Favorites November 12th 2021

Yea, I’m running a bit late, watched Shang-Chi this evening, it was pretty great.

Sam @SamIAm2021MD

I am blown away by this COVID vaccine video, one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time

I've seen cell operation animations before, but this may be the most impressive to watch.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Would be nice if that Pfizer anti-viral drug that’s so effective they halted the clinical trial for ethical reasons were actually available.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

“I’m sick, can I get in the trial so I have a 50-50 chance of getting this potential cure?” “No, it’s so good it would be unethical to give anyone a placebo so we cut the trial short.” “Awesome, so can I just have the cure?” “Also no.”

Somehow I assumed that it was already approved.

Will Steakin @wsteaks

an all-time “why it matters”

Axios @axios

EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Trump defends his supporters' threats to "hang" Mike Pence on Jan. 6 https://t.co/VbsSib9Ywz

There's something to be said for Axios' short ‘briefing’ style.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn

Ok then usnews.com/news/politics/…

Politicization of vaccines is absolutely the worst. Here's the original story if you want to see it.

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

A decade of covering tech companies has made me skeptical of the idea that we can or should try to identify bubbles. Any time the price of some asset goes up, people start claiming it's a bubble.

fullstackeconomics.comBubbles are hard to spot, even in hindsightPeople use the same flawed reasoning to identify tech bubbles and housing bubbles.

Wild to be reminded that people didn't think Facebook could be worth $1 Billion, but it wasn't that long ago. I remember that time, those were serious people!

Stephen Diehl @smdiehl

@vhranger This is staggering numbers. This is a good piece. – 1/5th of all new GPUs in 2021 went to ethereum mining. – 4% of TSMC’s production capacity went to bitcoin mining.

Here's the article in question, if you want to be annoyed about electronic components being in short supply.

Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack

Selling my house and giving my Realtor™️ firm instructions to only include photos of the most normal rooms in the listing.

Love using the wooden porta-potty in the corner of my garage.

March 2021, Santa Cruz

Couldn’t just leave you with that insane house photo as the final item!