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☆ Some VCs are over the Sam Altman hype
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

In late 2023, when OpenAI sought $300 million from investors, CEO Sam Altman chose a different approach. In some corners of this clubby world, over $7 coffee and artisanal cocktails, the meteoric rise of OpenAI and Sam Altman is giving way to an inevitable backlash. "He's a kingmaker," a Silicon Valley startup founder and angel investor who knows Altman. Sam Altman and OpenAI did not respond to requests for comment. A certain somethingMany of the VCs who spoke with BI said Altman has a certain something.

Persons: —, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Altman, they'd, I've, Ali Ghodsi, Altman's, Ghodsi, Steve Jobs's, Paul Graham, he's, Sam, Jack Altman, It's, it's, Elon, Alexander the Great, Adam Neumann Organizations: Service, NEA, Business, Altman's, The Washington Post, The, YC, BI, WeWork Locations: Sequoia, Silicon Valley, The, San Francisco

☆ Who Kissed First? Archaeology Has an Answer.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Franz Lidz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

They met a week earlier at a pub near the University of Copenhagen, where both were undergraduates. “I had asked my cousin if he knew any nice single guys with long hair and long beards,” Dr. Rasmussen said. “I do,” said Dr. Rasmussen, who had taken some of the same classes. The researcher, at the University of Cambridge, suggested that the custom — a lip-kissing precursor that involved rubbing and pressing noses together — developed into hardcore smooching. — about when the Indian how-to sex manual, the Kama Sutra, was published — kissing had spread to the Mediterranean with the return of Alexander the Great’s troops from Northern India.

Persons: humanity’s, Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Troels, “, Dr, Rasmussen, ’, Arboll, ”, buss, —, Alexander the Organizations: University of Copenhagen, University of Oxford’s, Conservation Research Unit, Aalborg University, University of Cambridge Locations: Assyriology, Denmark, Asia, Northern India

☆ Hang a picture of Jason Kelce shirtless in the Louvre? ArtButMakeItSports thinks so
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Callum Sutherland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Social media account ArtButMakeItSports connects the dots. He says: “I tend to see things through a sports lens, and I guess art is no different for me. Rebecca Blackwell/APSamson and Delilah, by Anthony van Dyck, 1628-30, 📸 by Rebecca Blackwell pic.twitter.com/jNJ6HNjNn5 — ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) December 24, 2023Are sport and art all that different? Since starting ArtButMakeItSports, Rader says the audience has been small for the most part. After all, wouldn’t we all love to see a roaring Jason Kelce matched with a renaissance painting on our social media feeds again?

Persons: –, ArtButMakeItSports, LJ Rader, Phillips de Koninck, haring, ake, eason, hy, ruth, ”, ike Organizations: CNN, ust

☆ Best travel destinations to visit in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-01 | by ( Cnn Travel Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +32 min

cdwheatley/iStockphoto/Getty Images Angola: Beyond the capital city of Luanda, pictured, Angola has some jaw-droppingly spectacular scenery and cultural treats. David ChiaFF/Alamy Stock Photo Mérida, Mexico: Yucatán state's capital city showcases a blend of Mayan and colonial heritage. Pavel Tochinsky/The Image Bank RF/Getty Images Morocco: This North African country is home to nine UNESCO sites, including the historic city of Meknes, pictured. Panama City is also the only world capital with a tropical rainforest within its city limits. And a historic city forever entwined with the famed Camino de Santiago.

