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laurence pevsner

@lpevs.bsky.social
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📚 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

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laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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.
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laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I wrote about Joni Ernst's "apology," the medicaid cuts, getting banned on X, and the legacy of my late Uncle Ravi
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laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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.
LinkedIn post of Lithuanian business class playing “Powering Up”
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laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Maybe us Jews really do control the markets and the weather
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laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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...
image preview of the linked substack
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laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
TSA agents should be able to nominate well-behaved and efficient boarders to get lounge status
Subway take guy with metrocard as mic asking “so what’s your take?”
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laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
In LA they just sell you viral products straight from TikTok
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laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Obsessed with this pickle tower, complete with a pickle juice waterfall, erected for a German election results watch party
Truly a tower of pickles above a charcuterie spread
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laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Day 2 of posting my dad's #astrophotography until he notices: MILKY WAY SENTINEL "A hoodoo in Goblin Valley State Park, Utah, looks solemnly over a deserted landscape, as the Milky Way rises in the sky." 📸Charles Pevsner #space #astronomy
A hoodoo is an eroded spire of soft rock topped by a slightly harder and hence less eroded rock
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laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Part of the success and thrill of congestion pricing is seeing a government program work immediately, at the snap of a finger. Imagine if we could build trains, housing, power plants at a similar pace. Instead, simple fixes feel like minor miracles.
Chart showing traffic times at NYC bridges and tunnels way down
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laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Day 1 of posting my dad's #astrophotography until he notices: THE STINGRAY NEBULA "This is an exceedingly faint HII (atomic ionized hydrogen) region about 700 light years away in Sagittarius, requiring lots of imaging time to capture — 13 hours, in this case." 📸Charles Pevsner #space #astronomy
Deepspace photo of the stingray nebula
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laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Honored that this "Old Favorite" of the late great Brian Agler resurfaced in today's Newsletter of Humorous Writings Re-reading the piece, I was shocked to see we somehow predicted both the AI takeover *and* the Russia-Ukraine war in...2020?
Description in Newsletter of Humorous Writings of Old Favorite “What I’ll Think If You Schedule a Meeting But Don’t Specify Why” by Ginny Hogan and Laurence Pevsner
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laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
These ones are my favorite. Made in Italy but I can only find them in Japanese stationary stores for some reason
Four color metal pens
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laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
As fires rage in southern California, I was shocked to learn that 4% of calls to fire departments are for actual fires It’s similar to the “invisible job” problem of doormen. Titles can be deceiving, you don’t always know all the different kinds of work people do!
Graph depicting fire department call types, with actual fire at 3.9%
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