Robert Graboyes
Opinion Editor at InsideSources
Health economist/journalist/musician. Writes on econ, ethics, sci/tech, culture @ Bastiat's Window (https://t.co/G1m8dMk6ST). 2014 Bastiat Prize for Journalism.
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2 weeks ago |
graboyes.substack.com | Robert Graboyes
Paid subscriptions ($50/year or $5/month) really help, but we love free subscribers, too. In 2016, Donald Trump promised, “We’re gonna win so much that you may get tired of winning.” His advisors must have reached that point, as evidenced by the bizarre, incoherent “Liberation Day” tariff policy they helped craft.
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3 weeks ago |
discoursemagazine.com | Robert Graboyes
On March 23, genomics pioneer 23andMe filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and to be sure, the bankruptcy offers an opportunity to indulge our darkest fears about the digital world and to contemplate how individuals and institutions might handle private data going forward. Once valued at more than $6 billion, 23andMe saw 99% of its market capitalization evaporate after medical applications failed to pan out and hackers in 2023 absconded with the data of 7 million clients.
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1 month ago |
graboyes.substack.com | Robert Graboyes
Paid subscriptions ($50/year or $5/month) really help, but we love free subscribers, too. Portions of this essay were adapted from my “Digital Life — No Room to Hide,” published in 2017 by InsideSources. Privacy, it turns out, may have been a vanishingly brief phenomenon in human history.
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1 month ago |
graboyes.substack.com | Robert Graboyes
Paid subscriptions ($50/year or $5/month) really help, but we love free subscribers, too. I’ve invited 30 mystery guests from across many centuries to attend a 21st century costume party. Each image was produced in seconds by AI (Grok)—though in some cases, it took several tweaks of the prompt to get the right image. I’ll wait till later in the week to reveal their identities, leaving you time to ponder who they might be.
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1 month ago |
graboyes.substack.com | Robert Graboyes
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Who was first U.S. president to intervene to stop a pogrom in the Eastern Mediterranean? And when? https://t.co/SQfftdGUj1
“It didn’t start on Oct. 7th.” https://t.co/call52p9p6
RT @MWChapman: Tired of Winning, Apparently, by @Robert_Graboyes https://t.co/ZclROP1Lw1
If you don’t mind, I’d love to direct readers to the essay where the quote appeared. In it, I compare fear of trade deficits with ancient fears of solar eclipses: https://t.co/O3C1eU6a2B https://t.co/e8nD6QFYc1
“A trade deficit in goods and services is just the mirror image of inward flows of international investment.” - @Robert_Graboyes
