I wrote and talked about this a lot at the time, but if you want to look at who’s really like, “yolo let’s destroy the economy”, look no further than the big banks involved in the 2008 financial crisis and the vastly unequal economic system they’ve constructed in the wake of it
Retail investors in GME are apparently upset that i implied they were out to destroy the economy in the trailer for the GameStop movie. Just to be clear, I think the monopoly big banks/Wall Street institutional investors have had on our economic system is undeniably unhealthy
This makes me want to watch a Twitch channel entirely comprised of large groups of people trying to teach individual streamers about science
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Lascivious 4NG3L - Ghost Clan (Worms Armageddon)
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it is actually possible to do honest intellectual exchange on streams, as evidenced the the time timthetatman learned about the earths crust from his chat
A remarkable amount of bullshit packed into this profile of a 28 year old CEO leaving his unicorn startup to run a DAO that funds homeopathic medical research crowdfunded via crypto tokens. Of course it has no product and is valued at $400m.
The content creator Destiny had been ban evading for a while, looks like it finally caught up with him. He has now been banned again
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Clara Sorrenti
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Destiny was permanently banned from Twitter today for hateful conduct. I am now live and about to discuss my thoughts on this.
http://twitch.tv/keffals
Really bad news about BA.2.75.2 and Evusheld :( How are medically vulnerable people supposed to remain protected when our leaders have dropped all safety measures and we have no tools to protect ourselves?
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In terms of clinical monoclonal antibodies, Evusheld is completely gone for BA.2.75.2. Sotrovimab looks similar between BA.2.75.2 and BA.5 (that is: not great, but not completely knocked out - clinical utility unclear?). Bebtelovimab's potency survives, alone.
Long COVID is now the country’s 3rd leading neurological disorder, the American Academy of Neurology declared in July. As of the end of May, there were 82.5M COVID survivors in the US and 30% of them—about 24.8M people —are suffering w/ long covid
and I argue it’s time to have a robust conversation about how decisions to pull the plug on a website are made. Governance without consistency or transparency is a spectacle. And making calls in the midst of a crisis is a mess
Many argue that when firms opt to stop serving a client site it’s a “slippery slope” of censorship. But the data shows the real dangerous pattern is in keeping these sites active. In 2019 alone 3 horrific mass shootings were linked to 8chan
If you're a millennial, you've probably had a memory unlocked by a TikTok nostalgia account reliving the highlights of being a teen in the 2000s.
The accounts are so popular, they're paying the bills for the creators behind them.
My latest for
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew has been in the job for more than a year, but has done little press. We took a look at how he's been running the world's most popular app, and how he's navigating pressure from the US and his Chinese parent company, ByteDance: