TED Talk: Scott Galloway: How the US is destroying young people’s future
In a scorching talk, marketing professor and podcaster Scott Galloway dissects the data showing that, by many measures, young people in the US are worse off financially than ever before. He unpacks the root causes and effects of this “great intergenerational theft,” asking why we let it continue and showing how we could make it end. (Note: This talk contains mature language.)
Populist-style delivery although probably not populist-style content
Globe: Andrew Coyne: With Trudeau and his Finance Minister at war, it’s clear: this government is done
When Chrystia Freeland rises in the House Monday to deliver the Fall Economic Statement – if she does – the country will be presented with a remarkable and disturbing sight.
The Finance Minister will read out a document that it is now known she does not agree with, charting an economic course she does not believe in, and that will repudiate promises to which she nailed her credibility just eight months ago.
After which, Justin Trudeau will in all probability fire her.
CBC North: Six decades ago folk-singer Valdy got booed off stage. It led to his biggest hit
Many people know Paul Valdemar Horsdal, better known as Valdy, as the singer behind Rock And Roll Song. It became a hit in 1972, and remains the Canadian folk singer’s most popular tune.
But that huge hit came out of a bad situation. In the late 1960s, as Valdy’s popularity grew, the Aldergrove Rock Festival invited him to perform. But the rock fans at the B.C. festival didn’t like Valdy playing his own folk music and covers of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. They raised their fists in the air yelling “Rock! Rock!” and “Get this jerk off the stage!”
Wired: The UK Now Has Its Own Illegal Rubberized Cybertruck on the Road
Car customizer to the stars Yianni Charalambous, owner of luxury vehicle wrapping workshops in England, is aiming to legalize a Tesla Cybertruck for driving in the UK. If successful, this would be the first Cybertruck allowed on British roads, and would join the rubberized Cybertrucklegalized for use on Czech roads through the fitting of skinny bumpers over the electric pickup’s sharp edges.
To the dismay of road safety organizations, the minimally altered Czech Cybertruck passed an individual vehicle approval (IVA) test, one of the ways to legalize low-volume imported cars in the EU.
“Generative AI didn’t exist when we started this film. Trump had just lost the election. Every American was saying: ‘Why do you have shots of him in the film? He’s finished, he’s old news. Everyone’s sick of him.’ And then by the time the film’s come out, he’s just won the election.”
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I watch 2073 for the first time in the summer with an invited audience of journalists and activists who in some way helped and even though they all know some bits of the story, they’re still shocked by having it threaded together in a way that seems new and revealing and alarming: populist politics plus surveillance technology plus climate emergency equals our dystopian future – which is actually our dystopian present.
ScienceAlert: Health Gap at End of Life Is Now Wider in US Than Any Other Country
Humans today are living longer than ever before, but how many of those added years are spent in good health?
A data-crunching survey covering 183 member nations of the World Health Organization has now confirmed what some scientists feared: while years are being added to most people’s lives, healthy life is not being added to most people’s years.
Last Updated: 15.Dec.2024 23:49 EST
