The 1,388-foot Cybertruck that just faceplanted into Park Avenue is actually a bank. My review of the biggest new building in Manhattan: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

There are lots of different crime rates in NYC. If you think crime will rise under Mayor Mamdani (or even if you don’t), which crime rate do you think is (a) most important; (b) most likely to rise?

I wrote about Maurizio Cattelan’s gold toilet www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

For Bloomberg, I wrote up an amazing trip I took in Italy in 2022. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Baby’s first Bloomberg byline! (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This has to be AI, right? Interesting example of the use of AI in data journalism cc @zachseward.com www.wsj.com/business/air...

Someone explain to me how a restaurant in Astoria can charge $32 for six oysters lifeatmars.com/dinner-menu/

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

How lucky am I? My first ever US Open and it’s Deloitte Night!

“I have a friend that spent 25 grand, he can’t even get a green oyster perpetual” — how on earth did I end up in this godforsaken corner of WatchTok

Has Amazon blocked @netgalley.bsky.social for some reason?

If the art of taxation, as @dsquareddigest.bsky.social says, is to extract the maximum amount of feathers with the least amount hissing, then the stock buyback tax might be the perfect tax. No one seems to have blinked an eye at it.

You know how sometimes you read that a celebrity has died and it’s a surprise because you actually thought they had died long ago? help.aol.com/articles/dia...

"One of my proudest moments as a parent was when my daughter first check-raised me with an ace. As a parent, I’m pleased that I’ve given her the tools to put herself through college hustling poker games, and then go work at a proprietary trading firm." — @matt-levine.bsky.social, ofc

Where can I find a Keeki bread bag in Manhattan?

This is the Paradox of 2025.

I support the $30b pay award to Elon Musk on the grounds that it will force him to pay a quantum of taxes commensurate with his wealth

“In his statement, Mr. Zustovich, the spokesman, said that this year, as in previous years, part of the jobs program involved teaching participants financial literacy.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/n...

When I become Tyrant, pointlessly indicating changes of case with brackets will be outlawed. I have particular ire for those who take a sentence that starts with a cap, then lowercase & bracket it when the cap SHOULD be there at the beginning of a quoted sentence.

Are they deliberately trolling me www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

I’ve started noticing the IG algorithm throwing up a lot of videos of static text.

Bloomberg push alerts as Jeopardy clues

Imply! Not infer! www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/p...

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Are the lumpenbroletariat mostly Muskovites

Has anyone else found Google Maps not working any more on Safari for desktop?

The problem with this reasonable-sounding advice is that real ICE officers are not wearing uniforms and are refusing to show badges, identification warrants. www.delawareonline.com/story/news/c...

I'm having enormous difficulty trying to buy NY Liberty tickets online. One curious thing is that for *the exact same set of four tickets*, being sold for $121 each, the fee that Ticketmaster charges on top of that has varied, within a couple of hours, between $91 and $111.

Can we talk about yesterday’s Connections? I think there were two acceptable solutions.

“BCG’s model provided assumptions for the costs of voluntary relocations of Gazans, rebuilding civilian housing and using innovative financing models such as tokenisation of real estate via blockchain technology.” on.ft.com/45V89P0

First-round votes for Eric Adams in 2021: 289,403 First-round votes for Zohran Mamdani in 2025: 432,305

Current Connections status

Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.

The biggest loser in this mayoral election is everyone who muttered sagely about ranked choice voting and the NYC Bureau of Elections and warned that we wouldn’t know the result until July

My reliable sources inform me that @robarmstrong.bsky.social is directly and singlehandedly responsible for Trump bombing Iran 🌮

smh do none of these members of Congress know what “begs the question” means

TACO www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

This is a first for me: I didn’t recognize *any* of the blues in today’s Connections

Great story about why your phone doesn’t work in London, even when it says it’s on 5G (it’s probably lying about that). #nimby www.londoncentric.media/p/real-5g-co...

This conversation with @hiphination.bsky.social about the philosophy of budget math is my favorite episode of Slate Money in a very long time slate.com/podcasts/sla...

@secondmentions.bsky.social “the tusked thief” www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8MXsXG1/

I just added a 13th payment card to my Apple Wallet, no good can come of this

How to do Art Basel on the cheap: Stay in Strasbourg, blag free tickets

Is the boss noxious? on.ft.com/3Fw1kbI

Just remembered this cloud formation

@jwherrman.bsky.social where do I find these volumes? Whenever I ask SEO types why they believe what they believe, they just say “trust me I’m an expert” rather than pointing to any kind of primary-source chapter and verse.

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

Wild how “Substack” has become a generic term for “newsletter”, eg in this item from @semaforben.bsky.social

“The monolithic connector” @secondmentions.bsky.social

In 99% of art-market reports, whenever there’s a sign of weakness someone will be quoted saying that while middling works are struggling there’s still money for great pieces. This @thegraymarket.bsky.social piece is the first time I’ve seen that formula reversed. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/a...