Persons: you’d, Tengguo Wu, Gabriele Thielmann, Turkey's, Gary Ennis, Matevz, Bill Bachman, Christian Kober, Gonzalo Azumendi, David ChiaFF, Pavel Tochinsky, Terry Kelly, Raul Rodriguez, iStock, Anton Petrus, –, — Karla Cripps Turkey’s, — Barry Neild, Mana Kaasik, — Maureen O’Hare, — Maggie Hiufu Wong, Deb Snelson, Glen Arbor, Marnie Hunter, — Forrest Brown, — Forrest Brown Angola Cristo, Eric Lafforgue, it’s, King, Eric Carr, John’s, Saint John, New Brunswick —, —, Tuul, Bruno Morandi, — Julia Buckley, Groenewald, Alamy, — Lilit Marcus, Alexander the Great, Philip II of Macedon, — JB, Bogdan Lazar, — Tamara Hardingham, Gill, Hercules, Francesca, Lazarus, ”, David Casanova, Megan Sequeira Casanova, “, Kuka y Naranjo, medina, Gordon Sinclair, Yvette Cardozo, — FB, Pierce Ingram, Stefan Tomic, Fujairah, who’ve, Samarkand —, It’s Organizations: CNN, United, CNN Travel, Getty Images, Town, Getty, Northwest, Saint, New Brunswick Tourism, UNESCO, Heritage, Alamy, Parque Nacional Volcán Barú, Galicia, Tercera Orden, Parque, Bank, Wakulla Springs, Texas, United Arab Emirates, AP, Rock, of Culture, Estonian National Museum, — Maggie Hiufu Wong Northwest Michigan, Bear, Farm, Riders, Lubango, — BN Saint John, Canada Tourists, St, Saint John City Market, Historic, Saint John Arts Centre, Carnegie, Carnegie Library, — KC, Korea, Folk, Netflix, South Korea, Adriatic, Nacional Glaciares, Australian Sea Lions, Panama, Spain Santiago de, Spain Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Islas, Camino, Mexico People, YouTube, US State Department, Morocco, Regis Hotels, Resorts, — FB Texas, Travel Texas, Krause, Gruene, Fujairah, Icefjord, FS, Tuul, ” Locations: United States, Sumba, Indonesia Sumba, Indonesia, Bali, Getty Images Tartu, Estonia, Tartu —, European, Tainan, Taiwan, Northwest Michigan, Traverse City, Lake Michigan, iStockphoto, Western Balkans, Culebra , Puerto Rico, Flamenco, Culebra, cdwheatley, Angola, Luanda, , New Brunswick, Fundy, New Brunswick, New Brunswick Tourism South Korea, Korea Albania, Albania, Chile, mauritius, Western Australia, Greece, Macedonia, American, Panama, Spain, Camino, Santiago, St, John's, Mexico, Parque Hidalgo, Morocco, Meknes, Florida, Spicewood, Anton, Greenland, Denmark, AP Uzbekistan, Bukhara, Indonesian, Sumela, Turkey's, — Barry Neild Tartu, Estonia Tartu, of Culture Tartu, Tartu, “, Baltics, — Maureen O’Hare Tainan, Taiwan Tainan, Taipei, — Maggie Hiufu Wong Northwest, Lake, Traverse, Leland, Glen, perusing, Balkans, Slovenia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Serbia, transdinarica.com, —, Puerto Rico, It’s, — Forrest Brown Angola, Lubango, Barra, Cabo Ledo, — BN Saint John , New Brunswick, Canada, Hopewell, Newfoundland, Saint, Canada’s, Korea Andong, South Korea, Sanga, Korea, Seoul, Busan, Andong, Albania Albania, Berat, Montenegro, Vlorë, Gjirokastër, — Julia Buckley Chile, Atacama, Patagonia, Coral Coast, Geraldton, — Lilit Marcus Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece's, Hemis, Athens, Vergina, Veria, Naousa, Greece’s, Thrace, Philippi, Kavala, Panama . Panama City, Gill Galicia, Spain Santiago, Spain Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Galicia’s, Santiago de Compostela, Cabo, Fisterra, Galicia —, Singapore, John’s, Paseo, Montejo, Mérida, Yucatán, getaways, there’s, Marrakech, Rabat, Fes, Resorts Morocco, Wakulla, Ginnie, Fredericksburg, Texas, Marble Falls, Meanderers, New Braunfels, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Wadi, Nuuk, Ilulissat, West, FS Uzbekistan, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, China, India, Khiva, Uzbek, Sentob, Tashkent

☆ Napoleon, Once a Legend, Is Now a Mere Movie Star - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Mark Mazower | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“History,” the essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1840, “is the biography of great men” — and of these Napoleon, whom Carlyle described as “our chief contemporary wonder,” was considered by many to be the greatest. The ambitious dreamed of emulating him; inmates of lunatic asylums believed they were him. And now we find him, some 200 years later, larger than life once again, on IMAX screens and in multiplexes in Ridley Scott’s new epic “Napoleon.”So why does Mr. Scott’s choice of subject feel like something of a throwback? What has changed is not Napoleon’s story, but our sense of the possibilities it once represented. People (with the possible exception of Mr. Putin) are unlikely to see themselves as history’s protagonists.

