01:00 LAT: With demands for a bank bailout, Silicon Valley shows its ‘small government’ mantra was just a pose, https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-03-12/with-demands-for-a-bank-bailout-silicon-valley-shows-its-small-government-mantra-was-just-a-scam
05:00 Ricky Vaugh aka Doug Mackey goes on trial for satire, https://twitter.com/myth_pilot/status/1635300560298729475
10:00 News Is A Stress Test, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=147167
24:00 Essay: You’re Better Off Not Knowing, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/information-news-addiction-liberal-depression/673351/
31:10 Doc Snipes: 5 Habits to Move from Surviving to Thriving, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7t0V-5X18w
42:00 The Coddling Of The American Mind, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/id1651876897?i=1000603422829
50:30 NYT: UPenn Accuses a Law Professor of Racist Statements. Should She Be Fired?, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/us/upenn-law-professor-racism-freedom-speech.html
1:08:00 Academics aren’t incentivized to reach out to the public
1:10:00 Decoding the Gurus, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/
1:13:00 The thousands of failed academics
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