Saturday, February 27, 2021

February 27, 2021

Ed Latimore
@EdLatimore
You don’t get to come up with excuses and reasons why your life is the way it is. Either you took care of business or you didn’t. This level of control scares most people because this level of control comes with responsibility.

HumanProgress.org
@HumanProgress
In 1956, Wilson Greatbatch made a soldering error, resulting in the accidental creation of a device that could electrically stimulate a heartbeat. This device became the lifesaving implantable pacemaker that we know today.

Dan Go
@FitFounder
Everyone wants the fountain of youth... No one wants to eat real food & lift 3x a week.

Lee Jordan
@TheRealLeejo
Kissinger once said “nations never do what they ought, only what they must.” Big Tech is bigger that most nations, and they behave accordingly. We must break them up now or go to war later.


Abigail Shrier
@AbigailShrier
Books that surprise and inform and challenge us to see things differently are usually offensive to someone. In the short term, sounding the alarm may increase sales of a particular book. But this is a dangerous move - and we are all too complacent about it. /4
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Abigail Shrier
@AbigailShrier
When a company controls over 83% of the market for books, it begins the process of deleting ideas from a society. A bookseller can sell whatever it wants. If 'Marxist Books' wants to only sell books that conform to its ideology, OK; that has integrity. /5
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Abigail Shrier
@AbigailShrier
But this is the "world's largest bookseller." Amazon can basically make books disappear for *all readers* -- and does so on a blatantly dishonest basis. Under guise of removing "inappropriate" content, they will really be removing ideas they disfavor. /6
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Abigail Shrier
@AbigailShrier
Please do not make the mistake of analogizing this to a tiny Colorado bakery. There's a huge difference betw one baker refusing to make a particular cake and Target, Amazon, or Apple deleting content: scale - i.e., the difference between homicide and genocide. /7
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Abigail Shrier
@AbigailShrier
Start to understand the power of scale. The difference between Maoist Books refusing a book and Amazon, is that books Amazon disfavors will never be published in the first place -- which is exactly what the book banners want. /8
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Abigail Shrier
@AbigailShrier
If the pipe that 83% of book sales flow through shuts off, those books will never get published. Why would a publisher take a chance on a book that
@amazon
won't carry? It won't. /9
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Abigail Shrier
@AbigailShrier
NOW is the time to get upset. For the moment, while we can still express this on
@twitter
, NOW is the time. Writers are being dropped by agents and refused by publishers *right now* because of Amazon's move. Time is running out. /10




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