Neil Gains

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

Federal layoffs and an end to diversity initiatives have weakened a historically strong labor market for Black workers. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...

Does AI Think WEIRD? | A conversation with Dr Neil Gains | Neil Gains A great conversation - look forward to everyone's comments.

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What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now Salman Rushdie on what the books “Slaughterhouse-Five,” by Kurt Vonnegut, “Catch-22,” by Joseph Heller, and others tell us about the nature of war and humanity.

Salman Rushdie on what people often misunderstand about “Slaughterhouse-Five” and its refrain, “So it goes.”

YouTube video by RoyHarperFan Roy Harper One Of Those Days In England

#That70sChallenge

Day 3:

One Of Those Days In England (1977) - Roy Harper
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YouTube video by Gareth Edwards Roy Harper. Glastonbury 2025

Roy Harper at age 84. Not as nimble on guitar or as wide-ranging vocally as he once was, but this is still a lovely rendition of a great song.
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#SONGTODAY With Neil Young in the news for his Glastonbury set, here's another octogenarian still sounding great Roy Harper, who was also at Glastonburty this year youtu.be/VRqSk1c1CT8?...

Record Number of Americans Apply for British Citizenship

A record number of Americans applied for British citizenship in the first three months of this year, and for the right to live and work in Britain indefinitely, according to official data.

Do you thrive in a tight or loose culture? Stanford Professor and psychologist Michele Gelfand explains the difference between tight and loose cultures and why it matters.

What’s the difference between tight and loose cultures and why does it matter? A Q&A with the fabulously insightful Michele Gelfand 👇🏻 open.substack.com/pub/katymilk...

Why You Should Always Switch: The Monty Hall Problem (Finally) Explained - By Steven Pinker - Behavioral Scientist The infamous problem even professors and mathematicians got wrong comes down to one unintuitive inference—in the Monty Hall problem, Monty Hall is God.

This week from the archive: Steven Pinker takes on pop culture’s most infamous math puzzle—the Monty Hall problem. It’s the game show problem that even mathematicians got it wrong.

“We confuse probability with propensity.” Pinker writes.

share of uk/germany/spain/france/italy populations that believe president trump is a threat to peace, in red:

how about we compromise

I've never seen a nation torch its reputation the way Musk and Trump are torching that of the US. Every day they find a way to make a new segment of the world population detest them. Makes Brexit look like a PR triumph.

A conservative French news magazine brightening up the Paris news stands … hard to overstate the damage Trump is doing to his and USA’s reputation among allies (sic)

european views on the usa under the trump administration

Image of text in a book that reads: For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. "Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break.

Kurt Vonnegut writing about the hypocrisy of so-called Christians.

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Proud to be British this evening.

If given unlimited access to cocaine, scientists have documented that rats will self-administer it in binge patterns until they lethally overdose.

As a girl, I felt shut out of rock. But a new Led Zeppelin film shows a joyful female fanbase I saw the documentary in a spirit of curiosity rather than fandom – and was won over by the visceral thrill of the band’s sound.

🎸 Tracey Thorn: As a girl, I felt shut out of rock. But a new Led Zeppelin film shows a joyful female fanbase.

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On those new Trump tariffs: I don't think people realize how narrow they are. They're ugly and stupid, but also arguably an attempt to save face after he lost his nerve on broad tariffs

Warren Gatland set to leave Wales job after dismal second stint as head coach * Six Nations defeat to Italy was 14th consecutive reverse * New Zealander returned to the job in December 2022 Warren Gatland is set to leave his position as Wales rugby union head coach, with immediate effect, after a dismal run of 14 consecutive…

Warren Gatland set to leave Wales job after dismal second stint as head coach

On this day in 1977, David Bowie released ‘Sound and Vision,’ the lead single from his eleventh studio album ‘Low’.

“After Auschwitz, the human condition is not the same, nothing will ever be the same. Here, heaven and earth are on fire.”

—Elie Wiesel

Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral” Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”

Leaked documents show the highly political & inconsistent nature of Meta's new hate speech policy.

"Christian men are totally useless" is NOT allowed but "Mexican immigrants are trash" is acceptable!?

"Gays are freaks", "trans people are immoral" - all allowed.

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Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads

Mark Zuckerberg admitted that changes to the way Meta filters content would mean “we’re going to catch less bad stuff”. 😬

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Wes Streeting goes furthest yet for minister on Elon Musk’s posts about Keir Starmer & Jess Phillips on grooming gangs.

“If he wants to roll his sleeves up and actually do something about tackling violence against women and girls, then online platforms, whether X or others, have got role to play”.

Musk Doubles Down on Support for German Far-Right Party The world’s richest man, a key adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, ridicules critics over his backing of the German extremist party AfD, as Germany prepares for elections.

So the world’s richest man, who grew up under apartheid in South Africa and now pulls the mentally deteriorating incoming U.S. president’s strings, has written an op-ed urging Germans to elect a neo-Nazi government. Got that?

There's not much Mr Asimov says that I don't agree with . . . 📚 📖 📚