Nietzsche.
From the
Guardian: "If Nietzsche is telling the truth, then Salomé is the culprit
and therefore a liar. Thus Marx is not innocent, meaning he is the
culprit. We can’t have two culprits, since this is forbidden in the
setting of the question, and so we are led to contradiction. Nietzsche
must therefore be lying. If he is lying, then everyone else tells the
truth, which they can without contradiction. Thus Nietzsche killed
Wittgenstein."
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FEATURED BIOGRAPHY
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Jim Henson
American puppeteer
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FEATURED EVENT
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1957
Federal troops sent into Little Rock, Arkansas
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2015: According to Saudi officials, 769 people died in a stampede during the hajj to Mecca;
however, other estimates claim that more than 2,400 were killed, making
it one of the deadliest accidents in the pilgrimage's history. [Watch a video overview of the hajj.]
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1968: The prime-time American television news show 60 Minutes debuted; created by Don S. Hewitt and featuring such reporters as Mike Wallace, it became one of the most successful programs in broadcast history.
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SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY
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Axios AM
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By
Mike Allen
·Sep 24, 2021
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Happy Friday. Smart Brevity™ count: 1,184 words ... 4½ minutes. Edited by Justin Green.  Breaking: In Arizona, private contractors conducting a GOP-commissioned recount confirmed President Biden’s win in Maricopa County. (WashPost)
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1 big thing: Biden's big bet backfires
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key dealmakers — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Sen. Mark Warner
(D-Va.) — leave a luncheon in the Capitol yesterday. Photo: Kent
Nishimura/L.A. Times via Getty Images President Biden bit off too much, too fast in trying to ram through what would be the largest social expansion in American history, top Democrats privately say. Why it matters: At
the time Biden proposed it, he had his mind set on a transformational
accomplishment that would put him in the pantheon of FDR and JFK. - Democrats,
controlling two branches of government, saw a once-in-a-lifetime
opening. In retrospect, some top advisers say this should have been done
in smaller chunks.
An outside White House adviser
said: "Reality is setting in that you can’t pass a $3.5 trillion
package. It’s going to get scaled back. The question is whether it can
be done this year." - In branding some Democrats wish had started months ago, White House chief of staff Ron Klain said Sept. 15 at the SALT financial conference in New York: "The net cost of Build Back Better is zero."
The $3.5 trillion price tag covers
the 10-year cost of Biden's infrastructure plans, plus massive social
spending, including pre-K for all 3- and 4- years olds, and two years of
tuition-free community college. - Biden needs to show lawmakers on the left he's with him on topics like this, when he's being pulled to the right on immigration.
- The proposal was always an opening bid. The White House points out that the final figure is still being negotiated.
But the big number stuck and is the near-universal way Biden's plans are described. - The New York Times' David Leonhardt said
on CNN earlier this month that the price "highlights a political
weakness of how the Biden administration ... They haven't given anyone
any other way of selling the bill because it's sort of such a hodgepodge
of different things."
The White House
points to polling showing the components of Build Back Better are
popular, and emphasizes $3.5 trillion as a "gross investment figure"
that'll be paid for through tax increases. - White House spokesman
Andrew Bates told us: "The bill’s price tag is $0 because it will be
paid for by ending failed, special tax giveaways for the richest
taxpayers and big corporations, adding nothing to the debt."
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2. Competence issue undercuts Biden polling
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| Sudden doubts
about President Biden's competence — on Afghanistan, immigration and
COVID — are driving double-digit drops in his approval in private
polling in swing House seats, The Cook Political Report's Amy Walter writes. - Why it matters: "[T]hese early mistakes go directly to the very rationale of his presidency; that it would be low drama and high competence."
Besides those setbacks, Biden
"looks more like a helpless bystander than an experienced Capitol Hill
deal maker, watching from the sidelines as his party struggles with
internal divisions," Walters writes. - "For many voters," Walters adds, "things in Washington look like more of the same; politicians squabbling instead of solving problems."
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3. House issues first 1/6 subpoenas
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Image: U.S. House
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The House committee investigating the Capitol riot
is already playing hardball with former aides to President Trump who
were in touch "with the White House on or in the days leading up to the
January 6th insurrection." - The committee last night released letters demanding testimony and documents from former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows ... Dan Scavino, Trump's tweeter ... former Pentagon official Kash Patel ... and former adviser Steve Bannon.
