thread where someone powerful does something that looks, on its face, like a mistake - and their argument always runs the same way: you don’t understand, this is actually part of a larger plan, there’s a strategy here that you and I can’t see because we’re not operating at that anointed and elevated level… They’re the 4D chess crowd.
Talking with my mother about the US/Iran negotiations and she dropped a gem, ‘It takes Iranians 12 years to make a rug. You can’t expect them to negotiate peace in 1 day.’
🔗 Asymco Bulletin 008 – Apr 12, 2026
The Motley Fool asks: Where Will Apple Stock Be in 5 Years? → Not reading this article is probably a wise decision.
Horace is definitely not ‘up’ on the punditry of ‘The Fool’.
I did not expect to see (I wont say ‘read’) an article called 🔗 Jimi Hendrix’s Analog Wizardry Explained in an IEEE site when I ‘feed perused’ this morning - but it does connect.
Hendrix didn’t speak in decibels and ohm values, but he collaborated with engineers who did—Mayer and Kramer—and iterated fast as a systems engineer. Reframing Hendrix as an engineer doesn’t diminish the art.
The whole piece is so funny - but I have set it to start at the point where Kevin is talking about a problem that I guarantee has affected you dear reader.
🔗 MacOS Seemingly Crashes After 49 Days of Uptime - a ‘Feature’ Perhaps Exclusive to Tahoe
And if I’m wrong about the post being AI slop and a human at Photon actually wrote this, I would suggest taking it easy with the cocaine.
💬 John Gruber
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