• Jack Dorsey’s celebrity network is helping him donate billions When the 45-year-old Dorsey proposed his goal – a few months before Mackenzie Scott became a prominent philanthropist – what nonprofit organizations might look like with this brave new approach Full of hope. Dorsey said he wants to work fast and he will be transparent about it, which is different from the slow-moving black box of traditional grant activities. So far, Dorsey has fulfilled this promise. Due to the soaring of Square’s stock price, Dorsey’s commitments have exploded. More importantly, his gifts rarely provide red tape for recipients-this is coveted in the charity world, but not common. The huge donation of the tech giant has made Hollywood’s charities bloated. (Bloomberg)

• The power struggle over cobalt disrupts the clean energy revolution The demand for cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is vital to the promotion of electric vehicles and the global response to climate change, but it is caught in a cycle of exploitation, greed and game internationally. Since more than two-thirds of the world’s cobalt production comes from Congo, the country has once again become the focus as major automakers are committed to combating climate change by transitioning from fuel-fueled vehicles to battery-powered vehicles. New cars rely on many minerals and metals. These minerals and metals are usually not abundant in the United States or the oil-rich Middle East, which supported the previous energy era. (New York Times)

• The newest Texan is not what you think In the past ten years, the population of Texas has increased by about 4 million-far more than any other state based on raw data, and this percentage is sufficient to make it the third fastest growing state in the United States during that period. , Second only to Utah and Idaho. Approximately 3,800 more people move here each week than move out of the state. Check any list of the fastest growing cities in the country, and Texas appears again and again. According to the US Census Bureau, Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio are all on the list of cities whose population has increased by at least 100,000 in the past decade. The recent record of the influx of new immigrants from all over may be exactly what the country needs. This includes Californians. (No, they won’t turn Texas into blue.) (Texas Monthly)

• Creative Lego blocks: creativity is compounded and combined like interest and software Language allows ideas to be combined. “Once knowledge is shared, it becomes a grand, collective, and intergenerational cooperation.” Then technology—from the printing press to the telegraph to the telephone to the Internet to Twitter—makes it easier for people to connect and share knowledge. Ideas are getting bigger, better and faster. Ideas can be combined and compounded faster. If compound interest is easy to quantify but hard to feel in your own bones, and software composability is more difficult to quantify or even more intuitively, then idea composability is the most difficult to measure and feel. (Not boring)

• The women behind the historic house design” The designers and architects involved-in many cases, they are women, or women are part of a team,” said Christina Morris, the manager of the “Women Make History” initiative of the National Historic Preservation Trust , She has a year of history. Edith Farnsworth House. “They are patrons, they are the owners. Women are responsible for creating the conservation movement and continue to lead it today. “(City laboratory)

• Can be a human elephant: The most important animal rights case of the 21st century revolves around an unlikely theme. But can an elephant be a human? Nowhere in the English-speaking world has a case like this reached such a high court. The elephant suit may be an edge case, but it is by no means a frivolous case. In an era of mass extinction and climate disasters, the issues it raised about the relationship between humans, animals, and the natural world are related to the future of life on earth, and many existing laws cannot solve these issues. (Atlantic Organization)

• A difficult method of spiritual love: Anthony De Mello’s “consciousness” “Most people, even if they don’t know, fall asleep. They are born in their sleep, they live in their sleep, they get married in their sleep, they have children in their sleep, they die in their sleep and never wake up. They are forever Don’t understand the cuteness and beauty of what we call human existence. You know, all mystics—Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology is, no matter what their religion is— All agree on one thing: everything is fine, everything is fine. Although everything is a mess, everything is fine. Strange paradox, of course. But, unfortunately, most people will never see Everything is fine because they are asleep. They are having nightmares.” (slow)

• NASA hopes to hit an asteroid now, in case we really need to hit an asteroid in the future If all goes well, the spacecraft that NASA plans to launch on Tuesday will crash into pieces with an asteroid. If all goes well, that impact will push the asteroid into a slightly different orbit, which means that humans will change the trajectory of a celestial body for the first time. However, making history is accidental. The real mission is to defend the earth. (Washington post)

• Macho: The strange history of smoking iron Iron pumping represents a puzzling contradiction in professional men’s bodybuilding. That is, while homosexuality has been fully demonstrated-its aesthetics, its continuous evaluation and idealization of male form-bodybuilding is often regarded as the culmination of male heterosexuality: in a large, bulging, rock-solid body Among them, masculinity is as high as 11 professional male bodybuilders. Although frankness is the front and center of the bodybuilding world, homosexuality is everywhere and everywhere. (Baffle)

• Share passion: This is what it feels like to enter Larry David’s world in “Suppress Your Enthusiasm”, in the words of some of the show’s best guest stars: “You will either be the one who drives Larry crazy,” Paul F said Tompkins played Larry’s divorce lawyer in Season 8, “Otherwise you will become someone angry with Larry.” For the show’s guest stars, it takes more than just to get to any of these places. It is to appear and read their lines. In fact, as everyone knows, there are no lines at all. Only scenes. Not everyone can crack it, but the genius of David and Co. is that they have found a lot of people who can crack it. “If you choose the right person, they will know what to do,” Eisman said. “I always try to make people feel comfortable and at home. It looks like I am the grandmother of the set.” (ring)