"Tell everyone... my death... was... statistically rare..." - me reassuring everyone as I bleed out after a random guy with 15 priors shanks me on the Q train on my way to see Kung Fu Panda 4 in IMAX
Personally, I think the liberal YIMBY position of letting the government build housing without 50 million public meetings occupied almost entirely by middle age homeowners might actually be a better plan to build public housing than the socialist plan of doing literally nothing
Ooof. I understand others will feel differently but I just feel sadness all round.
Ooof. I understand others will feel differently but I just feel sadness all round.
OK - Sam Bankman-Fried sentencing has arrived, Inner City Press wrote the book (Crypto Criminal amazon.com/dp/B0CMJF66XR and will live tweet, thread below
Jimmy Carter meeting the Irish Taoiseach, the morning after the American hostages were taken in Tehran: "I have been reading a report of the Northern Ireland Fair Employment Agency last night. Could you explain to me employment patterns in Fermanagh?" millercenter.org/the-presidency…
@AlanMCole My article, “Whether or not you should marry an older man depends on the risk-free rate as well as your marital risk premium,” was tragically rejected by The Cut
Amazon Plans to Save $1.3B By Shrinking Office Footprint: "Unidentified source said the company has a 33.8% office vacancy rate. Amazon expects its plan will ease that level of inefficiency to 25% this year & to 10% by between 2027 & 2029" commercialobserver.com/2024/03/amazon…
Irish Citizen Army on the roof of Liberty Hall in 1916.
Macron and Lula look like they just got married and are having a whirlwind honeymoon.
There's a certain type of guy whose twitter history is like
Pre-Oct 7: The only greater abomination than the homosexual is women who wear pants
Oct. 7: Glory to the Intifada!
Post Oct. 7: As a lifelong progressive Democrat I can no longer in good conscience support Joe Biden
Europe's Digital Markets Act forced Google to redesign its local search results in four different places & and mandated more links to middlemen sites like Yelp & TripAdvisor.
But predictably, the middlemen aren't satisfied - and are now demanding traffic *quotas"...
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The future of finance seems a lot like the old finance, tbh
@ebottcher @tonysimone Every interest group in the Democratic Party coalition believing it should “get something” in exchange for building new housing is why we don’t build new housing.
We used to know how to agglomerate in this country.
We used to know how to agglomerate in this country.
A breakdown of how inflation-adjusted wealth for the Bottom 50% has risen $19k--what's most impressive is how boring and non-bubbly it is. An increase in assets across the board and a reduction in non-housing debt.
This article shows Andrew Huberman to be a huge dirtbag and very dishonorable in his treatment of women, although its description of his management of a five-simultaneous-girlfriends situation doesn't dispel his reputation for extreme productivity/focus nymag.com/intelligencer/…
For example, people were really concerned that the GFC was caused by poor people being irresponsible with their money, but it's just not the case. nber.org/papers/w20848