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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • Lots I disagree with in this article, but I agree with the message.

    On another note, I found this section very funny:

    Disgraced cryptocurrency swindler Sam Bankman-Fried, for example, once told an interviewer the following, thereby helpfully outing himself as an idiot.

    “I would never read a book…I’m very skeptical of books. I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that. I think, if you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.”

    Extend his prison sentence.















  • When I was 10, I moved to another country and started studying in an international school. I essentially only spoke Portuguese (my mother tongue) with my parents and my brother, which meant I was fully immersed in English for a huge chunk of my formative years.

    English isn’t technically my mother tongue, but it might as well be. I write better in English than I do in Portuguese, because that’s the language I wrote in in school. My Portuguese is flawless, and nobody would ever say that is isn’t my mother tongue, but in some situations my English is just better. I consider myself to have two mother tongues, even though I’m technically an ESL speaker.

    I have also not been able to replicate my level of English in other languages. I’m fluent in German, and I have no difficulty with any aspect of the language, be it reading, speaking, writing or listening, but it’s really clear that it is not my mother tongue.