Gen Z has rediscovered the X-files & is realizing how dystopian the America of today is compared to the 90s "Watching The X-Files... has solidified my belief that I would have likely been happier in an age that preceded me." midnightmurmurations.substack.com/p/the-x-file...

it’s not cool to hammer away at shit no one appreciates for no money, no recognition, no appreciation. that’s a hobby. performance demands an audience. what you do in the shadows by yourself doesn’t strike at the heart of others, doesn’t move them, doesn’t demand their entanglement, doesn’t matter.

Great round up of charts👇👇

When last place is still pretty great 🤨 www.tker.co/p/us-stock-m...

What phase of the cycle are we at when Aswath Damodaran is buying Pokemon cards profgmedia.substack.com/p/is-this-th...

A single Canadian dollar for X Premium eh? Tempting, but I already have plans to buy a succulent Spanish onion later as a snack, so I’m afraid I can’t spare it

UTM stands for Urchin Tracking Module? That is downright whimsical

Didn’t know you can get high-heeled Converse… So elegant… Should I cop?

Just learning that there are no conveyor belt sushi restaurants left in downtown Toronto. Thanks Trudeau

The FBI really said “WHAT ARE THOOOOSE”

For the 18th year in a row, the competitors in the Microsoft Excel World Championship are all male. When invited to compete, women replied that they were “busy that night”, “got plans but have fun!!!” or “it’s not really my thing haha”

What a time to be alive

GenZ will wear one AirPod in for their grandma‘s funeral

My can of White Monster Energy froze solid in the hotel bar fridge. “Life begins on the far side of despair” - Jean-Paul Sartre

The millennial sense of humour and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

Nobody anywhere is trying to make anything “look more Canadian” than it actually is

Lina Khan’s FTC strong-armed the EU to block Amazon’s acquisition of Roomba, and now the Chinese have detailed maps of the inside of your house. A+ work

Yes I did get the phone back… as Otto von Bismarck said, God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America

Still thinking about her (this Italiano sandwich I ate at Marina Submarine in San Francisco last week)

Last photo I took on Saturday night before drunkenly losing my phone

Some personal news: delighted to accept Donald Trump's nomination of me for Fed chair. Commentators are calling me "the most physically-attractive Fed chair in the history of monetary policy"

Jeff Bezos wanted to go to space, which requires money, so he started Amazon.com and ran it for 27 years to get rich. He now runs a rocket company, which he funds with periodic sales of his Amazon stock. He's also been to space. Generalised life advice is tricky.

Don’t tell me to calm down ChatGPT, YOU CALM DOWN

AI thinkboys are never beating the weirdo allegations

Your everyday use of voice typing could help a Latvian hacker scam thousands of dollars from naive seniors who still answer unknown numbers. Does your grandma know what bitcoin is? She will

Me trying to intimidate the DJ at my friend’s 40th birthday party into playing a second Nelly song

Me scrolling back to 2016 on the Instagram of somebody I’m cyberstalking trying not to accidentally click anything

I like using a wooden cutting board. People say don’t use it because you’re eating bits of wood. I’m fine with that. That’s what my ancestors ate. The ancient Caucasians

The only “bird app” we recognize

I was #102 so did not make the list. So close. Get ‘em next year

Yet again women are elbowed out of leadership roles due to old-boys-club cronyism

“2008 Global Financial Crisis” hoodie goes hard

The mainstream publishing industry doesn’t have the guts to publish my children’s book about discounted cash flow modelling

Women are now getting salmon DNA infusions to become mermaids. How did we let social media convince us we need to become woman-fish chimeras to be “good enough”?

Realest LinkedIn About section ever

American men have uploaded over 100,000 photographs of their penises to ChatGPT. Urology researchers believe this database can be used to come up with new medical treatments. They won’t be using yours though because it looks weird

Got a summons for jury duty... I told them I don’t get involved in other people’s drama

Literally so me… “I love classical music… the violins, the horn section… this is probably Beethoven or something…”

A single Canadian dollar eh? Tempting but I already have plans to buy a bunch of green onions later as a snack, so I’m afraid I can’t spare it

That escalated fast 14-Nov: "Domino’s $DOM turns to fried chicken as chief says Britain nearing peak pizza" (FT) Today: "Andrew Rennie is stepping down as CEO ... with immediate effect" (RNS) www.ft.com/content/23c2...

Isn't it crazy how if somebody asked you to tell them the hotkeys to, say, freeze panes in Excel, you can't tell them, but when Excel is open in front of you, you can do it in a microsecond without thinking (Alt, W, F, F)

Extremely strong service work here

The Fed

We back!

Michael Burry just launched a paywalled Substack 👀 michaeljburry.substack.com/p/the-cardin...

I only just saw this thanks to @ed3d.net and I don’t have time to do a full fisking before my daughter’s bedtime but a few hundred words in and it’s utter nonsense. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The buzz is building about Finance Bluesky! Thank you @downtownjoshbrown.bsky.social for supporting the community! #FinSky

The way both Ryan Lizza and Olivia Nuzzi are now selling their personal lives like melodramas while also both still supposedly being serious political journalists makes me deeply uncomfortable

I was assuming they’re around the same age! They’re not, Lizza is 51!

Social media is making us paranoid and afraid of each other. Maybe that's the point. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-eye-th...