Favorites November 13th 2022

September 2017, Amsterdam

Ben Sprung 🇺🇦 @bgsprung

mind blown by a YouTube comment of all things

This reply indicates that 'thy kingdom come, thy will be done' comes from the same construction.

Vox @voxdotcom

It’s early, but this year’s flu season looks like it may be brutal. As of November 5, nearly 14,000 positive flu tests had been reported — more than 12 times the number reported at the same time in 2019. vox.com/science-and-he…

So, definitely get your flu shot.

Edouard Mathieu @redouad

Excess deaths per million people since 2020: 🇷🇺 Russia 8.4k 🇲🇽 Mexico 5.1k 🇿🇦 South Africa 4.8k 🇧🇷 Brazil 3.8k 🇮🇹 Italy 3.6k 🇺🇸 US 3.5k 🇬🇧 UK 2.4k 🇩🇪 Germany 1.6k 🇫🇷 France 1.5k 🇰🇷 South Korea 0.8k 🇨🇦 Canada 0.6k 🇦🇺 Australia 0.5k 🇯🇵 Japan 0.2k

I did not realize that Russia basically had the worst COVID response of any country

Janice Min @janicemin

Michael Lewis' next book is about Sam Bankman-Fried. Email from CAA confirms he has been embedded with him for last 6 months; note below was first sent to potential buyers for filmed rights. Scoop @TheAnkler theankler.com/p/hwood-ftx-fr…

Michael Lewis is the author of The Big Short, pretty insane/"Bond villian arrogant" for Sam Bankman-Fried to keep him around while doing lots of financial crimes. In related news, Mankman-Fried was in the midst of trying to set up a substack competitor, he tried to hire Yglesas, Silver and Levine, who all turned him down. Yglesias mentioned he is very happy to have dodged that bullet.

Kieran Healy @kjhealy

I look forward to these ads because I for one am in the market for launching a number of things into the Sun

Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru

JUST IN: SpaceX purchases large advertising package from Twitter.

Threads

• Andrew Prokop discusses what it would take to count the vast majority of the votes on election day, although I'm not sure you'd have to go quite as far as he suggests.

• Thread discussing democratic losses among hispanic voters

• Thread about how Russia makes the regional governments pay conscripts, but the regions don't actually have enough money to pay them.