Panama Golden Frog

Easy variability is the sign of a bad explanation. Because without a functional reason to prefer one of countless variants, advocating one of them in preference to the others is irrational. So, for the essence of what makes the difference to enable progress, seek good explanations, the ones that can't be easily varied, while still explaining the phenomena. @DavidDeutschOxf

So he sold a car to someone after placing his feces in the front seat and this is a very serious person that we need to take very seriously because of his very serious thoughts.

Pro-Palestine activists tried to cancel Jewish-owned restaurants in Philadelphia today with a boycott ride. Instead? Massive lines wrapped around the block to support them. You try to intimidate our local businesses, the community shows up in force. You love to see it! 🇺🇸

Larry Page reportedly has a number for how much computing will end up in space: five nines. As in 99.999%. @patrick_oshag heard it secondhand: "Someone asked Larry Page how much of compute will be orbital, and he said five-nines." @martin_casado's reason it might happen: "It's just basically regulatory." He thinks there are 500 proposed bills to stop data center building in the US, Texas included. From @InvestLikeBest.

Thanks to Europe for colonizing them, introducing them to plastic, and showing them that you can float in a drum. Before that, there was no written language, no tools—nothing.

JUST IN: Bipartisan Senate bill could fast-track AI data center construction across the U.S., with lawmakers reportedly considering a vote as early as next week.

This young woman was asked, “How do you think we can stop our kids from becoming socialists?” and in less than 15 seconds, gives the perfect answer as to what exactly the Democrat Party is trying to usher in and force onto our nation:

I am a professor at the @UofCalifornia. I am appalled by the conduct of one of its Regents, Scott Galloway, appointed in August by Governor Newsom. @profgalloway is one of only 26 voting Regents entrusted with governing a university system serving hundreds of thousands of students & employing tens of thousands of faculty & staff. Twice, first on a live Pivot episode featuring Hillary Clinton & on Prof G with Fareed Zakaria, Galloway called Elon Musk a “traitor to the West.” He invoked Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed for espionage, and declared that Musk should be held to the same standards. He didn’t explicitly demand Musk’s execution. But invoking the deaths of two convicted spies while calling an American citizen a traitor makes the implication hard to miss. Musk has not been convicted of treason. Indeed, “treason against the West” isn’t even an actual crime. Now imagine UCLA alumnus @BenShapiro, appointed a UC Regent, saying the same about George Soros. Would the Governor defend his right to serve? Would Regent leadership shrug and call it provocative commentary? Or would there be demands for resignation? But there’s something worse here than another of Scott’s trademark podcast rants. He sits on the Regents’ Academic & Student Affairs Committee. The committee’s charter says it oversees student conduct, faculty conduct, academic personnel, & campus climate, among other responsibilities. This is not some honorary title. The Board sets university policy, controls institutional budgets, & appoints senior university leadership. You can unsubscribe from a podcast. A student who finds Scott’s comments morally repugnant can’t unsub from the Regents. UC bylaws require Regents to serve the public trust with a “high degree of ethics and candor,” including as private citizens. Professors owe students intellectual integrity. Regents bear an even greater duty: they govern institutions that teach it. Yet a Regent serving on the committee responsible for student & faculty conduct invokes executions while labeling a fellow citizen a traitor. What does that say to our students? That intellectual restraint is expected of the governed but optional for those who govern? That standards of conduct depend on whether the target of your rhetoric is politically fashionable to despise, as long as the audience applauds? This isn’t about defending @ElonMusk. He needs no defense from me. Nor is it about silencing Scott. As if that were possible. He’s free to express his opinions, however reckless they may be. But freedom of speech is not freedom from accountability, and holding a university office of public trust is not an entitlement. There is an enormous moral chasm between exercising your right to speak recklessly and demonstrating the judgment required of one of the 26 people who govern our great public university. The UC Board of Regents isnt a podcast sponsors can boycott. It’s a public trust. One final irony. At @NYUStern, Galloway teaches Brand Strategy, including a session on crisis management. His own prescription for leadership in a crisis is unequivocal: acknowledge the problem, have leadership take responsibility, and “overcorrect.” He’s praised the departure of corporate leaders as evidence of effective crisis management. Now Galloway himself sits on the UC Board of Regents. Will he hold himself to the standards he teaches, or does accountability apply only to other people’s institutions? Professor lecture thyself! I believe Scott Galloway should seriously consider whether his continued service on the Board of Regents is consistent with the ethical standards and responsibilities of that office, or whether he should resign. I welcome the opportunity to discuss these issues with Galloway directly, including what standards we should expect of those entrusted with governing the world’s best university. Scott, you have an open invitation to join me on @Into_Impossible for an honest conversation.

Dave Chappelle at Madison Square Garden Last Night: "Ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered... I feel better."

The Islamic slave trade started centuries earlier, lasted longer, and enslaved millions of Africans, and yet it's barely taught. The Arab Islamic slave trade ran for over 1,300 years, from the 7th century to well into the 20th century. It moved Africans across the Sahara, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean to North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The Atlantic slave trade ran for about 400, and transported about 12.5 million Africans across the Atlantic. The Arab Islamic slave trade was clearly far bigger, and it was brutal. Islamic law discouraged enslaving Muslims but allowed enslaving non-Muslims. Millions of men were castrated so they could serve as eunuchs, and millions of women were taken as concubines. Millions died crossing the Sahara, a death rate even higher than the Middle Passage. Slavery was only officially abolished in Saudi Arabia in 1962 and in Mauritania in 1981. It still exists in parts of Libya and Sudan today. So why is only one slave trade taught? If schools taught the full story, young Black people would learn that slavery was not a white invention. It was a universal evil, practiced by Africans selling Africans, Arabs enslaving Africans, Europeans enslaving Africans, and Africans enslaving other Africans. Instead, many curricula teach a framed narrative in which white people are the sole perpetrators of slavery. Teach it that way, and an entire generation of young Black people is taught to hate white people. That's the goal: not truth, not healing, but resentment. Real history doesn't excuse the Atlantic trade. It was evil. But real history also doesn't excuse the Arab trade, or African kingdoms like Dahomey and Asante that grew rich selling captives. If we want truth, teach all of it. If we only teach one half, it's not education. It's indoctrination. t.me/fmazhindu/100

“Ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered, and I shouldn’t say this publicly but…. I feel better.” - Dave Chappelle

Fukuyama on waking up to the truth about postmodernism: "A lot of people in that postmodernist tradition deliberately wrote in this very obscure style where you really couldn't quite understand the argument that they were making. And I think that, as a student in their early 20s, you know, it sounded very profound. I guess I'm just not smart enough to understand what this guy is saying. But, with more self-confidence and a few more years, you kind of realize it is bullshit."