Long profile on economist Adam Tooze, who is apparently very big on the Twitter, which it seems he uses A Lot. It doesn’t seem unfair to suggest that, at least in part, Twitter is his deep work.
As opposed to this guy, who couldn’t do good science with his phone on, Tooze appears to synthesise and broadcast on the fly. I’m so far removed from that kind of processing now that receiving two emails back to back is like:
(from experimental cinema tumblr)
In other news, hundreds of people have just been fitted with an artificial pancreas by the NHS. Curiously, my first thought was of a woman I once met at a dinner thrown by Google, who had discovered that her pacemaker could be hacked by bad actors through Bluetooth.
I have to read this again with more coffee inside me, but apparently there’s been a blockchain hack? I mean, if your heart and your mind aren’t safe from the internet, you have to reasonably assume your NFT collection and your pancreas are up for grabs too…