@lpevs.bsky.social
📚 moynihan public scholar at ccny 🎲 riskgaming at lux capital ✊🏽abundance, nuance, democracy ✍️ former columnist at mcsweeney’s and lefty speechwriter at the UN, now working on a book about public apologies and a novel about buried treasure
Imagine a butler whose sole purpose is to supply you with whatever you desire. He studies your dopamine output...and constantly supplies you with cigarettes.
I wrote about why AI faces the same problem as social media: it's incentivized to feed our base desires www.riskgaming.com/p/ais-cigar...
Coco Gauff is about to step onto the court at Wimbledon. But the headlines have been entirely focused on an apology she recently received—one she accepted, but her fans strangely did not.
I wrote about this confusion that happens when a private apology goes public.
It's election day in New York City! To celebrate, we had the leaders of @abundanceny.bsky.social on the Riskgaming podcast. We talked housing, subways, community boards, Robert Moses, and the politics of growth.
The details of my friend Alistair’s deportation are even more horrific than I previously thought. Recommend reading his brutally honest account:
Hi everyone
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
I wrote about Joni Ernst's "apology," the medicaid cuts, getting banned on X, and the legacy of my late Uncle Ravi
Thanks to all who joined up for our Riskgaming meetups in DC and Pittsburgh and our runthrough of Southwest Silicon in London. We’ll have more Riskgaming events throughout the summer, so stay tuned. Sign up at www.riskgaming.com to be the first to know
The internet didn’t used to suck this much. @dannycrichton.com and I talked to the great @noupside.bsky.social about middleware, community gardens, this website, and how to make the internet fun again.
Transcript below!
www.riskgaming.com/p/how-can-we...
We have probably not found aliens, yet. Science is all about uncertainty—but you wouldn't know it from the headlines.
I wrote about how the media has decreased trust in science, and aided the Trump Administration's war on science, for the Riskgaming newsletter: www.riskgaming.com/p/the-nyts-...
I wrote about chess and a cheating scandal that happened today on Twitch and the apology that followed open.substack.com/pub/laurence...
It’s a big day for us at the Riskgaming Initiative—we now have our own website and substack, and to celebrate Danny has penned a brilliant and only slightly crazed manifesto on what the hell this is and why we’re doing it.
Give it a read! t.co/JWL8b8DbCN
Think Bush going after Kerry's military service. Or the Doolittle raid in WWII.
From Karl Rove to Carl von Clausewitz, tacticians have always recommended and deployed attacking your opponent's strength.
It proves that even their best isn't good enough.
We should protest arbitrary deportations to El Salvadorian gulags because it's the right thing to do.
But it's also a smart political tactic. You absolutely should attack your opponent's strength.
but without yeast!
Yesterday a business school in Lithuania did a play-through of our China/EV Riskgaming scenario without us even knowing!
Building a worldwide Riskgaming community like this is one of the great advantages of being open source.
I learned so much from talking to these two...about information overload, the energy transition, and why we've been "wasting trillions" on the wrong industries out of pure envy.
Read: riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-hyper...
Or listen wherever you get your podcasts!
The obsession with trade deficits, manufacturing jobs...Trump clearly has China envy.
So we had @neilthomas123.bsky.social and @katelogan.bsky.social, two top China industrial strategy experts, on the pod. They played our riskgame and told us what we got right, wrong, and everything in-between
Maybe us Jews really do control the markets and the weather
I wrote about comms consultants, that guy big ballz, and how the right wing plays the apology game better than the left on twitter.
(Also: I'm moving from a private newsletter to substack!)
laurencepevsner.substack.com/p/on-comms-c...
TSA agents should be able to nominate well-behaved and efficient boarders to get lounge status
In LA they just sell you viral products straight from TikTok
Obsessed with this pickle tower, complete with a pickle juice waterfall, erected for a German election results watch party
a special 60-second teaser for our lovely Bluesky fans
County has got to be up there (BK represent)
Call me Wilt Chamberlain because I did this last week at the *exact* same location except it was the Ezra Klein Show
Step 2 is where this thought process goes wrong