Persons: Thomas Carlyle, “, ” —, Napoleon, Carlyle, ”, Ridley Scott’s, Hegel, Silvio Berlusconi, Vladimir Putin, Stalin, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Mr, Putin, who’ve, Scott Locations: Ridley, Italy

☆ Azerbaijan’s 10 best castles and fortresses
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Tom Marsden | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

It grew up around a fortress built in the 1750s by Panah Ali Khan, founder of the Karabakh Khanate (1748-1822). Kamilla Rzayeva Tea culture: Azerbaijani tea culture originated in Lankaran and the hospitable locals will often welcome visitors with a refreshing glass. Kamilla Rzayeva Yanar Bulag: Yanar Bulag, meaning "burning spring" is a natural spring which percolates methane gas. Kamilla Rzayeva Hirkan National Park: Home to endangered Persian leopards, Hirkin National Park is a great place for hiking and cooling off. Kamilla Rzayeva Ironwood trees: Hirkan National Park's famous ironwood trees are believed to have survived the last Ice Age.

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Over the last century Gaza passed from British to Egyptian to Israeli military rule. 1950s & 1960s - Egyptian military ruleEgypt held the Gaza Strip for two decades under a military governor, letting Palestinians work and study in Egypt. 1967 - War and Israeli military occupationIsrael captured the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war. Hamas formedTwenty years after the 1967 war, Palestinians launched their first intifada, or uprising, after an Israeli military truck crashed into a vehicle carrying Palestinian workers near Gaza's Jabalia refugee camps, killing four. [1/4]A view shows the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza Strip, November 6.

Persons: Napoleon, Samson, Alexander the Great, shutdowns, Yasser Arafat's, Arafat, Israel, Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa, Israel evacuates, Mahmoud Abbas, Stephen Farrell, Nidal, Rosalba O'Brien, Peter Graff, Alistair Bell Organizations: Crusaders, Ottomans, United Nations, UNRWA, West Bank, Hamas, Brotherhood, Fatah, Oslo Accords, Palestinian Authority, REUTERS, Islamic, Palestinian, Gaza International, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Asia, Africa, Gaza City, Islam, Ottoman Empire, British, Palestine, Israel, Sinai, Ashkelon, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israeli, Gaza's, Oslo, Palestinian, Jericho, Authority, Deir Al, United States

1967 - War and Israeli military occupationIsrael captured the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war. Seizing the angry mood, the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood created an armed Palestinian branch, Hamas, with its power base in Gaza. [1/3]Smoke rises after Israeli strikes on the seaport of Gaza City, in Gaza, October 10, 2023. Israel stopped tens of thousands of Palestinian workers from entering, cutting off an important source of income. Conflict cycleGaza's economy has suffered repeatedly in the cycle of conflict, attack and retaliation between Israel and Palestinian militant groups.

Persons: Napoleon, Samson, Alexander the Great, shutdowns, Yasser Arafat's, Arafat, Israel, Mohammed Salem, Israel evacuates, Mahmoud Abbas, Abdel Fattah al, Stephen Farrell, Nidal, Rosalba O'Brien, Peter Graff Organizations: Crusaders, Ottomans, United Nations, UNRWA, West Bank, Hamas, Brotherhood, Fatah, Oslo Accords, Palestinian Authority, REUTERS, Islamic, Palestinian, Gaza International, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Asia, Africa, Gaza City, Islam, Ottoman Empire, British, Palestine, Israel, Sinai, Ashkelon, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israeli, Gaza's Jabalya, Oslo, Palestinian, Jericho, Authority, United States

☆ A brief history of Gaza's centuries of war
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

1950s & 1960s - Egyptian military ruleEgypt held the Gaza Strip for two decades under a military governor, allowing Palestinians to work and study in Egypt. 1967 - War and Israeli military occupationIsrael captured the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war. An Israeli census that year put Gaza's population at 394,000, at least 60% of them refugees. Hamas formedTwenty years after the 1967 war, Palestinians launched their first intifada, or uprising. Israeli air strikes crippled Gaza's only electrical power plant, causing widespread blackouts.

Persons: Alexander the Great, King David ., Napoleon, shutdowns, Yasser Arafat's, Arafat, Agha, Khan Younis, Abu Mustafa, Israel, Israel evacuates, Mahmoud Abbas, Abdel Fattah al, Stephen Farrell, Nidal, Rosalba O'Brien, Chris Reese Organizations: Crusaders, United Nations, UNRWA, West Bank, Hamas, Brotherhood, Fatah, Palestine Liberation Organization, Oslo Accords, Palestinian Authority, REUTERS, Palestinian, Gaza International, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Gaza City, Asia, Africa, Ottoman Empire, British, Palestine, Israel, Sinai, Ashkelon, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israeli, Gaza's Jabalya, Oslo, Palestinian, Jericho, Authority, United States

☆ 2,300-year-old tomb found in Israel may contain remains of Greek courtesan
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Archaeologists in Israel have discovered what they believe to be the remains of an Ancient Greek courtesan. Stiebel told CNN that he and his team believe the woman would have been among the first Greeks to arrive in the region. Liat Oz, the director of the excavation on behalf of the IAA, described the mirror found in the tomb alongside the remains. Researchers say the mirror is incredibly rare, with just 63 discovered in the Hellenistic world. Stiebel told CNN that the team are continuing with further research in order to “zoom in” on the finer details of the mirror.

