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Vladimir Putin and the ruble rate, a 22-year history.

"In light of the ongoing war conflict in Ukraine, the International Judo Federation announces the suspension of Mr. Vladimir Putin’s status as Honorary President and Ambassador of the International Judo Federation." ijf.org/news/show/offi…

Sanctioned Russian TV Host Cries About Losing Italian Properties The impact of Putin’s war against Ukraine is starting to set in, startling even his most ardent state TV propagandists. It’s all fun and games 'till they seize your Italian villa. thedailybeast.com/sanctioned-rus…

The man Putin wishes he was.

Очень расстроен решением Путина отказаться от возможности мирного решения спора с Украиной и вместо этого начать войну. Это преступление против украинского и русского народа. Хочу желать всем безопасности, хотя знаю, что не какой безопасности не будет. Слава Украине.

Data has become a 4-letter dirty word.

Buffett spends $300K annually on personal security. Zuckerberg spent $23.4 million last year. markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/wa…

@x_building All in due time.

OpenAI's thoughts on inflation. Thoughts, @elonmusk?

This is why the Financial Times sucks. 👇

Fantastic ⁦@Reuters⁩ reporting on how Amazon bent over backwards to sell kindle & cloud services in China, including by promoting Xi’s books as “best sellers,” censoring reviews of propaganda films & providing a dissident’s IP address to authorities reuters.com/world/china/am…

"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.” – Paul Krugman (1998)

In case you missed it ... youtube.com/watch?v=UpXCUE…

@Jason Agreed. It's pretty dumb.

metaverse will be a bust again

Annnnnnnd there goes the neighborhood

It took ~2 decades for AES-256 to become mainstream. The world needs lattice-based cryptography deployed on every computer in half that time.

"The U.S. is worried that hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade" – @techreview @HowellONeill. @NIST needs to move faster. We need to rollout quantum-proof encryption standards *before* quantum-computers arrive. technologyreview.com/2021/11/03/103…