💬 Quick Reminder

💬 It never gets old and always bares repeating …

When I was a lad in the UK there was this thing in the news called the ‘Brain Drain’, where people left the UK and went West. Yes America - but also Canada.

Who would have predicted that it would only take half a century and the most stupid president to have ever walked the earth (not just the US) to 🔗 reverse that.

Poaching U.S. talent “needs to become a strategic priority for government.

💬 Paul Nurse

Paul is head of the Francis Crick Institute.

Not to put a damper on things - but the government needs to move fast.

Oh well. We can dream.

💬 Nicely said.

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I presume that The UAE has ‘taken one for the team’ and has become the 51st state and Canada is safe (at least until the clown decides we need a 52nd).

This is the only explanation after learning today that the ‘500Bn Stargate initiative’ that Tяump announced 40 years ago just 4 months ago and was …

focused on spending $500 billion on new facilities in the U.S. to help OpenAI develop advanced AI.

💬 Anissa Gardizy - The InformatIon

Thank you to UAE for helping to Make America Great Again.

Next Stop - Saudi America (sic).

🔗It’s not the colour of the pill that counts

Happened to be talking about Asimov to a friend of mine the other day. We both had read ‘everything’ he had written - and certainly for me I know that will not be true, but definitely I hit the 45 to 50 books range - I can still picture them on my my book shelf in my teenage bedroom.

BUT - we both agreed that the reading was a long time ago - and not sure if they would stand the test of time - based on writing quality (?) Not sure that is the right term.

So interesting to see this today …

among Isaac Asimov’s many faults, his total lack of interest in characters meant some deft footwork by the writers of the Foundation television series.

💬 William Gallagher

Yes - that is probably it. I don’t recall him being an ‘emotional’ writer, which as a teen I didn’t miss. It was the ideas that I was after.

🔗 Why Today April 30th Should Be a National Holiday

The question used to be: ‘Might it be possible that we were on the wrong side in the Vietnamese War?’ But we weren’t on the wrong side. We are the wrong side."

💬 Daniel Ellsberg

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

💬 John Maynard Keynes

(Via John Naughton)

🔗 Business Insider may have published the dumbest article of the year | Salon.com

My working theory has always been that both things can be true: Henry Blodget really is an idiotic jackass ..

💬 John Gruber

I don’t always agree with Mr. Gruber but I do always read him and that quote right there is one of the reasons.

Brother from another mother.