tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org

So I bet €500 (or its equivalent in ) with @fidel that #BTC does _not_ reach $1M in the next 90 days…

https://blog.tripu.info/btc-bet/

The whole of #SlateStarCodex (#AstralCodexTen) [summarised down to one paragraph by a redditor](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/139ko17/comment/jj2zwz8/):

> _“Science is hard. Coordination is hard. Change is coming. Be kind to each other.”_

#SSC #ASX #ScottAlexander

Jeff Goldblum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_6RQKoCTVY

Get this:

In prosperous liberal democracies, #women either are better educated and wealthier than #men — or will be very soon.

Women can freeze their eggs, get inseminated for free or paying very little (or pay a bit more to pick and choose the “best” semen online), become the sole parents of fatherless children… and society does not only not bat an eyelid at this, but their stories are usually met with admiration in the media and get support (eg, in the form of subsidies for single mothers).

Meanwhile, #surrogacy is highly controversial, and actually illegal in roughly half of the Western world.

So, women can be picky, ambitious and independent and still have kids. But men can't.

It's a near future (almost a present already) of children without male role models, and of men falling behind in three areas: fewer kids, less education, and less money than women.

Guess who is the main victim here? Who's to blame? Who society should help?

> _“It [is] men, not women, who [are] **the problem**”_

> _“The decline of men […] is also having a **deleterious effect on women’s lives**”_

> _“We need to start talking about the **men-as-partners problem**”_

> _“Women around the world are really doing amazing things in higher education, […] but unfortunately the downside of that is some men are not doing so well now and **women are suffering** for that”_

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/23/motherhood-women-freeze-eggs-male-partners-men-fertility

…and with this fine #dailyphoto I conclude another year's assignment.

It's been 16 Aprils in a row, uninterrupted since 2008 😊

https://soundcloud.com/theweeknd/blinding-lights at full blast.

Yes, again.

“Great,” you say. “I agree with all that!”

Cool.

“Now, how can one figure out what #books are truly worth #reading, what is the very best?”

I don't have the perfect answer to that. But it seems to me that the best way to separate the wheat from the chaff and to eliminate all biases is to aggregate qualified opinions across time and space. ie, see what lots of experts in different places have considered the best books in different languages, over the years, and find common patterns there.

The best approximation I have found of that is
https://thegreatestbooks.org/

Why do I impose such difficult #reads on myself?

1. Some #books are way better than others, were much more original when published, or have a much larger influence today.
1. My own taste, my personal bubble's recommendations, and current trends — none of them are reliable indicators of quality.
1. Books that seem huge today may be forgotten in a decade; what persists for generations or even centuries is more likely to be worth reading.
1. The opportunity cost of reading _“Trendy Fantasy Saga”_ instead of _“Universal Masterpiece Of Five Centuries Ago”_ may be high.

The British Psychological Society, also on the issues of #men (in this case, male suicide and #ToxicMasculinity)

https://cms.bps.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-11/Practice%20Briefing%20-%20psychological%20interventions%20to%20help%20male%20adults.pdf

UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Issues Affecting #Men and #Boys

https://equi-law.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/APPG-on-Issues-Affecting-Men-and-Boys-A-Boy-Today-Report.pdf