Seeing so many people blame evil greedy VC and whilst I get the temptation (I could only stand to live in SF for 3 years), this explanation👇 makes far more sense to me in light of the fact that SVB held a f-tonne of treasuries (bonds are a market I used to cover).
It’s a very good point @ritholtz makes that we’ve been in inflation land for a year, and that the Fed seems panicky (a capital sin for central bankers, whose job is 90% to appear calm).
Aug 3, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
That's it. I am now officially glued to Alex Jones' trial.
Whether or not you're into sailing, you really must follow along the "Everest of the Seas:" 3 months solo around the world, from France, down the coast of Africa, around Antarctica, then back toward the North Atlantic, without stopovers or assistance: vendeeglobe.org/en
33 skippers left on November 8 for the toughest of regattas. They crossed the Equator and they (minus 1, who had to abandon) were just making their way past the Cape of Good Hope. It's stunning, intense, emotional, and filled with learning opportunities for adults and kids.
I'm excited because I learnt a new word today. But first an observation. 1/
Since the pandemic started, a few of us have noticed a disturbing phenomenon:
Experts access platforms to give their "expert" opinion on things that have little/nothing to do with their areas of expertise. 2/
Oct 8, 2020 • 37 tweets • 5 min read
let's goooo
The producer in me, seeing the prompter in the middle of the shot
Oct 7, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Have the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration taken into account the fact that we don’t yet know how long immunity lasts for Covid-19?
Also, I feel like more localised measures could make sense? Now that we understand better how this virus works, we have tonnes of mitigation strategies to break chains of transmission. I don’t know if it makes sense to go into the sort of lockdowns we had in spring.
Sep 30, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
I just want to remind everyone that 45 interrupted just as much, if not more, against HRC and no one noticed. If the person across from him tonight had been a woman or a Black or Brown person, no one would’ve noticed, either. This is a fact.
Joe won this. It wasn’t pleasant, but he won this. In great part because he told 45 to shut up, because he called him a clown, because he laughed at him. Because there aren’t a million ways to handle a bully.
Only a white man can do this to a white man. Not HRC, not even Obama.
Sep 25, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
L’idée de laisser circuler le virus pour créer une immunité collective en protégeant les plus fragiles est en marge du consensus scientifique. Il n’y a pas de débat : il faut des politiques de suppression ou d’élimination. bylinetimes.com/2020/09/25/mai…
Pourquoi?
D’abord, parce qu’on ne sait pas comment fonctionne ce virus. Typiquement l’immunité pour les coronavirus qu’on connaît ne dure qu’entre 12 semaines et un an.
Sep 24, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Pour rappel, en 1918, c’était le même schéma. Début de pandémie au printemps, relâchement à l’été. L’automne qui a suivi était bien plus meurtrier.
WWII, which resulted from the rise of fascism (inspired by Jim Crow U.S.) killed a grand total of 70 to 85 million people, which represented 3% of the world population in 1940.
This does not take into account deaths caused by illness, wounds and famine brought on by war.
Of these, 11 million people died as a result of Hitler's genocidal impulse.
Six million were Jews.
The remaining 5 million were:
- Roma & Sinti people
- disabled Germans
- Slavs (i.e.: Poles and Russians, considered "subhuman")
- gay men
- "asocial" people.
Sep 11, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
19 years ago I was in Paris hanging out with a friend. Ten days before I’d flown back from a year in the US. We were at his place, radio and TV off. There weren’t smartphones or news alerts.
I didn’t even have a mobile phone! At one point I tried to call my aunt from his landline. She talked of planes and towers falling in NYC. I brushed it off, it sounded too dramatic, thought she’d maybe misunderstood.
Aug 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
People in the US may not have seen this, but it’s heartbreak all around. U.K. kids need grades on a final exam to access uni. Because they couldn’t sit it due to Covid, gov chose an algo that favours ranking over teacher eval. 40% were downgraded, ESPECIALLY disadvantaged ones.
FWIW, I think it’s wild that unis are buying into these results. This crisis was entirely manufactured, it falls squarely on the government agency in charge.
Now there’s lots of unnecessary pain and insecurity. And it is costly to challenge these results.
Aug 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This entire thread.
I don’t know how many times it must be said but here it goes again: shaming is counterproductive. It works AGAINST the ultimate goal.
This is not a failure of the people, it’s a failure of leadership.
Also: gathering *outside* whilst respecting safety measures is mostly safe. Summer is the time to do this.
Aug 8, 2020 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
I see we're tweeting out Bob Dylan stuff, I'm supposed to pack tonight, what are you doing to me.
"She was born in spring, but I was born too late
Blame it on a simple twist of fate"
Look out kid
It’s somethin’ you did
God knows when
But you’re doin’ it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin’ for a new friend
The man in the coon-skin cap
By the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten
Jul 27, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
We tend to be so one-dimensional when we talk about politics. In reality, there are far more factors to consider when judging where someone — and by extension, political groups and movements — stand. There’s a point where the right/left spectrum ceases to be helpful.
I’m seeing that, in the responses to the now-infamous open letter, @NesrineMalik was right. They didn’t define « cancel culture » and now everyone is talking about different things.
Like, here @Millicentsomer is talking about Twitter discourse and all its shortcuts.
Masks don’t work at home, where most infections occur.
The obsession with masks is not just making us complacent about distance and isolation after exposure. It’s also making us forget that government aren’t doing what they are supposed to do.
Masks. Alone. Aren’t. Working.
Jun 17, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I've been immensely sceptical of our ability to rely on masks as worn by the average person (=really really poorly) to control the virus.
Yet if there's one place in which they should be neither optional nor worn poorly, it is inside, in close, badly-ventilated quarters.
Poorly worn masks can increase the risk for contagion as people get overconfident, breaking the 2m / 6ft distance rule.
People are mostly not trained to wear them. They tend to touch their faces more, wear them on their chins, their noses sticking out, thinking it's all good.
Jun 17, 2020 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
I wanted to share a series I've been working on. Research to shed light on this moment. Hang on to your hats, here comes a thread.
A live chat from last week with 4 researchers who work on social upheaval and policing. It's 1h long and well worth your time.
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