What I read this week...

Germany's blazing fast LNG project, Moore County attacks, and Steph named Sportsperson of the Year

What I read this week…

• The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months (WSJ)

• The political orientation of the ChatGPT AI system (David Rozado)

• Seven signs of ethical collapse (Markkula Center for Applied Ethics)

• Interpreting Girard Lecture (Johnathan Bi)

• FBI investigates gun attack on Moore County power grid (BBC)

• Letter from Apple supplier Foxconn’s founder prodded China to ease zero-Covid rules (WSJ)

• Europe is paying dearly to keep the lights on (Bloomberg)

• Biden proposes overhaul of U.S. biofuel law to boost EV makers like Tesla (Bloomberg)

• Computer science students face a shrinking Big Tech job market (NYT)

• Stephen Curry is SI’s 2022 Sportsperson of the Year (Sports Illustrated)

On Twitter…

Rob Henderson @robkhenderson

This is very good. Almost nobody ever achieves this level of introspection and self-awareness.

Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis

"The CDC found 45 pct of high school students were so persistently sad or hopeless in 2021 they were unable to engage in regular activities. Almost 1 in 5 seriously considered suicide and 9 pct surveyed tried to take their lives during previous 12 months."

washingtonpost.comThe crisis of student mental health is much vaster than we realizeThere is too much need and too little help for kids. Even as federal covid relief money has let schools step up their efforts, they also have come up short.

Alyson Shontell @ajs

Meta bans staff from discussing ‘very disruptive’ topics including abortion, gun rights, and vaccines in new ‘community engagement expectations’ according to screenshots viewed by ⁦@kyliebytes⁩

fortune.comMeta bans staff from discussing ‘very disruptive’ topics including abortion, gun rights and vaccines in new ‘community engagement expectati…“We’ll no longer allow for every type of expression at work, but we think this is the right thing to do for the long-term health of our internal community.”

David Z. Morris @davidzmorris

I'm very grateful this piece is apparently one of the most widely shared ever from @CoinDesk. @SBF_FTX is continuing his sociopathic clownshow and I'm happy to help push back. And if you liked the insights here, I have an immense body of work. 🧵 1/5 coindesk.com/layer2/2022/11…

coindesk.comFTX’s Collapse Was a Crime, Not an AccidentSam Bankman-Fried is a con man and fraudster of historic proportions. But you might not learn that from the New York Times, CoinDesk’s Chief Insights Columnist David Z. Morris writes.

DoubleLine Capital @DLineCap

Jeffrey Gundlach: If you look at the depth of the 2s10s Treasury curve inversion, maybe we’re only several months away from recession.

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