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→ Mark Cuban gets a free lesson on DEI
Billionaire Mark Cuban has claimed he is not aware of a single CEO who views the equity portion of DEI as equality of opportunity. Instead, he believes equity simply means playing to employees’ individual strengths.
2. Equity
Treating people equally does not mean treating them the same.
I made the mistake for a lot of years thinking it did.Equity is a core principle of business.
Put your employees in a position to succeed. Recognize their differences and play to their strengths where…— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) January 3, 2024
Step in conservative activist Christopher Rufo to provide some helpful examples: 10 of them, in fact. Major corporations including Google, Raytheon, Walmart, Verizon and others have all promoted a version of equity in line with Rufo’s definition in their corporate DEI projects, according to his own reporting. In one instance, a Walmart training programme told white hourly workers that they were guilty of white supremacy.
The two men have been sparring on the sidelines of Cuban’s debates with X owner Elon Musk over DEI — and Cuban appears somewhat sympathetic to Rufo’s case, even quoting his book. Could this shark be the latest convert to the war on DEI?
→ Germany dims the light on electricity production
Will the last person to leave Germany please turn off the lights? Unfortunately, that may not be an option for much longer. New data shows that the country’s economy has seen a sharp drop in electricity production, falling by almost 10% in the first quarter of 2024 compared to last year. It is the lowest quantity of electricity the country has produced since 1990.
Depressing to watch electricity production crashing in Germany year by year.
We can all see what they’re doing to themselves.
Maybe other EU nations enjoy seeing the decline of Germany?
It’s almost unfathomable to me as an American to watch Europe sleepwalking into this.
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— Mark Nelson (@energybants) April 2, 2024
One reason for why this might be the case was the decision by Olaf Scholz’s government to say auf wiedersehen to nuclear power and complete the phasing out of the renewable energy source.
It’s not just electricity production where Germany has lost its spark either. Recently, the country’s finance minister admitted that the economy was in “troubled waters”, raising concerns about a Weimar-like situation in the European country. No wonder Scholz is among the most unpopular leaders in the Western world…
→ Are we heading for a cyborg future?
Cyborgs are coming to a town near you. The RAND Corporation, an American think tank, has published a paper whose innocuous-sounding title — “Cultural and technological change in the future information environment” — conceals some troubling contents. The report claims that “advances in object connectivity may eventually extend to human bodies”, and that an “internet of bodies” may thereafter lead to an “internet of brains”.
What exactly is an “internet of brains”? Could be cool, right? Nope: try again. The scenario posited by the RAND report, which was commissioned by the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, constitutes a logical endpoint of transhumanism, the belief that technological advances can circumvent the limits of human biology and longevity.
The timeframe suggested for the emergence of this neural ecosystem is between 2035 and 2050, and the paper cites developments in tracking implants such as biochips and sensors, “sensory augmentation technologies” such as hearing implants and smart prosthetics, and brain-computer interfaces. All well and good if you’re in control of the interface; less so if you’re on the receiving end of any cerebral manipulation.
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SubscribeNuclear is CO2 neutral, but it isn’t renewable, as the text claims.
Breeder reactors make nuclear power renewable energy. The amount of uranium-238 and thorium-238 available to us on the earth’s surface would enable us to produce electricity at current rates for the lifetime of the sun.
Devil’s in the detail of ‘available to us’, tho.
“brain-computer interfaces” — what’s funny is, the cognitive elite who think they will control this technology are so deranged with woke drivel and associated mental disorders like anxiety, neurosis and narcissistic personality disorders that they can no longer think straight. Any emergent AI will have little use for their “internet of brains”.
For as smart as he is, Cuban is naive as hell.
Germany is determined to commit suicide.
I hope I am dead before the Borg rise. Humans really do deserve to got extinct if we are that stupid.
“Billionaire Mark Cuban has claimed he is not aware of a single CEO who views the equity portion of DEI as equality of opportunity”
No, you got that wrong right off the bat. He said he didn’t know a single CEO who viewed the equity portion of DEI as equality of outcome. Cuban thinks “equity” means “equality of opportunity.” Rufo was trying to put him straight on that. (Personally, I think Cuban was trying to sincerely sane-wash DEI, he just doesn’t think any sensible business organization would engage in “equality of outcome” as a goal).
He’s living on a different planet at this point. ‘Positive’ discriminiation (i.e anti white racial measures) is rife in basically every UK business with more than a hundred employees. It is even worse in the U.S where ‘affirmative action’ (i.e anti white racial measures) rule the roost.