“A growing body of research suggests that the primary cause of the gender pay gap is motherhood. Before people become parents, women earn as much as or even more than men do. Afterwards, on average, they earn less.” stevestewartwilliams.com/p/dissecting-t…

The more inflated the language in your startup's pitch, the less convincing it seems. If you're a seed stage company, don't tell me you're transforming global this or poised to dominate that. Tell me you noticed something that might turn out to be an overlooked opportunity.

Machiavelli's reading routine:

Amazing that a chip bricked in 46-yr-old Voyager I, preventing it from sending data, and NASA figured out how to split up and reallocate its functions to other hardware, sending code 15 billion miles away (45 hours round trip!)--and Voyager's back online. blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/0…

“Modelling suggests that, on current trends of climate change, Aedes mosquitos will spread into large parts of southern Europe and the United States, putting another 2bn people at risk of getting dengue.”

China's government is censoring what videos Americans can post on TikTok.

Because TikTok is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, they suppress topics that are politically sensitive in China.

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So the owner of the New York Times told his reporters to give Biden negative coverage, because Biden wouldn't do an interview with the Times

One thing we've learned from the past decade is that there's a reason western legal traditions have safeguards like penalties for perjury, making the jury be separate from the accusers, and so on, and without them you're going to get miscarriages of justice.

It's weird how consistently people who attack Twitter point out that ad revenue has decreased. They don't seem the sort of people who care about companies' revenues, and now they're suddenly amateur stock analysts. I suppose it's because usage hasn't decreased.

Larry: If we're going to be on TV, we should dress up.
Sergey: What does that entail?
Larry: Shirts with buttons and collars.
Sergey: Ok, what color?
Larry: Blue.
Sergey: Can we still wear jeans?
Larry: Ok, if they're black.

Crypto is back. @Stripe will start supporting global stablecoin payments this summer. Transactions instantly settle on-chain and automatically convert to fiat. Join the waitlist stripe.com/use-cases/cryp… and watch the demo (h/t @Solana) from Sessions.

The first rule of activism: It's not enough that your actions are intended to help fix some problem. They must actually help fix it. And you can't take this for granted, because the easiest forms of activism mostly don't.

Here's why boycotting palm oil could actually mean MORE deforestation.

When it comes to activism, it's important to consider the counterfactual... what would fill the gap of the thing you're boycotting? Sometimes the answer isn't as clear cut as it seems, especially when it…