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A civil jury ruled in favor of ex-MIT scientist David Sabatini, who was accused by a younger colleague of inappropriate sexual conduct in his Cambridge research lab, and awarded him $6 million in damages. trib.al/s3v9VIXView quoted post on X
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries by @SafiBahcall . The book promises to provide practical insights into the mechanics of how crazy concepts can eventually reshape industries and change the world.View quoted post on X
Renaissance is the ultimate realization of the vision of America.View quoted post on X
America has never been a finished country. It's the one that rebuilds itself every time the ground shifts, and comes out larger. The same 1929 crash that handed Germany Weimar handed America the New Deal, the GI Bill, and the suburbs. Same storm, opposite outcome, because we had the institutions and the broad ownership to climb out.
That is the American move: take the disruption everyone else fears and turn it into a golden age. Five times in history a new technology has broken a civilization's picture of what a human being is for, and the societies that rewrote it well got a renaissance. AI is that break now.
So a renaissance isn't a departure from the founders' vision. It's the fullest expression of it. Their real genius was building the answer before the crisis arrived, the institutions sitting ready on the shelf when the moment came.
Ours is the same work in a new age: put ownership of the new tools into many hands instead of a few, because the American promise was always broad property and never a court, and build a picture of a human life worth wanting that no machine can generate.
The crash is coming. America is the country built to meet it. Let's build the answer before it lands.
