Turns out — yes. @alexwilhelm.bsky.social pointed out that people could take cash instead of SpaceX stock. www.cautiousoptimism.news/a-crypto-coo...

Another fantastic, must-listen episode of TWiT (This Week in Tech), with my friends @leolaporte.me, @harrymccracken.com, and @alexwilhelm.bsky.social! Such a smart, knowledgeable, charming crew! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoPY...

grateful for @alexwilhelm.bsky.social's writing, both in tone and content, more than ever. www.cautiousoptimism.news/p/so-that-wa...

Congrats to @alexwilhelm.bsky.social on one year of Cautious Optimism, his can't miss newsletter covering tech and economics. www.cautiousoptimism.news

The hbo app, or max app whatever, on Roku fucking sucks

oh boy @alexwilhelm.bsky.social really brought the heat today in his newsletter 🔥🔥🔥

Protection money. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Who are Melissa and Doug and how did they corner the child toy market

Rhode Island tis a silly place

This goes hard

New kettle who this

Man being sick (spouse and I) with two tiny children all weekend is a lot

Fucking 23 degrees Fahrenheit this morning it’s bullshit

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Mauve?????

Musk admitted X throttles links, and Threads is only a little better. But social media's quiet war on links has been going on for years. I wrote about how big tech has been draining the open web's lifeblood and giving us "news influencers" instead of the news. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Quick, everyone. Form a protective circle around Betteridge's Law of headlines www.thetimes.com/article/6c2c...

I agreed to this thing from edge. I have no idea what I agreed to! But I agreed to it. Also they just hit you with a OneDrive ad for good measure

I'm curious. During the campaign, fact-checkers routinely dinged the Harris campaign for calling Project 2025 Trump's playbook, saying "Trump has denied this." Have any of them admitted how badly they got rolled in the most obvious of ways?

Sequoia nears first Asia-Pacific deal since regional split

Taking a break from your relatives

Happy thanksgiving we’re installing the new tv idk why today but we are

Running a small business is so hard

Via @alexwilhelm.bsky.social https:// if you have to ask its a religion open.substack.com/pub/alexwrites/p/is-that-a-stock-or-a-religion

Our holiday cards are gonna bang this year

I have purchased @leolaporte.me’s son’s cookbook

Is this the worst hack in U.S. history? 🤔 @leolaporte.me, Patrick Beja, @wesley83.bsky.social, and @alexwilhelm.bsky.social tackle the hack, SCOTUS on broadband, Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy, and Zuck’s age-verification plan. 🎧 twit.tv/shows/this-w...

Mexico is Texas’s biggest trade partner.

What’s the most money it makes sense to spend on a croissant

lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook) www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

Sources: Cantor Fitzgerald agreed to invest as much as $600M in Tether for about a 5% stake in the past year; Cantor holds most of Tether's $134B in assets (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Good breakdown on the latest Frame here www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/s...

Ok: we’re thinking about getting a Samsung frame - anyone have any good/bad experiences with them?

Wrote a lot this week. Here’s one of ‘em www.cautiousoptimism.news/p/nvidia-and...

Ukraine shouldn’t be defending itself with ‘one hand tied behind its back’, says UK Defence Committee chair Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi www.channel4.com/news/ukraine...

I really need to start standing at my standing desk

Ate this earlier and it was amazing

“I have received some guidance to avoid terms, like ‘camps,’” because “some people think it makes us look like Nazis”

Let’s go Gotham!

Vegan peeps - we have some plant based friends. Is it possible to make good vegan pancakes? We want to have a brunch type thing if that makes sense

Pupdate

This cookbook goes hard shoutout Caroline

Work from home gang: what are you doing for lunches lately I need to tidy up my diet a lot

Almost all of this year’s top 40 startups at Station F use AI

Pls get Amy on the zoox list so I can visit and ride the forbidden toaster on wheels

Gonna read this but it already hits home from the skeet

My oldest daughter has discovered that there is a moon. And if you are 22 months old that’s Big Damn News.

Also I just realized Substack links arent verboten here nice