Business Oops: How could anyone have seen SVB’s collapse coming?
Raging Ventures saw it coming and posted the details on Twitter on January 18, 2023, two months in advance of the collapse. Why were Federal banking regulators hibernating all winter?
Follow up: “Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right – The New York Times”
The NY Times relied upon a software engineer who retrained in sociology to study the intersection of technology and society to write columns on epidemiology topics. The NY Times gave…
Stanford University and others sought massive censorship of Internet content
The Virality Project is part of the Stanford Internet Observatory which trolled the Internet looking for “misinformation” and “disinformation” – but become a source of disinformation seeking to ban true…
Public health and political officials accountable?
In April 2020, we wrote: ‘Lockdown is going to bankrupt all of us and our descendants and is unlikely at this point to slow or halt viral circulation.’ So it…
Brain injuries: “Power Slap League: a brutal ‘sport’ that may leave contestants with brain damage”
Power Slap - There is nothing entertaining or sportsman-like about this atrocity. Dana White is the definition of fucking asshole, a jerk and a total moron for encouraging the sport…
Demographics: Boston schools hire 1,400 new staff as enrollment falls by 8,000
It smells like bad managers or simple corruption: In a period when enrollment has declined by almost 8,000 students, BPS has added more than 1,400 employees, justified in part by…
Follow up: Disease model projection, March 17, 2020
In the first 3 months, Neil Ferguson’s disease model projected: Every item projected by Neil Ferguson’s team was wrong, immensely wrong. Neil Ferguson recommended the UK’s lockdown strategy, but then…
Public health: “25% of the US National Debt Incurred During Trump Administration”
This financial disaster was due to public health “Experts” who thought they could shut down the world with ineffective NPIs and stop the spread of a highly contagious virus –…
Follow up: Norway Court drops charges against individual flying a drone over Svalbard
In response to Russia’s war on Ukraine, Norway banned Russian aircraft from flying over Norway, or the operation of non-Russian registered aircraft by a Russian citizen. The bureaucrats interpreted the…
US government attempted to control online speech about Covid topics
Twitter censored online speech about Covid topics. 100% of what most of us see is selectively reported, edited, hidden, then curated, promoted, de-emphasized, censored as part of someone's propaganda campaign.
Public health: The purpose of public health policies was to enlarge authoritarian governments
In the pandemic’s bewildering early days, millions worldwide believed government officials who said they needed confidential data for new tech tools that could help stop coronavirus’ spread. In return, governments…
Follow up – No: “Inflation Forecasts Were Wrong Last Year. Should We Believe Them Now?”
Models making long range predictions are mostly wrong, all the time. Why do we give them any credence? Go back and look at worthless disease model projections: Economists misjudged how…
Crime, Fraud: “The GRE is no longer useful in evaluating students for graduate school”
The Graduate Record Exam or GRE is a standardized exam produced by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) organization, to judge one’s suitability to attend graduate school – except it turned…
Crypto, Finance: Bankman-Fried and most everyone connected to him may have been scammers, say some
But critics say Sam Bankman-Fried’s collapse shows that the movement was always morally compromised — “a con,” as author Anand Giridharadas put it — because it didn’t seem to care…
Crypto, Crime: FTX and “Effective Altruism”
Instead, MacAskill is the thinker perhaps most associated with the moral philosophy known as “effective altruism,” which was profoundly influential on Bankman-Fried, Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and others in their…