Balaji S. Srinivasan
Not big on credentialism, need multidisciplinary effort vs virus. But if deemed relevant, bio here:
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#259 The New Center
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Investing in India's digital future
Google 2h 1 tweets
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces a $10 billion Google for India Digitization Fund to accelerate India’s digital economy.
Erik Torenberg's Thoughts
Eriktorenberg.substack.com 7h 1 tweets
TBD
Japan is 'shocked' and furious at the US after a major coronavirus outbreak at 2 Marine bases in Okinawa — and says the US is not taking the virus seriously
Business Insider 15h 1 tweets
"We now have strong doubts that the US military has taken adequate disease prevention measures," Okinawa governor Denny Tamaki said.
Epigenetic clock - Wikipedia
En.wikipedia.org 633d 2 tweets
Balaji S. Srinivasan Eventually we'll want to measure this or a similar measure as frequently as possible. You might detect months where you are aging faster or slower. 18h
The quest to define biological age - Longevity.Technology
Longevity.Technology 18h 1 tweets
Prof Steve Horvath, the founder of epigenetic age measurement, talks methylation clocks and the need for biological age standardisation.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan “I said, ‘Oh my god, there’s such a huge signal – if I want to build a biomarker for aging, I really have to focus on methylation’ and so I’ve been working on that ever since.” 18h
What Journalists Say When No One is Watching
Savingjournalism.substack.com 26h 5 tweets
This story is about a particular piece of reporting. One that may not seem very important on the surface. But it’s ultimately a story about the systems that balance our incentives and fence in our worst impulses — or, rather, what happens in the...
Balaji S. Srinivasan We need a new positive-sum relationship between tech, media, and society at large. After COVID, Scott Alexander, last week’s fracas, and now the TikTok imbroglio it’s clear the status quo isn't working. Here's a very thoughtful piece on the topic 18h
First hint that body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed
Nature.com 311d 32 tweets
In a small trial, a cocktail of drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan It may be possible to reverse aging. 42h
Innocence — Frank & Earnest
Frank & Earnest 48h 1 tweets
A story of the cops being called on a black man for returning a book to the library
Away we go
Vicki.substack.com 48h 1 tweets
What was the VC versus journalist thing about?
Balaji S. Srinivasan Well written & fair account of the recent kerfuffle: I do agree we need to broaden VC. Long term, crypto makes everyone an investor like the web made everyone a publisher. Never met , but go subscribe to her newsletter! 48h
Normcore Tech
Vicki.substack.com 48h 1 tweets
A newsletter about making tech less sexy, more boring, and anything adjacent to tech that the mainstream media isn't covering.
Balaji S. Srinivasan Well written & fair account of the recent kerfuffle: I do agree we need to broaden VC. Long term, crypto makes everyone an investor like the web made everyone a publisher. Never met , but go subscribe to her newsletter! 48h
I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup
Slate Star Codex 58h 1 tweets
[Content warning: Politics, religion, social justice, spoilers for “The Secret of Father Brown”. This isn’t especially original to me and I don’t claim anything more than to…
Glenn Greenwald Talks Freelancing and the Future of Investigative Journalism
The Freelancer 51h 1 tweets
"Never let anybody interfere with the things you want to do and say. That's the number one rule for everything."
Balaji S. Srinivasan "What people may not know is that the now-famous journalist who scooped the story, Glenn Greenwald, was a freelancer." 51h
How to Conduct an Open-Source Investigation, According to the Founder of Bellingcat
The New Yorker 682d 8 tweets
At a workshop in a London hotel, Eliot Higgins teaches his tradecraft.
Balaji S. Srinivasan You're saying there's some % of stories that only an established institution with $ can do. OK, let's stipulate that for argument's sake. Do you agree there are stories a citizen with particular expertise could do that an institution couldn't or wouldn't? 51h
Privacy — Seamless & Secure Online Card Payments
Privacy 521d 5 tweets
Checkout securely online by creating unique virtual card numbers for every purchase. Avoid data breaches, unwanted charges, and stolen credit card numbers.
Balaji S. Srinivasan An important concept is that it's really not about tech companies. Those are just one means to an end. If the goal is privacy, that might be a tech company (), an open source project (Signal), a coin (Zcash), or a nonprofit (EFF). Vehicles for the values. 57h
the irresistible force vs the ironized object
Fredrik deBoer 60h 6 tweets
Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Balaji S. Srinivasan Had a fun chat just now with Lewis-Kraus on positive sum ways to build a new relationship between tech & media. He recommended this piece, which I also endorse. Insults for both sides aside, it nails the key question: do you have sincerity? Or only irony? 60h
Ghost: The #1 open source headless Node.js CMS
Ghost 378d 4 tweets
The world's most popular modern open source publishing platform. A headless Node.js CMS used by Apple, Sky News, Tinder and thousands more. MIT licensed, with 30k+ stars on Github.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan This is an excellent piece on opsec for setting up a pseudonymous blog. They mention a few options, and certainly Wordpress and GitHub Pages are a reasonable choice. However, you might check out with the membership option. 3d
Blog Anonymously
Uglyduck.ca 3d 1 tweets
Some very basic instructions on how to blog anonymously (not fool-proof by any means)
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Balaji S. Srinivasan This is an excellent piece on opsec for setting up a pseudonymous blog. They mention a few options, and certainly Wordpress and GitHub Pages are a reasonable choice. However, you might check out with the membership option. 3d
Nic Carter: Your Property Rights Should Extend to Social Media - CoinDesk
CoinDesk 34d 6 tweets
It's time for internet users to assert their rights as content owners, rather than giving up free material to platforms like Google and Facebook, says our columnist.
Robinhood Has Lured Young Traders, Sometimes With Devastating Results
Nathaniel Popper - Nytimes.com 5d 16 tweets
Its users buy and sell the riskiest financial products and do so more frequently than customers at other retail brokerage firms, but their inexperience can lead to staggering losses.
Keybase Book
Keybase - Book.keybase.io 5d 1 tweets
Use Keybase for end-to-end encrypted chat messaging, file sharing, and team collaboration. Get the free app for iOS, Mac, Android, Windows, and Linux.
Balaji S. Srinivasan I'm very familiar with the problem too :) However, I think we are moving towards a world where you can do silo'd cryptographic attestations of specific pieces of identity, rather than giving the whole thing away. 5d