Here on Ye Olde Hellsite, I tend to be a consumer rather than a producer of tweets.
Every so often, though, something so moronic and noxious comes to my attention that a rant is imperative.
Uncritical journalism about #crypto has reached that point. I can’t swallow my bile.
🧵 In this recent @wsj video, for example, the likes of #Dogecoin gets treated with gravity, as if it were worthy of consideration for investment.
This, from a media organization fabled for its economic and financial sophistication.
wsj.com/video/series/c…

Now that 10 years have passed since the #Fukushima meltdown, I wonder: are the doomsayers having guilt pangs?

They should. It’s clearer than ever that their scaremongering was grossly misguided, and inflicted severe harm.
Start w/this superb article.🧵
sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/p… People in Fukushima are suffering—but not from cancer, or other physiological illness caused by radiation. Rather, it’s stress and stress-related problems. That’s the finding by Masaharu Tsubokura, the heroic doctor profiled in the story. 2/

Behold this sake, ordered for a dinner we’ll have on March 11, the 10th anniversary of #Japan’s 3/11 disaster.
It’s from #Fukushima. My wife, kids and I have eaten *lots* of Fukushima food over the past decade.
Think we glow in the dark?
Gather ’round for a thread.🧵1/ When the quake hit, our house rocked and rolled. Then we heard about the situation at Fukushima Dai-ichi. Sounded alarming!
But after a little research I realized the hysteria was overblown, and wrote this.
It aged pretty well, doncha think? 2/
washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-i…

We interrupt this well-deserved jeering at the new NAFTA, aka USMCA (ptui! spit three times!) to ask a couple of awkward questions. Even though Trump’s “victory” was pretty meaningless in trade policy terms, it’s appalling that he “won” by threatening Canada with unilateral auto tariffs based on national security grounds, and even more appalling that he’s planning to do the same with the EU, Japan et al.