Fonty
@fontyza.bsky.social
Global citizen living on the southern tip of Africa
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When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.
April 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.
Who Will Be the Next Pope? Here Are Some Possible Contenders. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/w... but we can still get a surprise or two
Who Will Be the Next Pope? Here Are Some Possible Candidates to Succeed Francis.
Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of which direction the Roman Catholic Church might take.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Who Will Be the Next Pope? Here Are Some Possible Contenders. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/w... but we can still get a surprise or two
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It's hard to call a 1,200% return an accident.
I ran 10 million simulations using Nvidia’s historical data.
A drop this large in a single day happens just 0.32% of the time.
Yet someone bought those puts just before Trump banned Nvidia’s H20 sales to China. www.dataandpolitics.net/nvidia-expor...
I ran 10 million simulations using Nvidia’s historical data.
A drop this large in a single day happens just 0.32% of the time.
Yet someone bought those puts just before Trump banned Nvidia’s H20 sales to China. www.dataandpolitics.net/nvidia-expor...
Nvidia, Export Controls, and The Trump Team's Art of Trading on Insider Knowledge
A perfectly timed Nvidia put trade preceded Trump’s export controls by hours—and paid off by over 600%. In a month already shadowed by suspicious options activity, this one raises new questions.
www.dataandpolitics.net
April 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It's hard to call a 1,200% return an accident.
I ran 10 million simulations using Nvidia’s historical data.
A drop this large in a single day happens just 0.32% of the time.
Yet someone bought those puts just before Trump banned Nvidia’s H20 sales to China. www.dataandpolitics.net/nvidia-expor...
I ran 10 million simulations using Nvidia’s historical data.
A drop this large in a single day happens just 0.32% of the time.
Yet someone bought those puts just before Trump banned Nvidia’s H20 sales to China. www.dataandpolitics.net/nvidia-expor...
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The Arctic Ocean’s winter ice cover shrank to a historic low this winter, threatening to accelerate a feedback loop that triggers climate change.
links.message.bloomberg.com/s/c/PWCB1kyG...
links.message.bloomberg.com/s/c/PWCB1kyG...
Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Record Winter Low as Earth Heats Up
The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite records this season, with just 5.53 million square miles of sea ice covering the region at its peak on March 22.
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March 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The Arctic Ocean’s winter ice cover shrank to a historic low this winter, threatening to accelerate a feedback loop that triggers climate change.
links.message.bloomberg.com/s/c/PWCB1kyG...
links.message.bloomberg.com/s/c/PWCB1kyG...
A Journey on the Blue Train: Gilded Luxury in the World’s ‘Most Unequal Country’ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/t...
A Journey on South Africa’s Blue Train
On a trip from Cape Town to Pretoria, a reporter grapples with the whiplash of traveling through South Africa’s two worlds, from majestic mountains to struggling shantytowns.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A Journey on the Blue Train: Gilded Luxury in the World’s ‘Most Unequal Country’ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/t...
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www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
Shaken not stirred
Shaken not stirred
The name’s Bezos, Jeff Bezos: what can we expect from Amazon’s James Bond?
With one of the film industry’s most lucrative franchises signed over to Amazon MGM, 007 could be facing down the barrel of spin-offs, quasi-crowdsourcing and a cinematic universe to rival Marvel
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
Shaken not stirred
Shaken not stirred
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
In need of a dopamine hit? 5 things to know about creating a dopamine menu
www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/h...
Needed this around 2am last night
www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/h...
Needed this around 2am last night
In need of a dopamine hit? 5 things to know about creating a dopamine menu | CNN
A dopamenu is a personalized list of small, rewarding activities designed to boost focus, motivation and well-being. Here are 5 things to know about building one.
www.cnn.com
February 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
In need of a dopamine hit? 5 things to know about creating a dopamine menu
www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/h...
Needed this around 2am last night
www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/h...
Needed this around 2am last night
Interesting macro viewpoint. Could be a viable masterclass except that no one believes the mastermind is capable of such deep strategic planning.
Donald Trump’s Economic Masterplan: Trump’s tariff fixation is part of a global economic plan that is solid, not at all irrational, albeit grossly destabilising and potentially calamitous. Ignore at own peril. unherd.com/2025/02/why-...
