TBD If Racist Tweets Can Still Get You FiredAug 16
doreen st. félix waxes poetic on ‘the black man’s hunger for ass’ in the new yorker, chris rufo resurfaces her overtly racist decade-old tweets, and the new yorker promptly blocks him
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ready player one. what did you get done this week?
Today, Silicon Valley faces a crisis of nonsense. With no shortage of problems, and no shortage of both young technologists and well-capitalized former founders capable of solving them, our best and brightest have largely lost themselves to easy money, the attention grind, and early retirement. In tech especially, for all of the industry’s rare potential, such abdication of responsibility does not only constitute a failure of progress, but a moral failure.
Trae Stephens is a partner at Founders Fund, and cofounder of Anduril. Markie Wagner is the founder of Delphi Labs, a frontier tech research and advisory firm with a focus on applied AI. They are also both wonderful, committed nerds, and they guest this week with a helpful framework for parsing the problem of problems —
Where do you choose to dedicate your life?
TBD If Racist Tweets Can Still Get You Fired
New Tween Roblox Cult Just DroppedAug 15
on the gaming platform roblox, kids are inventing a new pagan pseudo-religion called "spawnism" based on video game lore, and worshipping a clipart asset from the 90s
The Cult of CarrotmaxxingAug 6
esoteric health poasters and egirls are consuming metric tons of raw carrot salad, claiming it transforms their hormones and enhances cognition — here's what the science says