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   Cass (they/them) (justgrist@disabled.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:10:58 JST Cass (they/them)

   "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".

   ~ Stephen J. Gould

   Would be nice if more people knew this quote and spent some extended time thinking about it on every level.

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     jackcole (jackcole@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 02:38:27 JST jackcole

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     @JustGrist Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’

     We probably have a thousand Mozarts now, but they are stuck working in an Amazon warehouse.