Donald Trump's economic masterplan
unherd.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Interesting macro viewpoint. Could be a viable masterclass except that no one believes the mastermind is capable of such deep strategic planning.
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Well this was a delightfully odd piece for the NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/w...
Palmerston, the British Foreign Service Cat, Takes Up New Post in Bermuda
The cat, who first served in 2016, had feuded with Larry, the chief mouser at 10 Downing Street.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Well this was a delightfully odd piece for the NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/w...
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Companies are demanding workers return to the office. Nobody knows what to do with their pets who only know the work-from-home era.
Sit, stay, pine: The lonely pets being left behind by America's return-to-office push
Companies are demanding workers return to the office. Nobody knows what to do with their pets who only know the work-from-home era.
www.businessinsider.com
February 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Companies are demanding workers return to the office. Nobody knows what to do with their pets who only know the work-from-home era.
Contributing some time to our local #parkrun at meyers farm #volunteering
February 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Contributing some time to our local #parkrun at meyers farm #volunteering
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The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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'Ridiculous, absurd'
World reaction to Trump’s ‘take over’ and ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza aje.io/8gea57
World reaction to Trump’s ‘take over’ and ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza aje.io/8gea57
February 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
'Ridiculous, absurd'
World reaction to Trump’s ‘take over’ and ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza aje.io/8gea57
World reaction to Trump’s ‘take over’ and ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza aje.io/8gea57
Trump Says He Left Instructions to ‘Obliterate’ Iran if It Assassinates Him www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...
So supremely narcissistic that he wants to control everything and take revenge from beyond the grave.
So supremely narcissistic that he wants to control everything and take revenge from beyond the grave.
Trump Hits Iran With Renewed ‘Maximum Pressure’
The president made the comment during a visit from Israel’s prime minister, and he signed an executive order to intensify a campaign intended to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear program.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Trump Says He Left Instructions to ‘Obliterate’ Iran if It Assassinates Him www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...
So supremely narcissistic that he wants to control everything and take revenge from beyond the grave.
So supremely narcissistic that he wants to control everything and take revenge from beyond the grave.
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‘Oh my God, this is what we needed’: the Zambia style granny who went viral
‘Oh my God, this is what we needed’: the Zambia style granny who went viral
What started as a fun clothes swap with her granddaughter has given Margret Chola, in her mid 80s, a whole new lease of life – and inspired a host of fashion fans
Rainbow and gold coloured wedges, an electric blue wig and a black and hot-pink strapless…
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
‘Oh my God, this is what we needed’: the Zambia style granny who went viral
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Authorities in Gaza have updated the death toll from Israel’s war on the enclave to 61,709, having added thousands who are missing and now presumed dead.
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February 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Authorities in Gaza have updated the death toll from Israel’s war on the enclave to 61,709, having added thousands who are missing and now presumed dead.
🔗: aje.io/hwozl0
🔗: aje.io/hwozl0
The sands of time wait for no one. Our precious fur baby is suffering from a malignant tumor and we will soon have to escort him to the rainbow bridge. He's been with us for nearly a dozen precious years and will always have a place in our hearts.
January 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The sands of time wait for no one. Our precious fur baby is suffering from a malignant tumor and we will soon have to escort him to the rainbow bridge. He's been with us for nearly a dozen precious years and will always have a place in our hearts.
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After his executive order on sex, is Trump legally the first female president?
After his executive order on sex, is Trump legally the first female president?
The confusing and vague executive order underscores how complex sex is and why it’s hard to reduce it into a neat binary
Has the moment we’ve all been waiting for arrived? After both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris failed to break the biggest glass…
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
After his executive order on sex, is Trump legally the first female president?
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The UN’s top humanitarian official Tom Fletcher told the Security Council that up to 1 million Palestinian children in Gaza are in need of mental health support', reports Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo from UN Headquarters, New York City.
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January 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The UN’s top humanitarian official Tom Fletcher told the Security Council that up to 1 million Palestinian children in Gaza are in need of mental health support', reports Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo from UN Headquarters, New York City.
🟥 Read report: aje.io/q0ku1d
🟥 Read report: aje.io/q0ku1d