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- Programming vs Demon Summoning 

- Michael Shellenberger also testified in Congress alongside Matt Taibbi. Michael deserves our thanks for his yeoman's work protecting our First Amendment rights.

- Rand Paul's criticism of Anthony Fauci was right all along. We owe Dr. Paul our thanks too.

- Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, invests $180 million on a life longevity startup. Billionaires in the past gave us universities and libraries. Today's billionaires want to give us longer and healthier lives (except Bill Gates - he wants us to eat bugs).

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- GM to offer workers in the US voluntary separation packages (VSP) to help cut costs. "General Motors' South Korea division will offer a similar VSP package, but workers in Canada, Mexico, and China will not." Non-union Tesla not cutting any employment in their US plants.

- Matt Taibbi's statement to Congress. Today's must read if you haven't read it already. The First Amendment and free speech is a non-negotiable right.

-  Very clever

- Naval Ravikant's Life Formulas. Great life advice!

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- Beyond Meat is struggling. Good - why anyone would eat fake-meat garbage is beyond me.

-  Russ Roberts' critique of utilitarianism (very long read but it's Russ Roberts!)

- AI understands the First Amendment better than the FBI 

- Probably why the Left is so keen to take down statues of Thomas Jefferson these days

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- Morgan Housel: Five Investing Powers

- Glenn Greenwald: Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censure More, Threatening the First Amendment. Long but interesting read.

- The Agreements We Make With Ourselves

-  Jessica Walters passes aged 80. She'll always be Malory Archer to me.

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-  Matt Taibbi on Biden Administration nominee Timothy Wu and the First Amendment. Interesting viewpoint.

- How to Forgive. A great parable to know.

- The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy. Although the article is Ethereum-centric the concept of "legitimacy" is one that will be central to public discourse for years because of applications in politics, media, education, etc.

- Money can buy happiness after all. Only people who have always had money doubt this. (HT Newmark's Door)