Alok Agarwal

Personal Views

[Alok Agarwal @a_alok]

@elonmusk Please disable the ability to scroll the Twitter feed while embedded ads are running so we don't miss them by mistake. #Twitter #monetiazation #ElonMusk

[Car Dealership Guy @GuyDealership]

Ford F-150 Lightnings sales dropping

[Latif Nasser @latifnasser]

Last year, a coworker randomly asked me to hand-deliver an antique violin across the country. I said yes, because why not. I had no idea what I was getting into, and now I need your help. A 🧵

[🧬Dr. Namrata Datta (Singa Pen), PhD🧫🇬🇧🦘🇮🇳 @DrDatta01]

"Look, I'm not some stupid librandu who is out of touch with reality. My demands are reasonable. All I want is for 200 million Muslims to leave the country because Aurangzeb. I want 30 million Christians to leave India because Lagaan.
I want 23 million Sikhs 2leave India cos Navjot Sidhu.I want 2stop cows from getting slaughtered in India so that they can be exported & slaughtered in Vietnam.I want anyone transporting cattle or eating beef to be lynched by mobs...except in North-East because we need votes there. I want India to become a vegetarian country even though 70% of Indians are non-vegetarian. I want Hindi to be the national language even though 60% of Indians don't speak it. I don't want men and women to interact in public or private.
I want homosexuals to stay away from same sex and become heterosexual...& when they become heterosexual I want them to stay away from the opposite sex because both straight sex and zigzag sex are against Indian culture. I want women to make me rotis and not leave home after 7 pm.
I want Hindu women to not wear jeans or skirts or t-shirts or anything that shows skin. I don't want Muslim women wearing burqas or hijabs because it oppresses them. Reservation should be scrapped because recently I saw a Dalit driving an Audi.
Tribals should hand over their land to corporations but if anyone looks at my property then I'll set buses on fire. Farmers should stop killing themselves because it depresses me. I don't want my taxes used for subsidised education because they should be used for giant statues.
I don't want freedom for the press because then they say things that I don't want to hear. I want to rewrite history to make my idols come out on top. If anyone wants peace then they should leave the country because soldier soldier meethi baatein bol kar, dil ko chura le gaya.
I want 200 feet flags everywhere because patriotism is only real when it is shoved down your throat. I want national anthem to be played before Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 and Tamboo Mein Bamboo. No one should question government because that is anti-national...when I was questioning government before 2014 it was different.Mandir wahin banayenge. Gau-mutra subko pilayenge.Peacock is already national bird,Cow should be national animal & @smritiirani should be national fish
All I want is for India to be become a Hindu Rashtra by 2024 because sabka saath, mera vikas. Is this too much to ask?"

[Aadit Sheth @aaditsh]

ChatGPT prompts that'll save you hours a day at work (ranked in order):

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The irony of the @SVBFinancial_ intervention is that we now have three tiers of banks. SVB and Signature Bridge Banks - which are now the safest banks with explicit guarantees on all deposits, the SIB banks - which have implicit guarantees on all deposits, and all other banks.

[The Paperclip @Paperclip_In]

Long before @RishiSunak stormed into the British political landscape, about 138 years ago, a shipbuilding district in South West London cheered “Vote for Ghose” for an Indian man in the UK Parliament election. But who is this mysterious Ghose? Read on. 1/14

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

This line is so memorable for a reason.

It's a perfect use of "antimetabole" - the repetition of a phrase with its word order reversed.

Here are 8 more memorable rhetorical devices:

[Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA @GRDecter]

People are worried about a Chinese spy balloon watching a patch of dirt 10,000 feet over rural Montana

Meanwhile, they already gave TikTok all their personal data

[Alf @MacroAlf]

You want to buy stuff when it’s page 10 of the newspaper.

And start selling it when it’s made its way to page 1.

[Alf @MacroAlf]

The 2020s in macro and markets are going to be very different than the 2010s.

Here is why.

A thread.

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[path.eth 🛡️ @Cryptopathic]

I think the situation at @LastPass may be worse than they are letting on.

On Sunday the 18th, four of my wallets were compromised. The losses are not significant.

Their seeds were kept, encrypted, in my lastpass vault, behind a 16 character password using all character types.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

A South Korean content creator was harassed while live streaming in Mumbai, India ⤵️

[Joseph Brown @heresyfinancial]

Even AI can't overcome the economic calculation problem that dooms central planning

You can't substitute the compounding effects of millions of actual intelligences with one artificial intelligence

(unless value was objective - but it is subjective, see prior tweet)

[Samsung Mobile US @SamsungMobileUS]

Fido thinks you’ve earned it.

❤️ this tweet to see what we mean. #GalaxyGifts #GiftGalaxy

[Alf @MacroAlf]

SBF: “I made a lot of mistakes, but I never tried to commit fraud”.

In 2022 somebody can literally misappropriate $10bn of customer funds and weeks later publicly state “sorry bro I made a mistake” and that’s it.

Disgusting.

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

Still the best CNBC interview... ever 🤣

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

Buffett and Munger, if you listen to their talks, don't dismiss bitcoin.

Instead, they *hate* bitcoin. They view it as undermining central banking.

They actually understand the idea, but don't benefit from it. They don't like the separation of money and state.

[Alf @MacroAlf]

Good start of the weekend, FinTwit!

Just to remind you that in January Justin Bieber bought a Bored Ape NFT ''worth'' $1.3 million.

It's now ''worth'' $69,000.
😅

[Alf @MacroAlf]

Here, have some fun.