Jeremy Deutsch

ancient and classical history enthusiast, also on Twitter for the PG Wodehouse tweets

[Jeremy Deutsch @jedeutsch]

@1991LyriC Agreed. I generally don’t love to go back and read my old submissions. I also don’t love rereading old oral argument transcripts. Never as good as I remember them being.

[Jeremy Deutsch @jedeutsch]

@katiewr31413491 It was the same at the Larchmont train station. Heartbreaking

[Jeremy Deutsch @jedeutsch]

@japan_nobunaga I, for one, have genuinely enjoyed the mirror you have held up to America even when that mirror reflects a flaw. Thank you.

[Jeremy Deutsch @jedeutsch]

@MorEdge_Insight There are items from the synagogue excavation at the Yale Art Gallery. It’s very cool. Highly recommend visiting it.

[Kerri Bitsoff @kerri_bitsoff]

1/ Hizballah's own statements and documents show what Iran's collapse is doing to its most important proxy. Hizballah’s bank, AQAH, has spent the last few months selling its collateral and defaulting on what it owes civilians while it protects its fighters' paychecks. The money was short before Iran's economy buckled: Tehran planned to send half the $2 billion Hizballah asked for per @kann_news. Now Iran can barely move what little it promised. 🧵

[Christopher @molochofficial]

I’m probably the only person who remembers this, but in 2013 someone at U of Maryland leaked a sorority group email to Gawker and it remains to this day one of the most evil but also rhetorically impressive (in a Ryan Murphy way) things I’ve ever read (here are some excerpts):

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: A new report reveals Mamdani’s office runs a Signal group of 200+ influencers, feeding them talking points and clips to amplify online.

Some received $5,000–$20,000 through taxpayer-funded contracts, with little disclosure.

This is taxpayer-funded propaganda.

[גיא עזריאל Guy Azriel | Diplomatic Correspondent @GuyAz]

🚨The head of Hamas’ internal security is the senior operative captured alive by undercover Israeli forces in an extraordinary daylight operation.

The operation is significant for several reasons:

1. A dramatic intelligence and special-operations achievement. Carrying out such an operation in broad daylight, in the heart of Hamas’ stronghold in central Gaza, highlights Israel’s continued intelligence penetration and its ability to operate deep inside one of the most hostile environments in the region.

2. A rare ground operation. After months in which Israel has relied largely on airstrikes and targeted killings, this was an unusual and high risk operation involving forces on the ground.

3. The value of capturing him alive. The extraordinary lengths Israel went to in order to apprehend the senior Hamas official, rather than eliminate him, underscore both his importance within the organization and the potentially valuable intelligence he possesses. His knowledge could prove crucial to Israel’s Shin Bet security agency as Hamas continues to maintain its grip on parts of Gaza, terrorise the local population and prepare for future attacks against Israel.

4. A message about Israel’s skepticism toward the Gaza roadmap. The operation also underscores Israel’s deep doubts about the Board of Peace roadmap for Gaza, and, in particular, the seriousness of Hamas’ commitment to disarm.

[Thomas Hawk @thomashawk]

I bought a box of slides in a Los Angeles warehouse for twenty dollars.

Thanksgiving, 2019.

An antique store was emptying an old warehouse. Inside was a pile of Kodachrome that almost went nowhere. The woman selling it said the slides had belonged to a photographer whose house had been liquidated after he died.

The boxes were addressed to Hugh Stevens Bell.

Bell was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, on January 10, 1899. He served in the Navy in 1918, finished Western Reserve University with honors, edited the campus paper, and worked at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He wrote for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Nature Magazine, and the Journal of Geology. In the 1930s he joined the U.S. Indian Service and then soil conservation work. A son was born in Flagstaff in 1936. He did hydraulic research at Caltech and in 1942 published a USDA study on stratified flow in reservoirs.

National Geographic published his photographs along the way.

He lived out his last years in Sierra Madre and died there in 1989 at ninety.

What I found was not a few snapshots. It was a working life in color.

Desert roads. Cars stuck in the mud. Families standing in the sun. Monument Valley. Native communities of the Southwest in the 1940s and 1950s.

Mixed in were the personal frames. His people. His trips. The ordinary days that never make a magazine.

