kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

"Dan Price gained worldwide attention in 2015 when he announced that he was instituting a $70,000 minimum wage at his company, Gravity Payments, and would slash his $1 million salary in order to pay for it. While many praised the decision as a bold step toward combating income inequality in the United States, others vilified Price as a radical socialist whose "experiment" was doomed to fail."

(spoiler: it didn't; now he wrote a book)

https://profitisnotapurpose.com/worth-it-ebook/

Tomorrow at 11 AM PDT join Long Now Foundation for a day of discourse on rare-but-predictable threats with [a long list of reasonable environmental scientists]. If my calculations are correct, this is from 19:00 GMT.

http://longnow.org/seminars/02020/apr/14/long-conversation/

#COVID2019 viruses: hey, let's maximize mortality!
US prison industry: we're here to help!

"Death penalty states in the US are stockpiling medicines for lethal injections that could save the lives of hundreds of coronavirus patients"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/13/death-penalty-states-coronavirus-stockpiled-drugs

Note: I started wondering when I realized I was in Russia from end of December and 2 weeks in January, and I got quite ill, with temperature and strong cough, which very rarely happens to me. So when I recalled that recently, I had these obvious associations of course. On second thought, it was most likely just a regular cold, because no one else from our expedition got it and I was still able to the work, just feeling like shit.

Interesting case of Russia's spread of #covid. Everything started in China in December, annual traffic from China to Russia is 2 million people, which continued for 1-2 months until Russia closed borders in end of January.

Yet, most of confirmed cases is concentrated in Moscow (11k) and official number of cases in towns like Krasnoyarsk, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk (closest to China) is nominal which seems unlikely.

I'm just wondering if what we see in Russia now is not a *second* wave...

https://www.life.com/history/w-eugene-smiths-landmark-photo-essay-country-doctor/

“The dove that goes BOOM” (1951)
🇫🇷 poster published by Paix et Liberté organisation in response to KGB-infiltrated "peace movements".

Soviets were reaching the heights of dialectics when explaining to enchanted fellow travelers that while Western rockets are evil and imperialistic, the Soviet ones are "peace-loving" (Rus. миролюбивые) 😂