Glenn Reynolds writes an elegy to Mark Hopkins.
“For years, the phone would ring at random times, and when I’d answer it was always the same: ‘This is Mark Hopkins.’ (He always started exactly the same way.) Then followed some sort of problem, usually leading to either a request for advice, or for me to do something.”
Yes. I and many others had the same experience. Sometimes we would do them, other times not. But we always answered the phone.
Thoughts on the current state of liability.
Yes, meat, dairy, and eggs are essential to healthy nutrition for humans.
[Evening update]
Over a thousands scientists sign a petition touting the health benefits of eating animal products.
Well, it was what we evolved to.
Probably much worse than previously reported. And there was never any science to support either masking or social distancing, which should have been called “anti-social” distancing.
…is it in twilight?
Bob Werb has some advice on how to reach the non space enthusiasts.
[Update Friday morning]
Yes, I noticed that article about lab-grown meat the other day, too. Which is kind of too bad, because I’d actually prefer to not have to slaughter pigs for pork. In any event, as he notes, this does seem to be an effort by the “elites” to make themselves more elite by making the rest of us more miserable.
It’s interesting to see all the condolences from conservatives.
…to live in quiet times.
Thoughts on the acceleration of progress, by Walter Russell Mead.
I wonder how space will play into all of this?
[Afternoon update]
There is no turning back from AI.