Kodachrome is why these still look alive. The dyes hold. Reds stay red. Skies stay blue. Seventy and eighty years later the film has not faded the way so many other color processes have. You can still feel the heat coming off the dirt.

I scanned them. I put them online. That box is what started my own personal collecting of what I've since learned is called vernacular photography.

Since then I have collected tens of thousands of snapshots, slides and photo albums and organized them into many different digital albums on Flickr.

Everything after that, the estate sales, the lockers, the orphaned pictures, began with the Hugh Stevens Bell Collection, sitting in a warehouse waiting to be thrown away.

Here is one of them.

The full collection is here if you are a fan of the American Southwest you will enjoy this trip back in a time machine:
https://t.co/TmOoHG50Oh

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt tells President Trump that his state is ready to welcome Jewish families fleeing rising antisemitism in Canada.

This comes after Canadian Christian leaders urged the U.S. to grant refuge to Jewish Canadians facing antisemitism.

[Restoring the West @RestoringWest]

A Christian minister objected to honoring a local publisher who's called Hamas and Hezbollah "freedom fighters." Dearborn's mayor told him he wasn't welcome in the city.

@Ayaan traces how a century of specific policy choices, not conspiracy, built an enclave where officials can say that.

URL: https://t.co/5pryvw1QKs

#RestoringTheWest #Immigration #Assimilation

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Doug Flutie throws out one of the best first pitchers you will ever see

Watch this

[Jeremy Deutsch @jedeutsch]

@DietCoke_Esq I do it for appellate oral argument prep. Very helpful

[Brigitte Gabriel @ACTBrigitte]

9/11 is NO longer considered a TERRORIST attack … according to CBC Canada.

A staff memo from Egyptian-born standards chief Basem Boshra tells journalists: do not call 9/11 a “terrorist attack.”

Use this instead: “the hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Manhattan. The World Trade Center was destroyed.”

When 9/11 can’t be called terrorism, you’ve surrendered the truth to Islamic offense.

[ShipofTheseus @JewishSpaceLazr]

This went down the memory hole too fast. Military law profs in US and Germany said the @IDF precautions to avoid civilian casualties sets "an unreasonable precedent for...fighting in asymmetric wars against brutal non-state actors who abuse these laws."
https://t.co/ECbjqxDru8

[UnveiledChina @Unveiled_ChinaX]

A developer using Bluetooth headphones accidentally caught Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba secretly hijacking his computer's audio system without making a single sound.

When his wireless headphones refused to switch audio to his phone while browsing AliExpress, he inspected the site's hidden code. He discovered background scripts holding his computer's audio pipeline wide open.

Alibaba was using the browser's WebAudio API to run invisible sound waves at zero volume. By measuring tiny hardware differences in how each computer processes those signals, the site created a unique digital fingerprint to track devices.

Because the secret audio path stayed active, it froze his Bluetooth connection while quietly scraping hardware memory, screen dimensions, and network data in the background.

[Denis Cohen-Tannoudji @DCTannoudji]

Quelques ordres de grandeur démographiques et géographiques :

Il y a autant d’Arabes Israéliens enrôlés dans Tsahal (4,000, essentiellement Bédouins et Druzes) qu’il ne reste de Juifs dans tous les pays arabes (dont 2,500 au Maroc et 1,000 en Tunisie)

Il y avait 900,000 Juifs dans les pays arabes en 1945, il n’en reste plus que 4,000 aujourd’hui. Il y avait 150,000 Arabes israéliens en 1949, il y en a 2,1 millions aujourd’hui. Il y a eu 750,000 réfugiés arabes en 1949 sur une population arabe de la Palestine mandataire de 1,4 millions. Aujourd’hui il y a 15,5 Arabes palestiniens dans le monde (2,1 en Israël, 2,2 à Gaza, 4,8 en Cisjordanie) et 8,1 en diaspora (dont 6,8 dans les pays arabes)

600,000 des 900,000 Juifs des pays arabes se sont réfugiés en Israël, leur descendants constituant aujourd’hui 60% de la population juive israélienne. Le reste (300,000) s’est réfugié en France, en Grande Bretagne, au Brésil et au Canada

Il y a presque deux fois moins de Juifs dans toute l’Europe (1,3 millions, dont 450,000 en France) que d’Arabes Israéliens (2,1 millions)

Il y a 7,2 millions de Juifs en Israël (dont 0,5 million dans les territoires) sur 15,5 millions de Juifs dans le monde (soit 0,2% de la population mondiale), c’est à dire grosso modo autant que de Français musulmans (estimation à 10%, mais 20% des naissances selon l’occurrence des prénoms relevée par l’INSEE)

Le nombre de Juifs dans le monde n’a toujours pas retrouvé son niveau de 1939 (17 millions), tombé à 11 millions en 1945.

