The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

Corporate rap is very rarely a good sign

There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

Still strongly on the side that thinks prediction markets are more something like money-weighted consensus snapshot machines than whatever their names pretends they are, but precisely because of this, it's notable that 1) this market is 10c and 2) that it's offered at all in the first place

Consumers and voters being sometimes completely different cohorts (and sometimes starkly so in some product silos) is the source of a lot of this frustration. How dare the execs at Procter & Gamble not run their businesses according to the combined rules of FPTP and party selectorates?!

Could we have known? www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

@indy.bsky.social this recurring theme is not going away soon

True for Americans, and true for the 'we shouldn't do this because muh NHS carers' argument

There's an element of 'the country shall now be known as Zaire' to these White House demolition visuals

Tyler Cowen: Europe is fucked because it cannot innovate, dead continent, overregulation blah blah blah European innovation:

There was a time when you sounded like a lunatic if you said the right hating on institutions they used to revere had a simple explanation: "it's just like the segregationists bricking the swimming pools". Thinking of this again for no reason as the images of the White House being bulldozed pop up.

Nous essayons tous de trouver le gars qui a fait ça

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

This modern adaptation is a little bit on the nose now

Going to pop this one on again tonight

One of the problems I have with the Polling Reassurers is that they'll show you "Is Rishi Sunak English" coming at 89/11, and say yay, win. But first, we don't all agree on 11 being small, and two, they never question what it means that this has become an actually polling question in the first place

One of the great features of the nuclear block is how it protects *you* from your "ah, let me have a quick look at this imbecile post, just this one time" worst instincts

That's right

Hopping on the DeLorean to tell 2016 me that one of his exaggerated joke phrasings is now an ubiquitous headline, word for word 2016 me, excitingly: is it about Guy Debord? 2025 me: I am sorry, I can't say more *hops back on the DeLorean, sobbing*

The Trump/Musk/Rubio gutting of USAID is the defining moral atrocity of this regime (so far)

tbt the time that a portfolio manager at a trend following fund told me "trend following is having a bad time at the moment but it's bound to mean revert eventually"

It’s always worth remembering that this utterly horrific wave of mass death inflicted on some of the poorest people in the world was for literally nothing. It hasn’t even been for some monstrously cynical benefit to someone, it hasn’t saved money. It is just some of the purest nihilism imaginable

Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero apnews.com/article/myan...

'present company very very much included' is the hard part of turning this diagnosis into actual good campaigning, let alone policy

Levitating

it really is just Gambling

There is the obvious 'the boss is obsessively indexing on the level of the S&P500', but an indirect way that fate of MAGA and that of the current dominant culture in equity/risk markets are intimately related is a similar paranoid fear of being a loser justifying total indulgence wrt downside risk

This is in fact the plot of One Battle After Another

It's grimly funny to read these 'subtle slow drip maneuvering' theories, when the defeated candidate had his supporters march on the seat of government, the richest man in the world made nazi salutes at investiture, and they summoned the higher officers of the Department of War for a dressing down

Only fellow Minnie Riperton obsessives will appreciate this, but PTA sure does leave featuring the shadow of his mother in law. First, the arresting appearance of Maya in Licorice Pizza and now OBAA has a few Leo lines that make you go "you've had a couple of beers with Mr Rudolph about this, huh?"

It's also true I think that the broad popularity of the 'universities bad' theme is down to it being the one salient issue where the insane billionaires are in tune with the 2-10% upper burghers (who decide editorial trends) who also hate that their own failsons are not shoo-ins any more

how it started / how it's going

We all understand that these posts/comms are a box ticking exercise, but if it were me, I'd have someone go over the text to make sure it doesn't look like it's obviously been Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V from a LLM before posting on LinkedIn for clout how announcing layoffs "made me lose a piece of myself"

My hot take is that newspapers being able to find out exactly what articles people will click on has been just as disastrous to their quality as the collapse in ad and distribution revenues

For both US and now UK, the mission creep from No Really It's Just Illegal Inflows The Volkmen Are Angry About has been both extremely predictable and quite sad

Reiterating this now that I can see so many people who should know better have worked themselves into a situation of arguing about how strategically astute it would be to break ILR

We worry about Very Online Kids much more than their Very Online Parents, and I'm not sure that's wise

The American mind cannot comprehend

Me: Which is why I did a Chotiner interview meme post Chotiner: but you did want engagement Me: Oh, of course! But it wasn’t just that. C: You felt you could add to the conversation Me: My own perspective. C: By posting the same joke as everyone else Me: it’s a funny variation

another point for “2020s biotech >>> 2020s infotech”

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

Watching this is bringing me back to some deep childhood memories of what Disney taught me US doctors were like

tbf French doctors are also, as a profession, absolutely psycho about ibuprofen

Please @support.bsky.team, make search results from only people you follow a thing on here as soon as possible

Last one on Farage setting the terms of debate atm: he's by all accounts *the* major face of the primary policy change of the last five decades in the UK (we were told without a doubt that even if you don't like it, you have to respect his role in it) and he's never asked to stand for how that went

All those super long pollsters' threads really read like a sick version of Simpson's paradox in the wild

This. Everyone has been trying for a decade to win with this One Trick (it's illegal, it's immoral, it's harmful for muh bond yields, etc) because they're afraid to take the fight to the core argument: we are a country of agreements, and you need to have a process to rip them off