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I Remember It Well! Judi Dench in conversation with Gyles Brandreth.
On stage – in person – for one special performance.
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"I want to thank the Academy for not being mortally offended by the words women and talking being so close together like that." —Sarah Polley, Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winner. #Oscars
ALT A photo of writer-director Sarah Polley, dressed in a tuxedo and holding her Oscar on stage.
Hey @Instacart what gives with over-charging for protein? Fourth time now. Uou estimate an amount for chicken or salmon and then don’t actually change it with the correct amount. At first I thought it was an oversight but it now seems to be a consistent behavior.
Engaging through frustration or anger is merely integrating with energy sinks. Amazing to see how many people who are expert in their fields do this, and makes you wonder how much more productive & effective they would be if they opted to create instead.
Thank you to @doctorow for this epic thread on our new @econliberties paper!
A funeral home, a magic mushroom, and a dentist all walk into a private equity boardroom...but this joke doesn't end well.
Paper link: economicliberties.us/our-wor…
#FuneralHomes were once dominated by local, family owned businesses. Today, your local funeral home is likely owned by #ServiceCorporationInternational, who bought hundreds of funeral homes (keeping the proprietor's name over the door), hiking prices and reaping vast profits. 1/
ALT An altered version of Goya's 'Saturn Devouring His Children.' Saturn wears a black top-hat, a monocle and a diamond pinky-ring. On his shoulder perches a trustbuster-era editorial cartoon depicting Roosevelt swinging his 'big stick.'
People with lots of capital (investors) calling for “head-count” (aka people) reduction so they can make more capital.
Extract. Extract. Extract. When 96cents of every new dollar of GDP is going to the .1% already.
We are so ready for a new economic model.
It's starting, TCI going activist on GOOG:
--"Please be like Elon (cut costs dramatically), without being Elon (hold on to revs)."
--Expect massive layoffs across tech in '23.
tcifund.com/files/corporatee…
"If you look at this crisis with clear eyes, the failure to address it will dramatically lower the quality of end of life for many Americans. The private sector cannot solve this crisis, leaving solutions to the public sector—our governments." dailykos.com/stories/2022/11…
At the request of elders we will now refer to the unidentified Indigenous woman murdered by the serial killer in Winnipeg as ‘Buffalo Woman’ instead of unidentified woman. Until her name is found, we honour her.
kitotimnaw (our relative)
Must read: Proponents of gender-lens investing say it’s a solution to economic inequality. But does it really shift the status quo? on @FutureOfGood. futureofgood.co/solution-to-…
I wrote about FTX, the Fed, and the Wizard of Oz while summarizing some of my key take aways from @CLeonardNews great new book, The Lords of Easy Money: embodied-economics.ghost.io/…