Alex Gasner

Yap and tap at Roivant. Built zest, vantai, psivant, etc. Used to do big transaction (Sumitomo), used to do interesting stuff in nuclear and bio. Former chef.

[Alex Gasner @awolfsg]

This is a scandalous table

[Shabazz Stuart @ShabazzStuart]

So the MTA estimates the cost of a 4-mile subway extension down an extremely wide Brooklyn street at $16 BILLION DOLLARS!!!

We are cooked. NYC may never build a new subway line ever again.

[Alex Gasner @awolfsg]

@gasnerpants @Etzko 2nd cousin of the opera

[Alex Gasner @awolfsg]

@gasnerpants To be sure this is equally true of raising a child to read. Read with them occasionally. Go to a bookstore

[Alex Gasner @awolfsg]

@RuxandraTeslo I also love this trial, but I used to think this was much more true than it actually is. The number of cases where a head to head trial is the best or most appropriate evidence is way smaller than those where it isnt

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Compared to NFL/MLB/NBA/NHL might say soccer is really the ultimate manifestation of neoliberalism in this regard — national boundaries worn down by flexible labor markets, capital mobility, and cross-border respect for intellectual property rights.

[Alex Gasner @awolfsg]

@gasnerpants Go to bucees

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

I actually think that a very modest rent stabilization ordinance would be ideal. Something like, rent increases being limited to inflation+8%; vacancy decontrol; no-cause nonrenewal requiring at least six months’ notice.

It’s not so much housing policy as consumer protection.

[Alex Gasner @awolfsg]

@WillManidis This is why you rent

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

In a world where local media has withered but tons of national figures live in New York, the outsized attention to everything that happens in NYC or that NYC residents care about a lot is really striking.

[Alex Gasner @awolfsg]

@gasnerpants @ztownsend I don't. I'm not saying that's better, I'm just providing a plausible strawman. But American society has a long tradition of hazing and being hazed will rob you of certain illusions

[Alex Gasner @awolfsg]

@gasnerpants @ztownsend Perhaps to your point, such a lack of values might be less tenable in a society with murder, no incarceration, but aggressive corporal punishment?

[Alex Gasner @awolfsg]

@ztownsend @gasnerpants Drivel

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

Individual preference predictors for Messi:
1) Progressive ideology
2) Interest in politics
3) Highly educated

Ronaldo:
1) Short video consumption
2) High self-confidence
3) Authoritarian orientation

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!

[Maia @maiamindel]

the oracle of delphi:

[Alex Gasner @awolfsg]

@gasnerpants Lower east side was 3x that when our forbears were there

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

parallel with the Knicks' extraordinary penchant for magically rallying, coming-up-from-behind to triumph at virtually the last minute was the weirdly fascinating drama of "Wemby" on the court distinctive not only by his height but the thinness of his body which appeared, beside his teammates, almost pre-pubescent, lacking maturity. no matter where you looked, there was always "Wemby" charging about anticipating an opening to shove, push someone with a solid adult body with a baby-faced look of insouciance: "Who? Me? I' m just a kid."

[Arielle Angel @ArielleLAngel]

who did this lol