Angus Champion de Crespigny
@acdc.bsky.social
Assorted thoughts across tech, regulatory, campaigns/influence, investing, other stuff. All posts are the opinions of my employers and they are legally liable for everything I say.
Trump is delaying the TikTok ban to enable Musk to buy it cheap, right?
January 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Trump is delaying the TikTok ban to enable Musk to buy it cheap, right?
Bluesky starting the year strong
My mom was a union organizer for 25 years. I walked picket lines of wildcat strikes with her. We used to run bake sales and trivia nights to support striking workers. You wouldn't survive 3 seconds in her vagina. It would shrivel up what's left of your balls. I miss her terribly.
January 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Bluesky starting the year strong
Tate tweeting his internal monologue
this man is legally not allowed to leave his house and his calling his fans losers and they are going to keep paying him lmao
January 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Tate tweeting his internal monologue
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December 13, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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One thing we could try to learn from this Luigi Mangione thing is that most people’s views don’t neatly fit into distinct political buckets and we should stop trying to make them
December 11, 2024 at 9:55 AM
One thing we could try to learn from this Luigi Mangione thing is that most people’s views don’t neatly fit into distinct political buckets and we should stop trying to make them
Does the NYPD put this amount of effort into finding the perpetrator of every public murder in the city, or is the search for the UHC assassin unique for a civilian victim?
December 7, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Does the NYPD put this amount of effort into finding the perpetrator of every public murder in the city, or is the search for the UHC assassin unique for a civilian victim?
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We need the obsessive de-aging guy on here. We need that square-headed poindexter natalist on here. It’s important that everyone you find annoying be on every website you go to,
December 7, 2024 at 3:47 PM
We need the obsessive de-aging guy on here. We need that square-headed poindexter natalist on here. It’s important that everyone you find annoying be on every website you go to,
ACAB includes firemen.
December 6, 2024 at 9:00 PM
ACAB includes firemen.
Just saw a bad take. Be careful out there
December 6, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Just saw a bad take. Be careful out there
One thing that we can agree on with the Hawk Tuah crypto scam is that this is the future and we should welcome an administration that makes these scams easier
December 6, 2024 at 2:07 PM
One thing that we can agree on with the Hawk Tuah crypto scam is that this is the future and we should welcome an administration that makes these scams easier
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Idk if this is on purpose or just from pressure but these are not the same guy. How are news sources and the NYPD able to share pics of a totally random innocent dude?
December 6, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Idk if this is on purpose or just from pressure but these are not the same guy. How are news sources and the NYPD able to share pics of a totally random innocent dude?
In case there’s any doubt here, I feel very uncomfortable people cheering on someone’s murder.
But I also feel very uncomfortable with a society allowing people to die in the name of the “free market” and “capitalism” and people being cool with that. It doesn’t happen in other countries.
But I also feel very uncomfortable with a society allowing people to die in the name of the “free market” and “capitalism” and people being cool with that. It doesn’t happen in other countries.
Health insurers will justify all the awful stuff they do by saying that the market and the system requires them to be competitive on costs.
Which, ok, sure. But it takes a certain person to optimise a system to deny people life saving coverage in the name of costs. Nobody HAS to do that.
Which, ok, sure. But it takes a certain person to optimise a system to deny people life saving coverage in the name of costs. Nobody HAS to do that.
December 5, 2024 at 4:55 PM
In case there’s any doubt here, I feel very uncomfortable people cheering on someone’s murder.
But I also feel very uncomfortable with a society allowing people to die in the name of the “free market” and “capitalism” and people being cool with that. It doesn’t happen in other countries.
But I also feel very uncomfortable with a society allowing people to die in the name of the “free market” and “capitalism” and people being cool with that. It doesn’t happen in other countries.
Health insurers will justify all the awful stuff they do by saying that the market and the system requires them to be competitive on costs.
Which, ok, sure. But it takes a certain person to optimise a system to deny people life saving coverage in the name of costs. Nobody HAS to do that.
Which, ok, sure. But it takes a certain person to optimise a system to deny people life saving coverage in the name of costs. Nobody HAS to do that.
December 5, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Health insurers will justify all the awful stuff they do by saying that the market and the system requires them to be competitive on costs.
Which, ok, sure. But it takes a certain person to optimise a system to deny people life saving coverage in the name of costs. Nobody HAS to do that.
Which, ok, sure. But it takes a certain person to optimise a system to deny people life saving coverage in the name of costs. Nobody HAS to do that.
“UK uncovers vast crypto laundering scheme for gangsters and Russian spies” - I can’t imagine the US is going to allow this sort of thing to continue indefinitely before it requires actual AML/KYC controls on Tether: which kills its business.
on.ft.com/41igoSD
on.ft.com/41igoSD
UK uncovers vast crypto laundering scheme for gangsters and Russian spies
Multibillion-dollar ring across London, Moscow and Dubai connected cash-rich criminals with sanctions evaders
on.ft.com
December 4, 2024 at 3:34 PM
“UK uncovers vast crypto laundering scheme for gangsters and Russian spies” - I can’t imagine the US is going to allow this sort of thing to continue indefinitely before it requires actual AML/KYC controls on Tether: which kills its business.
on.ft.com/41igoSD
on.ft.com/41igoSD
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Ok we need a list of every person wronged by the American healthcare system and start from there
The United Healthcare CEO has been shot in Manhattan and it sounds like it may have been a hired hit?
abc7news.com/united-healt...
