1. Private School
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family money
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistant, nanny, ghostwriter
7. Journalists who ask “what’s your secret?” and uncritically publish the lame answer
Hey Philly folks --- SEPTA is doing a pilot of a system supposedly uses "AI" to call the cops when the "AI" detects a gun.
This is terrifying. What kind of civil oversight do you all have going on out there?
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U.S. Moves to Bar Noncompete Agreements in #Labor Contracts
A sweeping proposal by the Federal Trade Commission would block companies from limiting their employees’ ability to work for a rival. #FTC #news
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/business/economy/ftc-noncompete.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
This is a good time to point out that SF used to have many surface creeks that could handle a lot of water without flooding. But we've covered the entire city in impermeable placement and disrupted natural drainage
Islais Creek used to be on the surface all the way from Glen Park to the Bay, but they covered it to build Alemany Boulevard and put it in a culvert.
Bring back Laguna Dolores. Daylight Mission Creek, Islais Creek, Precita Creek, the creek under the Wiggle
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Islais_Creek_Remembered
2023 thoughts
My life now spans the distance from "What's a DVD?" to "You can get it on DVD" to "What's a DVD?"