Le taux de fécondité israélien est parmi les plus élevés au monde (hormis l’Afrique subsaharienne) à 2,87 enfants par femme (3 chez les Juives; 2,7 chez les Arabes; 1,8 chez les Druzes)

Il y a une population de 490 millions d’habitants dans les 22 pays de la Ligue Arabe (118 en Égypte, 56 au Soudan, 47 en Algérie, 47 en Irak, 38 au Maroc,…). Le taux de fécondité moyen est de 3,1 enfants par femme, surtout porté par le Soudan, le Yémen et la Somalie. Les plus bas taux sont aux Émirats (1,1), au Qatar (1,7), en Tunisie (1,8) et au Maroc (2,2).
Le taux de fécondité en Europe est 1,38 enfants par femme (1,6 en France)

Les 22 pays de la Ligue Arabe occupent une surface de 13,2 millions de m2 (1,4 fois les USA et 1,36 fois la Chine). La superficie d’Israël de 1967 est 0,022 millions de m2 (soit 600 fois moins), celle des territoires étant de 0,005 millions de m2.
La superficie de la France est 0,55 millions de m2, celle de l’Europe étant de 4,23 millions de m2

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

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[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

At midnight on February 6th, earlier this year, the doorbell to our apartment rang. The doorbell was followed by a pounding on the door. I answered the door and a security person in our building handed me his phone. It was my oldest daughter Eloise. She had found my 26-year-old daughter unconscious on the floor of her apartment and had called 911. The EMT team was already there, but they did not know what was wrong with Lucy or to which hospital they would take her.

I threw on some clothes and jumped in an Uber heading east toward Brooklyn. (Lucy lived alone in Williamsburg.) On the way, I learned that they were taking her to Elmhurst, a City trauma hospital in Queens. I arrived about five minutes after the ambulance to join Eloise, Lucy’s mom, and a friend, and waited to learn what was wrong.

After about 15 minutes, I asked a nurse where she was. I looked over his shoulder to his computer. Next to her name, it said “non-responsive.” I walked into the emergency room and wandered around looking for her until I found her unconscious on a gurney surrounded by several doctors and nurses.

By about 2:30am with the results from a CAT scan, Lucy’s doctors had determined that she had a massive brain hemorrhage and would need an emergency hemicraniectomy to release the pressure on her brain and remove the blood from the hemorrhage. I called our wonderful friend and family doctor Eddie Fisher and explained what was going on. He woke up Josh Bederson, Chairman of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai, to find out more about Zach Hickman, the neurosurgeon on call that night. Dr. Bederson said Hickman was an excellent surgeon, which was comforting as we had no choice.

The surgery to save Lucy’s life began around 3:15am and finished around 5:30am. It was successful.

The following day, I joined Lucy in an ambulance while she was being transferred to Mount Sinai on Madison Avenue. Later that day, we determined from Lucy’s Oura ring that her hemorrhage had occurred around 9am, which meant that more than 19 hours had passed from the time of the hemorrhage to the completion of the surgery to release the pressure on her brain (I only wish @ouraring had an alert for this kind of a medical event. Imagine it could call a family member if the wearer doesn’t cancel the alert).

I later learned that the standard of care is not to do surgery to save a patient with a large brain bleed if more than five hours have passed since the hemorrhage. Even when the surgery is done, I was told that the likely outcome for the patient is a few months in a nursing home and death from pneumonia.

When I met Lucy’s doctors, I did my best to inspire them: “Let’s see what can be accomplished if we give her the best care possible and we invest unlimited resources to restore her to life.” And I promised that whatever we learned we would make available to everyone.

