#83: Links
COVID is (kinda) just the flu, Golden Kitty Awards, and Oscar-nominated documentaries
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FUN LINKS
TikTok
@DeepTomCruise is full of excellent Tom Cruise deepfakes
Satire of an Indigenous Land Acknowledgement 😂
The Onion
Desperate Olympic Committee Attempts To Increase Viewership By Adding Skinny-Dipping To 2024 Games
FDA Warns Americans To Take That Out Of Their Mouth This Instant
Homeless Matt Damon Forced To Sell Kidney After Losing Everything In Crypto Pump And Dump Scheme
Babylon Bee
Biden Says Gas Prices Are Not His Fault Unless They Go Back Down Again
DISGUSTING: Here Are 10 Pictures Of Cute Babies That Have Been Born Since The Texas Abortion Ban (woof)
TOTALLY UNFUN, SERIOUS LINKS
What I’m reading: Green Pilled, Origin of Wealth, Culture and the Evolutionary Process, Why Information Grows
If there’s one place you go to truly understand Ukraine, plz follow @kamilkazani.
Lefty COVID Narrative Violations 😂
COVID is finally “just the flu” in the UK.
Amazing data viz. Republicans are antivax because they fell into the “COVID is just the flu” memeplex and couldn’t escape.
New Texas abortion law is leading to 50% fewer abortions.
On-the-ground reports from doctors in CA say that they’re receiving a bunch of patients who fly from TX to CA to get abortions. Thousands of dollars, no insurance, and being away from family during an intense medical time.
This is a damn shame.
UBI in Mexico had a 30x return. More UBI plz.
Crisis Text Line used data from their suicide hotline to sell chatbot products. Not great.
We need a transparency-first company culture.
MetaLabels are a cool new institutional vehicle and you should build one.
Looking for amazing new products like the Opal camera or the Cron calendar app? Check out Product Hunt’s 2021 Golden Kitty awards.
Nerd candy: Instead of using weights to code a neural net, use temporal delays.
More AI. At least 10% of large language models are from copying and induction heads. Mechanistic Interpretability is cool. 😮
White Democrats are more pessimistic about the future of the US because they see politics as a spiritual hobby and consume more outrage-driven national news.
Cool live Q&A format uniquely enabled by Twitter.
Government Is Flailing, in Part Because Liberals Hobbled It
Laws have a memetic half-life of 100+ years. That’s too long. We need garbage collection for laws.
Environmental orgs are stuck in a memetic niche where they can only say no. We need to enable them to say yes. To build.I watched the Oscar-nominated documentary shorts this weekend. Good ones on Afghanistan, the housing crisis in America, and deaf high schoolers.
Congrats to RF4 fellow Ashley Lin (among many other great folks like Jess, Nadia, Zvi) on winning an Emergent Ventures fellowship.
JOBS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Roote is hiring a CEO for Web3 & Society, a Head of Fundraising, and for a few other roles. Join us!
Grants and Partnerships Specialist at the amazing OneProject.
Apply to FTX’s new Future Fund by March 21. They’re trying to grant $100M by end of 2022.
David Perell is hiring a Production Operations Lead to create his podcast in Austin.
The Capital Institute is offering its first-ever cohort on Regenerative Economics.
Launch and lead Open Philanthropy’s new program for Global Health and Wellbeing.
The MIT DCI is hiring senior developers and researchers to support the DCI’s Bitcoin Security Initiative. Ping dci-jobs@mit.edu.
Programs for ambitious young folks: Patch, Pioneer, Emergent Ventures, Rise…Roote 😉
EVENTS
Graph Day. June 2, SF. I’ll be there and speaking 👋
Consensus. June 9-12, Austin. I’ll be there and speaking 👋
Upcoming ETH events
Upcoming Effective Altruism events
MUSIC
TikTok viral duets are the best.
This one led to a “real” Spotify track with 10M plays.
Hope you have a great week!
Warmth, Rhys
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