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I think the problem here is that Graeber took criticism worse than any human being in history.

It is very important to note that the cat in the preview photo is *not* Coco and is this ***completely innocent***

My boss sends me important notes throughout the day

Okay but having met a lot of people who work in open source who look like fae I thought this was a legitimate question...

Oh yeah we're adding that one to the codebase.

It is 2005, US markets are sclerotic, Japanese reforms and EU capital markets investments should drive ACWI ex US dominance for a decade. It is 2015, US markets are sclerotic, Japanese reforms and EU capital markets investments should drive ACWI ex US dominance for a decade. It is 2025…

Anti-environmentalism as adjacent to vulgar YIMBYism/abundunce really misses the point or swallows the spotted barn owl propaganda. You develop in the urban cores/adjacents because it helps relieve the pressure to develop at the Wildland-Urban Interface.

Bloomberg setting all us internet jokesters up for a "we used to have Steve Job, Richard Data, and Bob Hope" joke...

Finally some proper representation for the Northern California I know.

People criticize George Soros for paying protesters to stir up trouble, but he’s just taking the path of leased resistance.

Counterpoint: this is the median Malibu/San Fernando Valley constituent

Someone tell 20year old punk rock, literature major me that I'm reading GS research notes on the treadmill before going to the office to write code.

This whole piece is all the actual horribles on parade, and this one is just infuriating

this sounds like a glorious existence frankly

Okay, so maybe I wasn't too mean to him ...

I believe the Andor budget should have been the GDP of France and I Vote.

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

Don't sleep on the 1964 VW bus that's for sale too...

my wife, fishing plastic springs out from under the appliances that the kittens lost: youtu.be/Hcx44e2gnfI?...

[walking out of the kitchen holding Cooks Illustrated's best pear crisp in a le creuset baking dish ] sorry folks dessert has gone a bit... pear-shaped [polite laughter interrupted as the crisp violently explodes, covering me in molten pear goo that burns and melts my delicate flesh]

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

Who is fucking smoking weed in the starting corral for the Berkeley 5k?

Cliffs of Dover ass back beat. youtu.be/aiRn3Zlw3Rw?...

youtu.be/psIsSEc3IlQ?t=… VINCENT Did you just order a five-dollar shake? MIA Sure did. VINCENT A shake? Milk and ice cream? MIA Uh-huh.

DAD: Babe, I think the kid has Ovid MOM: What? Covid? CHILD: Rose darke and full of foggye mist. And now they were within A kenning of the upper earth, when Orphye did begin DAD: To dowt him lest shee followed not, and through an eager love Desyrous for to see her, he his eyes did backward move.

A federal program that deported 400,000 immigrants from 2008-2014 increased new-construction home prices by 16%, or $50k. This is net of reduced demand effects. 2023 paper haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

Me, explaining to the kids that it's time to stop playing Minecraft and come to the table for breakfast youtu.be/rGPWW9Pjzto?...

It's kinda funny that there's absolutely a type of guy who is angry that DJs have to clear all of their samples, thus ruining the heyday of 80s and 90s hip-hop, but also is upset that AI models don't get use permission for all of their training data.

Nows my chance to install The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living in my child's kindergarten classroom

Explaining "Leroy Jenkins!" to a coworker I'm not going to escape the accusations.

Do moody teenagers not read Zen Flesh, Zen Bones when they first start to glimpse mortality and suffering in the world? Do they think that they can kill the gods rather than just survive in the world they abandoned?

Ed Miliband ASMR can't hurt you. There's no need to be afraid of Ed Miliband ASMR. Ed Miliband:

"mom and pop $500mm hedge funds having a bad time"...

It was just painfully clear by May of 2020 that there were going to be massive impacts from COVID in lives lost and student learning. Everything around schools discourse was just trading off those unknowns. Basically every class until 2035 is going to have some impact.

A few generically true statements: there is a value in social sanction. the mechanisms for social sanction is by necessity cruel. People with structurally less power are more deserving of empathy and care. The question is is it worth violating the third statement if the first is tactically useful.

I’m sorry, but There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day is a modern invention pushed by card companies. I only observe A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day on the 14th.

ok this thing is fun

I think Dealbook does a disservice to its readers by calling CMBS "exotic financial instruments" and not contextualizing the relative size of any of the markets involved here.

It's probably bad that we've all started doing the Friday Night Lights lintel tap to the old Chuck Prince quote "As long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance" But until someone solves the problem of having a benchmark, here we are.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Walking around the town I grew up with the kiddos. "That's the place that used to sell Stussy." (Now it's an Athleta) "That's a coffee shop that I was a teenage ruffian around." (It is still covered in teenage ruffians)

Some of us remember the old ways

I feel like the sprint from The Gavin Newsom to The Long-haired Hippie is pretty short so I see the appeal behind the haircut.

As his work would have been orally composed rather than written, I think it's more accurate to consider Homer an early sort of podcaster

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

I want the 20th century literary classics: Don DeLillo, but make it Star Wars The Crying of Lot 49, but make it Star Wars. The Magic Mountain, but make it Star Wars. 100 Years of Solitude, but make it Star Wars. Krzysztof Kieślowski Trois couleurs trilogy, but Star Wars.