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Thank You, Pope Leo

My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and is prepared to suffer the indignity of all I'm about to reveal). When he was Canada’s ambassador to the UN from 1984-88, Dad was truly shocked by the

ضربني وبكى، سبقني واشتكى

عار!

It may be a good idea to change the cover of my Fat Tails textbook.

L'esprit fin (wit) >> nerdy intelligence. Thanks to Gordon Fang and Jayant Golchhā « 高智仁 » I am discovering stuff I wrote decades ago, will incorporate into the new book.

PHILOLOGY DUJOUR The classical Greek σαφής and the Arabic صافي (safi) mean the same thing: clear (from clarity). Which came first?

Are you actually this ignorant? In Lebanon (Muslim majority) the head of state literally has to be Christian. Jordan’s Christian minority is allocated seats in the parliament, etc. The PA foreign minister is Christian. I know of no Muslim country with voting rights where

Israel started Hamas, Israel funded Hamas, Israel can't quit Hamas...

This article is almost 20 years old. 🇵🇸

Steve Witkoff’s credibility is collapsing. Qatar and Egypt no longer see him as a trustworthy mediator, and his promises now carry no weight. This is from diplomatic sources. Why? He gave his word that aid would enter Gaza at scale if Israeli soldier, Edan Alexander (who has

A little warning: Aubrey Clayton is totally clueless about probability, conditional probability, quantitative finance, stochastic processes, noise, information, and entropy. In short, about everything.

Everyone must act to stop this now. Everyone. Every single person. Only civil society can stop this.

In NY after 9 months semi-absence, I counted at least a dozen people on semiglutides, distinctly recognizable: they look older, unhealthy, fragile, and skinny fat (protruding belly). The only exception is an 80yo weightlifter who actually looks younger, healthier, and stronger.

I guess there is no need for me to write more stuff on #Antifragile.