Karl Popper, in his Open Society, describes to a "T" the crowd of unelected patronizing "experts" who want to run the lives of people and call those who oppose them "populists". Beautiful Plato vs Socrates passage.

High quality (official) video / audio of the recent talk between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and I at BlockCon. youtu.be/Da0aXfshlxM

Thailand to ban foreign plastic waste from 2021 as South East Asia buckles under waste influx ow.ly/IW4w30mfsfb Financial Times

Interest rates are rising, which is bad for stocks. But rates are rising because the economy is growing, which is good for stocks. High growth could cause inflation, which is bad for stocks. But inflation could boost earnings, which is good for stocks. Repeat until crazy.

Twitter help, idk who these two are but I hope this finds them. I took this at Taft Point at Yosemite National Park, on October 6th, 2018.

Vintage cars are being retrofitted as fully electric, zero-emission vehicles #ElectricVehicles #automobile #Automotive #AI via Rajat Shrimal cc @evankirstel Kohei Kurihara - Privacy for all together 🌍 Dr. Kash Sirinanda Dimitris Ioannides Paula Piccard Spiros Margaris Christine Boursin 🌐 Jean-Baptiste Lefevre

I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of TED Talks and then asked it to write a TED Talk of its own. Here is the first page.

Wold GDP by Country

Ooops. US housing & real estate data have never disappointed this much before... (on data since January 2000) $USD

laughingsquid.com/matt-russo-how… Guitar Playing Astrophysicist Explains How the Foundations of Music Are Correlated to the Universe. Musician and astrophysicist Matt Russo spoke at the University of Toronto for TED

Great facilities to lighten entire connected cities via @nowthisnews #tech #digital #data Dr. Kash Sirinanda Vipul T Dimitris Ioannides Sebastián Inchauspe Harold Sinnott 🇺🇸 Helen Yu Jamil Ahmed Ratan Jyoti IIoT World Enrico Molinari #VivaTech2025 Dr Martin Hiesboeck Wilko S. Wolters Kenneth Little

The 12-month Euribor rate has fixed at -0.108% for 15 days in a row. What a "market"! 🇪🇺🤡$EUR

Valuable speech lnkd.in/fQsUMwY

This is de facto book burning. We're talking about removing books such as Little Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Beauty from a library over concerns about sexism. theguardian.com/books/2019/apr…

Tax lost from firms domiciled in the Netherlands, per year: France: €2.7bn Germany: €1.5bn Italy: €1.5bn Spain: €1bn Dutch net contribution to EU budget in 2018: €2.375bn (Sources: EU, Tax Justice Network)

Porque no olvidamos a los viejos amigos 💙. Mientras el Reino Unido deja la UE, Escocia está aquí contigo, Europa. 💙 #ScotlandIsNow