The richest 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new #wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 percent of the world’s population, reveals a new #Oxfam report today. During the past decade, the richest 1 percent had captured around half of all new wealth.
1% of people captured 2/3 of all wealth.
I didn’t realize that the Dutch fought for their bike lanes. There’s a lot of history within this that I’m currently naive about but excited to learn!
Here’s the article I’m starting with — How the Dutch got Their Cycle Paths: https://www.pps.org/article/how-the-dutch-got-their-cycle-paths
“Prediction-based coverage comes at a high cost because it crowds out the coverage that voters actually need. To make an informed decision, voters need to know the practical impact of voting for each candidate.” @[email protected]: https://popular.info/p/political-media-is-broken
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On October 19, 2022, the New York Times — America's "paper of record" — ran a story with the headline, "Democrats’ Feared Red October Has Arrived." The purpose of the story was to explain why the Democrats will lose badly in the midterm election, which was still nearly three weeks away.
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Thinking of a new social network for the twitter addicts, the timeline completionists. You only get a badge when you have seen every post. When new posts come in, you lose your badge until you’ve caught up again.
I call it “Hell”
Two iconic images of Margaret Hamilton, Lead Software Engineer on Apollo, the #software putting #astronauts on the moon in '69. 1st a stack of paper of all she hand-coded on Apollo (Jan. '69), #Draper; 2nd Her in the #Apollo Command Module #NASA
"...Software was not only informing everyone that there was a hardware-related problem, but... software was compensating for it.” Margaret Hamilton in Smithsonian Magazine Mar. 2019
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