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RichStein

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Economist for non-profits, NGOs, governments, some private cos. Projects—public #policy, #evaluation, #innovation, #tech, job creation, #privacy, #health, #equity, #climate, #sustainability

Ex: The Economist, Bloomberg

Love #data & democracy, hate disinformation

I boost #jobs!

Free time: family, #cooking, #baking, #running, #biking, #camping, #rowing, #photography, #nature, #books, #writing, #haiku, bad #jokes, #pets—often many (≠all!) @ 1x!

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Provocative, thoughtful read—
"Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality" — "... like... De Tocqueville's... 'Democracy in America,' but with more numbers, ... economics, and ... vitriol."

Angus Deaton: "The United States has become a darker society since I arrived in 1983.
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We need to abandon our sole fixation on as a measure of human ."
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2023/09/26/1199422599/a-nobel-prize-winning-immigrants-view-on-american-inequality @bookstodon @economics

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"How , , , and —Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality" — book excerpt from "The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the , , and ," by Jonathan Taplin

There's a lot here. Whether or not all of it is accurate is a different story — but it is a good, provocative read.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/musk-thiel-zuckerberg-andreessen-alternate-autocratic-reality
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"Books Unbanned" initiatives continue at:

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Can someone give me some hashtags to follow out here?

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@inquiline @doikayt
First, use tootfinder https://tootfinder.ch/search/economics by @buercher. You can search on those terms, etc. Follow @economics and look at the hashtags in posts there. You should find plenty of interest.

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CBI Image o' Day

Two of the Women Who Programmed the ENIAC, Penn, 1946.

Iconic photograph of Betty Jean Jennings (left) at edge of photo inserts a deck of cards containing initial data on which the ENIAC will operate, while Frances Bilas (right) removes a set of cards representing the result of the proceeding computation.


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@JustCodeCulture @histodons @anthropology @sociology @genderoftheday
@TimBartik an economist w/ @UpjohnInstitute has wonderful history up about the women who programmed — Jean Jennings was his mother. Some nice links w/i: https://investinginkids.net/2011/03/25/jean-jennings-bartik-1924-2011/

My Mom worked down the hall at the Moore School (Penn), with S. Reid Warren, who led the EDVAC program and was later in the admin (Vice Dean, AVP...) Good oral interview w/ him: https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/107704
Bio and his papers: https://archives.upenn.edu/collections/finding-aid/upt50w25/

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@JustCodeCulture @histodons @anthropology @sociology @genderoftheday @TimBartik @UpjohnInstitute

Book: " Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer," by Kathy Kleiman https://bookshop.org/p/books/proving-ground-the-untold-story-of-the-six-women-who-programmed-the-world-s-first-modern-computer-kathy-kleiman/18353598?ean=9781538718285

Programmers Project (about the book and 2013 documentary): https://eniacprogrammers.org/ This is also K. Kleiman's effort.

@mckra1g enjoying the book: https://mastodon.social/@mckra1g/110804477501966432

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@JustCodeCulture @histodons @anthropology @sociology @genderoftheday @TimBartik @UpjohnInstitute @mckra1g

Last one for now. #Fun: #ENIAC simulator code & documentation https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/

via Drexel Prof. Brian L. Stuart. See his computer museum at the bottom of his page: https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/ (I've probably got some Franklin & Commodore stuff — we lived not too far away when I was a kid; brother & I befriended some engineers, Mom wld drive us... — we could donate!)

cc: @pluralistic

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" So we find the bird, then, designed with integral wings for his real, his medium then, is the air. In gases he can fly beautifully. But when he's not flying he cannot divest himself of his wings, so the wings then, when he tries to walk around are quite encumbering."
-- R. Buckminster Fuller, All I Know Lectures

12% of book. #books #reading @bookstodon #BuckminsterFuller

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Bucky Fuller was wonderful. I pestered him until he gave me a job (no salary, but I shadowed him) while in college one year. It was terrific!

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