The year is 1999 USA is running out of electricity to power the internet and the PC's that will connect to it Digging coal is the solution suggested Je me souviens

ryder cup vibe atm

I've bored on before about my view that the hidden assumption of the Left is that economics is bad and nasty, therefore the worse and nastier you're being, the better economics you're doing. The worst boss is always a squishy liberal acting how she thinks a hard nosed capitalist would.

Under-discussed (is that even possible on here?) is that Andreessen, Thiel, et al really REALLY want to be seen as grandiose “builders” in the real world and the total building they have done amounts to funding a bunch of scam SMR startups and failing to manage a mixed use real estate development.

-43%

Excuuuuse me but how much does this plane advance sora short form video brainrot data center buildout ? Or masayoshichain stablecoin strategic reserve companies for the global overbanked ($12T TAM)? #ambition

the person who invented soft play should win the noble peace prize

cant be true, i am told that europe has inferior engineers and cant make stuff anymore

circle -33% since this insightful piece www.ft.com/content/6675...

This story is a few months old but I just saw it. It's the far right account Jenrick was DM'ing. A spectacular if depressing irony...

yeah, this is worse than dieselgate electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

wen bill gurley tweets about figma

We have media systems that aim to provoke 'engagement' while people are primarily doing something else altogether, and provoke/reward feedback and communication over attention. Feel like 'attention' is like 'commodity', a fetish that needs treating with a little more suspicion

ah, of course

farage in 2029: "rachel sold the natwest"

good evening www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AX-...

You can tell the markets are rallying because the Americans are chatting shit again. www.ft.com/content/cccb...

there are two wolves inside you

Always surprising to me that these people never think to check before shooting off their yaps. NYC was the main immigration center for the US for 2 centuries. It had more than 40% foreign-born residents from 1850-1900 and more than 35% for the next couple decades. www.nyc.gov/assets/plann...

inland empire…lesson learned on that one

wilco at royal albert hall. as a newly minted father it had to be done #dadrock

if it speaks like a clown, and dresses like a clown…

The reason Elon made Grok in the first place was because he assumed OpenAI was turning the secret “woke” dial up too high and small parameter tweaks could make it right-wing. Now he has realized the only way to get the AI to agree with him is to lobotomize it by rewriting the entire training set.

FWIW an 18% drop implies a 34% drop for SpaceX (if we assume the rest of DXYZ is performing about the same as the NASDAQ 100 which is basically fair I think)

Had this observation ~2 years ago -- the dichotomy in how the Online Right and Online Left behave is stark, but it is due to the incentives of online content generation: right-wing influencers want to grift, left-wing influencers want views, clicks, social influence -- outrage and opposition get it

My take on Elon Musk and his plan to leave government. www.economist.com/united-state... With a mini scoop at the end - the workers going back into the United States Institute of Peace offices found a whole bunch of weed apparently thrown away by the DOGE staffers who had been hanging out there

Is private equity becoming a money trap? Strong column here from Dan Rasmussen on the mounting problems for PE. “The question now is not whether the model is being broken. It is whether the exit is wide enough for everyone trying to leave.” www.ft.com/content/3b69...

10x earnings incoming for the booze companies www.ft.com/content/7694...

the hebrides when the sun is out are plain magic

101st Chairborne reporting for duty

An excellent rebuttal to the tendency among Martin Wolf and many other analysts to severely underestimate the huge systemic risks of unipolar systems entirely dependent on the stability of an increasingly fragile global power

It is much more boring than the crypto or SPAC stuff, but re-privatizing the GSEs without a corresponding raise would be by far the biggest corrupt Trump act in dollar terms. They have something like a $150 billion capital deficit and the market is pricing them handing it back to investors for free

just reupping this for no reason at all www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-w...

chewsdays init

I have no patience for this. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time retailed for $59.95 in November, 1998. That's $117.27 today. You're dramatically underpaying for games right now. In fact, AAA studios are killing themselves with big bet live-service disasters and microtransactions to cover costs.

Still seeing people laughing and gloating over the Yurtel/Glastonbury debacle, relishing the fact that people lost £10k to an unscrupulous trader - “lol - they got what they deserved” - Really? You think they *deserved* to lose £10k?

meanwhile, in mid cap eu land www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Remember Zoltan? Remember how right about now everyone would be crying out about his latest note? Referencing it, pretending to have understood a single thing written in it, remember?

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

i am reliably told that the ft scooped wsj by 2 mins, every second counts lads

chris hohn vs chris sinding is like prime mohammed ali vs logan paul, and i'm probably being unfair on logan paul www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xk3...

big ft scoop, particularly as wsj/bbg outspend them 10:1 in the US chasing these exact stories

If the USA reacted to the news of Sputnik by declaring that Russia had too much of an advantage in space technology, so instead they were going to dig a really deep hole and crawl into it