U.S. politics now just a vengeance pendulum swinging back and forth and its institutions can’t restrain it. The model needs to be torn down and rebuilt in the Westminster tradition but mah forefathers and freedoms 😭

Justin Wolfers smiling ear-to-ear: "The President's latest threats against our allies are like a story I know called The Puppy Who Lost His Way..."

The roar of the crowd, the whine of the drone

Think it’s too big for me but one of you who is XL should drop $120 on this calgary olympics luge team windbreaker www.ebay.com/itm/25664304...

When i was young they had a website where you could watch a big live event and make jokes about it and read the jokes that other people were making about it.

Not to brag baby but officials from the World Anti-Doping Agency once accused me of injecting hyaluronic acid in my sex organ before being measured for a ski jumping suit

I don't know what any of the founders or c-suite of Anthropic look like and that's how it should be.

All in all, it's been a great week of comeuppance for my mortal enemies. But more work to do. Next week aiming for four-figure bitcoin and Ackman in prison 💪

In a way it's reassuring that as soon as everyone got lazy everything started breaking

This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? No. You are a function of neither the earth's axial tilt nor its rotation. open.substack.com/pub/gileswil...

Starting to think these tech valuations don’t add up

Guessing mandatory Home Economics classes in high schools have long been defunded and eliminated. Maybe I’m an outlier but it’s about all I remember from secondary ed. Probably the least we could do to help kids avoid DoorDash poverty.

Universal Bread Income

Pigeons make me so sad man. We domesticated them then eliminated their jobs now they're forced to wander our cities approaching us as friends to beg for scraps and we shoo them away as pests.

When you run and lead product design/engineering for two complicated companies and are about to launch what is arguably the most advance rocket in history but they won't let you come to their sexpest island :(

Brits still out there resigning in disgrace like it's the 20th century. Someone needs to explain to them that accountability as a feature of public life has been deprecated.

and they say america has no social safety net

Social media and the broader internet will be ruined by the end of 2026

Slow news day

Also worth thinking about how the Fed’s swap line reaction function might change—its provision of an apolitical global liquidity backstop has arguably been more important for the dollar’s role than interest rate policy itself.

This is my fed chair straight out of central casting

"Central casting" stings because bank economist was the last bastion of the bald bespectacled dweeb character actor and now they've taken that from us too

Any day now it will be my diversified portfolio of ETF’s turn to squeeze and go vertical

When we learned last year that Bessent got in a shoving match with Elon Musk in the White House, I'm sure some people said "Huh, maybe he's an okay guy" but in actuality Bessent is a smug asshole, and he just happened to get in a fight with another smug asshole

whenever i mention to an offline european that there's no way in hell I'd set foot in the U.S. anytime soon

I have no doubt the U.S. military could roll through Canada in a weekend, but could they get their C levels in reading, writing and oral interaction to hold executive positions?

Anyways if we’re going to cut power to America, today would be a good day to find the on/off switch.

NEW: A muster of Rohirrim have been deployed to Greenland

I’d trade a Polymarket contract on whether the U.S. flag still has the same number of stars in five years.

As one of the chosen few who still remembers their ICQ number, direct all media inquiries through me.

Always wondered how the world collectively lost its head in 1914 and 1939 but pretty obvious now.

According to Jeff Passan, #Bluejays have agreed to terms with Japanese slugger Kazuma Okamoto. He’s won 3 HR titles in NPB and has a career .860 OPS over there. Best hitter to come out of Japan since Hideki Matsui, and in his prime. (Ohtani from another planet, doesn’t count) Still room for Bo.

So which tweet from a canadian display name is in the background here

Stabilising, rebuilding trust, and shaping what comes after a move like this (was) a job for USAID btw

Maybe Trump *was* an outlier anomaly. But now he's open-sourced the blueprint to cult personality success and personal enrichment in politics. Look forward to 4 years of Jon Stewart followed by 4 years of Bill Ackman followed by 4 years of Mark Cuban followed by 4 years of Tucker Carlson.

Actionless moral outrage for some, grok put her in a bikini for others!

I took an undergrad econ linear programming/optimization course where the midterm was to run a simplex algorythm by hand (using the tableu method) in an old school blue book. I thought it was dumb. Later, I asked the prof why he asked us to do something a computer could do more effectivly. 1/2

Do boxcar hobos pick up used zyn pouches like old stogies

My cousin would order surf n turf and his parents would accommodate him. I was more of a “you’ll get chicken fingers, water, and don’t even think about saying yes to the dessert menu” family. Only thing that’s changed is the media’s lust for clicks (and rising real incomes makes it easier to spoil)

Very cool and anecdotally consistent with other industries. Quickly pivoting to r.o.w. markets. Nature is healing. Canada finding itself in a much better bargaining position going forward. Geographic proximity ain’t what it used to be.

Literally all four food groups 🤷‍♂️

Fuck it I don’t care anymore

It’s kind of neat that Letterkenny ended and then the two co-creators just went out and made both the straightest and gayest hockey shows possible.

On the plane from south african world cup 2010 i sat behind Die Antwoord on the first leg and Stephen Fry on the second. I politely ignored them. Regret it, because the rest of the boys got sick vuvuzela pics with them.