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28 Nov, 6 tweets, 4 min read
We're going pretty hard on the Pull Request @getcallin show this week. THREE WHOLE SHOWS!

First up is @mikeeisenberg, Israeli VC and author of 'Tree of Life and Prosperity', on tonight at 9pm!

callin.com/room/michael-e…
@getcallin @mikeeisenberg His book is an interesting parallel between the key readings of the Torah and the very worldly life of venture capitalism...and just modernity more broadly.

amzn.to/3xAxRVQ
@getcallin @mikeeisenberg Then on Tuesday at 7pm Pacific we're having author and editor @bungarsargon on to discuss her new book 'Bad News', as well as co-hosts @balaji (again) and @AshleyRindsberg.

callin.com/room/batya-ung…
Batya's book 'Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy' is a look at how media went from a working-class occupation concerned with the economic underdog, to a woke crusade led by elites, for elites.

amzn.to/317mOY3
Then on Wednesday at 5pm Pacific we'll have @jacobhelberg, former news policy lead for Google, on to discuss his new book 'The Wires of War'.

callin.com/room/jacob-hel…
Helberg's book looks at the information war currently underway between the US and both Russia and China, and how we're failing as an open society to counter our geopolitical opponents.

amzn.to/3rlxE7E

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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
27 Nov
Wonder if the world is finally ready for my “CDOs are good actually” take.

Have we all healed enough yet?
This was sparked by reading a crypto-hater’s take that crypto was the new CDO as

1. CDOs are bad,
and
2. they somehow went away as crypto will (they did not)

As long as we have sophisticated credit markets, we’ll have CDOs in some form.
What does Wall Street do?

It takes one type of risk that the economy produces and transforms it, via financial engineering, into another type of risk the capital markets actually want.

You’d think those two would be matched, but in a modern economy they often are very much not.
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
23 Nov
Paul Skallas (@PaulSkallas), AKA the LindyMan, is a plagiarist.

His last post is cut-and-paste theft of my verbatim tweets, and a thin rehashing of ideas I've been posting about for a while.

Let's look at the evidence, shall we?

(Free link below.)

newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com/0cb/0cb5d4e345…
From my tweet:

From my tweet:

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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
23 Nov
On the one hand, plagiarism is a somewhat legacy sin in a world of remix and retweet culture, and true original authorship was a textual culture convention.

On the other, still kind of stings when someone literally rips your stuff word for word.
Should I bust the person?
Ok, I'm DM'ing to get his side. We are all God's creatures.
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
16 Nov
Going to blow the walls of Jericho down with this bad boy.

(Glasses for scale.)
Arrived only two months too late for the High Holidays from Israel.

It smells like an elephant’s armpit too.
Ok, now I really need to watch Season 11 of 'Curb'.
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
11 Nov
The Basic Attention Token (BAT) is @brave's crypto solution for online ads.

I think it's mostly wrong, but wrong in interesting ways worth discussing (and which reflect common misconceptions about the ad tech world).

Anyone want to steelman it?

basicattentiontoken.org
@brave For starters, they diagnose 'inefficiency' as one of the problems of digital advertising: the 'wrong' players (GOOG, FB) are winning, and the 'good guys' (NYT, media) are losing.

That's the exact opposite of what happened.
Media becoming *more* efficient--i.e., not being forced to pay NYT's outrageous $10 CPM or whatever--is what killed many media companies. While indeed there's spend lost to middlemen, it's hard to claim inefficiency is what characterizes ad tech vs. the old world of 'rate cards'.
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11 Nov
My latest for Pull Request, on the metaverse.

As readers likely know by now, I think the decoupling of information from the movement of matter, bits from atoms, to be the most significant event of the past century.

Its capstone will be the metaverse.

thepullrequest.com/p/the-republic…
It's hard to understand now how odd our real-time world really is.

As a historical counter-point, timezones weren't invented until late in the 19th century, and weren't legally required until WWI. Things and information just didn't move fast enough until then that it mattered.
I'm old enough to remember letters, which is how most people communicated over long distances until as recently as the late 90s.

Having our eyes and ears in everyone's pockets (and vice versa) is utterly unprecedented. We're still getting our heads around it.
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