Q Cassetti

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I believe change begins at the local/neighborhood level. Start small—but start. It all takes time.

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

nytimes.com

Here's my interview with CNBC on how Zuckerberg's vacuous talking points about AGI and open source exist to distract from how Meta burned $180bn in capex (and more off-balance-sheet) to make also-ran LLMs that don't deliver an iota of the promise of "personal superintelligence."

What are the dems talking points for this fall? Seems like strong strategy and messaging should be emerging now. Is there even a plan beyond the freaking status quo—“getting things back to normal”? Help me with this one.

Here we are in 2026 and this song is just as relevant now as it was when it was created. ‘Stop, Hey What's That Sound’ Buffalo Springfield Released December, 1966

Whoooooeeeeeee. Barron Trump and Andrew Tate are big buds. Makes me queasy. What’s the story in 5 yrs? What are we going to learn. Apple doesn’t fall far from the befouled tree.