Cette semaine on expérimente avec les rigueurs de la “tripledemic” alors qu’on arpente les pharmacies pour trouver les dernières boîtes de Tylenol.

Pendant ce temps SBF poursuit sa tournée médiatique et s’arrête à la conférence DealBook, pour essentiellement dire qu’il est, like, vraiment désolé. Cela coincide avec le début du procès dans l’affaire Wirecard qui démarre à Munich dans un tribunal à l’épreuve des bombes.

On sort l’acronyme “VUCA” des archives, on évoque la situation tumultueuse en Chine et du courage, de la Russie et de Moscow, Idaho où un enquête sur la mort de quatre étudiants piétine. On évoque enfin l’histoire du bambin de 10 mois qui a fait une overdose de fentanyl dans un parc huppé de San Francisco.

On évoque en toile de fond:

• Complexité des chaînes d’approvisionnement

• Risques existentiels, asymétrie et problèmes de contrôle dans un monde complexe et interconnecté

• La justice alternative

• Enjeux d’itinérance, de consommation, d’acceptation et la justice progressive qui atteint ses limites (SF)

Bon week-end.

Notes et références

[01:00] Intro — A ‘Tripledemic’? et Pénurie de produits pour nourrissons et pour enfants à base d’ibuprofène et d’acétaminophène. “Health Canada pegged the problem to "unprecedented demand since the summer" (CTV)

Relié: What the hell is going on with Quebec's health care system? 🤬

Emer O'Toole @Emer_OToole

Here’s what it’s like when your kids get sick in Québec right now – a long thread.

2:50 AM ∙ Nov 25, 2022

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[05:00] FTX; SBF à l’événement DealBook du 30/11 avec Andrew Ross Sorkin: “I’ve had a bad month”. Faits saillants.

“I don’t know the details of that house for my parents. I know it was not intended to be their long-term property. It was intended to be the company’s property. I don’t know how that was papered in, and I think that’s where it was and will end up. I think they may have stayed there while working with the company sometime over the last year.”

[06:00] Gideon-Lewis Kraus “Sam Bankman-Fried, Effective Altruism, and the Question of Complicity” (voir aussi: “The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism”)

[07:00] Wirecard: “A bombproof courtroom and a CEO in the dock: what to expect from the Wirecard trial”.

[16:00] VUCA: Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, dont le A doit évoluer pour être compris comme signifiant “asymmetric”:

“Al Qaeda spent roughly half a million dollars to destroy the World Trade Center and cripple the Pentagon. What has been the cost to the United States? In a survey of estimates by The New York Times, the answer is $3.3 trillion, or about $7 million for every dollar Al Qaeda spent planning and executing the attacks.” (source)

[21:00] Les mouvements de protestation en Chine. Le résumé de N.S. Lyons.

The Upheaval

Courage in the Streets of China

I highly recommend you read this in the web or app version rather than email so that you can view the many included videos, and so that it doesn’t get cut off. Apologies in advance for any typos etc. I broke my rule against doing quick-takes and wrote this in a hurry…

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[29:00] Chine, Iran: Pourquoi pas de mouvements de contestation en Russie?

Sergey Radchenko @DrRadchenko

On the question of why protests are breaking out in China and in Iran but *not* in Russia. This has nothing to do with any kind of predisposition for authoritarianism or some special degree of subservience that the Russians supposedly possess. Let's look at what's happening.

7:20 PM ∙ Nov 28, 2022

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[34:00] What the hell is going on in Moscow, Idaho? Si intéressé lire les résumés de l’affaire: NYT, BBC, NPR, WSJ.

“Nearly three weeks into the investigation of the gruesome stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, the police said on Wednesday that they no longer know whether the killings were targeted, their latest reversal as pressure mounts to solve the murders that have shaken and mystified this college town.” (source)

[40:00] Gabby Petito

[45:00] San Fransicko — “Dad reveals horrific details of baby’s reported fentanyl overdose at S.F. playground”

[51:00] “Musk’s Neuralink Hopes to Implant Computer in Human Brain in Six Months” (évidemment tout est relatif avec Musk: “Watch Elon Musk Promise Self-Driving Cars "Next Year" Every Year Since 2014.”)

[54:00] Banana + Bread + Flip flops (🤫)