Book burning in our time. Two places to look for what's happened to science and other do-gooding programs since government research programs that smelled woke got defunded: Columbia Law School's Silencing Science Tracker, and this piece by RealKM.
Some clues. Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy, The Cluetrain Manifesto says. (In its 7th of 85 theses.) A corollary might be siloization and paywalls degrade hyperlinks. I'm musing on all that because this blog today has had 28 views so far, and none directly to this post. All the visits are to posts I've made in the past. Every new post becomes one of those, though, and it does help that I don't care much about stats. Never have. By the way, I am working on several posts on Big Topics that I hope will give Dave and Aram goosebumps.
The power of the few. McKinsey: The power of one: How standout firms grow national productivity.
Look out above. My father was a claustrophobe with an absent fear of heights. I am too, though not to his extreme (he did high steel construction and cable rigging on the George Washington Bridge). But I loved climbing trees and towers, when my body was young and less mindful of risk. That's why I vicariously dig this video of a tower climb, by tallstructureclimbers. The tower they scale for decades transmitted RÚV's main service to Iceland, pumping out 300,000 watts on 189 kHz on the longwave (LW) band. At 412 meters (1,352 feet), it is, or was, the world's tallest tower for transmitting radio on longwave or mediumwave (MW, aka AM in North America). (For FM and TV, there are towers upwards of 610 meters, or 2,000 feet.) A difference with LW and MW is that the tower itself is the transmitting antenna, because the radiator needs to be very long. FM and TV transmitting antennas go on the tops and sides of towers.
Good business. I've only heard good things about H-E-B, a grocery store chain I have never met. Here's the latest from David Armano. Nice bonus item: Young Steve Jobs forecasting AI.
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