laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Coco 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. 120 0
laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 09/06/2025I wrote about Joni Ernst's "apology," the medicaid cuts, getting banned on X, and the legacy of my late Uncle Ravi 100 0
laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Yesterday 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. 000 0
laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Maybe us Jews really do control the markets and the weather 000 0
laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 04/03/2025I 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... 010 0
laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 27/02/2025TSA agents should be able to nominate well-behaved and efficient boarders to get lounge status 000 0
laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 26/02/2025In LA they just sell you viral products straight from TikTok 000 0
laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Obsessed with this pickle tower, complete with a pickle juice waterfall, erected for a German election results watch party 000 0
laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Day 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 072 0
laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Part 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. 010 0
laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Day 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 1201 0
laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Honored 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? 110 0
laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 09/01/2025These ones are my favorite. Made in Italy but I can only find them in Japanese stationary stores for some reason 010 0
laurence pevsner @lpevs.bsky.social · 08/01/2025As 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! 000 0