Nathan Tankus

This is probably the most personal piece about my intellectual journey I've written. I hope others enjoy it. www.crisesnotes.com/the-death-of...

"My thoughts have often turned to the Middle East, an area which has contributed so much to the religious and cultural heritage of the world today, and whose potential for further rich contributions to civilization is great."= John F Kennedy

This looks like a great fellowship. www.hpeproject.org/hfgg-cfa

Remember when they tried to declare Neoliberalism dead?

we’ve transitioned to a service economy, which is why we can only serve cunt and not manufacture it

4800 word piece, coming tomorrow. Prepare yourselves. www.crisesnotes.com#/portal/signup

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Nothing about this currently on the homepage of the NYT; a brief article appears elsewhere. The Washington Post hasn't run anything at all. bsky.app/profile/mari...

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

I'm not sure I'll ever forgive the AI-LLM boom for forcing me to gain expertise about it.

I am so sorry but also I laughed so hard at this. I’m sorry! It’s terribly annoying!

like this? this is the whole logic of deplatforming, en toto. if you were wondering why center-right liberals and blackshirts were horrified by deplatforming as a strategy and quailed about 'cancel culture', this is why: because it works.

Lula won?? Holy shitttt

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

You all are going to learn way more about the management and reorganization of the 1960s Department of Defense and its relation, or non-relation, to the Vietnam war than you EVER wanted to know.

I keep on cutting material from the 1970s from this piece about the history of the "Cost-Benefit State" and, as a result, its grown to 4400 words.

lol they really do not want you to see this movie huh

Writing way more about the Department of Defense for an upcoming piece than I expected. Learning a ton.

Musk doc already gone from theaters: Film was "released by Bleecker Street Films, which was sold in the last week to ebay founder Pierre Omidyar — not considered a friend of Elon Musk, but a billionaire nevertheless." Via Showbiz 411

Lol

Was thinking last night about how much I love my job. I get to explore so many different interesting things. I'm not sure any job could hold my interest like the one I managed to invent for myself. I've gotten to write about and research so many different things the past five months.

lemme see if I get it GRU hacks Kushner's iPhone Dutch intelligence (MIVD) then recruits GRU spy, gives them hacked phone MIVD discovers that Kushner has 2 bank accounts (one Azerbaijani, one Israeli) where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposit money

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I stand corrected. The world is more depraved than I knew. Apparently the sportsbooks are now allowed to also be prediction markets. bsky.app/profile/nath...

Remarkably similar commentary from Rubin to my analysis of conventional wisdom processors and the lack of "pricing in" the Trump Musk Payments Crisis.

A reminder: Scams are (mostly) not in the Consumer Price Index.

I’m telling you that the extreme exposure to scams is a big part of the reason so many people are negative about our economic future.

First item on the to-do list: make a to-do list

Scoop from @brettlogiurato.bsky.social: CBS has sold its local election night coverage to DraftKings, stirring more controversy inside the David Ellison-owned company. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...

I think this story is getting misinterpreted. The scale of CDS purchases here is still small. What this is much more likely about is reducing "net exposure" for regulatory/risk management purposes.