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In case you forgot how last season of The Gilded Age ended, I wrote a little refresher last week; in case you forgot what happened on Sunday’s (very entertaining) season premiere, get ready for a true cavalcade of crazy hats, one surprising reversal of a major plot point from last season, and at least one fresh Tony winner/one of my formative teen crushes. As I did last season, I’m going to break these recaps up by family, but first, let’s set the scene: We open on Easter Sunday, at least six months since the events of the previous season’s finale, and everyone is donning their Easter best to head to church via a very enjoyable montage of headwear.

*This email may be truncated in your inbox. To make sure you are reading the entire post, please move yourself along to a web browser! It becomes much more colorful and fun toward the end, and you won’t want to miss it!I have been absent from the Substack universe because I was experiencing our most wondrous wedding week in the Basque Country! I now officially have a French/ Basque husband! I’m someone’s wife!

Race, inequality, and economics in the US and throughout the world, by Glenn Loury, Paulson Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute Over 48,000 subscribers No thanks“One of the great American voices against racism and for effective social change; considered conservative by many, Glenn Loury brings a balanced view to the great debates.” “Essential free-thinker.” “Every time I tune in to Mr. Loury I come away a wiser person. His lived experiences have clearly turned him into an "

If you go looking for hiking trails on the island where I live, you’ll find four. At least officially. They’re all maintained by the Lummi Island Heritage Trust, and are the result of decades of dedicated conservation work. Two used to be farms. One used to be a quarry filled with hazardous waste. The trails are lovely and marked and I use at least one of them daily. But there are dozens of other trails on the island, too.

Albert Einstein, the genius of relativity, found his mind entangled not just with the intricate physics of the universe, but also with the enigmatic riddles of faith and the divine. The great physicist found his philosophical muse in Baruch Spinoza, the Dutch philosopher considered one of the titans of thought in the 17th century. But who was Spinoza and what was this "God of Spinoza" that Einstein came to embrace so profoundly?

“I called you at five-fifty-four. My name is Sly, and I wish you would make my wedding the biggest event this year. You can do it if you want to. I’ll be at home awaiting your ideas. Ha. Ha. Ha. Don’t let me intimidate you.” When funk musician Sly Stone married Kathy Silva in front of around 23,000 screaming fans on stage at Madison Square Garden, the me… ncG1vNJzZmikkaq%2ForfIrauyZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9KlsGarpKS7pnnWnpudoZ6c

West Incheon’s favourite good cops Kang Do-chang (Son Hyun-joo and Oh Ji-hyeok (Jang Seung-jo) are back again for another season of murder, mayhem and manipulation with the rest of the lads from Team 2 who are much more of a cohesive fighting machine than once they were. They are still led by Team Leader Woo Bong-shik (Jo Hee-bong), a perpetual nervous wreck whose timidity regarding what they're up against is only equalled by his fear of his wife’s nagging and their chief, Moon Sang Beom (Son Jong-hak) who lives for that holy grail promotion that’s just around the corner.

Hello reader, Welcome to the 34th edition of Access - the most clicked link from last week’s newsletter was the link to our private capital network map, featuring leaders across our industry. This week’s In Depth features the late, great, Jerome Kohlberg Jr. We’ve wanted to write this one for a while now, and it seemed fitting to share it in the week that he would have celebrated his 98th birthday.

Poetry as an AI test? Where have I heard that before... oh yeah, this in this classic https://redirect.cs.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf The relevant quote: This argument is very, well expressed in Professor Jefferson's Lister Oration for 1949, from which I quote. "Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain-that is, not only write it but know that it had written it.