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Forget perfect blueprints. In a flawed world, how can we actually cultivate a collective mindset of hope? Join @TKPullinger and Thomas Arnold alongside authors David Albertson and @jasonwblakely to rethink utopia for the 21st century and tackle modern problems using wisdom from Plato to MLK Jr. Be a part of the conversation here: interintellect.com/salons/no…

As @natashajouk teaches

Ever since someone pointed this out to me I’ve never said it again

survival increases your surface area for luck.

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The Artist's Daughter, Nancy, as Pierrot c.1910 By Mabel Nicholson (1871–1918), Scottish painter #Womensart

Annamaria Potamiti - Earlier Work 'Day 48 - After Breakfast' (2013)

My top five bad arguments from this anti-robotaxi piece in @TheAtlantic: 🚫 Sure, 1.2 million die in car crashes each year, but "90% are in low- and middle-income countries, which are not in Waymo's expansion plans." By that logic, why bother inventing vaccines? Most child deaths happen in the developing world anyway — except vaccines got rolled out everywhere, because adoption drives down cost. Smartphones weren't designed for poor Africans either, yet there are 700 millions of them in Africa now, with penetration rates around 70%. 🚫 Robotaxis could "displace millions of people employed as drivers." So did the mechanical cotton picker, which replaced millions of stoop laborers. Does anyone wish that brutal work back? Before the industrial revolution, the vast majority of people worked in agriculture. Self-driving cars will actually help poor people by making private transportation affordable for everyone. Protecting low-wage jobs by forbidding the safer, cheaper alternative just traps people in poverty. 🚫 "When companies talk about safety… they just want to sell their product." Sure, and so do the makers of seatbelts, fire extinguishers, and antibiotics. I guess you should never buy those? Companies profit from safety precisely because people value safety and will pay for it. That's not a gotcha; it's free markets working as advertised. 🚫 "The taxi is one of the few places we brush against other ways of living." Nobody is banning human contact, not even in transportation. By all means, take a human Uber if you feel so inclined. Or chat with your barista, or strike up a conversation with a stranger on the street. Or pay for a human guide. Keeping people in dangerous, low-wage driving jobs is just using humans as set decoration. 🚫 "Studies show automated vehicles are less able to detect people of color." This was a preprint. In the peer-reviewed version, the racial gap disappeared — a 29.71% vs 30.15% miss rate. And it tested generic open-source camera models, not Waymo, which navigates with lidar and radar, where skin tone is physically irrelevant. (See @KelseyTuoc's debunk: theargumentmag.com/p/no-waym…) Even if it were real, it would be a simple, solvable engineering problem. You're really clutching at straws. ✅ What the piece leaves out entirely: @Waymo reports ~92% fewer serious car crashes and ~92% fewer injury-causing pedestrian crashes than human drivers. It's a shame that this was published in my favorite magazine @TheAtlantic, which is generally pro-progress and pro-abundance. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…

underheralded "old school" environmental victory, the waters around new york are much, much cleaner and can support all sorts of charismatic megafauna

You are a victim of nothing. You are the creator of a world you do not like. Create something different.

My husband and I got married at City Hall before enjoying dinner at a restaurant with our families. For us, the cost of planning a wedding in terms of time and headache was an event bigger deterrent than the money (which is so often excessive)

Just listed on @interintellect_ 💜 @TKPullinger and Tuft's Thomas Arnold hosting A @yalepress book: interintellect.com/salons/no…

TODAY.✨️ Why do you think what you think? If you believe your views are purely the result of clear-headed, rational appraisal of evidence... think again. From ancestral farming habits to the climate you live in, hidden patterns shape our perspectives in measurable ways. Join host @TKPullinger and author @turi in a few hours as we discuss his forthcoming book, "Why We Think What We Think." We're diving into the forces behind human disagreement and exploring how to design a society that thrives without consensus. interintellect.com/salons/on…