At least five interesting things for your weekend (#36)
I’ve been a bit busy this week, with two conferences and jury duty. But I will continue to strive to provide you with large volumes of the content you crave.
Brad and I have a very special Hexapodia episode, where we talk about the work of the late Vernor Vinge, our favorite science fiction author:
I’m pretty tired of writing about the Palestine protests. I said pretty much all that I wanted to say in my post two weeks ago, and my central point was that the whole movement is kind of boring. But I feel like I should post the results of this recent poll, because it pretty much vindicates what I was saying.
Generation Lab surveyed 1250 college kids, asking them to pick up to three issues they thought were important. Only 13% mentioned Palestine at all:
The survey found that three times as many college students blame Hamas for the current situation in Gaza than they do President Biden…Some 34% blame Hamas, while 19% blame Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 12% blame the Israeli people and 12% blame Biden.
