Jonas Bergqvist

Investor at Almi Greentech fund. 120MEUR AUM. Online since 2400 bauds. Exponential threats require exponential solutions.

[Jonas Bergqvist @jonastweet]

Does ”Family Safety” have the worst team at @Microsoft or what is the problem? Horrible app, poor policy mgmt (accounts can be stolen but not recovered), but most of all: a wacky wobbly back-end. Please enlighten me. @MicrosoftSE @Windows @satyanadella

[The Drop @thedropconf]

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[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

For those who can't imagine the death of American democracy, we imagined it for you. Watch here.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Places on Earth that don't look real - thread 🧵

1. Namibia, where the desert meets the ocean

[Jonas Bergqvist @jonastweet]

@moseskagan @marketplunger1 Not many know this but the audio books of the Ender series are fantastic! They are with several voices and almost like a radio play. Recommend them as a re-read if you haven’t already listened.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

I was interviewed on Bankless, a podcast by and for crypto enthusiasts, regarding a potpourri of topics.

Some:

* What has gotten better about financial infrastructure in recent memory
* AML/KYC as practiced, and where I largely agree with the crypto community on need to reform

[Jonas Bergqvist @jonastweet]

@patio11 A great episode.

[Neuralink @neuralink]

https://t.co/OMIeGGjYtG

[Jonas Bergqvist @jonastweet]

@alitaylor The answer is really quite evident.

https://t.co/X8q0gNFHGg

[Jonas Bergqvist @jonastweet]

@mrexits Interestingly not that far from actual Swedish tax rates at the same approximate income. That will however of course include full health care, pension, 12-24 months maternity/paternity leave, basically free child care and zero college tuition fees for your kids etc.

[Lars Wilderäng @Cornubot]

"Är det för kallt för dig?"
Bydén, ba: "Jag är från Sverige."

[Yasmina @yasminalombaert]

17 years ago, on 7th October, the Kremlin boss silenced Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist, writer and activist, on his birthday.

This is what she thought of Putin, based on her long-term observations of the Russian dictator.

What reasons do I have to dislike Putin? There are many.

First, his artlessness, which is worse than theft.
His cynicism and racism.
His endless war and lies.
The gassing at “Nord-Ost.”
The corpses of innocent victims, accompanying his entire first term. Those are corpses which could have been avoided.

I often wonder if Putin is human at all, or a frozen or iron statue. I wonder and can’t find confirmation that he is a human being.

Putin, having accidentally received enormous power into his hands, administered it to catastrophic consequences for Russia.
And I do not like him, because he does not like people. He can’t stand us. He despises us.
He believes that we are a means for him only, a means to achieve his own personal power goals.
Therefore, he can do anything he wishes to us, plays with us as he pleases, destroys us, if he wishes. For him, we are nobody. And he, having accidentally scrambled to the top, is now a king and a god, whom everybody should worship and fear.

Putin has propped up his rule solely on the clay struts of the oligarchy – ordinary people did not find a place for themselves in this scheme.
He is friends with some oligarchs, and fights with others, and it is this that we call supreme State Administration, when billionaires who have divided oil and gas reserves among themselves, have ultimate importance.

Why do I dislike Putin? For the years that pass by. This summer it will be five years since the second Chechen war was initiated for the sake of Putin’s first ascension to presidency, and it is still ongoing.

Putin’s style of politics displays deep personal resentment. Putin has many times publicly demonstrated that he fundamentally does not understand the purpose of a debate, especially a political debate.
According to Putin, a discussion between a superior and his subordinates should not be possible.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

The entire land border to the west of Russia de facto has already been closed. The car passing ban has now been applied to all European countries bordering Russia, with the exception of Norway, but a similar decision is likely to be made about this country, too.

But in fact, this ban concerns a very small part of the Russian population, who travel abroad by private vehicles at all.

The thing here is not the car passing ban. Nor is it the expectation that those few Russians affected will come out into the streets. Just as it has long been clear that Russian oligarchs under sanctions can not and will not remove the Kremlin regime.
This is a slow, thorough lowering of the Iron Curtain to destroy the empire.

This is not a quick military defeat, but a complete depletion up to such a state that it will be impossible to restore Russia afterward, and it will disintegrate into separate constituent parts in any scenario. And not quickly, but in an evolutionary order. Russia is being brought to disintegration, and conditions are being created in advance, under which there will be nothing left to collect.

Russia, in turn, closes its borders and announces mobilizations. Sends its citizens to kill and die. Soon it will be impossible to escape from there.

After Prigozhin's failed mutiny, the West realized that there would be no quick revolution, so it is betting on degradation, slow self-destruction, and collapse. A slow boil.

Russia has made the same bet on dragging it out. It has no other way out and believes that it can win in this fight, has huge human (poisoned by propaganda) and natural resources. Russia can go for a ceasefire only temporarily, using it to buy time, build up a military-industrial complex and hoping for the weakening of the West. Russia thinks that the West will stop supporting Ukraine sooner or later, believes it has enough resources to last until then, and then hopes to win in Ukraine.

The West, like Russia, is playing a long war, gradually wearing Russia down. Ukrainians are an instrument of Russia's slow destruction.

Can Ukraine play this long game and does it want to? Time is the highest price for Ukraine. Ukraine pays it with the lives and blood of its Defenders. Ukraine pays with destroyed infrastructure and homes. The longer the situation drags on, the more Ukraine is depleted and it happens faster than with Russia. There are fewer of us. The longer the war lasts, the fewer refugees will return to Ukraine.

So even the most sincere wishes to freeze hostilities essentially play into Russia's hands and increase the existential threat to Ukraine.

If Ukraine is depleted by a prolonged war, it will cease to be a deterrent to Russia. Therefore, a strong Ukraine and a quick Ukrainian victory are the foundation for peace in Europe and worldwide. It would break Putin's plans completely.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

The Russian banner says: "Children, kitchen, church. The sense and greatness of a Russian woman".

That's the motto that Hitler declared in September 1934 in his speech before the Women's National Socialist Organization. He said then: "the world of the German woman is her husband, her family, her children and her home." He used "Kinder, Küche, Kirche"/"Children, Kitchen, Church". But the last part of the slogan, "Church", was omitted because of anti-religious campaigns during the Nazi era. However, now in Russia the church is an integral part of Russian propaganda, so there is no need to omit it

[Pär Holmgren @ParHolmgren]

Ingen överraskning. Augusti blev rekordvarm globalt. Dessutom var båda halvkloten rekordvarma - för att vara augusti.

Klimatnödläget är fr o m i år betydligt allvarligare än tidigare år!👇

[CarlSaganDotCom @carlsagandotcom]

A lesson on the greenhouse effect with Carl Sagan.

🎥: Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change

[Jonas Bergqvist @jonastweet]

@cashiskung @PEverhill HVDC is the shit.

[Jonas Bergqvist @jonastweet]

@ericbahn @charleshxpe The most important is getting enough sleep. And not too much either. That way you really never sleep “late”. The circadian rhythm is also so biological it can be hard to change. Being in the “right” time zone can help (time versus actual sun rising etc).