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The New Yorker
The Pandemic Isn’t a Black Swan but a Portent of a More Fragile Global System
5 min · · Nassim Nicholas Taleb is frustrated whenever the coronavirus crisis is referred to by the term he coined for an unpredictable, rare catastrophe. · Shared by 173, including Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Diogo Mónica, Oliver Reichenstein, sircharlsxavier, Rutger Bregman, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Thomas Power, Vikram Dutt, Logical Analysis, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Alexandra Wong, Duncan McDonnell, Antonio Ramos, David Wallace-Wells, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Martina Pugliese, arabist, Annik Burgdorfer-Grolimund
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The New Yorker
Jeffrey Sachs on the Catastrophic American Response to the Coronavirus
5 min · · The economist on why President Trump is the “worst political leader” he’s ever seen and how he’s “looking for the United States not to be among the most destructive forces on the planet.” · Shared by 39, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Scott McLeod, Felix M, wil shipley, Martina Pugliese
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Fast Company
How the ‘New York Times’ is capturing the unprecedented impact of COVID-19
3 min · · COVID-19 is upending everything. Including how the “New York Times” visualizes the news. · Shared by 26, including Martin Stabe, Martina Pugliese, Alex Rainert 🤦🏻♂️
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theartofresearch.org
Changing my Mind about AI, Universal Basic Income, and the Value of Data
· Romeo and Juliet balcony scene, Ford Madox Brown, 1870 Alan Turing created the Turing Test in 1950, Marvin Minsky wrote the first neural network in 1951, and arguments about · Shared by 14, including Martina Pugliese, Scott Santens
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The New York Times
My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?
20+ min · · Forced to shutter Prune, I’ve been revisiting my original dreams for it — and wondering if there will still be a place for it in the New York of the future. · Shared by 427, including Margaret Sullivan, Melissa Perri, felix salmon, Shervin 🚀 ∞ 🚄, Steve Silberman, Shelly Kramer, David Epstein, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Mathew Ingram, Carolina A. Miranda, Nilofer Merchant, Brent Beshore, Karen McGrane, Scott Berkun, Scott Galloway, Andy Greenwald, Sam Sifton, Virginia Hughes, Jason Stanley, Kevin Roose