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Living in #NYC means coming back from your composting drop…in a designated bin along the Hudson River…where you get to take in the glorious lowering sun🌞& steely gray waters…you also get to pop into an extraordinary curation of #IrvingPenn photos in Chelsea on your way bk home...& all that is pretty priceless.

Based on conventional economic models, increases in R&D spending should have led the US to accelerated economic growth rather than the slowdown that has actually occurred since 1985.

The evidence suggests that while the US is investing more in R&D, the concentration of resources among large businesses has led to diminishing returns in terms of productivity growth.
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/09/the-innovation-paradox-ufuk-akcigit?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The Innovation Paradox

Increased R&D spending isn’t necessarily boosting US productivity as industrial giants focus on defending their turf

IMF

“Friends don’t let friends debate the future of the Democratic Party w/out being clear on whether they’re debating the 2024 election or the 2016-2024 shifts in the electorate.

The former you can explain with inflation. The latter you can’t.” #EzraKlein

#Bloomberg says his preoccupation with the stock market might save us from what Leon & Thiel want. This is a big preoccupation for me. Thots?
Exacerbating America’s internal divisions and demonstrating dominance over both the U.S. and Trump might explain why after Trump became president-elect, laughing Russian media figures showed viewers nude pictures of Trump’s third wife, Melania, taken during her modeling career.

'MUSK's Cybertruck is the perfect vehicle fr a zombie apocalypse.'

It's a bigger problem than just one sinister-looking car...it tells us abt the corruption of aesthetics in our time. And they really matter...

#LeonardSchlain key pt in his book The Art of Physics makes the case that aesthetics LEAD the shaping of our REALITY...not reflect or follow it. #TedGioia key pt: 'the Cybertruck replaces beauty w/ power.' No nuance, subtlety or any humanizing elements whtsoever.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/why-is-the-tesla-cybertruck-so-depressingly?utm_source=substack&publication_id=296132&post_id=151178502&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=42dbf&triedRedirect=true

Why Is the Tesla Cybertruck So Depressingly Ugly?

It's a bigger problem than just one sinister-looking car

The Honest Broker
Why don't ALL AMERICANS know this? Why does the media continue to report on Commander's biting or Biden's age & not on how the highest ruling court in America, #SCOTUS , has been bribed for at least the entire last decade by #RightWing #Billionaire #DarkMoney? And tht there's been NO INVESTIGATION of any of this? This 20mins of gobsmacking revelations delivered on the Senate flr 9.19.2023 by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse/Rhode Island is required news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-oR5VazPhw
The Scheme 23: Let's Say

YouTube

"Case & Deaton’s findings also suggest that, at least in one crucial respect, America’s educational divide now surpasses the gap that has historically been most significant: race. As recently as 1990, race still trumped educational status as a determinant of life span in the #US White Americans w/out a 4yr college degree could expect to live longer than #Black Americans with one. Not any more." #education #Race

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/education-inequality-economic-opportunities-college/675536/?utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20231004&utm_term=The+Atlantic+Daily

Nothing Defines America’s Social Divide Like a College Education

New research shows that having a degree helps determine not only your opportunities in life but even how long you’ll live.

The Atlantic
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Thx 🙏 @DavidMcCandless for the ultimate recipe. #InformationisBeautiful
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What could really increase your life expectancy, lifespan and longevity? — Information is Beautiful

What could add years to your life? Why do women live longer than men? What's the best method of life extension? Diet and exercise? Or polygamy and pets? Let the latest data decide.

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