The faction of the the left that lives for harassment is just slamming Matt for this, but he’s correct and this has been considered for years a major cause of the recent homelessness spike. Watching people maliciously misread his very short tweet and call him a “Nazi” is something else.

Yes, it’s entirely true that many of the migrants who came under the Biden admin did not have housing arranged for them when they arrived and so ended up in homeless shelters at first, at times for months, while they got on their feet. This is 100% true, not an anti-immigrant gotcha, just the facts.

It’s wild how people on this website react with visceral anger to facts. Just no interest in knowing anything about issues they purportedly care about. bsky.app/profile/kate...

I think a lot of people on this site only care about causes as a way to get mad about stuff and not actually trying to understand or fix them

Congrats to Australia, this is really cool! report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au

Meta keeps repeating how they fight scam ads relentlessly using best available tech. Meta profits from all ads on it's platform, no matter how fraudulent. Meta bears no responsibility to people who fall victim to scam ads. You do the math. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I am so shocked. Who would have guessed?! /s www.reuters.com/investigatio...

People will compensate you to know the truth and tell a lie

When you start seeing people act out of sorts on the internet... they need some money

Ohhh, so you thought those calls were over, eh? www.ft.com/content/0dba...

apart from the sheer inconceivable horror of the El Fasher massacre and its attendant horrors itself, the thing I'm feeling depressed about is that it probably won't matter. these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about

Short story by Susanna Clarke that I wasn’t aware of.

Susanna Clarke seems to be incapable of writing anything mediocre. Finally got around to this collection of short stories. Enjoyed them. Sad that I have now read all that she has published (Piranesi is my favorite).

Even though this platform doesn't have the Twitter problem of a million screenshots showing a bajillion% returns YTD, let me just admit that I will most likely underperform the S&P 500 this year.

Update: Organic Valley still got it, even though they switched their recipe to reduced fat milk.

Egg nog secured! (Had to hunt a bit to track down Organic Valley Nog. They’ve switched to reduced fat in their recipes, I am going to be big mad if it is a downgrade.)

$JPMQ

A pox on these people would be too charitable. h/t @ellliotb.bsky.social

Hopefully, I can get to 1000m at a sub 2min/500m pace before the year is up (been working on stroke technique).

Am I the only one who has no interest in what Noah Smith says or thinks about literally anything?

I absolutely detest having to quote Munger, but he was spot on with this one: envy is the absolute worst of the seven deadly sins. With the others at least you can have some fun! Yes, this is now a koan slop account on weekends.

Ok, last time I’ll post about it here. The Geolocation feature is back on Twitter, and apparently for good this time. I also believe this is the right take:

So Twitter fully rolled out their Location feature last night. Was live for maybe an hour. Got pulled. Probably because this started happening to many of the largest U.S. politics themed rage bait accounts on there.

Here comes the Dutch tender. Personally, I thought they would have waited for lower prices. Regardless, as I like to say, I can hold my own in insurance, but would get worried if I found myself on the other side of a transaction from the White Mountains boys.

$670M at pixel. About $380M in (GAAP) equity - about $270M in working capital.

More improvement.

Iain Banks' Culture series is of course great fun. Not quite utopian (sci-)fiction, but since the young'ns are unlikely to have heard of him, let me recommend Stapledon's, "Last and First Men", as well as "Starmaker" (you will be absolutely astonished to learn that they were written in the 30s...

"It was the day my grandmother exploded." I will never be able to live down the fact that it has taken me, a self professed Iain Banks stan, till today to get around to reading The Crow Road.

I can’t even

Propublica doing god’s work. (Unfortunately, we are squarely an EM now.) www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Unmute. www.instagram.com/p/DKcqz--OLOK/

3/ Another thing that remains unchanged after a decade and a half - Mark Zuckerberg is extremely uninterested in AI safety, ie why DeepMind refused to sell out to Facebook

Post of the day.

$NPK Market cap now is ~$770M

I am shocked. Shocked, I say. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Gently (very gently) taps the sign and suggests looking at the capital structure of this entity and then the market cap.

Improvement, but still very far away from being able to do 2000m at this pace.

“Blueskyism” is pitching in to help people. $25K in a few hours! Please consider joining, or donating elsewhere :)

Question: where do you want SNAP recipients to buy groceries? We do agree that we want them to buy groceries, right? Maybe we also agree that we want them to buy groceries at the most affordable (say measured by lower prices for equivalent items) grocer? Anyway, carry on.

This is wild. Thread nobody will read on our innumerate and illiterate news sources. In 2020 the GAO released a report on Medicaid and SNAP beneficiaries ***who work***. This is the source for many of the claims you see about these programs (Walmart etc) - Bernie was one who requested rept

Auto-insurance soft market confirmed.

This is quite the scathing review. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Chinese regulators showing a greater understanding of the issues at stake (who has the right of coinage?) than the Trump admin on.ft.com/4hoxu7K

Here's my latest, arguing that the ever-swelling US bailout of Argentina is bad economics, bad politics, and bad diplomacy. responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-milei/

Gawd, I want to have a better handle on the futures exchanges ecosystem so bad.

Can we hold off on a market meltdown for a few more days? I have almost finished this video game. Almost there. Shame if I had to focus elsewhere now. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

And $MCY is trading at about $85 per share today. Nope, didn't own it then, don't own it now.

This bloody game, ostensibly about cartoon bugs, has an honest to god tearjerker moment in it. A 5-10 sec interaction that legitimately elicits a "Wendy and Lucy" emotional response. I think it may ruin all other games for me.