A major witness in the US case against Julian Assange has just admitted fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder.
This won’t be the last of this case. Espesially after the new Pegasus leaks from The Guardian. There will be blood.
https://twitter.com/AlexanderNL/status/1410253599502962692
This is really cool. An app that scans your lego and tells you what you can build.
https://karlstack.substack.com/p/polymarket-prediction-will-inflation
The specific prediction market I will be forecasting is linked here; at the time of this writing, one share of “Yes” is currently trading at 70 cents, meaning the crowdsourced prediction from those with skin in the game (shoutout to NNT!) is pricing in a 70% chance that headline inflation from April to May will rise by more than 0.4%. If you wager $70 today on “Yes”, you stand to win $100, for a tidy 43% return.
https://www.brunswickgroup.com/alex-tabarrok-covid-economist-i19161/
Alex Tabarrok was interviewed on the covid response. As the article says, “On covid, renowned economist Alex Tabarrok takes no pleasure in saying he told us so.”
https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1409185044501987340
These kinds of posts are the reason I get value from Twitter. It’s packed with info and am happy it’s not a blog post.
Books should be blogs, blogs should be tweets remains directionally true.
Will Hoenig on Twitter: “I don’t think leaders here have wrapped their heads around the impact of Delta in the US. This is a new era: A) A bad phase of the pandemic for unvaccinated adults and B) The beginning of the endemic reality for vaccinated people. Policy responses require a new paradigm. 1/n” / Twitter
— Read on twitter.com/WilliamBHoenig/status/1416430672948903937
A large literature characterizes urbanisation as resulting from productivity growth attracting rural workers to cities. Incorporating economic geography elements into a growth model, we suggest that causation runs the other way: when rural workers move to cities, the resulting urbanisation produces technological change and productivity growth. Urban density leads to knowledge exchange and innovation, thus creating a positive feedback loop between city size and productivity that initiates sustained economic growth.
This jives with the Steven Johnson book that says how much more innovatition increases in big cities. People together is a powerful thing.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fMorDEYl8YUJgfNIVliLV?si=F45AMV4LRQmsKovoZ_pHwQ&dl_branch=1
This is Rogan at his best. He has enough knowledge to ask well-directed questions and not too much so he is curious.
I read the coffee part of the book and it’s good. Reviewed here
https://www.howtogeek.com/735446/how-quake-shook-the-world-quake-turns-25/
Reminded me of how good Masters of Doom was.
https://annagat.substack.com/p/on-journalling
“I’ve started talking to myself again, to see if I still see far, to hear if I could make sense, to weigh. We probe the hidden arcs of inner worlds like palates—you move your fingers… There’s no clarity in recursion for it never stops.”