Monthly Archives: September 2024

23andMe … Tortoise Boardroom Sensemaker.

Posted on September 27, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

23andMe, me, me   All seven independent directors of the DNA testing company 23andMe resigned last week after its founder, Anne Wojcicki, failed to produce an “actionable” plan to take the company private. So what? It’s an astonishing motion of no-confidence in Wojcicki … Continue reading →

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Dr Tom Clonan speaks out in the Senate. He is a constant and dedicated advocate for people with disabilities. This case he speaks of a person who was in care and sexually assaulted. The reaction of our HSE, Politicians, Doctors, Nurses is that they have learned nothing from the tribunals of abuse of people in care of the State and continue with verbiage and elongated answers having no sense or meaning. Tom Speaks for 10 minutes. Marginalised people be they homeless, have serious disabilities, have mental illness, intellectual deficits, have no rights when it comes to having the course to say they have been taken advantage of … yes, sexually abused, assaulted, raped. Note the absence of people in the Senate, this would not have been the case in the 1920’s and 1930’s when we were just a fledgling state trying to create a moral order.

Posted on September 27, 2024 by michelleclarke2015
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AI: AI moving fast forward but we need Guardrails. Check out this video. Access to 3.5 bn faces. What does this mean for freedom?

Posted on September 27, 2024 by michelleclarke2015
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The Observer: The flow state: the science of the elusive creative mindset that can improve your life

Posted on September 27, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

Support the Guardian The Observer Psychology  This article is more than 2 months old The flow state: the science of the elusive creative mindset that can improve your life This article is more than 2 months old Scientists have long known … Continue reading →

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Africa, the continent, when the colonial powers retreated, the World Bank, the IMF and others entered and enticed them with loans … lots of interest was due and productivity was a problem for these new foundlings. Now it is China and Russia offering to help them with their infrastructure, their education. Check out Steve Hank take …

Posted on September 26, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) posted at 4:00 pm on Wed, Sept 25, 2024:#KENWatch : The IMF has reportedly hinted at even HIGHER TAX RATES in Kenya despite the last 3 months of protests. As Harvard Prof. Robert Barro puts it, “THE IMF … Continue reading →

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Eurasia Review follow it: The Campus Life Killers: Ending Face-To-Face Lectures – OpEd. “…As such, these modules can be undertaken in the form of online courses, which offer fleeting flexibility and shallow taste.  This is education thinned and skinned, fatless and deprived…”

Posted on September 26, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

The Campus Life Killers: Ending Face-To-Face Lectures – OpEd  September 25, 2024  0 Comments By Binoy Kampmark The bells are tolling for the demise of the university classroom – at least its physical manifestation.  Administrative barbarians are readying their knives and brandishing … Continue reading →

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Tortoise Sensemaker: The Cost of Knowledge. Comment: No wonder the young people plan a march Saturday 28th September; these are the people most affected who were too young to vote at the time of the Brexit Vote. Being a member of the EU has huge impact for young people studying, learning languages, access to different cultures. The question is what will Labour do for them?

Posted on September 26, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

The cost of knowledge The former Conservative leader William Hague and the Labour peer Peter Mandelson have both warned this week that student tuition fees in the UK will have to rise.    So what? They’re probably right. British universities are in the … Continue reading →

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X Much appreciated reposted by Elon Musk

Posted on September 25, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

@GadSaad Subscribe Please read this letter from 38 professors who are dogged defenders of free speech, and @elonmusk ‘s contribution to that deontological cause. With colleagues such as these, perhaps academia is not a lost cause. https://castroluciano.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Public-Letter-Against-Censorship.pdf

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Eurasia Review follow it. Is The World Moving Toward Long-Term Self-Destruction? – OpEd

Posted on September 25, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

Is The World Moving Toward Long-Term Self-Destruction? – OpEd September 25, 2024  0 Comments By IDN By Jonathan Power Eleven hundred years ago Europe was a backwater. There were no grand cities, apart from Cordoba in Spain which was Muslim. The Middle … Continue reading →

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Tortoise Daily Sensemaker: Data footbrint … Who is in Control? Telegram’s new message

Posted on September 25, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

Telegram’s new message Telegram said it would hand over user information including IP addresses and phone numbers to authorities with “valid legal requests”, marking a major shift for the encrypted messaging platform. Until now, Telegram has only been willing to … Continue reading →

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