Anyone see the former size of the UK creative sector? Just abandoned

Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handy

Add Ezra Klein to the long list of voices we can safely ignore from now on.

This guy should never be allowed back inside a western country without being prosecuted

With the Trump Administration about to roll its ugly occupation into Chicago, I wanted to write a little lyrical love letter to the city. dansinker.com/posts/202…

The transatlantic mediocrity trade remains strong

The world definitely lost a cool one

Endorsed

The BBC is cooked

My coworker @chafkin.bsky.social got ahold of an internal white paper from Fetcherr, the AI pricing company that is working with Delta and other airlines to make fare prices even more erratic for consumers. It details what the company calls the “exploitation phase”: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Get his ass

It's all third spaces, baby. Used to go bowling, used to cover Skynyrd in the garage, used to have a car club. Now we've got Theo Von on in the F-350 on the way home from your 11-hour workday.

Bored of losers calling the shots

Without universal access to certain goods—and without checks on private providers—individuals and communities can be excluded from the heart of social, economic, and political life. Public goods, in other words, are not so much about “free stuff” as they are about the “stuff that makes us free.”

A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book

Thermonuclear Columbo

"two first-rate economists, David Cutler and Ed Glaeser, have made a stab at estimating the impact of cuts at NIH. Their analysis suggests that these cuts might save $500 billion in federal spending over the next 25 years — while imposing more than $8 trillion in losses."

Sure? I guess we’re doing this

Coach with zero political power shows more courage than Paramount, Bezos, Paul Weiss, Columbia University, and every "moderate" Republican senator combined.

Also what the austerity coalition and conservatives did to the councils in the UK

Diamonds in the back sun roof top digging the scene with a gangster lean oooh hooo hoo

hey baby. it’s the fourth of july youtu.be/54zxtGQP-eY?...

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

1/ Palantir is now poised to combine data gleaned from the DHS, the DOD, HHS, the Social Security Administration & the IRS. And 47's admin also wants access to citizens’ & others’ bank account numbers & medical claims.

"The Blame Game: Republican operatives should not have broken into DNC offices at the Watergate Hotel. But was the eminently bug-able Democratic Party asking for it?"

A South African colleague argued that the US is in “state capture” by the GOP. Reading today’s SCOTUS opinions, that feels right. These rulings illustrate and advance the capture of government by and for a fundamentally illiberal project. They can be undone, but not without ending capture first.

me: there’s nothing worse than opening a blank document microsoft word: hold my beer

Post an unusual sign

Pursuant to my earlier post. The West’s richest men have become completely deranged, untethered from human society.

lol

Our good friends, Newcastle United owners

I count 49 news headlines on the NYT mobile app home page right now, not including opinion, sports or cooking. None of them are about the massive protests yesterday.

All you need to know this week.

MAGA self pity and masculinity crises update.

Who Wes Streeting and so many have open arm welcomed into the NHS and the state more widely

This is the sort of spitball @rory-stewart.bsky.social and @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social the boys at The Rest Is Politics, pass off as informed insight into American politics Pro tip - the Midwest and labor exist

Jobs that nobody assigned you, part 187

This is garbage.

Ah, the old “forgive us our debts/forgive us our trespasses” divide with Presbyterians

I miss DC

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Shady lane. Every body needs one

A few years ago I worked for a men’s magazine and edited this writer who was a biohacker. He would take any gas station dick pill or inject anything into his dick or do anything to his balls for like $500. Anyway I just saw on IG that RFK Jr invited him to give a presentation at the White House

Easier than I thought. What a legend. RIP

First part of ZDF's story on the Russian intelligence services major sustained recruitment campaign targeting South Africans working in Silicon Valley, which focused on Elon Musk & Peter Thiel, and was deemed highly successful by the Kremlin. The project was overseen by Vladimir Putin, personally.

God damn I love this guy, these guys, this

A movie I've watched more than six times. (Gifs only, with Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

Remember the days when shortages were seen as an exclusive problem of socialism? Trump seems to be set to prove to the world that policy design under capitalism, too, can create a shortage economy.