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United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot dead in NYC, masked gunman at large
The shooting appears to be targeted but police do not know why, sources said.
abc7news.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Ok we need a list of every person wronged by the American healthcare system and start from there
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I keep getting media requests but tbqh I don't think I'm the right person to have on shows. If you're a lawyer, academic, journalist, closely following SK politics, present in Seoul, and fluent in English, please reply to this post with your creds so I can forward them to people who keep asking me.
December 4, 2024 at 2:47 PM
I keep getting media requests but tbqh I don't think I'm the right person to have on shows. If you're a lawyer, academic, journalist, closely following SK politics, present in Seoul, and fluent in English, please reply to this post with your creds so I can forward them to people who keep asking me.
This article is insane.
“A January 1977 petition published in Le Monde criticized the detention of three men arrested for non-violent sex offences against children aged 12–13” jfc France en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...
“A January 1977 petition published in Le Monde criticized the detention of three men arrested for non-violent sex offences against children aged 12–13” jfc France en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...
French petitions against age of consent laws - Wikipedia
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December 4, 2024 at 1:39 PM
This article is insane.
“A January 1977 petition published in Le Monde criticized the detention of three men arrested for non-violent sex offences against children aged 12–13” jfc France en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...
“A January 1977 petition published in Le Monde criticized the detention of three men arrested for non-violent sex offences against children aged 12–13” jfc France en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...
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This guy worked for State Dept for ~2 months. He has no inside knowledge of anything he talks about, even as he claims he ‘watched a censorship regime grow from the inside.’ It’s all bullshit. And the absolute credulity displayed by Rogan here is why commentary & journalism aren’t the same.
December 3, 2024 at 10:27 PM
This guy worked for State Dept for ~2 months. He has no inside knowledge of anything he talks about, even as he claims he ‘watched a censorship regime grow from the inside.’ It’s all bullshit. And the absolute credulity displayed by Rogan here is why commentary & journalism aren’t the same.
I don’t think it’s a very well thought out coup if people can vote against it. Isn’t that Coups 101?
December 4, 2024 at 4:00 AM
I don’t think it’s a very well thought out coup if people can vote against it. Isn’t that Coups 101?
We gotta stop thinking that any country is immune to fascism. Every country is an election away, at most.
i didn’t have south korea briefly becoming north korea on my geopolitical bingo card
December 3, 2024 at 6:52 PM
We gotta stop thinking that any country is immune to fascism. Every country is an election away, at most.
From my years working around VCs and the startup world, these guys more often than not believe that they are the smartest people in the room and they are changing the world. Consequently, regulations stopping them from profiting off their generous brilliance is, to them, massively unfair.
Here’s the most charitable reading I can offer:
The tech barons behaved as though they were atop a social hierarchy, and expected mass adoration for their generosity+forgiveness for mistakes.
Instead, Elizabeth Warren, Lina Khan et al treated them like the heads of *massive corporations.*
The tech barons behaved as though they were atop a social hierarchy, and expected mass adoration for their generosity+forgiveness for mistakes.
Instead, Elizabeth Warren, Lina Khan et al treated them like the heads of *massive corporations.*
November 30, 2024 at 9:39 AM
From my years working around VCs and the startup world, these guys more often than not believe that they are the smartest people in the room and they are changing the world. Consequently, regulations stopping them from profiting off their generous brilliance is, to them, massively unfair.
I always find it silly how so many supposedly smart people will see something they think is stupid and criticise it without taking the most basic step of trying to understand why it might not be stupid.
Did he think that maybe some doctors might have some insight into weight loss worth listening to?
Did he think that maybe some doctors might have some insight into weight loss worth listening to?
Ozempic’s primary function is to make it easier to eat healthy, and by extension to exercise. Have seen these drugs work miracles for friends. Feel quite certain there are people in this smug ignoramus’s life who have benefited as well.
November 25, 2024 at 3:25 PM
I always find it silly how so many supposedly smart people will see something they think is stupid and criticise it without taking the most basic step of trying to understand why it might not be stupid.
Did he think that maybe some doctors might have some insight into weight loss worth listening to?
Did he think that maybe some doctors might have some insight into weight loss worth listening to?
One of the very damaging things Musk has done is delegitimise ketamine as a genuinely effective mental health medicine.
Elonia has made 405 ketamine-fueled posts on his social media app in the last 24 hours.
November 25, 2024 at 10:50 AM
One of the very damaging things Musk has done is delegitimise ketamine as a genuinely effective mental health medicine.