Dr. Chris Kellner, her neurosurgeon, and Dr. David Putrino, Director of Rehabilitation Innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System have led Lucy’s care team since that day. Words cannot describe the remarkable and compassionate care that she has received beginning with the EMT team and then from nurses, doctors, therapists, and the army of people who have worked to save her and return her to life. To this day, we have a daily Zoom where we discuss her progress and make adjustments to her care. While her care and oversight have been incredible, the learnings for the Mount Sinai team have also been elucidating and will assist in the care of many others.

Lucy began in a bad place. She was in a coma for several weeks and then awoke not being able to breathe on her own, unable to walk, see or speak.

Over the last six months, she has recovered her cognition – she understands everything including her circumstance – is able to walk a hundred or more steps at a time with assistance, is making progress with sounds, vowels and consonants and the beginnings of speech, but she remains unable to see.

Each day, she makes a little progress, and daily progress compounds. Every day I tell her that she just needs to make a little progress and it won’t be long before she is back.

We remain optimistic that Lucy will return to normal function. It will likely take years, but I believe it is only a matter of time, hard work, and technological progress, along with some, and perhaps a lot, of divine intervention.

Many people have been praying for Lucy and we are incredibly grateful for the prayers and remarkable support she has received. Lucy’s friends have been with her every day since the beginning, and their presence and friendship have saved her life and helped to rebuild and maintain her spirit. And on a very positive note, Lucy’s challenge has brought together our entire modern family who have all been incredibly devoted to her care and recovery.

Lucy's vision and other faculties may require some form of brain computer interface, work that is underway at Neuralink, Precision Neuroscience, Science, Synchron, Nudge, and other companies in the space.

If you are going to have a devastating brain injury, now is the best time in history for that to happen. We are living in a world when you can be confident that the blind will soon see again. We are going to do everything we can to help make that happen, including by assisting existing companies in the space.

With respect to our promise to make Lucy’s care available to others, we have made good progress. In May, a real estate colleague made me aware of a 93% vacant, brand new, 400,000 square foot Class A+ purpose-built biotech facility on West End Avenue between 65th and 66th Streets that missed the market and was available for sale. The Pershing Square Foundation acquired the building 60 days later.

We also put under contract an adjoining 130,000 square foot building at 320 West 66th Street that is currently being used by Saturday Night Live for studio space. The building has 35-foot ceilings with massive column-free spaces that can be converted into superb rehabilitation facilities. We will close on the SNL building in December.

We are also acquiring an adjoining vacant lot with additional air rights. With just the existing zoning rights, we can add a 150,000 square feet for a total of 680,000 square feet, a lab footprint larger than Rockefeller University, and that’s without including the potential for an upzoning that would allow for substantially more buildable area on the site’s 3.4 acres with spectacular views of the Hudson.

Our goal is to build the world’s greatest brain research, rehabilitation, recovery, human optimization, and longevity institute. We have named it The Ackman Oxman Institute or the AOI for lack of a better name, but also to reinforce the point that Neri and I and our family are all-in on the mission.

The AOI will be patient-centric. It will not be an academic research institute that produces lots of papers, a Nobel Prize winner or two, but little if any results for patients. We will be laser-focused on cures, treatments, devices, rehabilitation and exercise equipment, and targeted and basic research with a goal of massively accelerating the time from idea to innovation to production to helping a patient.

While the AOI will be a non-profit, it will have highly commercial instincts. The AOI will have its own venture funding and will work to develop innovations to create companies that we will seed, assist, and spinout to ensure technologies, treatments, techniques, and drugs get to patients as promptly as possible.

On one 3.4 acre campus in what is still the greatest city in the world, we will do neurosurgery, neuroscience, rehabilitation, nutrition, BCI and device development, human trials, hyperbaric oxygen treatments, and life extension programs, and we will mandate and incentivize collaboration among the teams with no silos, politics, bureaucracy, or any other constraint that is inconsistent with the mission.

Mount Sinai will be an important partner and deservedly so, but it won’t be our only hospital or medical school partner as we don’t believe any institution has a monopoly on the best ideas or the best talent. We don’t believe in exclusive relationships because that is not in the best interest of patients.

