Elon Musk pretending to be human who likes to do human things because an 87 year old author owned him online will be forever funny

The funniest part of Elon spiraling out about this is that he isn’t responding with anything linked to others or relationships, just posting “great movie”

This may be the most vicariously embarrassing thing I've ever seen. My palms are sweating with discomfort

These figures are in nominal terms, which is absolutely wild. Half the things listed here got cheaper or stayed the same *even without adjusting for inflation*.

The solution here is to replace old, tired Democrats who do not want to fight with new, fresh Democrats who do want to fight. Everything else is a distraction at this moment.

Likewise: anyone who says "Time to kick moderates out! Their day is over!" Plenty of more moderate voters and politicians hate the Surrender Caucus nonsense. It's not a left-center thing and people who try to turn it into to one are trying to exploit the moment to win a factional battle.

One thing we need to be very careful of is that a lot of people want to use Democratic discontent to build power for themselves rather than to strengthen the left-of-center opposition for Trump. If someone proposes a new party, this is probably what they're doing.

While a 50 year mortgage might lower monthly payments, it drastically increases total interest and slows equity growth. Stimulating demand without fixing supply would likely raise prices. The core issue in the housing market isn't financing; it's the lack of supply.

"What does prioritizing millionaire homeowners’ aversion to change over the needs of the poor and unhoused do to our souls?" is a truly ice cold line from @maxdubler.com www.maxdubler.com/blog/2025/11... #yimby

WASHINGTON (AP) — Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of continued spread, international health experts say.

An extremely high marginal tax rate on production of a socially desirable thing that there's a broad shortage of, no matter how that tax is spent, seems like... extremely bad policy with a huge deadweight loss

I had not been paying attention, but the black Bengals jerseys seem to have a decent chance.

Black Bengals jerseys fair caught the ball on the plus side of the 50.

White Bengals jerseys should probably try to throw the ball past the Black Bengals jerseys defense.

Black Bengals jerseys should have caught that. White Bengals jerseys are probably going to win.

This game looks like the Bengals playing against the Bengals in their other jerseys.

I am trying to explain the doubling cube in backgammon to someone that is not sober and would probably be too stupid to understand the concept were he sober.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

what do you think “real wages” means? Explain to the best of your ability

The Clash’s Paul Simonon, running into some young street musicians, will make your day. 💕 🎸 @theclash.com @faroutmagazine.co.uk

There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask. Cowards

album cover for the 90s Britpop band #TransitCat

If you want a critique of AI company financials you could go read Jim Chanos on Twitter, a distinguished short seller and accounting expert, or you could come to Bluesky and watch this guy try and fail to reconcile cumulative net income to change in net cash because he thinks they’re the same thing.

I have been developing retail properties and groceries for 25 years. This week, an interview with me appeared in Germany's leading real estate newspaper, and it will be republished (🤞) next week in the leading business newspaper. The topic: The bicycle is the future of downtown retail.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

"Multipolar world" = regular "rules based order" but Russia is given a unique carveout to not comply with any of the rules

bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

Man I wanna live above a Costco so bad

I think you've gotta either abolish Border Patrol or purge it and hire an entirely new workforce. It's existed for over 100 years and the culture has been positively rancid for every single day of that.

the OTHER thing is that no filibuster defender has yet to articulate why it is that people who happen to live in low density states not only deserve additional representation but also deserve to exercise a veto *on top of that*

okay one more thing, if the filibuster was so critical to the interest of small states, why is it that it didn't exist until the middle of the 19th century and wasn't actually used with any regularity until well into the 20th?

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

I was told that I sound like David Cross. That was a new one.

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Somehow Ben Shapiro arrives at the correct conclusion about Twitter before nearly all elected Democrats (even if he doesn't act on that conclusion)

This is a good article, worth reading. Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one? The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars. Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat

Well there’s two possibilities here, one is that everyone’s finances magically reverted to good health in January 2025 or the second one is that this is overwhelmingly a partisan artifact

"It’s comical that this big, brutal warrior would get on the stand to say that he literally felt assaulted by a sandwich exploding on his uniform. It’s more comical, though, that Dunn’s attorney then showed Larimore a photo of the sandwich on the ground. Wrapped. Not exploded."

What this chart clearly shows is that Republican voters perceptions pretty much exactly mimic what the rightwing media is saying rather than reality.

But voters didn’t say “we’re doing bad economically.” They said “we’re fine, the country is doing bad economically.” And indeed voters were actually doing fine - real wages went up! Consumption rose! Unemployment fell and fell

I guess good evidence in favor of my point would be if we had several years of much lower inflation and people continued to say prices were their top concern and the president was deeply unpopular

I’m not even married to the media thing! I think people are extremely lazy about that aspect of it, too. The key thing is to separate “the economy as measured” and “the economy as perceived” and understand the latter may have little or even no relation to the former, for many reasons

Yeah, I mean if you p-hack you can usually make the historical data say whatever you want

My book in progress shows inflation was disconnected from consumer sentiment under Biden to a ridiculous degree. Republicans drove down sentiment, the media did too, independents too. Had consumer sentiment reflected the actual economy to usual extent, Harris wins by 4 points.

Like this study shows that voters are not insensitive to narratives about inflation, but nothing else, really. And it doesn't come close to touching the real question, which is if voters react to the actual fact of inflation in a predictable way.

It's because it shows people reacting to being PRIMED TO THINK ABOUT INFLATION, not to the actual fact of inflation, which the experimenters very obviously could not change. It doesn't prove anything about inflation per se, just narratives

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe