Pierre M.

Even Flow, or, if I do great evil in this life, I will return in the next one as a 16-unit apartment building.

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@MattZeitlin I was so bored that I freaked out when it turned out the dog ate all of the pepperoni/jerky/whatever on the 2nd day up on the mountain. My dad was super depressed that it was the major takeaway I had from the week. Like, Christ, all these years I worked only to get this zombie.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

1/ I'm a cardiologist. I've practiced for twenty-five years, through a lot of "breakthroughs" that turned out to be press releases. So understand the weight of what I'm about to say: I have never seen a single week in medicine like the one we just lived through.
In the span of a few days, four separate scientific breakthroughs landed. The stock market treated them as four unrelated stories and sent a handful of biotech companies soaring. But that's the shallow read. Look closer and they are not four stories at all. They are four faces of the same story — the biggest shift in medicine since the discovery of antibiotics.

Medicine is becoming programmable. Individualized. Written for one human being instead of the average of millions.

Let me walk you through exactly what happened, in plain language, and show you where this is actually headed. Because the future arrived quietly this week, and most people scrolled right past it.

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@ATRightMovies Note: both of these guys were in Oliver Stone's JFK film, a completely bogus but nonetheless awesome account of that whole thing

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@Aviation_Intel Reapers, patriots, etc. are costly to replace, but apparently we're getting them built in days at this point, no?

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@Aviation_Intel I read what you write because you're on this beat, so a lot of credence to what you say, but I'm told by other folks that our supposed ordinance problems are borderline made up.

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@MattZeitlin I thought for sure Germany, but I guess it's Norway?

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@RogueWPA Almost.

Inception is great - it's a 'realistic' Heat-style, globe-trotting espionage heist flick with baroque world-building around 1980s/1990s dream/cyberpunk/anime movies, cool absurd sci-fi tech and economics, and aces tailoring.

Meanwhile, Batman 3 is his worst major film.

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@micsolana @RoKhanna @mcuban The depressing thing is that Khanna is not stupid or ideological, we're here because he has made a cold and carefully calculated bet on where he sees the country going, and which posture best serves his personal political ambition.

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@YIMBYLAND Meanwhile, in the Soma:

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@xwanyex "there’s nothing more American than skepticism about this kind of democracy."

Well said.

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@cremieuxrecueil Tests as a pre-screening, but this is all solved with just interviews, no?

I would think that it's actually the reverse, that employers will spend more time on interviewing potential hires to ensure their intelligence and knowledge.

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@cremieuxrecueil And though it's set to be professionally managed, who knows how effective they will be, and how free from graft and political pressure, once they start consolidating, auditing, and laying off.

A very good article, by the way.

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@cremieuxrecueil Looking into the abyss, Botswana last year created a new sovereign wealth fund with hard restrictions on drawdowns and foreign asset holdings allowances, tasked with restructuring state-owned industries and divesting from diamonds.

So, the institutionalists not out yet.

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@jessesingal Man, I'm pretty sure that notes like that are how you get co-opted into their system, it they can't get someone you know to message you privately to back off a bit.

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@geniusliberator @cremieuxrecueil More like it shows what happens when super strong productivity growth and wage arbitrage operates *alongside* crazy structural rent extraction in regulated sectors like healthcare, education, housing, etc.

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@JeremiahDJohns @TheArgumentMag "Tech journalist Taylor Lorenz has had similar concerns."

Man, no offense, but do you know anything about technology? Calling her a tech journalist is like calling this Arday guy a tech journalist.

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

A different, related point: my hood in SF has been an official 'food desert' forever, despite fresh food shops every block or two, the cheapest food prices outside of Chinatown, and small entrepreneurs constantly entering the space - taught me that 'food desert' types are psychos

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

Glad this is finally breaking through

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@ByrneHobart Haven't followed, but it strikes me that the real thing is that (1) the non-city groceries will take the 30% discount the city is giving, until the city start a strict ration system; and (2) this is somehow dependant on food stamps, and will end up as an explicit welfare program.

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@cafreiman We need president Rubio to follow.

[Pierre M. @SFNeedsAHero]

@xwanyex It's even worse - Musk and most other billionaires don't have access to anything like their estimated net worth in any real sense - it's all based on a notional valuation of their ownership stakes. The way these guys are rich is totally different from how a billionaire is rich.