Weekend Reading

Oct 18, 2024

The Indian Apartment Behind Russian Efforts to Break US Gas Sanctions by Stephen Stapczynski, Rakesh Sharma, and Christopher Udemans
- “The apartment is lived in by Nikhil Ganesh Ghorpade, a photojournalist without any previous connection to the energy industry. He says he was persuaded by a friend to register his name and home address on behalf of the company and is listed by an official Indian registry as Ocean Speedstar’s sole director. By agreeing, he unwittingly joined a complex network stretching from Dubai to India and China which is being used to create a shadow fleet of gas carriers to ferry the fuel from Russia’s $21 billion Arctic LNG 2 facility.
Election Disinformation From Elon Musk Is Drawing Billions of Views on X by Julianne McShane
- “According to the report, while independent fact-checkers found the content in all of those 50 posts shared by Musk to be false or misleading, none of the posts in question contained a “community note,” X’s user-generated fact-checking system that the company promises can contextualize “potentially misleading posts.” Just this week, Musk claimed in a post on X that community notes offer “a clear and immediate way to refute anything false in the replies,” adding, “the same is not true for legacy media who lie relentlessly, but there is no way to counter their propaganda…”

A Message From the Past Thoughts on Nostalgia by Morgan Housel
- “We apartment started talking about how cheap homes were in 2009. In our region they literally cost four to five times more than today they did then – plus, interest rates were low in 2009, and there was an endless supply of homes on the market to choose from. We said something to the effect of, “People were so lucky back then …”

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