Persons: Guy Stiebel, Emil Aladjem, ”, Alexander the Great, Stiebel, Oz, “, Alexandra the Great, ” Stiebel Organizations: CNN, Archaeologists, Tel Aviv University, Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel Antiquities Authority “, IAA Locations: Israel, Kibbutz, Jerusalem, East, Ancient Greece, Egypt, Rome, Greece

[1/3] Police stand on a road outside 'Bharat Mandapam', the main venue of the G20 Summit, in New Delhi, India, September 3, 2023. By convention, invitations issued by Indian constitutional bodies have always mentioned the name India when the text is in English, and the name Bharat when the text is in Hindi. However, the invites -- in English -- for the G20 dinner called Murmu the President of Bharat. In English, the South Asian giant is called India, while in Indian languages it is also called Bharat, Bharata and Hindustan. While some supporters of the name Bharat say "India" was given by British colonisers, historians say the name predates colonial rule by centuries.

Persons: Bharat Mandapam, Altaf Hussain, Droupadi Murmu, Bharat, Narendra Modi’s, “ Bharat, Alexander the, Krishn Kaushik, William Maclean Organizations: REUTERS, Indian, Reuters, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, of States, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Bharat, Thomson Locations: New Delhi, India, DELHI, Bharata, British, Greece

☆ Antalya and Bodrum: The bohemian paradise that became a magnet for superyachts
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Richard Quest | Joe Minihane | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNNWhile the hotels and beaches are what most travelers come to Antalya for, you don’t need to go far for proper Turkish traditions. A Turkish breakfast is something to behold. Then, you can read your newspaper or do whatever and then you can lay down and have a little nap.”Dilek Gorpe: Turkish breakfast is best consumed slowly. There is a deep respect for the landscape and the old ways, which makes Antalya feel very special indeed. CNNBack in Antalya, there’s the chance to feel that sense of wonder afforded by Bodrum’s bohemian side, but in a wholly different setting.

Persons: Dilek Gorpe, CNN Gorpe, It’s, extraordinaire Sahir Erozan, ”, didn’t, Sahir Erozan, CNN Erozan, “ It’s, it’s, Cemil İpekçi, ” Bodrum, “, Alexander the Great, Paul Organizations: CNN, Ottomans, ” Locations: Antalya, Bodrum, Europe, Turkish, Perga

☆ The future of travel: 10 concepts that will change the way we experience the world
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Kate Springer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +22 min

Concepts that feel plucked from sci-fi novels and films are quickly making their way into mainstream travel, shaping every step of the journey. Seamus PayneLike air travel, eco-conscious hotels are paving the way for more sustainable travel in the future. HyperloopTTUS entrepreneur Elon Musk has been talking about hyperloop technology – an ultra-high-speed transport system in a low-pressure vacuum tube – for years. Meanwhile, Toronto-based TransPod hopes to bring hyperloop technology to Canada with its eponymous tube-based transportation system powered by renewable energy. By 2025, the company plans to build a 620-mile-per-hour TransPod link between Calgary and Edmonton, connecting the two cities in 45 minutes.

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☆ Çanakkale: Where ancient Troy sits beside the modern city
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Nick Hilden | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —An enormous wooden horse presides over the marina in Çanakkale, a small port city southwest of Istanbul. The clapboard animal is a mock-up of the Trojan Horse of mythological fame. Çanakkale (pronounced cha-na-call-ay) stands adjacent to the archaeological site that was once the ancient city of Troy, best known as the setting of the Trojan War in Homer’s “Iliad.”A giant wooden horse watches over Çanakkale. Today when you visit Truva – either via car or a short bus ride from Çanakkale – a second model of the Trojan Horse looms at the entrance. “We know that there were many wars that occurred at Troy,” Rose explains.

