BREAKING: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city will run out of Covid-19 vaccines by next week due to supply shortages https://t.co/ceeA584zA0 pic.twitter.com/FiNDxYT2qi
— Bloomberg (@business) January 15, 2021
For all of those folks blaming states for the failures in vaccine distribution...
Last night, I received disturbing news, confirmed to me directly by General Perna of Operation Warp Speed: States will not be receiving increased shipments of vaccines from the national stockpile next week, because there is no federal reserve of doses.
— Governor Kate Brown (@OregonGovBrown) January 15, 2021
So, they announced fake news then? "When HHS Sec. Alex Azar announced this week that the federal government would begin releasing coronavirus vaccine doses held in reserve for second shots, no such reserve existed..." https://t.co/wLZlSsBCPJ
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) January 15, 2021
But when the federal government chooses to be AWOL in a national crisis, efforts among states and municipalities will inevitably fail.

Governors were told repeatedly by @HHSgov there was a strategic reserve of vaccines, and this week, the American people were told it\u2019d be released to increase supply of vaccine.
— Governor Jay Inslee (@GovInslee) January 15, 2021
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It appears now that no reserve exists. The Trump admin. must answer immediately for this deception. https://t.co/JJky0NcbPi
https://t.co/imHRi4Gx76
What is happening with the vaccine rollout will soon be seen, correctly, as one of the greatest failures of public administration in American history. This is what happens when the president is a lazy, incompetent, addled grifter who quits the job 10 months before his term is up. https://t.co/qu4t4g7ToC
— David Faris (@davidmfaris) January 15, 2021
This is a disgrace. A scandal. Theft from the poorest and most at-risk Americans to fill the pockets of the richest.
— Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione) January 15, 2021
Don't pretend that our troops need the most expensive fighter plane ever built. It doesn't work. As the outgoing Acting SecDef said, "It is a piece of ****." https://t.co/T3VTukrPbK
It turns out that even within "blue" states, the locations of the HHS-funded sites themselves favor Republican-rep'ed districts. pic.twitter.com/VnywIBTeLq
— Jorge A. Caballero, MD (@DataDrivenMD) October 15, 2020
Ron Desantis and Publix only offering vaccine in FL counties won by Republicans. Worth noting that Publix also gave Desantis $100,000 despite him calling on GOP legislatures in states Trump lost to appoint separate electors to overturn election results.https://t.co/ZxLzZQmQWE
— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn) January 15, 2021
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A thread exploring the Nashville bombing in the context of the 2020 Digital War (via SolarWinds) against the United States perpetrated by our enemies, likely China, Iran and/or Russia.

SolarWinds Hack
A digital "Pearl Harbor" moment for the United States, whoever was responsible had access to the keys to the kingdom for months during 2020, including sensitive military infrastructure. This is war!
SunGard + SolarWinds
SolarWinds software company is owned by same company that owns SunGard, which essentially provides data center services. A secure place to host internet servers with redundant power and "big pipe" data connections.
https://t.co/U3P3SrrkM1

SunGard Data Center
In Nashville, around the corner from their "big pipe" connection, AT&T. Like any data center, highly secure. Only authorized personnel can enter, and even fewer can access the actual server rooms. Backup generators are available in case of power failure.

If the SunGard hardware was being used to "host" critical command and control software related to SolarWinds, the US powers would be very interested in gaining special access keys that are stored on the hard-drives of specific servers.

https://t.co/eXLNam2gv4

Good. Fuck Rush Limbaugh, and let the celebration about his death be a reminder to the rest of the racists and bigots that we\u2019ll happily dance on your graves too.
— Chris Kluwe, Irredeemable Pudgy Nobody (@ChrisWarcraft) February 17, 2021
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Like company moats, your personal moat should be a competitive advantage that is not only durable—it should also compound over time.
Characteristics of a personal moat below:
I'm increasingly interested in the idea of "personal moats" in the context of careers.
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) November 22, 2018
Moats should be:
- Hard to learn and hard to do (but perhaps easier for you)
- Skills that are rare and valuable
- Legible
- Compounding over time
- Unique to your own talents & interests https://t.co/bB3k1YcH5b
2/ Like a company moat, you want to build career capital while you sleep.
As Andrew Chen noted:
People talk about \u201cpassive income\u201d a lot but not about \u201cpassive social capital\u201d or \u201cpassive networking\u201d or \u201cpassive knowledge gaining\u201d but that\u2019s what you can architect if you have a thing and it grows over time without intensive constant effort to sustain it
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) November 22, 2018
3/ You don’t want to build a competitive advantage that is fleeting or that will get commoditized
Things that might get commoditized over time (some longer than
Things that look like moats but likely aren\u2019t or may fade:
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) November 22, 2018
- Proprietary networks
- Being something other than one of the best at any tournament style-game
- Many "awards"
- Twitter followers or general reach without "respect"
- Anything that depends on information asymmetry https://t.co/abjxesVIh9
4/ Before the arrival of recorded music, what used to be scarce was the actual music itself — required an in-person artist.
After recorded music, the music itself became abundant and what became scarce was curation, distribution, and self space.
5/ Similarly, in careers, what used to be (more) scarce were things like ideas, money, and exclusive relationships.
In the internet economy, what has become scarce are things like specific knowledge, rare & valuable skills, and great reputations.