I would be DELIGHTED to know how they managed to do a calculation to something that could only ever possibly be a (non-negative) int and end up with 17 decimal places 😂

I haven't the faintest idea what neo-catholic means, but please please please let it involve cyber hacking Jesuits performing exorcisms on possessed AIs.

Well on its way to, dare I say it (ed. note: he dares, oh he very much dares), 27% crazies.

Cherry Blossoms 🌸 Sakura Season 🌸at night in Japan 🇯🇵

Andy Weir’s interviews are like if it emerged that Handel kept a diary where he complained that Bach had “too much religion” in his music, it’s not so much “I disagree” it is “So what are you trying to do, then?”

From a game theoretical perspective, tit-for-tat is often an optimal strategy. In this essay I will...*sound of a gunshot*

"Oh hi", says the 27% Crazification Factor as it slides into its favorite comfy chair.

probably completely obvious but the reason Project Hail Mary is doing so well (apart from being very well made) is that it is all about problem-solving, cooperation, self-sacrifice, and forming deep relationships with those from far away. All values that people feel a desperate need for right now.

F***ing 2026, man.

damn, this is the greatest news "graphic" design I have ever seen!!

Rob writes a newsletter about markets in an economic superpower, I write a newsletter about politics in a country entering its third lost decade, hence my more maudlin disposition.

If you know a decent amount of the history of the United States going back to 1968, this move by Republican elites would be the culmination of their 'Southern Strategy' that has a simple objective: to restore what Charles Sumner would describe as “caste” and an “oligarchy of the skin”. A dystopia.

I do think it’s very funny to convert to Catholicism as an ordinary if mildly famous person at the time only to have the Pope eventually become one of your biggest haters

Thog was robbed.

RIP editorial cartooning.

Amazing

Nerdz for Democracy. May your neurons mirror for all time. 🫡

I say this gently and with love. The ppl watching the No Kings protests and saying “I have nothing in common with these normies, but I support the wine moms and fleece vest dads” are in denial. You are a middle aged bike commuter with a dog and a mortgage. You are these normies.

Normies of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but the harm caused by the weird fixations of billionaire sickos!

One of my favourite bits is that the UK should celebrate its cultural heritage more by building 20ft statues of primarchs and space marines around Nottingham and turn it into a tourist Mecca for Warhammer fans. The true UK soft power.

Just from a TV production perspective, it’s fascinating how loads of people who write about TV and genre have just completely missed that the Harry Potter TV series is a “His Dark Materials style reboot”.

This is the way

...the story is that the entire party continues to be bullied by a radical nihilist faction. Yeah, blame Johnson, but until the party is willing to stand up to the radicals - who in this case were standing for the "principle" that compromise is bad - it's going to continue whoever the Speaker is.

*facepalm*

A modern day Kafka could really run with this premise.

patriots perhaps not currently in control but barreling towards it. this is a picture from the “the fall of the regime” section of a textbook.

I think it's pretty obvious that the current goal for the fash true believers is to achieve their own Confederate States of America. I think it's less clear how likely they are to get what they want, but a bunch of billionaires and the Supreme Court are very much on board which is....not great.

Interesting if depressing thread:

Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks. The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.

Republicans: The Apocalypse Now of Political Parties.

Great thread to follow throughout the day.

The 27% Crazification Factor says 'Hello'.

I’m not the one to do it, but SOMEONE is going to have coined a new term/meme by 2029 for all the angry 401k PMC types who will have combined into a giant mecha-occupy-Wall-Street-Boston-tea-party-zilla by then.

I find it pretty easy to argue against racism from basic moral principles (because I’m not a fecking sociopath stewing in a pot of my own resentments) but this clown car of degenerates in charge of the US has definitely convinced me that racist beliefs are a clear signal of both evil AND ineptitude.

we've lost a decade of our lives watching Republicans be "concerned" while doing diddly squat

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the primary dietary difference between childhood and adulthood is when you're a kid you eat things you don't want to because mom made you and when you're an adult you eat things you don't want to so you can clear space in the fridge

If Powell stays on past his chairmanship in order to put some sand in the gears of MAGA ineptitude I fully expect him to be celebrated. Here's hoping.

Me. The fool is me.

This was a really good set of points about commodity futures curves. On the terminal: blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories...

I'm declaring a force majeure on my portfolio

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

I'm definitely a big believer in "Incentives, dear boy, incentives". I've got this vague, unformed idea that outsized monopolistic wealth rooted in platforms, whether it be Banks, the Internet or Railroads, does seems really effing dangerous to democracy.

William Goldman would have loved this.

All credit to Rep. Morelle, “compliant minions of the president” is a good phrase I’m stealing.

You have my torch!

If I was granted the power to will a single meme into existence, it would be this one.

this goes for so much of the right wing ecosystem. the same guys who scream “DEI hire” would sink to the ocean if they weren’t kept afloat by their far right sugar daddies