Patel and Bannon are summoned for depositions on Oct 14, followed by Meadows and Scavino on Oct. 15, Axios' Ivana Saric writes.
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A message from Bank of America
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Everybody Counts: Report suggests it’s time to diversify diversity
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When it comes to giving everyone in our society a voice in the economy, progress is overdue.
A new report from BofA Global Research
makes the case for companies to develop more effective diversity and
inclusion policies—which will have a broad impact across business,
society, and the economy.
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4. Pic du jour
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| The White House was lit up in gold last night for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, writes CNN's Andrew "KFile" Kaczynski, who fights for his daughter Francesca's legacy through Team Beans Fund.
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5. 5G's slow roll
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Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
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Two years into the 5G era, expensive new cellular
networks have blanketed much of the country. But even people who have a
5G-capable device may not have seen much change yet, Axios' Ina Fried
writes in her weekly "Signal Boost" column. What's happening: The current crop of 5G networks are built on-top of the existing 4G LTE networks. - Still to come
are standalone 5G networks that are needed to deliver on some of 5G's
biggest promises, including ultra-low latency — the kind of delay-free
responsiveness required for applications like remotely manipulating
robots and vehicles.
Plus: iPhones, which
have been offering 5G for a year now, only tap 5G networks when they
believe the speed boost is needed. That's part of a scheme to save
battery life.
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6. Golden age of HR
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Illustration: Rae Cook/Axios
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Human resources departments are gaining clout as companies grapple with return-to-work plans and the war for talent, Erica Pandey writes in Axios What's Next. - Listings for HR jobs are spiking — up 53% from before the pandemic, according to data from the jobs site Indeed.
- C-suites now include chief people officers.
Modern issues that
newly muscular HR departments must grapple with include mask and
vaccination policies, managing remote teams, therapy pets in the office,
gender designations for restrooms, and removing college degree
requirements for hiring. - This new clout is reflected in new lingo: HR is increasingly known (including @ Axios) as the "People Team."
Keep reading.
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7. New features spread Twitter's wings
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Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios
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Twitter announced Bitcoin tips and other new features, Axios Media Trends expert Sara Fischer writes. - Why it matters: For
years, Twitter made few changes to its product, instead relying mostly
on ad innovations to grow its business. Now, it's adding new features
faster than it ever has.
Twitter rolled out Tips to every user globally, and now allows users to tip with Bitcoin via the payment app Strike. - Users can drop links to payment profiles in their bios and Tweets.
Live audio: Twitter also said it'll allow recordings of live audio conversations and events held via its "Spaces" feature. - Read more about Twitter Tips ... Share this story.
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8. North America's oldest human tracks
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| Fossilized human footprints at the White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Photo: National Park Service via AP Fossilized footprints found in New Mexico indicate that early humans were walking across North America around 23,000 years ago, AP reports. - The fragile footprints, made of fine silt and clay, were found in a dry lake bed in White Sands National Park in 2009.
- Scientists at the
U.S. Geological Survey recently analyzed seeds stuck in the footprints
to determine their approximate age, ranging from around 22,800 and
21,130 years ago.
What happened: Most scientists believe ancient migration came by way of a now-submerged land bridge that connected Asia to Alaska. - Based on stone
tools, fossil bones and genetic analysis, other researchers have
estimated humans arrived in Americas 13,000 to 26,000 years ago or more.
- The new study
provides a more solid baseline for when humans definitely were in North
America. They could have arrived even earlier, the authors say.
Based on the size
of the footprints, researchers believe that at least some were made by
children and teenagers who lived during the last ice age.  Ciprian Ardelean, an archaeologist at Autonomous University of Zacatecas in Mexico, tells the N.Y. Times: "I think this is probably the biggest discovery about the peopling of America in a hundred years."
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A message from Bank of America
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Unequal opportunity carries a price tag
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There is so much work to be done to address the economic inequities faced by communities of color.
A new report by BofA Global Research highlights
the need for diversity and inclusion programs, as well as the lost
opportunities that result from excluding marginalized groups from the
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