Political piece (literally speaking: a judgement on the management of the polis), but intriguing as it comes from Gary Marcus. Hence the submission.

In short (though the piece itself is short - Dick Aslin's piece*, which seems to have encouraged Gary Marcus to expression, is the long analysis),

> am here to say that drastically cutting NIH & NSF funding and reducing grant “overhead” to universities to 15% are among the dumbest ideas I have ever seen. // America will never be the same. Science will take a huge hit; academic stars will leave; university reputations will crumble, and homegrown talent will be even harder to find

* https://dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-paying-too-much-for-...

I expect the lingua franca in science and technology will shift to Mandarin in the next 10-15 years.

Listen, the government exists soley to redistribute the wealth to Musk, Bezos, and Zuck. Elon is just making it more efficient, ok?

There once was a man named Elon

Who, for Trump, definitely got his kneel on

He didnt do good;

Who expected he would,

Working for the orange colored felon?