Starting a thread of various videos today in HK and Shenzhen as the world’s strongest storm #TyphoonManghkut wiping our cities. (Videos are not mine but collected from messages doing the rounds w WhatsApp and WeChat) https://t.co/FXU5ITrFqN

Beijing urged to print more money to help China cope with Donald Trump’s trade war

Narratives are an immensely powerful tool, so much so, that experts generally attribute civilization’s rapid development to humans’ ability to efficiently tell stories.

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1/ Long Reads Sunday #12. Now this, THIS was a week in crypto. We’ve got data, debates, emergent privacy technology, regulation, enforcement, mining 2.0, stablecoins (so, so many stablecoins), and, for good measure, the emergent global competition for citizenship.…

Whale watchers squeal with delight as three surfacing humpbacks leap out of the water almost simultaneously right next to their boat in rare triple breach. https://t.co/eQxktSGRfZ https://t.co/nCKEd0komi

The virtual machine that allows ethereum to compute everything in a decentralized way is getting a massive overhaul.

Eight charts show how the world economy remains hobbled long after the great financial crisis.

Nouriel Roubini, a well-recognized economist and a professor at Stern School, believes a financial crash worse than the 2008 recession will hit US markets by 2020.