Ben Teitelbaum

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[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

@JZBerman @AgnesCallard But strangely, no one here is defending that choice.

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

@AgnesCallard The 30 year old has been taking and taking and is now finally making and giving back. Also, most likely to have dependents.

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

Amusing possibility: the third button is also an imperative. https://t.co/E1Im7UCbos Perhaps the toaster cries out: "I see that you are toasting a bialy. Are you Jewish?"

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

The buttons on Breville toasters are a design travesty. Respectively, they are labelled with: two disjunctive imperatives, an adverb, a noun, an adjective, and two conjunctive imperatives. Also, a toaster with a motor?? Seems fetishistic and fragile.

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

Yet somehow, reviewers love them. I'm in the market for a new toaster after mine died this morning.

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

@profgalloway Nearly 250 years into this great nation and we still can’t reach consensus on who is a person. Sad indeed.

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

Continuity Camera is so janky and un-Apply, but I kind of love it: https://t.co/h3FH0lpFAv

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

Excellent summary of where we stand with SARS-CoV-2. In a nutshell, we suck at public health and mutations have brought us to the brink of "SARS-CoV-3".

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

In the United States, 136,000 new confirmed cases today brings the 7-day average >100,000. Real number is esitmated to be ~700,000. And >500 more people hospitalized. No reason for concern, right @CDCgov?
https://t.co/QPRo6jaOka
https://t.co/N5zk6WaGIt

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

@AgnesCallard "Bitcoins look like big secret numbers" might be a good response that could lead to more questions.

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

After a long wait, @sonic is lighting up the fiber on our block tomorrow. So looking forward to ditching the incumbent wiretapping duopolist, their poor reliability, and their risible customer service.

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

@themehmex Thanks, I’m fine. I just feel for the folks here who aren’t.

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

Centralization=fragility. That should be abundantly clear to anyone who was awake yesterday! We are building a decentralized messenger (and P2P network) that is resilient to network disruptions, whether intentional or accidental. Want to help? DM me. https://t.co/ipxbQfaYSr

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

In Istanbul.

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

Long lines at ATMs. Guy ahead of me at the change this morning traded huge stacks of Turkish lira for ~30k USD. First time I’ve ever seen hyperinflation up close. It’s chaos.

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

There’s a lot of interest in Bitcoin here in Turkey. 143% annual inflation due to loose monetary policy and the war. Devastating.

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

The departure board at IST is kind of mind-blowing: Tehran, Baku, Ulaanbaatar, Mogadishu… Mogadishu?!? I don’t think I’d check my bags on that flight!

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

@RnaudBertrand Helpfully, the CIA hosts a pirated copy of this book:

https://t.co/Gp6PUGtsWo

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

Zelensky needs Russian surface-to-air missiles like the S-300, which Ukrainian forces are trained to use. Let's kill two birds with one stone by buying India's supply for Ukraine and giving India a massive incentive package to migrate off Russian arms platforms.

[Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand]

New: Lawmakers and Zelensky have pressured Biden to help broker the transfer of heavier weaponry to Ukraine, including MiG fighter jets and S-300 missile systems. But US would have to backfill the systems, and is wary of provoking Russia further: https://t.co/qmoV1iuM3R

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Putin's call for a "self-purification" of Russian society can have only one intention: To remind Russians of Stalin and his "purges." He wants them to be haunted by dark, ancestral memories, to remember their grandparents' stories and to be petrified with fear.

[Neil Irwin @Neil_Irwin]

We're currently living in the brief moment between when Finance/Econ Twitter has realized that the new Covid lockdowns in Shenzhen are going to have hugely bad consequences for US inflation, but that has not yet become a widely-reported conventional wisdom.

[Ben Teitelbaum @humanifold]

Time for some major arms deals with India to wean them off Russia's war machine.