☆ Whose Queen? Netflix and Egypt Spar Over an African Cleopatra.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Vivian Yee | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On this much, at least, everyone can agree: Cleopatra was a formidable queen of ancient Egypt, the last of the Macedonian Greek dynasty founded by Alexander the Great, who went on to even greater posthumous fame as a seductress, immortalized by Shakespeare and Hollywood. Beyond that, many of the details are fuzzy — which is how one of the world’s dominant streaming services ended up in an imbroglio with modern-day Egypt recently, called out by online commenters and even the Egyptian government for casting a Black actress to play Cleopatra in the Netflix docudrama series “African Queens,” which airs on Wednesday. Soon after the show’s trailer appeared last month, Netflix was forced to disable comments as they turned into a hostile, and occasionally racist, pile on. For the show’s makers, the four episodes about Cleopatra were a chance to celebrate one of history’s most famous women as an African ruler, one they portray as Black. But for many Egyptians and historians, that portrayal is at best a misreading, and at worst a negation, of Egyptian history.

☆ Carl Icahn warned against trading stocks, railed against bad bosses, and revealed what drives him in a recent documentary. Here are his 12 best quotes.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Here are his 12 best quotes from a recent documentary titled "Icahn: The Restless Billionaire." The billionaire investor and Icahn Enterprises chairman also defended activist investing, and railed against bad bosses and overpaid executives, in "Icahn: The Restless Billionaire." Moreover, he revealed that he cares more about spotting golden opportunities than making money, and bemoaned America's enormous wealth gap. You're going against the trend. He just kept going and going until they killed him.

☆ ‘Demetrius’ Review: Aiming for Empire
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Peter Thonemann | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nominations, please, for the title of Most Confusing Historical Period Ever. The third-century crisis of the Roman Empire? The Thirty Years’ War? The half-century after the death of Alexander the Great still beats all comers. But the intervening period was, frankly, a nightmare.

☆ The story behind hing, one of India's most divisive ingredients
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Shalbha Sarda | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The resin from its roots is used in Indian cooking – usually after it’s ground into powder and mixed with flour. At the Khari Baoli market in old Delhi, for instance, hing even manages to ‘out-smell’ all the other spices. Despite the culinary diversity of India, hing is a constant.”Jains, for example, eschew onion, garlic and ginger in addition to not eating meat. The history of hingSome scholars credit Alexander the Great for first bringing hing to India. Nevertheless, Indians have had their encounter with hing now; it came, it saw, and it stayed.”The professor adds that hing was used in some Greco-Roman cooking but didn’t last long.

Persons: ‘ Asa ’, it’s, hing, Hing, Siddharth Talwar, Rhea Rosalind Ramji, Ramji, Talwar, Alexander the Great, ”, Ashish Chopra, “, umami, asafoetida Organizations: CNN, The, Showbiz Chefs, hing, National Library of Medicine Locations: Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, India, Delhi, Worcestershire

☆ Even Elon Musk's mom admits no one wants to be him: 'He gets a lot of hate. Stop being mean to him.'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk is smarter than Einstein, the former talent chief of SpaceX told a BBC documentary. Dolly Singh said Musk's legacy would be a combination of Einstein, Rockefeller and Tesla. In the second episode, Singh said she believed Musk was smarter than Einstein. Once Musk "has done building his legacy, it will be unquestionable that he is a combination of Einstein, Tesla, and Rockefeller," Singh added. The Elon Musk Show will not be broadcast outside the UK due to rights issues, the BBC said.

☆ Gulf Arab states can’t give up oil. But they can slash their emissions
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

Abu Dhabi CNN —As Western states try to wean themselves off their addiction to hydrocarbons, Gulf oil nations have been pushing back hard, warning that a hasty transition away from fossil fuels will be counterproductive. According to the World Bank, Qatar had the highest carbon emissions per capita as of 2019, followed by Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. So, investment in clean energy projects and renewables “makes very good business sense and PR sense for the Gulf,” he said. Gulf petro-states are warning against a quick transition away from hydrocarbons, with the UAE calling for a “mixed energy” approach that minimizes emissions without cutting hydrocarbons. Much of the hydrocarbons exported by Gulf states go to some of the world’s biggest consumers and polluters, including China and India.

☆ Shaving my beard feels different on Election Day 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Baynard Woods | Baynard Woods Is The Author Of | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

It was only the second time I’d used a blade to scrape away my beard in the last two decades. Now, as many on the political right turn the gender binary and our physical expressions of it into a political platform, face-shaving hits differently. And my parents talked about it in terms of “grooming,” to echo another word increasingly deployed by right-wing gender essentialists. Of course, logical consistency isn’t driving these attacks against trans, queer and nonbinary people — the point is to stoke hatred. By using a fear and hatred of queer, trans and nonbinary people as weapons, many of today’s Republicans are attempting to subject their children and grandchildren are as bullied, insecure and unhappy as they were.

☆ Elon Musk is a combination of Einstein, Tesla, and Rockefeller, says a former SpaceX exec – but even his mother admits no one wants to be him
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

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