Okay what about Mansa Musa though?

God you can hear him in "physically beautiful enterprise as opposed to a bankrupt eyesore." Like fuck this. Bring back professionalism

one of the secrets of Clown Law, which Donald Trump is the grand master of, is that in Clown Law you recognize that you can file any old bullshit and they'll have to pretend it's serious and it'll eat up weeks of time

Living in the DC media market is fun because you'll get ads intended for 32 people.

open the MSM and see straight coverage of how Elon Musk has a trillion notional dollars, latest Tesla features etc. open public health research and he has straight up murked ~a million people and counting

crazy how much some of you hate to see a man succeed

The phrase "morally bankrupt" is meant to be a figure of speech, people

The *one* time I'm in Costco and they've shut down the little thing that serves the hotdogs....

They're just selling baseball at the Costco!

Speakerphone? In the doctor’s office waiting room? Really?

The way no one even bothers to try to stop Elon Musk anymore - he's allowed to take hundreds of billions of dollars in exchange for empty promises, or incite pogroms and push white nationalism, and no one pushes back or tries to constrain him at all - feels like a society that's simply given up

'who was this Theodoric fellow? Damned it I know, but over here in Silla we're going to build him the memorial of all time."

the Civilization Wonder race is very funny when you think about it. "Pack it in, lads, pack it in! There'll be no Colosseum in Rome, we just heard about some Mesoamericans that did it."

they're back from lunch, folks

an important reason why there was such institutional pressure behind the SpaceX IPO is a whole bunch of VC funds desperately needed to cash out old vintages of funding rounds

I’m waiting for burrito taxi discourse but from the right (“why are they *burrito* taxis?!”)

No-one wants to hear this but the solution is not to elect 15 billion different offices on the same ballot on the same day.

trump is running up the national credit card and soon we're gonna be hearing about how dems have no choice but to "tighten our belts." so i thank @sereneblossom.gay for this exercise in working through *just how much* money we could raise by cutting out all the bullshit the rich use to dodge taxes

More support for the Robert Moses school of politics (control the infrastructure, materially rebuild the city to support your base)

Actually to add the most insane part of this ofc is that before 1948 there is no such thing legally as a "British Citizen" so

"People, generally, believe in the values of their society. It is very weird that everybody in the Star Kingdom of Manticore seems to believe that they live in a liberal, democratic constitutional monarchy when those purported beliefs appear to have no impact on the actual form of government."

Been unnerved ever since I found out there's a BIG BANG THEORY Cinematic Universe.

you might think Dungeons and Dragons is Dungeons and Dragons, but thanks to random treasure acquisition Dungeons and Dragons is technically gambling

Its kind of funny because marrying this type of man *is* a career that you have to be very focused on. Like, dude, the only marriageable thing about you is your money. Do you think this woman would have any reason to actually love you?

hell yeah

the texas GOP *sprinting* full tilt into maximum islamophobia over the last six months or so has been kind of surreal to watch. like nothing happened! they worked themselves up into a frenzy about absolutely nothing

In DC and can confirm. Its too hot today, here as well.

Yeah that's basically what was being shared and I'm still in awe that people wanted me to sympathize with them as some sort of fighting-the-wealthy-class types to look up to

this isn't a typo by the way, 'wife-changing money' was commonly used by folks pumping GME

hey you want to watch the future, where we chisel his name off stuff? well, you can get a glimpse now www.youtube.com/live/aAhm880...

My top three space movies, chosen 0% based on scientific accuracy: 1) Contact 2) Jupiter Ascending 3) Sunshine

There was a lot of talk last year about ending the culture wars and reaching a reasonable accommodation, and what I think those people consistently refuse to understand is that *what the Right wants* is to be at war with the rest of the country. We're seeing what that looks like in the UK now.

Extremely evil ofc but this means I could be an MP and Boris Johnson couldn't

In the closing days of the mayoral race, @kenyanmcduffie.bsky.social has published an op-ed in @ggwash.org (which has endorsed @janeese4dc.bsky.social) on fixing D.C.'s housing crisis. "I pledge to you a policy agenda that will actually deliver new housing," he writes. ggwash.org/view/103817/...

Poetically ironic combination of ads at this bus stop in DC

the existing scam empires in SE Asia are also extraordinarily well positioned to take advantage of new vulnerabilities

P2P is the biggest financial crisis you haven't heard of, and could have been way, way worse except that a very skilled financial regulation team unspooled it slowly and successfully. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

genuinely quite worried about the extreme speed with which the Chinese public is adopting AI agents + the integration into WeChat, which seems to me to be a recipe for massive potential fraud on a scale exceeding the P2P lending crisis of the late 2010s.

one of the consistently most amazing/shocking graphs to me. the Supreme Court was, for once, well ahead of public opinion.

Never was so inapt a name for what that company does

we gotta venerate the Iron Ricebowl more. Being a cog in an office is great. Its the dream, even.

something I think about a lot is that pandemic relief and Bidenomics left the most of the working class better off in terms of money and savings than at any point in several decades, and a huge fraction of them threw the money into crypto magic beans and various meme stocks

the Elon retail cult is still strong alas bsky.app/profile/pear...

basically dumb guys with a bit of disposable income for the first time in their lives and the phone is shouting "HERE'S HOW TO 10X YOUR MONEY, QUICK, GUARANTEED" at them every minute of every day

Singaporean model of mandatory 401ks looking better and better

secular prosperity gospel turns out to be just as dumb as the religious kind

"But what if I could be even richer and have wife-changing money"

one way today is really different is how social media is basically the perfect tool to inflate these kind of speculative bubbles in basically anything bsky.app/profile/adam...