Tom Hayes

@tomhayes7.bsky.social

Doing my best in challenging times

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

If somebody came to one of my writing classes with a novel about a “24-year-old wunderkind” on Wall Street called Leopold Aschenbrenner who graduated from Columbia aged 19, looked and dressed exactly like this, and crashed the stock market, I’d advise them to tone it down a bit

Tony Tassell@tonytassell.bsky.social · 6d ago

Quote in this story: “The real question is how did anyone invest so much money, and then lend so much money, to a . . . kid with no personal experience and no infrastructure?” as.ft.com/r/5f7537a7-0...

So, my guess for McConnell is that he fell into the new dystopian world of ECPR where life support measures can continue indefinitely beyond the traditional limiting factors of heart or lung failure—to say nothing of brain death. An emerging intervention that is currently challenging our ethics.

Peak cognitive dissonance on display with all these flags at half-mast for a man who we know for sure tried to persuade Georgia to falsify election results in 2020

This red card debate boils down to judging people on their intentions rather than the outcome of their actions. The widespread opinion that “he didn’t mean to” should matter more than nearly breaking someone’s leg is precisely why cynical people find it so profitable to always lie in this country.