701
I wonder how many other decisions in the history of monetary policy managed to blow up this quickly. I mean, like, a year? Jpow is basically doing a speedrun.
702
Pension funds forced to place risky bets to avoid losing ground as staff issue warnings.
That.... does not sound good.
wsj.com/amp/articles/r…
703
Handcuffs. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
704
Congressperson (with 7 years on the Intel Committee) surprisingly denounces US surveillance law (correctly) as overbroad, calls for new limits on EO12333 and FAA702 surveillance.
Says "the US is the only industrialized country that lacks an agency focused on privacy."
Wow. twitter.com/maxschrems/sta…
705
I'm beginning to sense a pattern in Streamlabs' behavior. twitter.com/Lightstream/st…
706
I've been using @OBSProject for years. It's good software. Accept no substitutes.
707
Gerard Butler starring in a CIA propaganda film... sponsored by Saudi Arabia. The world of 2021 is really something. twitter.com/AndrewBartlett…
708
Quinnipiac national poll on the job Biden is doing:
Independents: Only 29% approve, 56% disapprove.
Democrats: 87% approve, and just 7% disapprove.
Fairly astonishing disconnect. What explains it?
709
Why not define the political future of a generation based on the mean tweets of 13 to 15 year-olds?
In fact, why stop at 13? There needs to be accountability for what they said as an 8-year old on Xbox Live. Subpoena their dolls!
politico.com/news/2021/11/1…
710
I wrote a little book on this once. You may enjoy it.
static.macmillan.com/static/holt/pe…
712
He has since issued a statement drafted by his staff:
twitter.com/The_Mod_Mill/s…
713
A consensus-challenging internet is perceived as a threat to central authority, and the surveillance and speech restrictions that have emerged in response are producing an authoritarian center of gravity.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/culturalrevo…
714
You wake up and find China has moved on Taiwan. What happens to the dollar?
715
"Turkey is canceled, have some soy." twitter.com/stlouisfed/sta…
716
I keep trying to imagine a context in which the Federal Reserve talking about calories is not inherently alarming, but the spinning red lights and blaring klaxon make it difficult to concentrate.
717
I keep reading these scientific papers that are like "no, a baby is not capable of consciously manipulating you" and I'm like "yes, yes, so you mean the child must be possessed by an ancient spirit."
718
Hacking the NSA is easier than parenting. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
719
There is a strain of wealthy VC-guy who pretends to do you a favor by "warning" against Bitcoin (or whatever) while hyping centralized garbage-coins that they coincidentally happen to own an enormous stake in.
If you ever make it, don't be that guy. If you are that guy, change.
720
There is also a strain that thinks I recently discovered Bitcoin, simply because I criticize it at times.
You know that whole NSA story from almost TEN YEARS AGO? I paid for the servers that made that possible... using Bitcoin.
I'm just not a maximalist. twitter.com/LastCoinStandn…
721
@giacomozucco Zcash is the opposite: a decentralized, functional chain with a specific (and useful) purpose: enabling private transactions, something it does extremely well, even now (years later). I actually used it back then, and it worked.
722
“Crypto as shorthand for cryptography really was in widespread use. You could talk about crypto even on Capitol Hill and people would know what you were talking about – that really did hold a lot of, forgive this, but currency.” –@xor
theguardian.com/technology/202…
723
The @FT article on Biden's effort to bring down oil prices today could be described as, uh, "skeptical."
ft.com/content/4e7f25…
724
Software giants who have seen the commercial malware targeting their users should look at this as a template for imposing consequences on this predatory industry.
The "business" of human-rights-violations-as-a-service must be stamped out—before it grows.
apple.com/newsroom/2021/…
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