Favorites November 18th 2022

San Diego, June 2022

Karim Sadjadpour @ksadjadpour

Remarkable: Protestors in Iran torched the ancestral home (now a museum) of Ayatollah Khomeini, the father of the 1979 revolution, in the town of Khomein.

Interesting and sorta sad how the symbolism of this fire broke through into international news when all the protester deaths don't.

Josh Barro @jbarro

Hard to think of a more USA USA narrative than forcing the Chinese to disgorge Grindr and then taking it public on the NYSE. America is great again.

Wait, I had no idea that Grindr was owned by a Chinese videogame company for a while, until the US government forced them to sell to a US entity. Sorta seems like precedent for TikTok?

What Biden Has Done (@what46hasdone@mas.to) @What46HasDone

This is wild.

Charles Gaba does the math, it's very easy to show that the margin is small enough that deaths due to differences in vaccination rates have shifted the outcome.

Threads

• Short thread recommending actions the US Government should take to support protestors in Iran.

• Explanation about why Twitter doesn't use cloud hosting. TL;DR, they need 500k large VMs, and that's would be quite expensive. On the other hand, that's one machine for every 400 daily active users, which seems wasteful.