Favorite Rejects 2022-11-17

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@tszzl Deflation from technological advances produces recessions in the short term federalreserve.gov/econres/ifdp/a…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It can be easy to miss this but there are two parallel discourses — one that's like "of course FTX was a scam, all crypto is a scam" and the other is like "of course FTX was a scam, FTX was working with regulators and abandoning the true faith of DeFi and Bitcoin maximalism."

Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin

one interesting discourse note is that of course people with strong anti-crypto priors are all over the ftx story and generally running with the most negative take on it and claiming vindication (as is often justified), but so are *pro* crypto people, especially bitcoin maxis

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️ @besttrousers

During Trump's announcement, the PredictIt price for "Trump will be the GOP nominee" went *down*.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick

Larry David getting sued for getting paid by a crypto exchange to promote it, wherein the promotion is Larry David playing Larry David claiming not to get crypto and not to think it's worth buying into... is both very Larry David... and very crypto.

Variety @Variety

Larry David, Tom Brady, Stephen Curry, Other Celebs Sued Over FTX Crypto Exchange Collapse https://t.co/U9iQlmmghs

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Maximum Canada is beating One Billion Americans and I'm sad.

Ben Rabidoux @BenRabidoux

US population: ~333 million Population growth in the past year: 944,000 Canada population: ~39 million Population growth in the past year: 703,000

Josh Barro @jbarro

No, because the whole point of crypto is scams. This is like trying to have a regulated Ponzi market.

Garrett @notgarrettblack

@jbarro Do you think we will finally see some sort of comprehensive regulatory structure around crypto? Feels like we are just relearning every financial lesson of the barely regulated late 19th and early 20th century.

Reds Are Parody Baseball Team @Johannes356

@jbarro That is not true. There is also the money laundering component.

Emily Ann Ramos 🥑 @EngineerEmily

I know you are not supposed to read the comments and this comment was meant to be negative, but this mades me so proud of the work I did to get @LucasRamirezMV re-elected. #IntegrateOurCommunities

Michael Kofman @KofmanMichael

Sat down for another discussion with Ryan Evans @EvansRyan202 on the course of the war. We talk about implications of UA victory in Kherson, and what the winter might bring. Tune in if interested. @WarOnTheRocks

warontherocks.comThe Liberation of Kherson and the Next Phase of the War - War on the RocksOn this episode, Ryan and Mike discuss the liberation of Kherson, the Russian military’s strategy before the start of the winter, and Ukraine’s efforts to

Mark Gongloff @markgongloff

Seems kind of huge: Food prices are now clearly *deflating* - @JavierBlas bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Caleb Watney @calebwatney

The difficulty of pivoting or redeploying a scientific grant after a dead-end has been discovered is one of the forces pushing scientists to prioritize incremental, "safe" research.

Lora Kolodny @lorakolodny

GM expects EV profits to be comparable to gas vehicles by 2025, years ahead of schedule cnb.cx/3EDsxWO via @CNBC by @MikeWayland

cnb.cxGM expects EV profits to be comparable to gas vehicles by 2025, years ahead of scheduleGeneral Motors expects its new electric vehicles to be in-line with traditional cars and trucks with internal combustion engines by mid-decade.

Damion Schubert, Zen Designer @ZenOfDesign

Threads

• Highlights from the FTX 'first day declaration', they apparently lent billions of dollars to SBF, the guy handling this is the same person who handled the Enron case, and he says this one is worse.