Five years ago, we considered launching a brain institute inspired by Neri’s mom who sadly died from Alzheimer’s. We couldn’t make the math work as the real estate was too expensive and we believed it would be too difficult to recruit the best talent from universities to our effort.

Since then, the real estate became available at a 70% discount, universities became a much less attractive place to work due to politics outweighing meritocracy, protests that disrupt learning, the curse of antisemitism, and a decline in funding. Fortunately, during the same time, I made sufficient personal economic progress to make the AOI possible.

The advance of AI in the last few years will also enable us to greatly accelerate our mission. AI still has a lot to learn about human intelligence and the brain, and the AOI should be at the forefront of the interplay between the brain and AI.

Today, I am making a public filing disclosing a gift from Neri and me of ~$400 million or 10,000,000 shares of Pershing Square Inc. (PS) to the AOI. It is very early days for Pershing Square so these shares are intended to anchor the long-term work of the AOI as the shares compound over time while generating what we expect will be a growing stream of quarterly dividends to fund the Institute.

We will also be announcing an additional gift of similar and potentially greater size which won’t be in the form of Pershing Square stock to provide the AOI with the short- and intermediate-term runway necessary to enable it to achieve its goal of becoming a self-sustaining institute, which reinvests all of its revenues, royalties, and the economic rewards of company formation to advance the fields of brain health and human longevity.

Neri and I have chosen to anchor the funding of the AOI to maintain vision alignment and limit the need for the organization to focus on fundraising. We expect the AOI to be the best-resourced brain, rehab, recovery, and longevity institute in the world.

We are grateful to have been able to form a board which includes Dean Kamen (our generation’s Thomas Edison), George Yancopoulus (CEO of Regeneron), James Rothman (Nobel Laureate), Bernardo Sabatini (neuroscientist), Chris Kellner (neurosurgeon), Olivia Flatto (CEO Pershing Square Foundation), Neri Oxman, and myself.

We have recently identified a CEO who we expect to announce by October along with other key hires, and are beginning searches for a Chief Scientific Officer, a Chief AI/Technology Officer, a Chief Operating Officer, a Chief Financial Officer, and other key leadership roles.

If you find what we are building compelling and want to be part of the leadership team that creates and builds the AOI from a standing start, please send an email to: [email protected] with a short note as to why you believe you can help. Please include your best three ideas for the AOI along with a summary of your background and your most important accomplishments.

We promise strict confidentiality to those expressing interest in working with us.

We have learned from Lucy that the brain can recover from even catastrophic injury. There is so much more work to be done as the mind is a terrible thing to waste.

For details from my Pershing Square SEC filing see:

https://t.co/gZKafCw6Ia

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

On September 11, half a million people were taken off Manhattan by boat.

It took nine hours.

Everyone remembers the footage of people walking north across the Brooklyn Bridge. Almost nobody talks about the people south of the towers, who could not walk north, because north was where the towers had just come down.

Bridges closed. Tunnels closed. Subways stopped. Hundreds of thousands of people were standing at the edge of an island inside a cloud of concrete dust with nowhere left to go on foot.

A Coast Guard lieutenant named Michael Day got on the radio and called for every boat in the harbor. Any vessel willing to help evacuate Lower Manhattan, report in.

The harbor turned around and came at Manhattan.

Ferries. Tugboats. Dinner cruise boats. Fire boats. Private yachts. Sandy Hook pilot boats. Roughly 150 vessels and about 800 mariners, most of them civilians who happened to own a boat with a working engine.

At points the dust was so thick they were docking by radar because they could not see the seawall they were pulling against.

One captain was offered four thousand dollars by a man who wanted to be run across alone. He turned it down and kept loading people.

Another captain wrote down the name of a passenger afterward. Harold. He had been shaking badly when they pulled him aboard. Once he understood he was safe and headed for New Jersey, he asked to ride back with them and help.

The final count was over 500,000.

Dunkirk moved 338,226 men, and Dunkirk took days.

There was no plan for this. Nobody was in charge of it. One man with a radio asked, and a harbor full of strangers pointed their boats at the smoke.

Many of those mariners have cancer and lung disease now from the air they were breathing that day.

It is the largest water evacuation in human history.
It was finished before dinner. 🇺🇸