Stever Robbins

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Helping peak performers deliver their best 🏳️‍🌈. Top-10 podcast 2007-2020. #MIT• #HBS • Extremely into #psychology, #publicspeaking, #learning, #teaching, #entrepreneurship, #lgbtq/#lgbt and #burningman.

I'm a humorist, an author, an amateur musical theater lyricist (check out http://worklessanddomore.com), and more.

I'm opinionated and willing to change my beliefs in the presence of data. • )'( • he / him

Twitter: @SteverRobbins

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I've committed to leaving Twitter, but haven't yet decided whether to reside here or BlueSky. @pluralistic makes a strong case for Here, but I find Bluesky so much easier to use and find people.
Y'all told me Andreesen was smart, Thiel was smart, Rabois was smart, Musk was smart, they have all outed themselves as lucky and dumb. You need to stop assuming being rich and being smart are the same.

This is actually false, New York Times. Ex-presidents have never been “shielded from indictment.” There is no “taboo.”

Ex-presidents have always been subject to prosecution for their crimes. Vice-presidents, state governors, and congressmen have all been indicted and even imprisoned.

Only one thing is new here: an incorrigible career criminal became president.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/us/politics/trump-indictment-democracy.html?unlocked_article_code=TyR2nPdw64cv07eIzC7yxLxDsARzmm2yCdealUwCCBXjQXEk9N6LqJdynlb717HiF6GCa5s2uiT-rPRL7d_xOeF2yimTCLIrkbzWU_Ch5jcDouarKvN0pihm00fyECbfNHXdPtbHNZqJr7rTIYay2zA6sboZSX6oPIhTxPSwnRwAIQC-ydjPHj45n2lyaAPEvz7ZzT1FBR8ZWUvvFGmJgxOc2n_P-6EHTZfmgKUDb9aPZ6bU1k3rBDXLGBGShbODt2TrWJzMk0hQa9XU-do6Xaq5uix5NVPZTVq35oiJ5Bxgw_xEgPbCdO1kx07LY6yDoRZwB6QkWadseQ5a2Rn49nBbAbA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Trump Indictment, a First for a U.S. President, Tests Democracy

For more than two centuries, American presidents were effectively shielded from indictment. But the case against former President Donald J. Trump breaks that taboo and sets a new precedent.

The New York Times

I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4

Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook to share with police

Law enforcement officers have used Clearview AI's facial recognition database nearly a million times, Hoan Ton-That, the company's CEO, told the BBC.

Business Insider
RT @bullshitjobs
Dear @smeredith19, @CNBC, #climatechange is being caused by 3-4 billion non-contributing #bullshitjobs and the corresponding traffic, CO2, energy demand and heat. Economies need to maximize their resource and energy efficiency. Not the number of jobs.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/20/ipcc-report-on-climate-un-scientists-call-for-course-correction.html
World’s top climate scientists issue ‘survival guide for humanity,’ call for major course correction

The latest report from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change provides world leaders with a gold-standard summation of modern climate science.

CNBC
Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/20/ipcc-climate-crisis-report-delivers-final-warning-on-15c?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late

IPCC report says only swift and drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to world

The Guardian
@juliewebgirl @stever So we all kind of kicked it. A good time was had by all.

It’s well established that open offices are really bad for productivity
It was extremely popular among companies to switch to open offices in spite of this.

So, it shouldn’t have come as a suprise to see productivity deteriorate when people are forced to return to the office

A HS student to their TX school board, which is banning books:

“I’m not going to sit here and talk about the slippery slope that book banning leads to because I learned from a book, that I checked out from my school’s library, that I don’t need to resort to logical fallacy to make a point. I’m simply going to say that no government – and public school is an extension of government – has ever banned books, and banned information from its public, and been remembered in history as the good guys.”

The hoarding of extreme wealth is a sickness